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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
On the Edge On the Edge	Markus Werner Werner	A gripping psychological thriller, the story of two men, one woman, and many questions: about truth, about reality, about identity. Contributors: Robert E. Goodwin
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
Ravan and Eddie Ravan and Eddie	Kiran Nagarkar Nagarkar	A delightful comic romp through the misadventures of two boys, Ravan (Hindu) and Eddie (Catholic), whose lives are entwined by chance and circumstance in a sprawling and crowded Mumbai tenement building.
The Gate Gate	Natsume Sōseki Soseki	The Gate is the story of an unhappy man, buffeted by the cares and troubles of everyday life, who at last seeks refuge in a remote Zen mountain monastery. At once melancholy and joyous, profound and simple, The Gate shows the Japanese master Sōseki at the pinnacle of his achievement. This new translation of The Gate is the most graceful and accurate English-language edition to appear to date. Contributors: Pico Iyer , William F. Sibley
1948 1948	Yoram Kaniuk Kaniuk	A haunting, astute, utterly original novel about the Israeli War of Independence, drawn from Yoram Kaniuk’s experience as a 17-year-old solider and filtered through six decades of memory. Contributors: Anthony Berris
Happy Moscow Happy Moscow	Andrey Platonov Platonov	Happy Moscow isn't a place, but a person, a gifted orphan whose flair for parachuting catapults her into the Soviet elite. Until, that is, she comes in for a great fall and reveals that Stalin's utopia isn't quite as happy as it's made out to be. “A reminder of the unique, paradoxical power of literature to expose the mismatch between rhetoric and reality.”—The Spectator Contributors: Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
Voltaire in Love Voltaire in Love	Nancy Mitford Mitford	The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s 16-year affair with Émilie du Châtelet—a renowned mathematician and scientist—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to the French Enlightenment. “Voltaire in Love caps [Mitford's] career as the nonpareil popular biographer of that era.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Contributors: Adam Gopnik