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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author Best European Fiction 2012 Aleksandar Hemon "Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read."—Time Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names... Anatomy of a Disappearance A Novel Hisham Matar Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the... The Perpetual Motion Machine The Story of an Invention Paul Scheerbart In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from... Island Beneath the Sea A Novel Isabel Allende Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue—the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage—Zarité, known as Tété, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional... Fatale Jean-Patrick Manchette Aimée Joubert, the central character in Fatale, is a matter-of-fact businesswoman killer. In only his third novel translated into Englisg (the two others published by City Lights), Manchette delivers a terse, immediate tale where Aimée deals the... The Elephant's Journey José Saramago In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant. Solomon the elephant and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the king... The Solitude of Prime Numbers A Novel Paolo Giordano "Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level." -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are... The Leg of Lamb His Life and Works Benjamin Peret A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Peret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from the cinematic antics of Buster... The Skating Rink Roberto Bolaño A phenomenally unusual three-way murder... Kornel Esti Deszö Kosztolányi A great masterpiece never before available in English, Kornél Esti is the wild final book by a Hungarian genius.Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger... The Last Brother A Novel Nathacha Appanah The Last Brother is a wonder of concision and power. Appanah has created a memorable character who demonstrates the resilience of the individual in the face of the barbarism we sometimes call history. Appanah's ability to create such a nuanced character.. Heart of the Night Naguib Mahfouz A classic Mahfouz story exploring themes of marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious life. Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recently translated Mahfouz novel, is guided by his... The Scale of Maps Belén Gopegui A novel and its protagonist create one another, in a tale strung between the work of Cervantes and Nabokov. Conquered City Victor Serge Politically radical author Victor Serge lived through some of the 20th century's most crucial dramas—in this novel he reports directly from St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. But beyond its historical interest, this is an accomplished... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>