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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author The Gunman A Novel Jean-Patrick Manchette Forget whatever you've read about the film. This is the darkest of dark noirs, in the tradition of Jim Thompson, and the last novel Manchette would publish before his early death. Every word Manchette wrote is worth your time, much as those of one of his predecessors in French minimalism, Georges Bernanos, is. —Recommended by Jeff, City Lights The Penguin's Song Hassan Daoud A family in exile from their home in old Beirut contends with claustrophobic conditions, recriminations, and unrealizable dreams of return. Daoud is one of the Arabic world's premier novelists. Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. The Strange Library Haruki Murakami From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. A Corner of the World Mylene Fernández-Pintado In contemporary Havana, "Do I stay or do I go?" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all. Piano Stories Felisberto Hernández Reading Felisberto Hernández's Piano Stories is like rolling a beautiful glass marble around in your mouth and forgetting your fear of choking. One of the strangest things I have ever read. It is wonderful. —Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books Autobiography of a Corpse Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky "These stunning stories by the Ukrainian-born master of the fantastic and paradoxical remind me of Gogol as much as they remind me of Borges: it becomes harder to tell which is more curious, the reality of reading fiction or the fiction being rendered as reality."—Recommended by Chris C., City Lights Publishers My Struggle Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgaard 1Q84 Haruki Murakami The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence... The Plain in Flames Juan Rulfo Stories by a legendary Mexican writer back in a new translation. Perfect little tales of peasants and landlords and bandits and murder, stark as the desert, but very human too, tales that don't say too much, or too little. ––Recommended by Matt The Book of Monelle Marcel Schwob A dark, haunted book by a man who was a secret literary influence on an astonishing number of great avante-garde writers. Schwob wrote this about, and for, a young girl of the streets whose death shattered him. He channels both the thunder of... Água Viva A Novel Clarice Lispector Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as... 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 English (the two others published by City Lights), Manchette delivers a terse, immediate tale where Aimée deals the... 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. Concrete Thomas Bernhard Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>