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Series: The Lying Life of Adults A Novel Hardcover Elena Ferrante 9781609455910 $38.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Postã»O, The Oprah Magazineã»TIME Magazineã»NPRã»People Magazineã»The New York Times Criticsã»The Guardianã»Electric Literatureã»Financial Timesã»Times UKã»Irish Timesã»New York Postã»Kirkus Reviewsã»Toronto Starã»The Globe and Mailã»Harper’s Bazaarã»Vogue UKã»The Arts DeskA POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. ... + Read More
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Series: Neapolitan Novels My Brilliant Friend A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 1) Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609450786 $25.50 FICTION Oct 05, 2012

Now an HBO series: the first volume in theNew York Times–bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series fo... + Read More
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Series: Fresh Water for Flowers A Novel Hardcover Valerie Perrin 9781609455958 $37.50 FICTION Jul 17, 2020

A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE PICK A POIGNANT RUNAWAY BESTSELLER full of French charm and memorable characters,Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin’s English debut. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Viole... + Read More
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Series: Fresh Water for Flowers A Novel Paperback Valerie Perrin 9781609456764 $25.50 FICTION May 14, 2021

AWALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A #1 international best-seller,Fresh Water for Flowers is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of J... + Read More
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Series: Earthlings A Novel Hardcover Sayaka Murata 9780802157003 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conf... + Read More
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Series: Convenience Store Woman A Novel Paperback Sayaka Murata 9780802129628 $23.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2019

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well.The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling ove... + Read More
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Series: Convenience Store Woman A Novel Hardcover Sayaka Murata 9780802128256 $29.95 FICTION Jun 22, 2018

The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction—many are laid out line by line in t... + Read More
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Series: Neapolitan Novels The Story of the Lost Child Neapolitan Novels, Book Four Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609452865 $26.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2015

The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review).The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship remains the gravitational center of their lives.... + Read More
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Series: The Aosawa Murders Paperback Riku Onda 9781912242245 $22.50 FICTION Feb 28, 2020

Selected by NYT as one of MOST NOTABLE BOOKS of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning... + Read More
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Series: Neapolitan Novels The Story of a New Name A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 2) Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609451349 $26.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2013

A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe). The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy. In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrÃ©e into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, co... + Read More
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Series: Breasts and Eggs A Novel Hardcover Mieko Kawakami 9781609455873 $40.50 FICTION Apr 17, 2020

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.“Breasts and Eggs took my breath away.”—HARUKI MURAKAMIA BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazineã»The Atlanticã»Book Riotã»Electric Literatureã»The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year)Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scen... + Read More
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Series: Breasts and Eggs A Novel Paperback Mieko Kawakami 9781609456702 $25.50 FICTION Apr 02, 2021

A BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazineã»The Atlanticã»Book Riotã»Electric Literatureã»The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year)The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. The story... + Read More
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Series: Neapolitan Novels Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Neapolitan Novels, Book Three Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609452339 $26.95 FICTION Sep 12, 2014

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all o... + Read More
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Series: Fauna Paperback Christiane Vadnais 9781552454169 $20.95 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing ... + Read More
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Series: The Days of Abandonment A Novel Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781933372006 $23.95 FICTION Sep 11, 2005

From the New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, this novel of a deserted wife’s descent into despair—and rage—is “a masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with creativity and passion, refrain from using obscenities. After running into ... + Read More
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Series: Love Poems Paperback Pablo Neruda 9780811217293 $17.95 POETRY Jan 17, 2008

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Nerud... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Library Paperback Cyrille Martinez 9781552454077 $20.95 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

Libraries are magical places. But what if they’re even more magical than we know? In Cyrille Martinez’s library, the books are alive: not just their ideas or their stories, but the books themselves. Meet the Angry Young Book, who has strong opinions about who reads what and why. He’s tired of people reading bestsellers, so he places himself on the desks of those who might appreciate him. Meet the Old Historian who mysteriously vanished from the stacks. Meet the Blue Librarian, the Mauve Librarian, the Yellow Librarian, and spend a day with the ... + Read More
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Series: Neighbourhood Watch Paperback Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette 9781552454176 $20.95 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

The lives of three families intersect in the hallways of an apartment block in a Montreal neighborhood. Mélissa, Roxane, and Kevin have never had it easy. As their parents face their own struggles – with addiction, unemployment, and abuse – they must learn to fend for themselves. Though their lives converge at school, on the street, at the corner store, or when they can hear each other through their apartments’ thin walls, they each feel deeply alone. Neighbourhood Watch tells their coming-of-age stories with a cinematic ease, moving between de... + Read More
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Series: The Hole Paperback Hiroko Oyamada 9780811228879 $19.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing t... + Read More
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Series: Hurricane Season Hardcover Fernanda Melchor 9780811228039 $34.50 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Li... + Read More
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Series: Hurricane Season Paperback Fernanda Melchor 9780811230735 $25.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violen... + Read More
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Series: The Hour of the Star Second Edition Paperback Clarice Lispector 9780811219495 $19.50 FICTION Nov 09, 2011

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of MacabÃ©a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, MacabÃ©a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, MacabÃ©a is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lisp... + Read More
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Series: The Eighth Life Paperback Nino Haratischvili 9781950354146 $41.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2020

An epic family saga beginning with the Russian Revolution and swirling across a century, encompassing war, loss, love requited and unrequited, ghosts, joy, massacres, tragedy. And hot chocolate. At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste… Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and ta... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Writings Hardcover Franz Kafka 9780811228015 $28.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Selected by theÂ preeminentÂ Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translatedÂ by the peerless Michael Hofmann, theÂ seventy-four pieces gathered hereÂ have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before.Â Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long:Â all areÂ marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag editionÂ Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente... + Read More
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Series: The Rings of Saturn Paperback W. G. Sebald 9780811226158 $25.50 FICTION Nov 08, 2016

The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’sÂ The Emi... + Read More
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Series: The Adventures of China Iron Paperback Gabriela Cabezon Camara 9781916465664 $23.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2020

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 20201872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and... + Read More
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Series: Where the Wild Ladies Are Paperback Aoko Matsuda 9781593766900 $24.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

In this “delightfully uncanny” collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. W... + Read More
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Series: The Elegance of the Hedgehog Paperback Muriel Barbery 9781933372600 $25.50 FICTION Sep 12, 2008

The phenomenalNew York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly).In an eleganthÃ´tel particulier in Paris, RenÃ©e, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But RenÃ©e has a secret: she furtively, ferociously devours art, p... + Read More
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Series: No Longer Human Paperback Osamu Dazai 9780811204811 $22.50 FICTION Jan 17, 1973

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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Series: The Readers' Room Paperback Antoine Laurain 9781910477977 $23.95 FICTION Oct 09, 2020

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing. ‘The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect’– Daily Mail When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there’s a problem for editor ... + Read More
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Series: The Readers' Room Paperback Antoine Laurain 9781913547004 $23.95 FICTION Jun 27, 2021

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing. ‘The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect’– Daily Mail When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there’s a problem for editor ... + Read More
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Series: The Readers' Room Hardcover Antoine Laurain 9781910477960 $29.95 FICTION Oct 09, 2020

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mystery set in the world of publishing. ‘The plot blends mystery with comedy to great effect’– Daily Mail When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the readers’ room is convinced it’s something special. And the committee for France’s highest literary honour, the Prix Goncourt, agrees. But when the shortlist is announced, there’s a problem for editor ... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Disquiet The Complete Edition Hardcover Fernando Pessoa 9780811226936 $41.95 POETRY Aug 29, 2017

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterp... + Read More
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Series: The Hour of the Star 100th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Clarice Lispector 9780811230049 $29.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of MacabÃ©a, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, MacabÃ©a loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her out... + Read More
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Series: The Factory Paperback Hiroko Oyamada 9780811228855 $20.95 FICTION Oct 29, 2019

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin?... + Read More
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Series: Kitchen Paperback Banana Yoshimoto 9780802142443 $23.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2006

"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the p... + Read More
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Series: The Guest Cat Paperback Takashi Hiraide 9780811221504 $22.50 FICTION Jan 28, 2014

A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and... + Read More
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Series: Agua Viva Paperback Clarice Lispector 9780811219907 $22.50 FICTION Jun 13, 2012

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Ãgua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Ãgua Viva stands out as a particular triumph.
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Series: A Strange Country Paperback Muriel Barbery 9781609455859 $26.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2020

From the author of the New York Times international bestseller, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, comes an epic fantasy rich in poetry and imagination about the eternal conflict between good and evil.Alejandro de Yepes and JesÃºs Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when, out of nowhere, a friendly redhead appears to them in the cellar. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about this Petrus. Alejandro and JesÃºs are bewitched, and, in the middle of the sixth year of the longest war human... + Read More
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Series: Malina Paperback Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811228725 $28.50 FICTION Jun 25, 2019

InÂ Malina,Â originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius.Â MalinaÂ explores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion.
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Series: Night Train to Lisbon A Novel Paperback Pascal Mercier 9780802143976 $25.50 FICTION Oct 25, 2008

Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires him to question his lifeand leads him to an extraordinary book that will open the possibility of changing it. Inspired by the words of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor whose intelligence and magnetism left a mark on everyone who met him and whose principles led him into a confrontation with Salazar’s dictatorship, Gergorius boards a train to Lisbon. As Gregorius becomes fascinated with unlo... + Read More
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Series: The Emissary Paperback Yoko Tawada 9780811227629 $22.50 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient—frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity ... + Read More
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Series: Vertigo Paperback W. G. Sebald 9780811226165 $25.50 FICTION Nov 08, 2016

Perfectly titled, Vertigo —W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel — is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and — most perilously — memo... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Daughter A Novel Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781933372426 $23.95 FICTION Mar 11, 2008

NOW A MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR THREE OSCARS—Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay—Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Jesse Buckley, Paul Mescal, and Dakota JohnsonAnother penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of AdultsLeda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ion... + Read More
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Series: Minor Detail Paperback Adania Shibli 9780811229074 $23.95 FICTION May 26, 2020

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding th... + Read More
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Series: Artforum Paperback Cesar Aira 9780811229265 $20.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

Artforum is certainly one of CÃ©sar Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is about passionate obsession. At first we follow our hapless collector from magazine shops to used bookstores hunting for copies of Artforum. A friend alerts him to a copy somewhere and he obsesses about actually going to get it—will the shop be open, will the copy already be sold? Finally he takes out a subscription, but ... + Read More
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Series: Time Paperback Etel Adnan 9781643620046 $23.95 POETRY Jun 28, 2019

WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEWINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDFINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDOn October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. InTime, w... + Read More
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Series: An Inventory of Losses Hardcover Judith Schalansky 9780811229630 $37.50 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific—shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss. Â Â Â Â Â Â Wit... + Read More
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Series: Confessions of a Mask Paperback Yukio Mishima 9780811201186 $23.95 FICTION Jan 17, 1958

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.”Â Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality, he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers the fate of Japan and his place w... + Read More
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Series: Optic Nerve Paperback Maria Gainza 9781646220021 $16.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2020
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Series: Disoriental Paperback Negar Djavadi 9781609454517 $26.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2018

National Book Award Finalist: “A multigenerational epic of the Sadr family’s life in Iran and their eventual exile . . . Full of surprises” (The Globe and Mail).Winner of the 2019 Albertine Prize and Lambda Literary Award KimiÃ¢ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, KimiÃ¢ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable,... + Read More
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Series: Near to the Wild Heart Paperback Clarice Lispector 9780811220026 $23.95 FICTION Jun 13, 2012

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, ... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a New Name (HBO Tie-in Edition) Book 2: Youth Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609455538 $26.95 FICTION Mar 27, 2020

A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe). The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy. In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrÃ©e into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, co... + Read More
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Series: Suzanne Paperback Anais Barbeau-Lavalette 9781552453476 $20.95 FICTION Apr 24, 2017

Eighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne’s life. Suzanne, winner of the Prix des libraires du Québec and a bestseller in ... + Read More
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Series: The Passion According to G.H. Paperback Clarice Lispector 9780811219686 $23.95 FICTION Jun 13, 2012

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature… Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.”
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Series: Nausea Paperback Jean-Paul Sartre 9780811220309 $22.50 FICTION Mar 25, 2013

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time — the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.” Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature (though he declined to accept it), Jea... + Read More
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Series: Dead Girls Paperback Selva Almada 9781916277847 $23.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2020

In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old MarÃa Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita MundÃn, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that surpasses national borders and speaks... + Read More
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Series: The Tanners Paperback Robert Walser 9780811215893 $29.95 FICTION Aug 31, 2009

The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a... + Read More