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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 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
Nature Stories Nature Stories	Jules Renard Renard	Whimsical and charming miniature portraits of subjects drawn from the natural world: dogs, cats, pigs, roses, snails, trees, birds, and others. Renard’s sketches are masterpieces of compression and description, capturing both appearance and behavior through details that make the familiar unfamiliar, yet surprisingly true to life. Contributors: Pierre Bonnard , Douglas Parmée
The Doll Doll	Bolesław Prus Prus	A 19th-century novel that takes in the sweep of three generations caught up in dreams of Polish revolution as well as the hopes, agonies, and yearnings of a panorama of characters. Prus's book shows the influence of his literary idols, Dickens and Twain. "Rich in episodic figures and observations of daily life in Warsaw, the novel demonstrates 19th-century realism at its best." —Czesław Miłosz Contributors: Stanisław Barańczak , David Welsh
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
The Family Mashber Family Mashber	Der Nister Nister	The story of three brothers—a businessman, a mystic, and a savant—that is a brilliantly innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling. "The restitution of this Yiddish masterwork—as life-saturated as the other great Russian novels—is an augmentation of world literature." —Cynthia Ozick Contributors: David Malouf , Leonard Wolf
Amsterdam Stories Amsterdam Stories	Nescio Nescio	The first English-language translation of a writer whose growing reputation and cult readership have marked him as a figure in world literature. Nescio’s stories are inhabited by wastrels and charmers, the young and the no-longer-young, the bourgeois and the bohemian. He is a great stylist, capturing the mercantile city of Amsterdam and its bucolic surrounding countryside with equal vitality. Contributors: Joseph O'Neill , Damion Searls
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.
Boredom Boredom	Alberto Moravia Moravia	Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. Contributors: William Weaver , Angus Davidson
Contempt Contempt	Alberto Moravia Moravia	All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contributors: Tim Parks , Angus Davidson