Niki: The Story of a Dog
By Tibor Déry
Introduction by George Szirtes
Translated from the Hungarian by Edward Hyams
The war is over and Hungary's Communist government is full of promise and projects. But when Mr. Ansca is disappeared, his wife's only comfort is her mongrel, Niki. "Mr. Déry brings a kind of cunning naïveté that records (or imagines) with utmost seriousness all the tremors of Niki's soul."—The New York Times
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The One-Straw Revolution
By Masanobu Fukuoka
Introduction by Frances Moore Lappé
Preface by Wendell Berry
Translated from the Japanese by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce, and Tsune Kurosawa
"...one of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture." —Michael Pollan
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The Complete Fiction
By Francis Wyndham
Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst
Wyndham is one of Britain's greatest living story writers, and a legendary editor. "He brings to his work an eye for the absolutely essential and a haunting sense of what lives are made up of—not the peaks and troughs...but the more elusive continuities and absences, ephemeral obsessions, a sense of permanently deferred expectation and hilarious consequences." —Interview
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The Old Man and Me
By Elaine Dundy
In Elaine Dundy's follow-up to her best-selling The Dud Avocado, a young American named Honey Flood arrives in London with the goal of seducing its brightest literary star. "A witty black comedy of errors." —Gore Vidal
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The Kingdom of Carbonel
By Barbara Sleigh
Illustrations by Richard Kennedy
It's good cats versus bad in a thrilling battle for the future of the enchanted land of Cat Country. "The children are lively, the grown-ups (including the witch) colorful and the mingling of magic and reality is most effective." —The New York Times
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Summer Will Show
By Sylvia Townsend Warner
Introduction by Claire Harman
Townsend Warner brings 19th-century Paris to pungent life in this thrilling novel of a proper Victorian aristocrat's political and emotional awakening among the barricades. "Her best book." —Sarah Waters
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The Mousewife
By Rumer Godden
Pictures by William Pène du Bois
Rumer Godden's beautiful tale of a downtrodden mouse and her friendship with a caged dove is based on a story by Dorothy Wordsworth. William Pène du Bois's elegant pen-and-ink drawings complement this meditation on love and freedom.
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A Meaningful Life
By L. J. Davis
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
A black comedy about real estate and redemption and the pitfalls of using the one to get the other. Lowell Lake (from Idaho) thinks that he has found the cure for the quarter-life doldrums in the form of a fixer-upper in Brooklyn, but soon discovers that he has lost his livelihood, his wife, and possibly his sanity.
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The Wonderful O
By James Thurber
Illustrations by Marc Simont
A thoroughly uproarious Thurberian experiment with language and a warning to those who would try to tame it. Two pirates conquer an island and attempt to purge it of the odious letter O. Cnfusin reigns, and chas—until the islanders decide to get their vowel back.
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Short Letter, Long Farewell
By Peter Handke
Introduction by Greil Marcus
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
American myth and American reality come to a head in Handke's spare and dreamlike 1972 novel, in which a young Austrian alternately pursues and flees his ex-wife, culminating in a Hollywood ending.
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The Foundation Pit
By Andrey Platonov
Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
A new translation, the first to be based on the authoritative Russian text, of Platonov's most political novel, in which the people struggle to build a workers' paradise, but succeed in creating only the immense hole of its foundation. "A Russian Waiting for Godot crossed with Lewis Carroll and Maxim Gorky."—Irish Times
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Season of Migration to the North
By Tayeb Salih
Introduction by Laila Lalami
Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
"The prose has a grave beauty. It's the story of a man who returns to his native Sudan after being educated in England, then encounters the first Sudanese to get an English education. The near-formal elegance in the writing contrasts with the sly anti-colonial world view of the book, and this makes it even more interesting." —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun
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