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Title	Author	Description
A Game of Hide and Seek Game of Hide and Seek	Elizabeth Taylor Taylor	Harriet comes of age between the wars. She’s not especially charming or attractive, but she has one passion in her life: Vesey. Nothing, not marriage to another man, or motherhood, will change that. “Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth.”—Sarah Waters Contributors: Caleb Crain
Angel Angel	Elizabeth Taylor Taylor	Liar, fantasist, monster, writer: Taylor’s title character, who rises from working-class girl to wildly famous sentimental novelist, is all of these things. She is also Taylor’s greatest creation, a character who is terrible, poignantly sympathetic, and unforgettable. Contributors: Hilary Mantel
Berlin Stories Berlin Stories	Robert Walser Walser	Robert Walser lived in Berlin from 1905 to 1913. This newly translated collection brings together his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical sketches of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Contributors: Jochen Greven , Susan Bernofsky
Walkabout Walkabout	James Vance Marshall Marshall	“A haunting little idyll in the same vein as A High Wind in Jamaica...tells of two children, a boy and a girl, sole survivors of a plane crash in the Australian bush. Their fragile veneer of modern culture clashes with the primitive soul of a boy who is making his tribal ‘walkabout.’” —Time Contributors: Lee Siegel
An Ermine in Czernopol Ermine in Czernopol	Gregor von Rezzori Rezzori	The first of Rezzori’s three books based on memories of his Austro-Hungarian hometown, a “melting pot for dozens of ethnic groups, languages, creeds, temperaments, and customs.” While the story centers on the downfall of a once glamorous Hussar, it is really about childhood enchantment and the richness of a vanished world. “A flashing novel of ideas.” —Time Contributors: Daniel Kehlmann , Philip Boehm
Proud Beggars Proud Beggars	Albert Cossery Cossery	Cossery’s proud beggars—a former university professor, a hashish-dealing poet, and a would-be revolutionary office-clerk—live on the fringes of Cairo society, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. Each is suspected in the death of a young prostitute, but the detective charged with getting to the truth of the crime finds that he is no match for this band of outsiders. Contributors: Alyson Waters , Thomas W. Cushing
The Letter Killers Club Letter Killers Club	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Krzhizhanovsky	Set in Moscow in the 1920s, this strange tale centers on the doings of a secret society of "Letter Killers"—who meet in a room of empty shelves to enact stories, committing nothing to paper. Krzhizhanovsky is at his philosophical and fantastical best in this extended meditation on madness and silence, the word and the soul unbound. Contributors: Caryl Emerson , Joanne Turnbull
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Company They Kept, Volume Two	Robert B. Silvers silvers	A collection of twenty-seven accounts of friendships between some of the greatest artists and thinkers of our day. Among them are Isaiah Berlin on Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova, Hector Bianciotti on the death of Borges, Bruce Chatwin on a drunken evening with George Ortiz, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale on riding the subway with George Balanchine, Gore Vidal on Dawn Powell, and John Updike on Saul Steinberg.
The Adventures of Sindbad Adventures of Sindbad	Gyula Krúdy Krudy	Rogue, romantic, and seducer, Sindbad, Krúdy's most famous creation, returns in dreams to lovers he has left, lovers who have died. The women in turn tell their stories, creating a beautifully melancholy vision of the twilight of the Habsburg Empire. “[Krúdy’s] literary power and greatness are almost past comprehension...” —Sándor Márai Contributors: George Szirtes
Alice James: A Biography Alice James	Jean Strouse Strouse	Alice James grew up in one of the most remarkable of 19th-century American families, and she was groomed to be no less remarkable than her brothers Henry and William. But a succession of poorly diagnosed ailments confined her to her bed for years at a time. Jean Strouse’s Bancroft Prize–winning biography is a portrait of a thwarted life, and a panoramic recreation of the particular intellectual world in which it came to be. Contributors: Colm Tóibín