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Title	Author	Description
The Jokers Jokers	Albert Cossery Cossery	In an unnamed Middle-Eastern city in a country ruled by a tyrannical buffoon, a small band of renegades concocts a plot to fight power with parody. “Cossery's books are saturated with a mordant, savage humor which makes one laugh and weep at the same time.” —Henry Miller Contributors: James Buchan , Anna Moschovakis
The Long Ships Long Ships	Frans G. Bengtsson Bengtsson	The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century, when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from Scandinavia through the Straits of Gibraltar to Byzantium in all its fabled splendor. "This extraordinary saga of epic adventure on land and sea…is a masterpiece of historical fiction." —The New York Times Contributors: Michael Chabon , Michael Meyer
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín Clandestine in Chile	Gabriel García Márquez Littin	Filmmaker Miguel Littín fled Chile when the dictator Pinochet came to power in 1973. In 1985 he returned, disguised as a businessman, to make a documentary exposing the dire conditions endured by his countrymen. Contributors: Francisco Goldman , Asa Zatz
The Murderess Murderess	Alexandros Papadiamantis Papadiamantis	To be born poor and female on the wretched Aegean island of Skiathos is a fate worse than death, or so old Hadoula has come to believe. In this beautiful and astonishing novella, the father of modern Greek fiction shows what happens when she takes matters—literally—into her own hands. Contributors: Peter Levi
Skylark Skylark	Dezso Kosztolányi Kosztolanyi	"This short, perfect novel seems to encapsulate all the world’s pain in a soap bubble. Its surface is as smooth as a fable, its setting and characters are unremarkable, its tone is blithe, and its effect is shattering." —Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books Contributors: Péter Esterházy , Richard Aczel
The Wedding of Zein The Wedding of Zein	Tayeb Salih Salih	Salih returns to the Sudanese village that was the setting of Season of Migration to the North to tell a variety of tales—including the title story, in which the miraculous betrothal of the town fool unites its residents in unforeseen ways. "A long ululation for life, a hymn of love." —Ali al-Rai Contributors: Hisham Matar , Denys Johnson-Davies
Soul of Wood Soul of Wood	Jakov Lind Lind	Lind's stories of the Second World War and its repercussions deal masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox, and sardonic distortion and bring to life the agonies of twentieth-century Europe. "It is amazing that he is witty; it is not at all surprising that he is profound." —The New York Times Contributors: Michael Krüger , Ralph Manheim
Alien Hearts Alien Hearts	Guy de Maupassant Maupassant	Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art. Contributors: Richard Howard
The True Deceiver True Deceiver	Tove Jansson Jansson	A story of manipulation and deceit set in the depths of the Swedish winter, The True Deceiver is unlike anything else Tove Jansson wrote. "I loved this book. It's cool in both senses of the word, understated yet exciting, and with a tension that keeps you reading." —Ruth Rendell Contributors: Ali Smith , Thomas Teal
Pinocchio Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi Collodi	This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind (not to mention the advice-spouting Talking Cricket, whom Pinocchio squashes with a mallet in chapter 4). In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots. Contributors: Umberto Eco , Rebecca West , Geoffrey Brock