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Title	Author	Description
Chess Story Chess Story	Stefan Zweig Zweig	A new English translation of the international psychological thriller Schachnovelle. Contributors: Peter Gay , Joel Rotenberg
Journey Into the Past Journey Into the Past	Stefan Zweig Zweig	Ludwig, an Austrian, is in Mexico when WWI breaks out. Unable to return home, he sets aside an unhappy love affair with the wife of his employer and builds a new life abroad. Years later he returns to Europe to find his beloved a widow. “Journey Into the Past is vintage Stefan Zweig—lucid, tender, powerful and compelling.” —The Independent Contributors: André Aciman , Anthea Bell
The Post-Office Girl Post-Office Girl	Stefan Zweig Zweig	Zweig's posthumously discovered novel, about the rise and fall of a provincial Austrian girl invited to the Swiss Alps by her wealthy American aunt, is available in English for the first time. Contributors: Joel Rotenberg
Confusion Confusion	Stefan Zweig Zweig	“Confusion is one of [Zweig’s] finest and most exemplary works…a perfect reminder of, or introduction to, Zweig’s economy and subtlety as a writer.” —Robert Macfarlane, The Times Literary Supplement Contributors: George Prochnik , Anthea Bell
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
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
Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think An Invitation for Me to Think: Selected Poems of Vvedensky	Alexander Vvedensky Vvedensky	Vvedensky was co-founder with Daniil Kharms of one of the most obscure, yet fascinating, playful, and revolutionary Russian avant-garde literary movements, dubbed OBERIU. His avowed task was "the poetic critique of reason" and he claimed "time, death, and God" as the themes of his freewheeling poems. Contributors: Eugene Ostashevsky , Matvei Yankelevich
Ice Trilogy Ice Trilogy	Vladimir Sorokin Sorokin	"Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" Sorokin's Ice Trilogy, never before translated into English in its entirety, attempts to answer this biblical question, giving us an alternate history of the 20th century, in which a 1908 meteor passing by the Tunguska River in Siberia in fact gave rise to a race of superbeings, who will use any means necessary to reunite its 23,000 members. Contributors: Jamey Gambrell
The Widow Widow	Georges Simenon Simenon	Two outcasts, a widow and a recently released murderer, become involved in a love triangle with the girl next door. Published in the same year and often compared to The Stranger, The Widow is one of Simenon's most powerful and disturbing romans durs. Contributors: Paul Theroux , John Petrie
Conquered City Conquered City	Victor Serge Serge	Set in post-Russian-Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Conquered City is structured like a detective story in which the new regime, looking toward "the birth of a new kind of justice," seeks out the spies, speculators, and traitors hidden among the exhausted mass of common people. "[Serge is] one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes." —Susan Sontag Contributors: Richard Greeman