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<<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>     sort list by title | author Strange Pilgrims Gabriel Garcia Marquez In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver... Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Ryunosuke Akutagawa This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashomon to his later, more autobiographical... The Dead All Have The Same Skin Boris Vian TamTam Books is proud (as usual) to announce the publication of Vernon SullivanÂ’s (or better known as Boris Vian) masterpiece of noir-gone berserk – The Dead All Have The Same Skin (Les Morts ont tous la Meme Peau). Written one year after the... We Yevgeny Zamyatin An inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor to the work of Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem, We is a classic of dystopian science fiction ripe for rediscovery. Written in 1921 by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin, this story... Istanbul Memories and the City Orhan Pamuk A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms... The Hungry Tide A Novel Amitav Ghosh In search of a rare river dolphin in the Sundarban archipelago, a young Indian-American biologist enlists the help of a local fisherman and an urbane translator. In lush and undulating prose. . . The Island of the Day Before Umberto Eco After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is... One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells... Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and... Bacacay Witold Gombrowicz Stunningly original in both style and content, these stories are hilarious yet have an undercurrent of profound moral disquiet and horror when the respectable turns slowly but inexorably into the outrageous, conveying both the horrors of upper-class... War & War László Krasznahorkai A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, László Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, László Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark... Midnight's Children A Novel Salman Rushdie Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this... Jumping Over Fire Nahid Rachlin Forced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in America. Breaking free from their intense attachment to each other, they explore new relationships to... Fantômas Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre A noblewoman is hacked to death, a Russian princess is boldly robbed, a lord's lifeless body is found in a trunk. It is the work of Fantômas, a master of disguise whose diabolical crimes paralyze Parisians with terror. The first volume in a series of... <<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>