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Memories of the Future By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull The first English-language collection of stories from a Soviet writer whose mind-bending tales draw comparisons to the works of Poe, Borges, Kafka, and Capek. "Here a natural storyteller, striking intellect, and deeply creative soul are found all in one—a rare combination."—The Complete Review Price: $11.96 (25% off) |
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Niki 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 Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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Defeat By Philippe-Paul de Ségur Translated from the French by J. David Townsend Introduction by Mark Danner Ségur's eye-witness account of what remains one of the greatest military disasters of all time is a masterpiece of military history and was an essential source for Tolstoy's War and Peace. It is also a reminder of the risks of imperial hubris. Price: $11.96 (25% off) |
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Grief Lessons (Paperback) By Euripides Translated and with introductory essays by Anne Carson "Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides. Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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Rock Crystal By Adalbert Stifter Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer Marianne Moore Introduction by W.H. Auden Stifter's rapturous and enigmatic tale of village life begins with a small anecdote—one Christmas eve, a brother and sister lose their way amid snowdrifts while crossing the Alps—and opens onto vast questions of faith and destiny. "[Stifter was] one of the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature."—Thomas Mann Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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The Summer Book By Tove Jansson Introduction by Kathryn Davis Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal A grandmother and her granddaughter live out a summer of play, talk, love, and exploration on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland (also the setting for some of the author's Moomintroll tales). "A marvelous, beautiful, wise novel, which is also very funny." —Philip Pullman Price: $10.50 (25% off) |
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The Family Mashber By Der Nister Translated by Leonard Wolf Introduction by David Malouf 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 Price: $17.21 (25% off) |
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Afloat By Guy de Maupassant Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK) Price: $10.50 (25% off) |
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A Journey Round My Skull By Frigyes Karinthy Introduction by Oliver Sacks Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker The author was 48 when he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. His memoir follows him through the stages of symptom, diagnosis, and surgery. "Karinthy's book is, to my mind, a masterpiece. . . . A Journey Around My Skull, the first autobiographical description of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best."—Oliver Sacks, from the Introduction. Price: $13.46 (25% off) |
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Poems of the Late T'ang Edited and Translated by A.C. Graham A groundbreaking anthology that includes the work of some of the most famous poets of China. "You never forget the moment you first encounter a book that turns out to be a treasure for life. Especially works that open up new worlds."—Michael Wood, The Independent (UK) Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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Ice By Vladimir Sorokin Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell Ice is at once a work of fantasy, prophecy, parody, and wild paranoia. It is the finest work to date of a writer of proven genius and growing international renown, whose work is here to stay. Price: $17.96 (25% off) |
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Pages from the Goncourt Journals By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt Foreword by Geoff Dyer Edited and Translated by Robert Baldick No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt. Price: $12.71 (25% off) |
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They Burn the Thistles By Yashar Kemal Translated by Margaret E. Platon Introduction by Bill McKibben The great Turkish writer Yashar Kemal's tales of conflict and adventure set in the Taurus Mountains of southeastern Turkey fuse ancient local traditions of oral storytelling with the social and psychological awareness of the nineteenth-century novel. Price: $13.46 (25% off) |
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Love in a Fallen City By Eileen Chang Translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang 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. Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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Grief Lessons A new translation by Anne Carson "Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides. Price: $14.96 (25% off) |
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Life and Fate By Vasily Grossman Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Robert Chandler An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia. Price: $17.21 (25% off) |
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Chess Story By Stefan Zweig Introduction by Peter Gay New translation by Joel Rotenberg A new English translation of the international psychological thriller Schachnovelle. Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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Mouchette By Georges Bernanos Translated from the French by J.C. Whitehouse Introduction by Fanny Howe First published as Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette in 1937, this French classic is the basis for Robert Bresson's cult film. Price: $10.50 (25% off) |
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By By Georges Simenon Translated from the French by Marc Romano Introduction by Luc Sante How different are the cautious routines of ordinary life from the compulsions of a killer? How reliable is even the most reliable man's identity? What finally is the truth about a person? Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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The Stalin Front By Gert Ledig Translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann A grueling story of combat in a newly discovered masterpiece of world literature. Price: $10.50 (25% off) |
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Tropic Moon By Georges Simenon Translated from the French by Marc Romano Introduction by Norman Rush In Tropic Moon, Simenon, the master of the psychological novel, offers an incomparable picture of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost. Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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Kaputt By Curzio Malaparte Translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno Afterword by Dan Hofstadter Reveals the horrors of war from within the heart of corruption. Price: $12.71 (25% off) |
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Memed, My Hawk By Yashar Kemal Translated from the Turkish by Edouard Roditi Tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness explode unpredictably in a tale of high adventure that is also a profoundly considered response to a troubled world. Price: $11.96 (25% off) |
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert By Joseph Joubert Translated and with an introduction by Paul Auster The writings of a secretive eighteenth-century French thinker who left an unpublished masterpiece behind. Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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Moura By Nina Berberova Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz Richard D. Sylvester In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Price: $18.71 (25% off) |
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Count d'Orgel's Ball By Raymond Radiguet Translated from the French by Annapaola Cancogni Preface by Jean Cocteau A playful, Wildean meringue of missed meaning and romantic tangles. Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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War and the Iliad By Rachel Bespaloff Simone Weil Translated from the French by Mary McCarthy Introduction by Christopher Benfey Afterword by Hermann Broch These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition. Price: $11.21 (25% off) |
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The Child By Jules Vallès Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée Vallès's book is one of the funniest books in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency. Price: $11.96 (25% off) |
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Translated from the Spanish by W.S. Merwin Introduction by Juan Goytisolo The world's first picaresque novel and an inspiration for many writers, including Cervantes. Price: $9.71 (25% off) |
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The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings By Hugo von Hofmannsthal Introduction by John Banville New translation by Joel Rotenberg In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit. Price: $11.21 (25% off) |