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César Aira,
Festival & Game of the Worlds

In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? …

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Solvej Balle,
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has…

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Solvej Balle,
On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at …

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Hélène Bessette,
Lili Is Crying

Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back …

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Jonathan Buckley
Tell

A novel of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interviews with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared…

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Elias Canetti,
The Book Against Death

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evok…

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Anne Carson, Li Shangyin, Osip Mandelshtam, Sakutaro Hagiwara
Poetry Pamphlets 13-16

A four-pack of our Spring 2014 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring: The Albertine Workout, by Anne Carson Derangements of my Contemporaries, by Li Shangyin The Iceland, by Sakutaro Hagiwara The Poems of Osip …

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
War

Céline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and that the manuscripts of War and London had been stolen by the Resistance from his apartment, when he fled for his life…

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Inger Christensen,
Natalja's Stories

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual appro…

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Inger Christensen,
The Painted Room

The Painted Room is a magnificent three-part short novel about the Italian Renaissance, and, specifically, the intrigue surrounding the frescoes that Mategna (1431-1506) made on the walls of a famous brid…

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Bei Dao,
Sidetracks

A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024 A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 Sidetracks, Bei Dao's first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet's first long poem and his magnu…

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Emily Dickinson
Envelope Poems

Although a very prolific poet-and arguably America's greatest-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. Whe…

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José Donoso,
The Obscene Bird of Night

Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on …

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Marcia Douglas
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, which continues Marcia Douglas' "spe…

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Juan Emar,
Ten

A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemón, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his…

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Mathias Enard,
The Deserters

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, …

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Forrest Gander
Mojave Ghost

Mojave Ghost initiates an unusually tender bond with the reader as it chronicles an intimate relationship with arresting honesty and vividness. Moving through grief and loss towards a renewal that never s…

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Phoebe Giannisi,
Chimera

In her third collection in English, Phoebe Giannisi lays out her vision for a chimeric poetics that blends field recordings, state archives and ancient texts. The centre of Chimera engages with a three-ye…

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Günter Grass,
The Living Statue

At the end of the 1980s, a writer who very much resembles Günter Grass passes through East Germany on a book tour and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the …

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Marlen Haushofer,
Killing Stella

Main description: Left alone for the weekend while her husband and two children are visiting her in-laws, the narrator of KILLING STELLA recounts the addition of her friend's daughter, Stella, into their …

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