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César Aira,
Festival & Game of the Worlds

In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? …

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Ingeborg Bachmann,
The Honditsch Cross

Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria…

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Claire Baglin,
On the Clock

Claire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-year-o…

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Solvej Balle,
On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at th…

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Solvej Balle, Russell
On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle's riveting project continues to wring ever more f…

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Caren Beilin
Sea, Poison

Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-this city of hospitals-who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To start…

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Hélène Bessette,
Lili Is Crying

Lili Is Crying , Hélène Bessette's debut novel, conveys with singular force the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother, Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bess…

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Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths

Since it was first published by New Directions in 1962, Labyrinths has transformed and enriched our collective imaginations, introduced new possibilities for literature, and astonished generation after ge…

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Gabriela Cabezón Cámara,
We Are Green and Trembling

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREDeep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as…

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Elias Canetti,
The Book Against Death

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evok…

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Inger Christensen,
Natalja's Stories

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories , modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron , takes an usual app…

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Inger Christensen,
The Painted Room

The Painted Room is a magnificent three-part short novel about the Italian Renaissance, and, specifically, the intrigue surrounding the frescoes that Mategna (1431-1506) made on the walls of a famous brid…

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Copi,
City of Rats

Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an-as spring blooms i…

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Julio Cortázar,
A Certain Lucas

A kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentrically interlocking pieces, by turns comic, philosophical, allusive, and always a pleasure to read. In short…

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Malén Denis,
Lithium

Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a pharmakon -both poison and remedy-inviting the reader…

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José Donoso,
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria

All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paq…

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Marcia Douglas
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive , which continues Marcia Douglas' &qu…

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Mathias Enard,
The Deserters

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, …

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Jenny Erpenbeck,
Things That Disappear

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation , Kairos , and Go, Went, Gone . Things that Disappear is an exciting col…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Bo…

lieferbar ab 4.11.2025.

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