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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author Wizard of the Crow Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in “our times” and set in the fictional “Free Republic... Novels in Three Lines Felix Feneon Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. The Assistant Robert Walser This classic by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. A Life Italo Svevo The youthful Alfonso persists in maintaining his artistic and intellectual sensibilities undaunted by either the stifling conditions of his employment or the increasing entanglements of his domestic circumstances. But he seems to be falling in love... Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre Recommended by Jeff, City Lights Books. Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of... The Possibility of an Island Michel Houellebecq A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant... Last Evenings on Earth Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño's story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret... The Patience of the Spider Andrea Camilleri The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri's internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano series Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once... Seeing José Saramago On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o’clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly... Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers... Television Jean-Philippe Toussaint The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't... That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda Gadda creates an incredible portrait of Italy in this novel—complex, lustful, mischievous and tragic. His language is sprawling and epic, finding sublime moments in small details. It is no wonder that both Pasolini and Calvino hold this book in such... Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as... The Last Jew A Novel Yoram Kaniuk Yoram Kaniuk has been hailed as “one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World” (The New York Times), and The Last Jew is his exhilarating masterwork. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>