Best Translated Fiction of 2010
Best European Fiction 2010
$22.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writ... Buy or find out more →
Running Away
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press
From the author of Camera, a 2008 New York Times Editor's Choice, comes a novel of love and dislocation.
A European man arrives in Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, yet a small task given him by his Parisian girlfriend M... Buy or find out more →
Microscripts
$34.95 – Hardcover book / New Directions
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like ma... Buy or find out more →
Broken Glass
$10.00 – Paperback book / Soft Skull Press
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broke... Buy or find out more →
Zone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627
Over the course of a single overnight train ride, Francis Servain Mirkovic recounts the violent history of the Zonethe lands of the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria, Lebanon, Italyand recalls the damage that his own p... Buy or find out more →
The Literary Conference
$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient... Buy or find out more →
Prose
$25.95 – Hardcover book / Seagull Books
The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard’s distinct darkly comic voice and vision... Buy or find out more →