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Title	Author	Description
Transit Transit	Anna Seghers Seghers	A young German concentration-camp escapee finds himself in Marseille with a cache of papers and travel documents belonging to another man—who just happens to be dead. “Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe…[Transit’s] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme.”—Christian Science Monitor Contributors: Peter Conrad , Heinrich Böll , Margot Dembo
The Green Man Green Man	Kingsley Amis Amis	"A thoroughly contemporary ghost story . . . in the uncomplicated, old-fashioned sense. As one might expect from the author of Lucky Jim, The Green Man is also an extremely funny book, filled with slapstick, parody and satire. Indeed, the success of this short novel depends very much on the balance that Amis maintains between fear and laughter.''—The New York Times Contributors: Michael Dirda
The Alteration Alteration	Kingsley Amis Amis	In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into alternate history, it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. "One of the best—possibly the best—alternate-worlds novels in existence."— Philip K. Dick Contributors: William Gibson
The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680–1715 Crisis of the European Mind	Paul Hazard Hazard	In this landmark of intellectual history, Paul Hazard looks at the period leading up the Enlightenment, years which saw the erosion of the classical values of respect for tradition, stability, and proportion, as well as a growing awareness of non-European cultures. Hazard captures the excitement of a revolution, the impact of which continues to be felt in our own time. Contributors: Anthony Grafton , J. Lewis May
Speedboat Speedboat	Renata Adler Aldler	Speedboat—a novel, a memoir, a lyric essay?—all questions of category fall away in its reading. What remains is Renata Adler's voice, perceptive, wry, brilliant, making what sense she can of the late 20th-century condition. Speedboat was a revelation to writers as different as Elizabeth Hardwick and David Foster Wallace, and its true influence is only beginning to be felt. Contributors: Guy Trebay
Pitch Dark Pitch Dark	Renata Adler Adler	“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark, Renata Adler’s follow-up to her prize-winning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions, questions that bedevil Kate Ennis as she considers her relationship with her married lover. “A moving, infuriating, tantalizing book.”—The Boston Globe Contributors: Muriel Spark
An Armenian Sketchbook Armenian Sketchbook	Vasily Grossman Grossman	Vasily Grossman wrote not only one of the great Russian novels of the 20th-century (Life and Fate), but also vivid reportage, moving essays, and brilliant travel journals. This account of two months he spent in Armenia in the mid-60s is the most intimate of his works. Suppressed during his life, it is here available in English for the first time. Contributors: Robert Chandler , Yury Bit-Yunan , Elizabeth Chandler
Diary of a Man in Despair Diary of a Man in Despair	Friedrich Reck Reck	This astonishing dispatch from Nazi Germany was not published until after the author's death at Dachau. In it we see a man awakening into political consciousness as he watches his country succumb to its murderous impulses. “One of the most important documents of the Hitler period”—Hannah Arendt Contributors: Richard J. Evans , Paul Rubens
Testing the Current Testing the Current	William McPherson McPherson	A coming-of-age novel set in the American Midwest in the late 1930s. "An extraordinary intelligent, powerful and, I believe, permanent contribution to the literature of family, childhood and memory….There is not one false note, one forced image. It is a novel written with great skill, and with love. It’s what most good first novels aspire to be.”—Russell Banks Contributors: D. T. Max
Basti Basti	Intizar Husain Husain	Basti exlores the divided consciousness of Pakistan, a country born of division and suffering from it to this day. Set during the chaos of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, the novel centers on the meetings and partings and memories and desires of a group of young men who seek to comprehend their country's disastrous situation. A masterpiece of modern Urdu fiction, Basti fuses modernist montage with stories from Muslim, Hindu, Persian, and Buddhist traditions in a poignant lament for the fallen historical world. Contributors: Asif Farrukhi , Frances W. Pritchett