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Proud Beggars
Proud Beggars
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Albert Cossery
Cossery
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Cossery’s proud beggars—a former university professor, a hashish-dealing poet, and a would-be revolutionary office-clerk—live on the fringes of Cairo society, and they wouldn’t have it any other way. Each is suspected in the death of a young prostitute, but the detective charged with getting to the truth of the crime finds that he is no match for this band of outsiders.
Contributors: Alyson Waters , Thomas W. Cushing |
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A Posthumous Confession
Posthumous Confession
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Marcellus Emants
Emants
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This story of the debilitating and ultimately murderous ramifications of self-disgust and
self-despair looks backward to Dostoyevsky and forward to Simenon. “[The narrator], claiming
to be unable to keep his dreadful secret, records his confession and leaves it behind as a monument
to himself, thereby turning a worthless life into art.” —J.M. Coetzee, from the introduction
Contributors: J. M. Coetzee |
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The Post-Office Girl
Post-Office Girl
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Stefan Zweig
Zweig
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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 |
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On the Edge
On the Edge
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Markus Werner
Werner
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A gripping psychological thriller, the story of two men, one woman, and many questions: about
truth, about reality, about identity.
Contributors: Robert E. Goodwin |
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The New Life
New Life
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Dante Alighieri
Dante
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The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death.
Contributors: Michael Palmer , Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Nature Stories
Nature Stories
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Jules Renard
Renard
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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 |
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The Murderess
Murderess
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Alexandros Papadiamantis
Papadiamantis
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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 |
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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irène Némirovsky by Her Daughter
Mirador
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Élisabeth Gille
Gille
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Élisabeth Gille was five years old when her mother, Irène Némirovsky, (whose Suite Française would be a surprise best-seller six decades later) died in Auschwitz. The Mirador is a lookout from which Gille reconstructs the story of her mother’s life, from child of privilege in Kiev, to renowned novelist, to fugitive in rural France. “[Gille] sets out to live in her mother’s head.” —The Nation
Contributors: Marina Harss |
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Love in a Fallen City
Love in a Fallen City
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Eileen Chang
Chang
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Love in a Fallen City is the first English-language publication to present a full selection of this haunting writer's novellas, the heart of her achievement.
Contributors: Karen S. Kingsbury, Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang |
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The Long Ships
Long Ships
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Frans G. Bengtsson
Bengtsson
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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 |
