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Emilio Fraia,
Sevastopol

Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Ever…

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Forrest Gander
Dune Lines

What is an ethical life? An erotic life? A life underpinned by awe? By grief? What is it to recognize oneself as comprised of others, human and not? What hasn't this poet lavished his "gorgeous atten…

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Forrest Gander
The Trace

The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-centur…

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Henry Green
Concluding

Concluding -set in a single summer day-has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl's boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewh…

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Haley
Real Illusions

Russell Haley has been dubbed 'probably / The best Yorkshire surrealist writing in New Zealand.' The joke teasingly anticipates the tales in Real Illusions . These fictions range across specific locations…

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Hanshan,
Cold Mountain Zen

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, m…

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Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside, Claire Louise-Bennett
The Wall

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a …

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Helle Helle,
Hafni Says

Hafni says: I don't want to be me. I want to change who I am. I don't know how to change who I am.Hafni has come to the end of her marriage. From a rest stop she phones the novel's narrator-a main charact…

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Helle Helle,
They

Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they -the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark-now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser …

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Chuang Hua
Crossings

When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua's mesmerizing novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first mod…

lieferbar ab 4.5.2027.

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Elfriede Jelinek,
Screeds

In Screeds , the adamantine, acerbic wit that won Jelinek the Nobel Prize is on full display. On the Royal Road , written three weeks after Trump's first election, is "a screed of outrage at the poli…

lieferbar ab 6.7.2027.

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Mieko Kanai,
Platonic Love

A cat who looks like Orson Welles and is the grim reaper. A murder in a secret society of chivalric knights in a high school. An utterly disturbing tale involving rabbits and fathers. These short stories …

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
Death in Rome

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer and a government administrator-reunited by chance in the decaying…

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
The Hothouse

The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his self-imp…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Havi…

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Agota Kristof,
The Illiterate

Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Ágota Kristóf's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in fact…

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Eka Kurniawan,
The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village-until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Islamic…

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Robert Lax, Ferreira Gullar, Amelia Rosselli,
Poetry Pamphlets 17-19

A three-pack of our Spring 2015 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring:A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics, by Robert LaxDirt Poem, by Ferreira GullarHospital Series, by Amelia Rosselli

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Enrique Lihn,
Celeste, Daughter of the Earth and Other Early Poems

Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda. Lihn's first two poetry books represented here…

lieferbar ab 15.12.2026.

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Clarice Lispector,
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to esc…

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