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<<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>     sort list by title | author In the Wake A Novel Per Petterson When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a... 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... 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... 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 Loser A Novel Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose... 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... The Nimrod Flipout Stories Etgar Keret, Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature From Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer—“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) Already... 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... Campo Santo W. G. Sebald "W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences... <<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>