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1 2 3 4 >>>     sort list by title | author Forest of a Thousand Daemons A Hunter's Saga D.O. Fagunwa Back in print! After more than twenty years out of print, a classic of African literature returns. Translated by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin Biting social allegory from one of Mexico's most exciting young authors: edgy, lyrical and cynically hopeful. State of Exile Pocket Poets Number 58 Cristina Peri Rossi A tender, moving, and multi-layered portrait of the pain, loneliness and permanent nostalgia of exile. The Speed of Dreams Selected Writings 2001-2007 Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos The literary and poetic genius of Latin America’s greatest living writer/rebel. The Island of My Hunger Cuban Poetry Today Francisco Morán A dramatic selection of work by a new generation of Cuban poets to whom North American readers have as yet had little or no access. Outcast Shimon Ballas " . . . reveals more about modern Iraq than nearly all Americans put together know, and Ballas creates one of the most relevant, most important characters in contemporary fiction." -- Booklist, Starred Review I'jaam An Iraqi Rhapsody Sinan Antoon "In less than a hundred pages, Antoon provides a moving portrait of life in Saddam's Iraq." – Poets and Writers Magazine The Other Campaign Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Greg Ruggiero The Zapatista Call for Change from Below The Other Campaign is a collection of texts – in English and Spanish – by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros that articulate a vision for “change from below,” a call to create social change outside and beyond... A Cock-Eyed Comedy Juan Goytisolo In A Cock-Eyed Comedy, Father Trennes is like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, a spirit of the age moving through several centuries of Spain's history. His most recent incarnation is as an Opus Dei religious leader in present-day Spain, whose conformity... The Shadows of Berlin The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson Dovid Bergelson Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II, part mythic parable. Bergelson's stories-passionate, honest, dark and often hilarious-hint at the possibility of redemption even... Queen Cocaine A Novel Nuria Amat Following the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges... No Man's Land Selected Stories Eduardo Antonio Parra In the no-man's-land of Mexico's far north-harsh desert landscapes, bruising border towns, urban wastelands and fantastical rural villages-migrants, campesinos and travelers find themselves lost between reality and delirium, tragedy and... Ingrid Caven A Novel Jean-Jacques Schuhl A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven, who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's star, and his wife, muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a protege of Pierre Berge. Consisting of memories, mixing real and... Head Above Water Stefano Bortolussi Italian writer Cardo Maraini is a cauldron of contradictions. Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, he is strangely terrified by life. When the Norwegian woman he loves becomes pregnant, he plunges into a comically disastrous... 1 2 3 4 >>>