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Scars explores a crime committed by a 39-year-old labourer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun by examining the circumstances of four characters who have so...
One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the uncon...
A devilishly intelligent new novel by the internationally bestselling author and Prix M�dicis winner.
A black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for h...
Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea...
Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer s dressing-room door, just as he s smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage . . ....
Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of his time, Lightning is a captivating tale of one man’s curious fascination with the marvels of scienc...
A lively and playful exploration of human interaction, self-knowledge and humankind's connection to the land, life, death and dreams, STONE UPON STONE is without doubt one...
Written in a highly unreliable first person narrative, Ernst Weiss' unsung masterwork is an account of a crime and its aftermath. The hero - or villain - is tried, sentenc...
Set in apartheid South Africa, Agaat portrays the unique, forty-year relationship between Milla, a sixty-seven-year-old white woman, and her black maidservant turned caret...
The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "Viscount" Emilio Lascano Tegui - a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own rig...
By the early 1970s, Romain Gary had established himself as one of France's most popular and prolific novelists, journalists, and memoirists. Feeling that he had been typec...
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing ...
Who are the jokers?
The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence...
The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud is well known to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection--the first to be translated into Engli...
Heir to the philosophical-fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino and Perec, "The Golden Age" is Michal Ajvaz's greatest and most ambitious work.
A New York Review Books Original
Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictabl...
While exposing the remains of Flemish fascism twenty years after the War, Wonder tracks one man¢s descent into madness. Victor, a bewildered teacher, pursues a mysterious ...
This is no conventional narrative. The reader must infer a sensational love story that the author hasn't actually written but which his fictional persona describes to a co...
