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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: Stories

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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Ariana Harwicz,
Unfit

Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France p…

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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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Claire Louise-Bennett, Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside
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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Adam Mars-Jones
Box Hill - A Story of Low Self-Esteem

In Box Hill , a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self-on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Bo…

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Mariella Mehr,
Nightmare of the Embryos

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947-2022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously one o…

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Mirabai,
Blue Like My Beloved

Some people praise me, some talk trash. I just sing about god.My road is the road where the saints walk, and I'm taking it.-MirabaiThe sixteenth-century poet and saint Mirabai has long been an iconic figu…

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Osdany Morales,
Security Questions

"It was through writing this book," Osdany Morales says, "that I realized I carried many memories in literary form-that exile had established a past I could already recount without waiting …

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