Best Foreign/Translated Books of 2011
The Messenger
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Translated from the French by Ian Monk. Foreword by Mark Baker.
Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry offi cer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He ... Buy or find out more →
Fiasco
$26.95 – Paperback book / Melville House
Translated into English at last, "Fiasco "joins its companion volumes "Fatelessness "and "Kaddish for an Unborn Child "in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country t... Buy or find out more →
Never Any End To Paris
$21.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas s trademarkwitty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelistclearly a version of the author himself. The lecturer ... Buy or find out more →
Suicide
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel it is, in a sense, the author s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicid... Buy or find out more →
The Third Reich
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple... Buy or find out more →
The Seamstress And The Wind
$17.95 – Paperback book / New Directions Paperback
The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. Aseamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been acciden... Buy or find out more →
Comedy In A Minor Key
$22.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Finalist, The National Book Critics Circle 2010 Awards
A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation — and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners — Comedy in a Minor Key tells the sto... Buy or find out more →
Animalinside
$27.95 – Hardcover book / New Directions
As if some chained being had to shake its essence free, as if art taken to its limit were a form of howling, Animalinside explodes from its first line: He wants to break free, attempts to stretch open the walls, but he h... Buy or find out more →
Irretrievable
$23.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books
Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the attractive married couple at the center of this engrossing novel by one of Germany's greatest novelists, could not be more unalike. Christine is a serious soul f... Buy or find out more →
My Two Worlds
$17.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a ... Buy or find out more →