Fiction in translation

Book SynopsisA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSet against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace—presented here in the first new English translation in forty years—is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent.This edition includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries.Praise for Antony Brigg's translation

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Book SynopsisThe only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades. When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as “Black Mask” before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories–in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe–Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of

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Book SynopsisJohn E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece.  —The New YorkerDoctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods. —The New RepublicThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul—and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius—both national and individual—and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist.

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Book SynopsisFrom one of Japan's greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale. • “One of the outstanding writers of the world.” —The New York Times An aging, embittered novelist sets out to avenge himself on the women who have betrayed him. He finds the perfect instrument in Yuichi, a young man whose beauty makes him irresistible to women but who is just discovering his attraction to other men. As Yuichi's mentor presses him into a loveless marriage and a series of equally loveless philanderings, his protégé enters the gay underworld of postwar Japan where Yuichi is defenseless as any of the women he preys upon.

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Book Synopsis“Didionesque.” —New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Ullmann has formed a book out of the explicit landmarks of her lived life.… The form of the book, however, isn’t documentary, but, rather, fragmentary, the way memory is.… The clarity and lack of fetter is characteristic of [her] way of seeing the world in prose." -- Wyatt Mason - New York Times Magazine"Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don’t know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters—dangerous artistically as well as personally—without capsizing or making a mistake, but it is a tremendous accomplishment. Funny, graceful, interesting, modest, and most of all a work of the highest moral competence." -- Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy"A haunting meditation on the shifting moods between women and men over a lifetime of making art; the pains and pleasures of attachment, the boiling emotions of girlhood, the conflicts of motherhood, and the enchantment of a secluded home on the edge of a stormy sea, in which a famous father writes his dreams on the bedside table. I could not put it down." -- Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living"This magnificent, elegant work is pure tour de force. It’s part elegy, part elucidation of family love and family mystery, it’s funny, wry, dry, almost untakeably moving, and all of this is held steady in the form by Linn Ullmann’s refusal to swerve from the true, by her understanding of the combined human weakness and human marvelousness in all of us, and above all by her clear eye. It is a wonderful book, unputdownable, one that taps into the sheer electric current between the fictions and the truths that make our life stories. It’s one of the best things I’ve read in a long, long time." -- Ali Smith, author of How to Be Both"[An] exquisite and warm novel.… Among Norway’s contemporary writers, Ullmann might be the finest sentence by sentence." -- John Freeman - LitHub"But even without knowing her parents were world-renowned, Unquiet would resonate powerfully because many of the issues it explores are common to parent-child relationships.… It’s a high-wire act few writers have performed with such grace." -- Dmitry Samarov - Hyperallergic"A brilliant meditation on time, mortality, and the limits of memory.… Gorgeous and heartbreaking." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Ullman succeeds on every level, blending time, memory, and emotion into a fascinating and intimate portrait that easily evokes the universal sense of love and loss. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review)"This is a striking book about the enduring love between parents and children, and the fierce attachments that bind them even after death." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Unquiet is a wonderfully absorbing and moving family story told with a directness, naturalness, and grace that can only result from Linn Ullmann’s close attention to the eloquent details of day-to-day life, her honest embrace of herself and the people close to her, and a keen sensitivity to language and the high demands of good writing." -- Lydia Davis, author of The End of the Story"I’ve long admired Linn Ullmann’s fiction, and Unquiet is her masterpiece. Based on her upbringing as the child of two great artists, it is the portrait of complex loves; of a youth divided and inspired by diametrically opposed creative influences; and of the ravages of age. Calm yet fierce, exquisitely rendered, this novel imprints itself indelibly—as if you, too, had been there." -- Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl

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Book SynopsisSEX, LIES, AND ROCKY ROADS Life is simple for Champa. He has a good job as a chauffeur in his hometown of Lhasa, and if his Chinese boss Plum is a little domineering, well, he can understand that she's a serious art-collector after all. And he does get to drive her huge Toyota.When he starts to sleep with his boss as well as drive her around, life becomes a whole lot more complicated. But not in a bad way. Suddenly Champa's sex life is beyond his wildest dreams.But then Plum brings home a Tara statue - a statue that shines with exquisite feminine beauty and suddenly life is not simple at all, as Champa finds himself on the long road to Beijing in search of its inspiration THE UNBEARABLE DREAMWORLD OF CHAMPA THE DRIVER is a rollicking road novel brim-ful of sensuality and danger. Underlying the optimism and humour of its hero is a darker picture of racism and rough justice in modern Beijing.Trade Review'The Han Chinese presence in Tibet hovers in the background like a Himalayan mist ... captures something true and fresh about modern China * Independent *A fast-paced read, bold and brassy, at times super-sensitive and insightful, with cheeky asides and a raw honesty that will make readers laugh out loud. * South China Morning Post *Manages to turn often comic human relationships into an unsettling metaphor for China's political and cultural domination of Tibet. * Asia Times *

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Book Synopsis“An amazing, beautiful book . . . It shows how one dog’s dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.” ―Cat Warren, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog KnowsOne dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring novel about the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection.Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The dog’s tag says “Tamon,” a name evocative of the guardian deity of the north. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners on the dog’s five-year journey to find his beloved first owner, Hikaru, a boy who has not spoken since the tsunami. An agent of fate, Tamon is a gift to everyone who welcomes him into their life.At once heartrending and heartwarm

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Book SynopsisThe stories feature a whole range of situations and characters, who are forever assailed by an awareness of their own vulnerability.

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Book Synopsis Ivan Turgenev’s first literary masterpiece is a sweeping portrayal of the magnificent nineteenth–century Russian countryside and the harsh lives of those who inhabited it. In a series of sketches, a hunter wanders through the vast landscape of steppe and forest in search of game, encountering a varied cast of peasants, landlords, bailiffs, overseers, horse traders, and merchants. He witnesses both feudal tyranny and the fatalistic submission of the tyrannized, against a backdrop of the sublime and pitiless terrain of rural Russia. These beautifully embellished, evocative stories were not only universally popular with the reading public but, through the influence they exerted on important members of the Tsarist bureaucracy, contributed to the major political event of mid–nineteenth–century Russia, the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Rarely has a book that offers such undiluted literary pleasure also been so strong a for

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Book SynopsisIn paperback for the first time, this third volume of Louis L’Amour’s collected stories gathers twenty-eight timeless tales of the American West. Whether following the exploits of a couple taking refuge in a cabin with a group of outlaws, a drifter who poses as a murdered man to solve a mystery, or the soft-spoken young suitor accused of cowardice who proves his courage when the guns are against him—without firing a shot—these gripping tales all have one thing in common: you won’t be able to put them down until the last page.   For lovers of great storytelling everywhere, this exciting collection features the unforgettable characters, heart-stopping drama, and careful attention to historical detail that have entertained readers for decades and earned Louis L’Amour a permanent place among our finest American writers.

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

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Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of Summer in Baden-Baden, a collection of short work finally in English.Trade Review"Excellent translations of Tyspkin's...small literary oeuvre of astonishing originality." -- Rachel Polonsky - New York Review of Books"The word “Jewish,” as translator Jamey Gambrell points out in the introduction, appears rarely for how often the story concerns otherness within one’s own country and family. The narrator’s son is beaten up, held down in front of the girls during a jokey teenage gathering because he is Jewish, though the reason is never made explicit. That’s the book for you—the surreal treated as commonplace and vice versa until it’s all the same." -- Dan Duray - New York Observer"There is no prose quite like Tsypkin’s. Inside his dependent clauses, nested in his parentheses, the past is preserved, intact, contemporary with the present. The effect is vertiginous and profoundly moving." -- BookList"One of the great pleasures of seeing The Bridge Over the Neroch become available is that it should make clear that Tsypkin’s novel was not an aberration. The seven stories collected here will, I hope, confirm Tsypkin’s reputation as a writer of peculiar distinction." -- The Quarterly Conversation"Tsypkin’s prose glows with ingenuity and experimentation as he creates a chaotic, raging river of consciousness in which present, past, and future; dream, reality, and memory all collide within the same paragraph, even within the same sentence." -- The Jewish Book Council

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Book Synopsis“He is by far the most exciting writer to come from South of the Rio Grande in a long time.” —Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles TimesTrade Review"Lucid fury . . . is a pretty good description of Bolaño’s aesthetic. He is a novelist of voraciousness without sentiment, hardness to a fever pitch." -- Todd Shy - San Francisco Chronicle"Darkly funny, but also tender and complex in the tenor of classic Bolaño novels." -- Savannah ("Savvy") Jones - SirReadaLot.org"A highly engaging novel of lyricism, menace and beauty." -- James Yeh - The Faster Times"One of the strangest mysteries...with its dark-summer heat that all but comes off the page." -- Marilis Hornidge - The Lincoln County News"This short, exquisite novel is another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far…Bolano in The Skating Rink manages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing." -- Wyatt Mason - The New York Times Book Review"Passion, mystery, seedy bars, and Bolaño's Olympian irony are here, as always." -- The Village Voice"When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again....How he makes one laugh! The laughter of someone who just escaped being buried live, and suddenly remembers how badly she wants to live." -- Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love"The Skating Rink…like much of what [Bolano] wrote, leaves many new novels looking pretty bland." -- Anthony Cummins - The Observer"…this Catalan drama sizzles with unrequited love and murderous ambition." -- Emma Hagestadt - The Independent"A stunning work of fiction. It is infused with a gritty poeticism and a unique worldview." -- Don Sjoerdsma - Northwest Phoenix [Indiana University]"A Book of the Year: The Skating Rink leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image." -- Siddhartha Deb - Times Literary Supplement"The latest release in the series of highly masterful and literary translations by Chris Andrews…. Deserves to be read widely." -- Rosemary Aud Franklin - World Literature Today

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Book SynopsisA daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)Trade Review"Marías’s most extravagant showcase for ‘literary thinking’ so far. It also serves as a compelling introduction to his writing." -- Wyatt Mason - The New Yorker"Fever and Spear entangles and fascinates readers and critics who have variously compared it with the novels of Dostoevsky, Proust and Beckett." -- Ian Mitchell - Times Literary Supplement"Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared to Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, and rightly so." -- The Observer"The overall effect recalls the cerebral play of Borges, the dark humor of Pynchon, and meditative lyricism of Proust." -- Review of Contemporary Fiction"By one of the most original writers at work today, Your Face Tomorrow [is] as accomplished and sui generis as all his mature work [and the] most affecting narrative feat in Marías’s work to date." -- The New York Times Book Review"This brilliant trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age." -- Antony Beevor - The Sunday Telegraph [London]

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Book SynopsisThe surprising, magnificent story of a Panamanian government employee who, one day, after a series of troubles, writes the celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry.Trade Review"An avant-garde literature that combines the impossible with the real, a literature in which every statement of fact suggests its opposite and even casual observations and plot twists are turned upside down." -- Michael Greenburg - The New York Review of Books"Varamo, like all the Aira books in translation, is charming and infuriating, built of plain prose that blooms without warning into carbuncular visions." -- Ben Raliff - The New York Times Book Review"Aira's prose can be slapdash, but the book teems with delightful, off-the-cuff metaphysical speculation." -- The New Yorker"Aira's literary significance, like that of many other science fiction writers, comes from how he pushes us to question the porous line between fact and fantasy, to see it not only as malleable in history, but also blurred in the everyday. The engrossing power of his work, though, comes from how he carries out these feats: with the inexhaustible energy and pleasure of a child chasing after imaginary enemies in the park." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"The book is structured around a series of chance encounters, while also giving Aira some asides on broader concepts like the nature of perception, the promises of narrative form, and human thought." -- Publishers Weekly"The novel, in enacting the criticism it mocks, is playful and clever." -- The Rumpus"The latest English translation in Aira’s enormous corpus, Varamo accommodates his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and an attention to the raw strangeness of life’s ordinary details... The eccentricity of plot here is its own pleasure, but the slow, carefully written digressions it enfolds are what make the work such extravagant fun." -- Alice Whitwam - Coffin Factory"Each element Aira draws our attention to is placed into sharp focus before being discussed in short, entertaining digressions. If anything, the book implies a distrust of the very notion of plot, a comfort with play, and that is why I feel it grasps something of value. Once again Aira has given us a series of memorable, highly interpretable images held together by gossamer strings of meaning." -- The National"Slim, cerebral, witty, fanciful, and idiosyncratic." -- Boston Review"With a light, almost hypnotic style, Aira creates an intriguing balance between realism and comedic absurdity." -- Critical Mob"The overriding impression of Varamo is one of facility that dips periodically into facileness. Aira encounters the elements of his story as Varamo stumbles upon his masterpiece, by chance, as objets trouvés, and enjoyable as it is to see each pulled in turn from the hat, even a short novel built on such a principle can’t help but demonstrate the principle’s limits. Flaubert, the presiding genius of literature as sealed artifact, once claimed that he took such endless pains with his style precisely because was not naturally gifted with words. Aira is a manifestly gifted writer who may find writing all too easy a job." -- Quarterly Conversation

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Book SynopsisThree friends in a small Egyptian city celebrate idleness, elegance, and joie de vivre.Trade Review"A legend…His caustic satire burned like the desert sun, undermining all forms of authority. Cossery despised materialism and eschewed the rat race... The overt message [is] that paradise is not lost, but most of us are too busy to bask in the Edenic simplicity of the world." -- The Guardian"I never see anything anywhere like it. All of Cossery’s books have a rare, exotic, haunting, unique flavor." -- Henry Miller"Above all Cossery, one of the last and quirkiest links to the postwar glory days of St. Germain-de-Pres, elevated idleness to an art form." -- The Times [London]

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Book SynopsisA delightful, deeply funny novel about the triumph of the perfect prankster — an elegant gentleman pickpocket in Cairo.Trade Review"Albert Cossery, who died in 2008 at age 94, ought to be a household name. He's that good: an elegant stylist, an unrelenting ironist, his great subject the futility of ambition 'in a world where everything is false.'" -- David Ulin "The Colors of Infamy is more compact and assured than Proud Beggars. It doesn't indulge in as much lyricism as the earlier book, but wrenches even more startling delirium from Egypt's long years of abjection." " Beyond Cossery's stylish ironies, we glimpse a country seething in poverty and malfeasance and, like the concrete buildings his narratives are usually set in, perpetually on the verge of collapse. In fact, it is seems as if only the totality of this corruption is keeping the country together, an adhesive of turpitude permeating every social fabric. "

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Book SynopsisA bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.Trade Review"Love, death and passion, from the Weimar Republic to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Wonderful German prose." -- Playboy"Jenny Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us—off-centre, as one travels into a vortex—into the most haunted and haunting territory. This is a novel of profound clarity and precise grief." -- Anne Michaels, Author of Fugitive Pieces"The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained unvarnished prose, is overwhelming." -- Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love"Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene." -- Cosmopolitan"Erpenbeck will get under your skin." -- Washington Post Book World"Bernofsky’s translation vividly captures the rhythm of Erpenbeck’s original and allows us to experience this stunning parable of change and brevity in all its beauty and wonder." -- Jewish Book World"Erpenbeck’s voice is fresh and independent and very convincing." -- Frederike Knabe - Mostly Fiction"Visitation adds to her compact scenarios something intangible and enormous, which works on them from outside their modest frames with a force eroding human history and its claims to establish durable meaning." -- The Nation

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Book SynopsisHermann Hesse’s classic novel in a new edition containing original writings attributed to the Buddha, The Dhammapada.Trade Review"Hermann Hesse is the greatest writer of the century." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Delight in Hesse signifies a new delight in human mysteries, in life’s possibilities, in the power of the will and the pleasures of the imagination." -- The Nation"In Siddhartha the setting is Indian and we encounter the Buddha, but the author’s ethos is still closer to Goethe...." -- The Washington Post Book World"One could even hope that Hesse’s readers are hungrily imbibing Siddhartha, and that they will be so wisely foolish as to live by it." -- Chicago Tribune

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Book SynopsisThe absurd becomes the truth in these magnificent eight short stories by the contemporary post-Soviet Union author.Trade Review"Pelevin has emerged as that unusual thing: a genuinely popular serious writer. (The New York Times) Antic and allegorical, these tales chronicle the absurdities of post-Soviet, postmodern Russia. (New York Times Book Review) Brilliantly and poignantly satirizes the economic, cultural and spiritual decay of Mother Russia under Communism. (Publishers Weekly) These are the kind of stories you just delight in reading and re-reading. (NPR, Morning Edition, Nancy Pearl) These short stories are so irretrievably weird that they glow like the bears must glow in the woods around Chernobyl. (Bruce Sterling, The Week)"

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Book SynopsisThree classic novellas—The King of Trees, The King of Chess, The King of Children—that completely altered the landscape of contemporary Chinese fiction.Trade Review"Nearly all the Chinese critics who discuss Ah Cheng’s work go to great lengths to praise the spare, concentrated expressiveness of his prose style…. But they see in Ah Cheng’s powerful language an indicator of something else, too—they see in his style an extraordinary evocation of the Chinese national spirit, something that years of class struggle under Mao’s aegis had sought simply to efface." -- Theodore Huters - Modern China"Beginning in 1984 with the publication of Ah Cheng’s novella The King of Chess, the last half of the 1980s represented a major turning point in contemporary Chinese fiction. From that time on, contemporary Chinese fiction has been ‘walking toward the world’ (zuoxiang shijie), a phrase that may be taken to mean approaching the quality of the finest in world fiction." -- Michael Duke - World Literature Today

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Book SynopsisA moving, memoiristic short-story collection by a venerated Moroccan writer about growing up during a time of cultural upheaval.Trade Review"The Clash of Images will force American readers to question their understanding of the images that pervade our society and the power they exercise in our lives." -- Natalie Storey - Bookslut"Reading Kilito for me has always been a kind of adventure. We normally speak of writing as an adventure, but Kilito dares his reader to travel with him, on a quest to override the boundaries between reality and fiction, between literary criticism and storytelling. The Clash of Images is a marvelous book. Its power lies in its ability to create a magical relation between storytelling and critical thought." -- Elias Khoury

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Book SynopsisAt last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprisesTrade Review"Dense, unpredictable confections delivered in a plain, stealthily lyrical style capable of accommodating his fondness for mixing metaphysics, realism, pulp fiction, and Dadaist incongruities." -- Michael Greenberg "Aira is one of the most provocative and idiosyncratic novelists working in Spanish today, and should not be missed." -- Natasha Wimmer

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Book SynopsisAs he runs wildly amok, Aira captures childhood’s treasures — the reality of the fable and the delirium of invention — in this hilariously funny book.Trade Review"A first reaction to this virtuosic confection is to delight in its cascade of images and the sheer craziness of a roller-coaster sequence of events that all seem so plausible. César Aira, an Argentine writer of fiction and literary criticism, is the obvious heir to Jorge Luis Borges. Along with a daring sense of fun, Aira has a playful imagination and the ability to spin a yarn as intricate as a spider’s web." -- Eileen Battersby - The Irish Times"His brutal humor and off-kilter sense of beauty make his stories slip down like spiked cream puffs." -- Natasha Wimmer - The New York Times"Aira is firmly in the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges and W. G. Sebald, those great late modernists for whom fiction was a theater of ideas." -- Mark Doty - The Los Angeles Times"Aira’s voice is clear, his characters are palpable, and his ideas —elucidations on literary theory, existential ruminations, and thought experiments — are evocative and infectious." -- Cristóbal McKinney - ZYZZYVA"Once you start reading Aira, you don’t want to stop." -- Roberto Bolaño

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Book SynopsisAn unforgettable collection of stories by one of the world's most revered writers.

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Book SynopsisLyrical, surreal, and yet unsettlingly realistic, The Sinistra Zone swims in the totalitarian backwaters of Eastern EuropeTrade Review"If there’s a magic realism Eastern-bloc style, The Sinistra Zone is surely its paradigm." -- Alison McCulloch - The New York Times Book Review"A fascinating novel that links intense realism with a boundless imagination, as if it could have written by Gabriel García Márquez." -- Die Zeit"The Sinistra Zone begins a la Chandler. But that's not how it continues. Like all good things, it embodies a wealth of possibilities: it can be read as a sociological intelligence briefing; a political/cultural situation report; a supplication; a finely wrought, postmodern feat of literary virtuosity; a chronicle of a bygone world, and so on. Again and again I was amazed by the fullness of the words, by the compact and luminous text — by the rich and powerful fabric that Ádám Bodor has woven into these pages." -- Péter Esterházy"It is hard to find in contemporary European literature a satire more dark and brutal and yet at the same time, more lyrical than this book." -- El País"The Sinistra Zone is a small masterpiece of stunning beauty that begs to be savored slowly." -- La Vanguardia

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Book SynopsisAira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient.Trade Review"Aira's literary significance, like that of many other science fiction writers, comes from how he pushes us to question the porous line between fact and fantasy, to see it not only as malleable in history, but also blurred in the everyday. The engrossing power of his work, though, comes from how he carries out these feats: with the inexhaustible energy and pleasure of a child chasing after imaginary enemies in the park." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"César Aira's is a fine short book, imaginative and entertaining, but finally and essentially, it's not about the size, it's about the transmogrified truths, the art of the prose and its necessity." -- Bookslut"César Aira’s novels are the narrative equivalent of the Exquisite Corpse, that Surrealist parlor game in which players add to drawings or stories without knowledge of previous or subsequent additions. Wildly heterogeneous elements are thrown together, and the final result never fails to surprise and amuse." -- The Millions

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph RothTrade Review"An achingly beautiful fictional account of the rise and fall of the Emperor Napoleon." -- Abby Margulies - Words Without Borders"There is a poem on every page of Joseph Roth." -- Joseph Brodsky"What a marvelous writer! Read him now. You can thank me later." -- Michael Dirda"A novel of great sensitivity and resonance. The Hundred Days is a meditation on the nature of greatness and love’s dogged loyalty, interwoven with the well-balanced irony that is Roth’s trademark. It’s a sad little gem." -- Boston Review

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Book SynopsisHere is “a rich and lyrical masterpiece”-notes Peter Constantine-the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler’s emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after the war and not released in Germany until 1962. Depicting the Holocaust in a unique and deeply moving way, and avoiding specific mention of country or camps-even of Nazis and Jews-The Journey is a poetic nightmare of a family’s ordeal and one member’s survival. Led by the doctor patriarch Leopold, the Lustig family finds itself “forbidden” to live, enduring in a world in which “everyone was crazy, and once they finally recognized what was happening it was too late.” Linked by its innovative style to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, The Journey portrays the unimaginable in a way that anyone interested in recent history and modern lite

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Book SynopsisSwiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel.The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue ch teau, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.

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Book SynopsisA darkly moving short story collection from one of contemporary Argentina's most revered authors.

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Book SynopsisA wildly inventive page-turner from one of Poland's most acclaimed contemporary novelists.

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Book SynopsisA mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.

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