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Eça de Queirós,
Adam and Eve in Paradise

Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Queirósis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood Bible: yellow-eyed Adam is a slope-browed Neanderthal all alone …

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C F Ramuz,
Into the Sun

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "acc…

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Olga Ravn,
The Wax Child

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the for…

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Evelio Rosero,
House of Fury

Taking place entirely on a single evening-Friday 10 April 1970-in a large Bogotá mansion, House of Fury tells a hair-raising story. Nacho Caiciedo, a magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, lives with…

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Jean-Paul Sartre,
Nausea

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culmina…

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Delmore Schwartz,
Screeno: Stories & Poems

Bibelots

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was one of the finest writers of his generation. Winner of the prestigious Bollingen Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, he was hailed by John As…

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Aharon Shabtai,
Requiem

Part kaddish, part lament, and a powerful call for stocktaking and peace, Requiem cries out for an end to carnage and slaughter: "The horror / the calamity / the disgrace, / the rubble of folly / and…

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Patti Smith
Woolgathering

Nach "Just Kids" erscheint nun mit der erweiterten Auflage von "Woolgathering" ein Memoir, in dem Patti Smith auf ihre Jugendjahre zurückblickt. A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells …

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Maria Stepanova,
The Disappearing ACT

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is inv…

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Yoko Tawada,
Archipelago of the Sun

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to…

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Yoko Tawada,
Exophony

I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that …

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Yoko Tawada,
The Bridegroom Was a Dog

Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog i s a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The N…

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Rosemary Tonks
Businessmen as Lovers

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capi…

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Rosemary Tonks
The Bloater

Why do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say "Umm?" I'm being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra*.*Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in t…

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César Vallejo,
The Eternal Dice

The Peruvian poet César Vallejo-one of Latin America's most famous poets-was involved in various literary circles and began publishing his poems in 1914 in magazines, after discovering the works of Walt W…

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Harald Voetmann,
Visions and Temptations

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround…

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Eliot Weinberger,
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transl…

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Eliot Weinberger
The Life of Tu Fu

For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays-translated into over thirty languages-as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish. …

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Tennessee Williams,
Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

This new collection of fantastic, lesser-known one-acts contains some of Williams's most potent, comical and disturbing short plays?Upper East Side ladies dine out during the apocalypse in Now the Cats Wi…

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Alexis Wright
Tracker

"How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?"In Tracker, Alexis Wright tells the story of charismatic Aboriginal Australian leader Tracker Tilmou…

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