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Faithful Ruslan
Georgi Vladimov

$21.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

"A dog will never bite anyone who truly loves him. . . only man is capable of such a perverse act."

Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emanci... Buy or find out more 


President
Georges Simenon

$21.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force"

At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement— self exile—on the Nor... Buy or find out more 



The Late Lord Byron A Biography
Moore Doris Langley

$26.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

Whilst many biographies have attempted to enlighten readers on the iconic life of Lord Byron, this is the only biography devoted to the aftermath of his life. It is these first 20 posthumous years that have unearthed the... Buy or find out more 


After Midnight
Irmgard Keun

$21.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions and hysteria... Buy or find out more 



The Train
Georges Simenon

$20.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the "Fate"... Buy or find out more 


The Rattler And Other Stories
A.S. Patric

$19.99 – Paperback book /

In this wonderfully eclectic collection published by Spineless Wonders, A.S. Patric shows us a surreal side of Melbourne where anything can happen. A tram driver makes a mercy dash with a carriage full of show dogs, a bo... Buy or find out more 



The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
David Shields and Bradford Morrow (Eds)

$22.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton

Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them G... Buy or find out more 


A Graphic Cosmogony
Various

$55.00 – Hardcover book / Www.Nobrow.Net

It could not be said better than with the introductory words of acclaimed comics expert and organiser of Comica, Paul Gravett:

‘In the beginning…’

When it comes to the birth of comics, like the birth of the cosmos,... Buy or find out more 



Hildafolk
Luke Pearson

$20.00 – Paperback book / Www.Nobrow.Net

Hilda is sitting in her tent at night listening to the rumble of the storm passing overhead when she hears a bell. As she hurtles towards the vanishing tinkling sound, Hilda unwittingly embarks on an adventure into stran... Buy or find out more 


Suicide
Edouard Levé

$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 



Last Novel
David Markson

$20.95 – Paperback book / Shoemaker & Hoard

In recent novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating," David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work. The Last Novel, an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") ... Buy or find out more 


Mule A Novel Of Moving Weight
Tony Dsouza

$22.95 – Paperback book / Mariner Books

From an award-winning "savvy storyteller"* comes a page-turning, zeitgeist-capturing novel of a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through the recession. James and Kate are golden children of the late t... Buy or find out more 



Old Spring
Richard Francis

$19.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books

Dawn and Frank wake up one wet morning in the flat above their pub, the Old Spring. Today they have to meet the brewery representative, creepy Tim Green, and track down an error in their books - or face the consequences.... Buy or find out more 


The Seamstress And The Wind
Cesar Aira

$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 



Great Philosophers Who Failed At Love
Andrew Shaffer

$18.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age, including: Fried... Buy or find out more 


Dying
Rene Belletto

$17.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

In this darkly playful novel, polymath Rene Belletto tells two complimentary stories: In one, a man finds himself paying a ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a woman he's never actually met; in the other, a second man ... Buy or find out more 



Hotel Europa
Dumitru Tsepeneag

$22.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

The author-narrator, a sarcastic Romanian e migre with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student s life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania through an unwelcoming W... Buy or find out more 


Night Soul And Other Stories
Joseph McElroy

$19.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

Best known for his complex and beautiful novels — regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo — Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over... Buy or find out more 



Good Bye Angel
Brandao Ignacio De Loyola

$19.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

There are no heroes in Igna cio de Loyola Branda o's world, only victims: not only of violence, but of deceit, desire, and fear. In The Good-Bye Angel, Branda o returns to his great subject: the tyranny of the community ... Buy or find out more 


Succubus
Vlado Zabot

$19.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

In an unnamed city shrouded in mist, Valent Kosmina is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his doped-up, TV-addicted wife. To escape the claustrophobia of home and city, he masquerades as a man of means and ... Buy or find out more 



Life On Sandpaper
Yoram Kaniuk

$22.95 – Paperback book / Dalkey Archive Press

A whirlwind of art, music, and lust, Life on Sandpaper is Yoram Kaniuk's overwhelming autobiographical novel detailing his years as a young painter in the New York of the '50s. Wounded and alienated, a war veteran at the... Buy or find out more 


Hellbound
Tim Hawken

$21.95 – Paperback book /

"You look very confused when I say I'm just trying to help these lost souls make their way to Heaven," he said. "The reason you're confused is that you think I'm speaking metaphorically. Well, my dear friend, take it ver... Buy or find out more 



Patriotism
Yukio Mishima

$14.95 – Paperback book / New Directions

By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patr... Buy or find out more 


Bad Nature, Or With Elvis In Acapulco
Javier Marias

$15.95 – Paperback book / New Directions

A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When th... Buy or find out more 



Give My Regards To Eighth Street Collected Writings Of Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman

$21.95 – Paperback book / Exact Change

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Blue Octavo Notebooks
Franz Kafka

$19.95 – Paperback book / Exact Change

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Paris Peasant
Louis Aragon

$21.95 – Paperback book / Exact Change

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The Adventures Of Telemachus
Louis Aragon

$20.95 – Paperback book / Exact Change

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The Instructions
Adam Levin

$40.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeney

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a sc... Buy or find out more 


Bedside Guardian 2010
Christopher Elliott

$46.95 – Hardcover book / Guardian Books

"The Bedside Guardian 2010" brings together the very best writing and photography from a tumultuous year in Britain and abroad. The centrepiece of the political year was an enthralling general election: the first televis... Buy or find out more 



What Is All This Uncollected Stories
Stephen Dixon

$37.95 – Hardcover book / Fantagraphics Books

Stephen Dixon is one of the literary world's best-kept secrets. For the last thirty years he has been quietly producing work for both independent literary publishers (McSweeney's and Melville House Press) and corporate h... Buy or find out more 


Flash Fiction Forward 80 Very Short Stories
James Thomas

$21.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton

After publication of the first "Flash Fiction" anthology over a decade ago, "flash" became part of the creative writing lexicon for readers, writers, students, and teachers. In this follow-up collection, the editors once... Buy or find out more 



The New Yorker Stories
Ann Beattie

$41.95 – Hardcover book / Scribner

Collects every Beattie story published in The New Yorker magazine throughout a 35-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into her precise character creation and insight into modern American family life. By the ... Buy or find out more 


A Visit From The Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

$39.95 – Hardcover book /

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, trouble... Buy or find out more 



Spare Key
R. Frederick Hamilton

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

Rachel was cursed. She was sure of it. She always seemed to get the fruitcake neighbours. No matter where she went they were always the same: selfish and inconsiderate people who had no respect for anyone. But the last o... Buy or find out more 


Snake Jaw
Andrew Gallacher

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

A girl is found, dead, with a dog wedged in her surgically enlarged throat, turning Detective Gill's missing persons case into something much darker.

Drug addict Vanessa has been gone for weeks. Her baby girl too. Gill w... Buy or find out more 



10 A Boot Stomping, 20 A Human Face, 30 Goto 10
Jess Gulbranson

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

One minute you've got a quiet life.

No friends except those in your record collection. Free from technological slavery. Just pizza for dinner and a job you love at the local record store...

Funny how things spiral out of... Buy or find out more 


Dinner Bell For The Dream Worms
Jason Wuchenich

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

The technicolour fairytales of Jason Wuchenich's 'Dinner Bell for the Dream Worms' are a celebration of divine depravity. Marvel as clusters of vine-grown skanks turn the world into a sewer of dirty sex. Learn to sympath... Buy or find out more 



The Place In Between
Steven Rage

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

The Place in Between: When Del is sent pictures of his wife’s latest affair, he reasons a .45 caliber bullet will answer his problems. To Del’s dismay, that’s only the beginning of his time spent wedged in the place in b... Buy or find out more 


Archelon Ranch
Garrett Cook

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

In an overgrown, primeval, jungle-city state, Bernard is a test subject for science experiments. His father and Professor Sagramour have been injecting him with hallucinogenic mud and reality affirming drugs so that one ... Buy or find out more 



A Million Versions Of Right
Matthew Revert

$20.00 – Paperback book / Legume Man

Step into a world that defies all logic. One of Masturbatory headphones, diabolically toppled comb-jars, moustache-filled ejaculations, malfunctioning bookmarks, bricolage scrotums, wank fairies and a poorly conceived th... Buy or find out more 


Animals Of The Ocean In Particular The Giant Squid
Haggis On Whey Doris

$24.95 – Hardcover book / Mcsweeneys

Here is the third installment in a series of reference books, all written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, a team of highly energized and deeply focused scientists with over sixty-seven combined years of experience a... Buy or find out more 



Agua
Eduardo Berti

$31.95 – Trade paperback / Pushkin Press

The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artific... Buy or find out more 


Primeval And Other Times
Olga Tokarczuk

$23.95 – Paperback book / Twisted Spoon

Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Tokarczuk's third novel, PRIMEVAL AND OTHER TIMES was awarded the Polityka Passport Prize in 1996 and the Koscielski Prize in 1997, which established the author as a lea... Buy or find out more 



I City
Pavel Brycz

$21.95 – Paperback book / Twisted Spoon

Fiction. Translated from the Czech by Joshua Cohen and Marketa Hofmeisterova. Winner of the Orten Prize and the State Prize for Literature in 2004. I, CITY is a story about the north Bohemian city of Most, an ancient cit... Buy or find out more 


Aquamarine
Peter Pessl

$21.95 – Paperback book / Twisted Spoon

Fiction. Translated from the German by Mark Kanak. AQUAMARINE is the result of two years' musings following the author's long and twisted journey (both in terms of pathways and encounters) to Mexico in 1993. After having... Buy or find out more 



Passive Vampire
Luca Gherasim

$24.95 – Paperback book / Twisted Spoon

Poetry. Art. Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski. Originally published in 1945 by Les Editions de l'Oubli in Bucharest, THE PASSIVE VAMPIRE caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 ... Buy or find out more 


Short Letter Long Farewell
Peter Handke

$20.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books

"Short Letter, Long Farewell" is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us ... Buy or find out more 



Leviathan
Philip Hoare

$24.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

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Shoplifting From American Apparel
Tao Lin

$19.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

In a work that’s sure to be controversial, the American Murakami describes a youth culture attacking the mainstream mindset with scathing wit and ferocious optimism

Set mostly in Manhattan—although also featuring Atlan... Buy or find out more 



Under Stones
Bob Franklin

$24.95 – Paperback book / Affirm

Dip into the world of Bob Franklin‘s fiction at your own risk. The calm surface belies a swift undertow and snags galore. These are not horror stories in the traditional sense; they are more unsettling than that.

Under... Buy or find out more 


Point Omega
Don DeLillo

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Picador

In the middle of a desert somewhere south of nowhere, to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, 73, was a scholar – an outsider – when he w... Buy or find out more 



The United States Of McSweeney's: 10 Years Of Accidental Classics
Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz (Eds)

$49.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton

Since 1998 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year – or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have bee... Buy or find out more 


Troubles
J.G. Farrell

$23.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books

Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize of 1970.

The first book in Farrell's Empire Trilogy.

Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three ye... Buy or find out more 



Jenny Holzer

$99.00 – Hardcover book / Hatje Cantz

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Etchings Indigenous: Black And Sexy
Ilura Press

$24.95 – Paperback book / Ilura Press

Etchings Indigenous: Black and Sexy presents some of the best contemporary writing and art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.

Discover the story of Payback Records, an Indigenous hip h... Buy or find out more 



Drowned Book
Sean Obrien

$24.95 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan

Sean O'Brien's new collection takes its emotional and imaginative cue from his recent and brilliant Inferno, and, for the larger part, occupies a dark, watery, subterranean world as dramatically compelling (and sometimes... Buy or find out more 


Best European Fiction 2010
Aleksander Hemon (Ed)

$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 



Travels With Herodotus
Ryszard Kapuscinski

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life.... Buy or find out more 


Going Down Swinging 29

$24.95 – Paperback book / Going Down Swinging

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Aesthetics Of Resistance Volume One
Peter Weiss

$40.95 – Paperback book / Duke Univ Pr

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Look Who's Morphing
Tom Cho

$24.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing

This is a collection of brilliant stories about transformation, with the storyteller and his family shifting through identities drawn from comics, video games, daytime TV, porn flicks and movies, in fantasies of sexual a... Buy or find out more 



Take Care Of Yourself
Sophie Calle

$112.00 – Hardcover book /

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Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives
David Eagleman

$22.95 – Paperback book / Canongate

In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your di... Buy or find out more 



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Homer and Langley
E.L. Doctorow

$29.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

E.L. Doctorow's new novel follows the fascinating lives of Homer and Langley Collyer, two orphaned brothers who live reclusively in a massive 4-storey townhouse on Fifth Avenue. After their mother and father succumb to t... Buy or find out more 


The Best Australian Stories 2009
Delia Falconer (ed.)

$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc

In The Best Australian Stories 2009, Delia Falconer collects the year's most outstanding short fiction, showcasing the strength and diversity of Australian writing today.  There are masterful stories from some of th... Buy or find out more 



 

Sons Of The Rumour
David Foster

$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Picador

Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to ma... Buy or find out more 


The Book Of Other People
Zadie Smith (Ed)

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

A HOST OF EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS IN ALL NEW STORIES BY OUR BEST CONTEMPORAY WRITERS



INCLUDING:




David Mitchell – 'Judith Castle'

'A masterpiece' Scotland on Sunday



A.L. Kennedy – 'Frank'

'Brilliantly melancholic'... Buy or find out more 



 

Memories, Dreams And Reflections
C.G. Jung

$24.95$13.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

In his later years, C. G. Jung sums up the meaning of his life in the light of his own psychological researches, partly in conversations recorded, amplified and edited by his secretary and partly in chapters written by h... Buy or find out more 


More Things Like This
McSweeney's

$59.95 – Hardcover book / Chronicle Books

Curated by the editors of McSweeney's, this unconventional book explores the intersection of text, humor, and illustration in art created by cartoonists, writers, musicians, and fine artists. A refreshing mixture of high... Buy or find out more 



Distant Star
Roberto Bolano

$24.95 – Paperback book /

From Chile's finest contemporary writer.

An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Albe... Buy or find out more 


Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
David Shield

$29.95 – Paperback book / Hamish Hamilton

Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shie... Buy or find out more 



Generosity
Richard Powers

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books

When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open... Buy or find out more 


Principles Of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman

$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa

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A High Wind In Jamaica
Richard Hughes

$21.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, b... Buy or find out more 


Meaningful Life A
Davis L J

$20.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books

L. J. Davis's A Meaningful Life is a blistering black comedy about gentrification and its discontents, a gritty picture of the collapsing New York of the 1970s, a prophetic send-up of middle-class anxieties and ambitions... Buy or find out more 



Soul And Other Stories
Andrey Platonov

$24.95 – Paperback book /

The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov's vision ... Buy or find out more 


A Sleep And A Forgetting
William Dean Howells

$12.95 – Paperback book /

Nowhere in the prodigious output of William Dean Howells is there an example more poignant of his heartfelt dedication to the realist movement than this achingly suspenseful novella.

The story centers on a young “alienis... Buy or find out more 



Contemporary Fables Volume 1
Gilgamesh Connections

$15.00 – Paperback book /

Contemporary Fables Volume One is the first publication of a series of three from Gilgamesh Connections. It is a compilation of the shortlisted entrants from their first worldwide fable competition, with its base in our ... Buy or find out more 


Gasoline
Quim Monzo

$23.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

For the first time in his life, Heribert Juliá is unable to paint. On the eve of an important gallery exhibition, for which he’s created nothing, he’s bored with life: he falls asleep while making love with his mistress,... Buy or find out more 



Season Of Ash
Jorge Volpi

$21.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a changed man, but then Iri... Buy or find out more 


The Pets
Bragi Olafsson

$22.95 – Hardcover book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

Back in Reykjavik after a vacation in London, Emil Halldorsson is waiting for a call from a beautiful girl, Greta, that he met on the plane ride home, and he’s just put on a pot of coffee when an unexpected visitor knock... Buy or find out more 



Death In Spring
Merce Redoreda

$23.95 – Hardcover book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Mercè Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive cust... Buy or find out more 


Landscape In Concrete
Jakov Lind

$21.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally ... Buy or find out more 



The North Of God
Steve Stern

$19.95 – Paperback book /

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The Death Of The Author
Gilbert Adair

$18.95 – Paperback book /

Part murder mystery and all jet-black satire, and based on a real life scandal, this edgy novella tells the story of Léopold Sfax, world-renowned as the creator of "The Theory"—a bizarre literary theory that grew from an... Buy or find out more 



Benito Cereno
Herman Melville

$14.95 – Paperback book /

With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, ... Buy or find out more 


What's Wrong With Anzac? The Militarisation Of Australian History
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

$29.95 – Paperback book / New South Books

In recent years Anzac – an idea as much as an actual army corps – has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembra... Buy or find out more 



Roadside Dog
Czeslaw Milosz

$20.95 – Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro

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Fear Factor
Bharat Meenakshi Ed

$24.99 – Paperback book / Picador

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Curved Planks Poems
Yves Bonnefoy

$22.00 – Paperback book / Farrar Straus & Giro

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Grendel
John Gardner

$17.95 – Paperback book / Random Century

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I Was Behind You
Nicolas Fargues

$29.95 – Paperback book / Pushkin Press

Here is a story of self-discovery, entering adulthood and freeing oneself. The tone is sarcastic, lucid, cruel yet realistic. On a background of R&B and electronic music, Nicolas Fargues gives us an impressive and su... Buy or find out more 


Jakob Von Gunten
Robert Walser

$20.95 – Paperback book / New York Rev Books

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as fo... Buy or find out more 



The Death Of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy

$13.95 – Paperback book / Melville House Publishing

Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenina—a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts—THE DEATH OF IVAN ILY... Buy or find out more 


Freya Of The Seven Isles
Joseph Conrad

$12.95 – Paperback book /

This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose—it is unusual in that it... Buy or find out more 



Pathseeker
Imre Kertesz

$16.95 – Paperback book / Melville House

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.”

The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre Ker... Buy or find out more 


Private Lives Of Trees
Alejandro Zambra

$17.95 – Paperback book / Open Letter University Of Rochester Lattimore Hall 411 Box 270082 Rochester, Ny 14627

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julián is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Verónica to return from her art class.... Buy or find out more 



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