The Lime Tree Cesar Aira (Author) Series:
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07 Dec 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781911508120 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-12-0 ISBN10: 1911508121 x Description: Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to gather the lime-flower blossoms from which he made tea. Beginning with his father, handsome and `black' and working-class, and his strikingly grotesque mother, the narrator quickly leaps from anecdote to anecdote, bringing to life his father's dream of upward mobility, the dashing of their family's hopes when the Peronist party fell from power, the single room they all shared, and his mother's litany of political rants, which were used - like the lime-flower tea - to keep his father calm. Aira's charming fictional memoir is a colourful mosaic of a small-town neighbourhood, a playful portrait of the artist as a child and an invitation to visit the source of Aira's own extraordinary imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Birthday Cesar Aira (Author) Chris Andrews (Translated by) Series:
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19 Feb 2019
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp ISBN13: 9781911508403 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-40-3 ISBN10: 1911508407 x Description: `Suddenly it hits you: you're not twenty; you're not young any more . . . and in the meantime, while you were thinking about something else, the world has changed.'Birthday begins with a fiftieth birthday. It comes and goes without fanfare, but just a few months later, an apparently banal comment that reveals a gap in the author's knowledge of the world prompts him to sit down in a cafe and write. As he sifts through anecdotes and weaves memories together, Aira reflects on the origin of his beliefs and his incapacity to live, on literature understood from the author's and the reader's point of view, on death and the Last Judgement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Buddhist Monk Cesar Aira (Author) Nick Caistor (Translated by) Series:
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23 Mar 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781908276988 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-98-8 ISBN10: 1908276983 x Description: In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a
suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot. Though our monk appears to them as the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural in this tour de force of Aira's twisted imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Proof Cesar Aira (Author) Nick Caistor (Translated by) Series:
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06 Apr 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 108pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 136g ISBN13: 9781908276964 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-96-4 ISBN10: 1908276967 x Description: Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin and Mao. Soon, she's beguiled by them and the possibilities they open up. But the two have little time for a philosophical discussion of love: they need proof, and with their own savage logic the duo, calling themselves the Commando of Love, hold up a supermarket as the novel climaxes in an unforgettable splatter-fest finale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Seamstress and the Wind Cesar Aira (Author) Rosalie Knecht (Translated by) Series:
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21 Jul 2016
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s112mm ISBN13: 9781908276841 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-84-1 ISBN10: 1908276843 x Description: In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband finds out and takes off after her - to the end of the world, to the place where monsters are born, and where the southern wind falls hopelessly in love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slip of a Fish Amy Arnold (Author) Series:
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23 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508526 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-52-6 ISBN10: 1911508520 x Description: Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a relentlessly hot summer, Charlie begins to pull away, and in a desperate attempt to reconnect with her daughter Ash does something unforgivable. As the gulf between them grows, Ash's life begins to slip out of her grasp.Winner of the 2018 Northern Book Prize, Slip of a Fish is a joyously artful and quietly devastating portrait of motherhood, loss and love, in all its kaleidoscopic complexity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey James Attlee (Author) Series:
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12 Mar 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508908 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-90-8 ISBN10: 1911508903 x Description: Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of a pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew: the Cowley Road in Oxford, right outside his door. Attlee's Cowley has little to do with the dreaming spires of his city. Leaving tourism and student life aside, Attlee instead presents a vital and delightfully motley collection of places, people, languages, and cultures. From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, from halal shops to Brazilian art dealers to reggae clubs to quiet churchyards, Attlee celebrates the appealing and homegrown eclecticism that so often comes under attack from predatory developers. Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy to contemporary art, Isolarion is at once a charming road movie, a battle cry raised against creeping homogenisation, and a love song to the gloriously messy real life of the city he calls home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
By Night the Mountain Burns Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel (Author) Jethro Soutar (Translated by) Series:
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22 Oct 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781908276407 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-40-7 ISBN10: 1908276401 EAN: 9781908276407 x Description: By Night The Mountain Burns recounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the island's history: a bush fire destroys the crops, then hundreds perish in a cholera outbreak. Superstition dominates: now the islanders must sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean god. What of their lives will they manage to save? Whitmanesque in its lyrical evocation of the island, Avila Laurel's writing builds quietly, through the oral rhythms of traditional storytelling, into gripping drama worthy of an Achebe or a Garcia Marquez. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gurugu Pledge Juan-Tomas Avila Laurel (Author) Jethro Soutar (Translated by) Series:
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02 Aug 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781908276940 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-94-0 ISBN10: 1908276940 x
Description: On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city's walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by firsthand accounts, Juan Tomas Avila Laurel has written an urgent novel, by turns funny and sad, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe Wolfgang Bauer (Author) Stanislav Krupar (Photographs by) Sarah Pybus (Translated by) Series:
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24 Mar 2016
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Hardback With dust jacket 144pp h198mm x w146mm x s18mm 272g 16 colour photographs ISBN13: 9781908276827 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-82-7 ISBN10: 1908276827 x Description: Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the brutality of smuggler gangs, the processes of detainment and deportation, the dangers of sea-crossing on rickety boats, and the final furtive journey through Europe. Combining their own travels with other eyewitness accounts in the first book of reportage of its kind, Crossing the Sea brings to life both the systemic problems and the individual faces behind the crisis, and is a passionate appeal for more humanitarian refugee policies. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sworn Virgin Clarissa Botsford (Author) Elvira Dones (Author) Series:
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01 Oct 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h200mm x w19mm ISBN13: 9781908276681 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-68-1 ISBN10: 1908276681 EAN: 9781908276681 x Description: When Hana's dying uncle calls her back from the city to the family home in the Albanian mountains, he tries to marry her to a local man who could run the household. Unable to accept the arranged marriage and determined to remain independent, Hana's only option is to follow tradition and vow to live the rest of her life in chastity as a man - and so Hana becomes Mark. For a sworn virgin, there is no way back.Years later, Mark - now a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd - receives an invitation to join a cousin in the US. This may be Mark's only chance to escape his vow. But what does he know about being an American woman? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Theft Luke Brown (Author) Series:
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04 Feb 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508588 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-58-8 ISBN10: 191150858X x Description: What I did to them was terrible, but you have to understand the context. This was London, 2016 . . . Bohemia is history. Paul has awoken to the fact that he will always be better known for reviewing haircuts than for his literary journalism. He is about to be kicked out of his cheap flat in east London and his sister has gone missing after an argument about what to do with the house where they grew up.
Now that their mother is dead this is the last link they have to the declining town on the north-west coast where they grew up. Enter Emily Nardini, a cult author, who - after granting Paul a rare interview - receives him into her surprisingly grand home. Paul is immediately intrigued: by Emily and her fictions, by her vexingly famous and successful partner Andrew (too old for her by half), and later by Andrew's daughter Sophie, a journalist whose sexed-up vision of the revolution has gone viral. Increasingly obsessed, relationships under strain, Paul travels up and down, north and south, torn between the town he thought he had escaped and the city that threatens to chew him up. With heart, bite and humour, Luke Brown leads the reader beyond easy partisanship and into much trickier terrain. Straddling the fissures within a man and his country, riven by envy, wealth, ownership, entitlement, and loss, Theft is an exhilarating howl of a novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Southeaster Haroldo Conti (Author) Jon Lindsay Miles (Translated by) Series:
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06 Aug 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h197mm x w12mm ISBN13: 9781908276605 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-60-5 ISBN10: 1908276606 EAN: 9781908276605 x Description: 'Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.' Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Parana Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself entirely to the river and the life of solitary drifting he has long yearned for. Echoes of John Berger sound throughout the evocative prose of this great Argentinian writer. A twentieth-century classic, Southeaster is a central work in Haroldo Conti's oeuvre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace Patty Yumi Cottrell (Author) Series:
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11 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 294g ISBN13: 9781911508007 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-00-7 ISBN10: 1911508008 x Description: Helen's adoptive brother has killed himself. According to the internet, there are six possible reasons for suicide. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket back to Milwaukee, her hometown. There, as she attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will face her estranged family, her brother's few friends, and the overzealous grief counsellor, Chad Lambo; she may also discover what it truly means to be alive.Sorry to Disrupt the Peace is a dark comedy about suicide - and an introduction to a singular new writer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tregian'S Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician Anne Cuneo (Author) Louise Rogers Lalaurie (Author) Series:
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07 Apr 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 450pp h197mm x w30mm ISBN13: 9781908276544 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-54-4 ISBN10: 1908276541 EAN: 9781908276544 x Description: The significance of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to our musical canon is well known; the remarkable story of its copyist and compiler, Francis Tregian, less so. Born into Cornish Catholic nobility and plumb into the choppy waters of the Elizabethan Age, he must rely on his surpassing skill as a musician to survive. In this Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) winning novel, Anne Cuneo deftly recreates the musician's journey across Renaissance Europe, which sees him befriending Shakespeare, swapping scores with William Byrd and Monteverdi, and playing in the court of Henri IV of France. The result is as gripping as it is authentic: an epic, transcontinental choreography in which Europe's monarchs tussle with pretenders to their thrones, and ordinary people steer between allegiances to God, nation and family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt (Author) Series:
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31 Oct 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 297pp h210mm x w138mm ISBN13: 9781908276117 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-11-7 ISBN10: 1908276118 x Description: 'All I want is to be a success. That's all I ask.' Failing salesman Joe has a dream - or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, Lightning Rods takes us to the very top of corporate America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Endland Tim Etchells (Author) Jarvis Cocker (Introduction by) Series:
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19 Nov 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 376pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508700 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-70-0 ISBN10: 1911508709 x Description: Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes, Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to all those what prefer to read about truly good, lucky and nice people - you won't like this crap at all. A comical and brutal weave of parables gone wrong, Endland holds a broken mirror to England. In its garish but strangely familiar world of empty tower blocks, 24-hour cyber cafes and bomb sites, a motley collection of misfits, wanderers and charmed drunks do their best to survive. Nothing is stable in Endland and what's more, the gods have started drinking at lunchtime, which can only lead to trouble. Conjured in a mix of slang, pub anecdote, folktale and science fiction, Endland is the nightmare unfolding just outside the window - a glitchy parade of aging bikers and ghost children, cut-price assassins and witless wannabe celebs. The world fashioned by Thatcher, Google, NATO, ICANN, Brexit, Big Brother, Bin Laden and Trump needs new narratives to make sense of it. In
Endland, with feverish wit and a broken compass, Etchells unpicks the myths and strange realities we're caught up in. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paradises Beth Fowler (Author) Iosi Havilio (Author) Series:
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01 Oct 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 300pp h198mm x w21mm ISBN13: 9781908276247 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-24-7 ISBN10: 190827624X EAN: 9781908276247 x Description: "In contemporary Argentine literature, Paradises is an almost perfect novel."--Tonica Albert Camus's The Outsider reimagined with a female lead in in twenty-first-century Buenos Aires. Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents, to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections. Iosi Havilio's captivating voice has brought him cult status in Argentina. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventure Of The Busts Of Eva Peron Carlos Gamerro (Author) Ian Barnett (Translated by) Series:
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24 Mar 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h200mm x w22mm ISBN13: 9781908276506 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-50-6 ISBN10: 1908276509 EAN: 9781908276506 x Description: 1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlan, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Peron in all ninety-two offices of Argentina's leading construction company, Tamerlan & Sons. Tamerlan's head of procurement, Ernesto Marrone, is the man tasked with the job, but he soon finds out that his is a mission for executives of a heroic disposition. His subsequent picaresque journey plunges him into a world of occupied factories, the slums of Buenos Aires and the utopian Evita City. Equipped with his trusty copy of Don Quixote: The Executive-Errant, Marrone is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron - that maid of myth and legend whom we know as Evita. A stand-alone novel in its own right but also a prequel to his first novel, The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012), Carlos Gamerro's caustic and utterly original novel is a shattered window onto Argentina's recent past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Islands Carlos Gamerro (Author) Ian Barnett (Translated by) Jimmy Burns (Introduction by) Series:
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30 May 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 548pp ISBN13: 9781908276087 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-08-7 ISBN10: 1908276088 x Description: Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade spent immersed in drugs and virtual realities, trying to forget the freezing trench in which he passed the Falklands War, Felix is forced to confront the city around him - and realises to his shock that the war never really ended. A detective novel, a cyber-thriller, an inner-city road trip and a war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains all too raw. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The old king in his exile Arno Geiger (Author) Stefan Tobler (Translated by) Series:
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12 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp ISBN13: 9781908276889 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-88-9 ISBN10: 1908276886 x Description: What makes us who we are? Arno Geiger's father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer's, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. 'As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world, I have to go over to his.' So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last. Born in 1926 in the Austrian Alps, into a farming family who had an orchard, kept three cows, and made schnapps in the cellar, his father was conscripted into World War II as a 'schoolboy soldier' - an experience he rarely spoke about, though it marked him. Striking up a new friendship, Arno walks with him in the village and the landscape they both grew up in and listens to his words, which are often full of unexpected poetry.Through his intelligent, moving and often funny account, we begin to see that whatever happens in old age, a human being retains their past and their character. Translated into nearly 30 languages, The Old King in His Exile will offer solace and insight to anyone coping with a loved one's aging. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Requiem for a Soldier Anna Gunin (Author) Oleg Pavlov (Author) Series:
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14 Jul 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 200pp h198mm x w15mm ISBN13: 9781908276582 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-58-2 ISBN10: 1908276584 EAN: 9781908276582 x Description: In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers and prisoners, hoboes and refugees and mice that steal medicines. Their surreal inner world is vividly reflected in Pavlov's expressive prose, reminiscent of Platonov. Poetic, tragic and darkly comic, the novel is at once a grotesque portrayal of late Soviet reality and an apocalyptic allegory that has drawn comparisons with Faulkner and Kafka.
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Open Door Iosi Havilio (Author) Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Afterword by) Beth Fowler (Translated by) Series:
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30 Nov 2011
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 213pp h210mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9781908276032 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-03-2 ISBN10: 1908276037 x Description: When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand and courted by an official investigating her partner's disappearance. She might settle down, although a local girl is also irresistible ...This evocative, atmospheric book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places, with unexpected people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Petite Fleur Iosi Havilio (Author) Lorna Scott-Fox (Translated by) Series:
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25 Jul 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508045 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-04-5 ISBN10: 1911508040 x Description: When his fireworks factory job ends explosively and his wife returns to work, Jose is surprised to realise he has a talent for keeping house: childcare, tidying, cleaning, cooking, gardening, he excels at it all. On Thursdays, he hangs out and drinks good wine with his jazz-loving neighbour. But when Jose's new talents take a sudden and gruesome turn, life, death, resurrection, and domesticity unexpectedly converge. In one single, hypnotic paragraph, Petite Fleur harnesses the unpredictability of Aira and the mysticism of Tolstoy in a discordant riff on suburban life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slash and Burn Claudia Hernandez (Author) Julia Sanches (Translated by) Series:
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11 Aug 2020
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508823 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-82-3 ISBN10: 1911508822 x Description: Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. She returns to a community riven with distrust, fear and hypocrisy in the wake the revolution. Hernandez' narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship. Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with
quiet intelligence, Slash and Burn creates a suspenseful, slow-burning revelation of rural life in the aftermath of political trauma. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire Yuri Herrera (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
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16 Jun 2020
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 120pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508786 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-78-6 ISBN10: 1911508784 x Description: On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company-the largest employer in the region, and known simply as the Company-may have been guilty of murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a short evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained in the shafts at the time of their closure, and Company doctors hastened to proclaim them dead. The El Bordo stayed shut for six days. When the mine was opened there was a sea of charred bodies-men who had made it as far as the exit, only to find it shut. The final death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. Now, a century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has carefully reconstructed a worker's tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His sensitive and deeply humanizing work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kingdom Cons Yuri Herrera (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
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08 Jun 2017
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 126g ISBN13: 9781908276926 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-92-6 ISBN10: 1908276924 x Description: In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part noir romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
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03 Mar 2015
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Transmigration of Bodies Yuri Herrera (Author) Lisa Dillman (Translated by) Series:
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Language: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 127g ISBN13: 9781908276728 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-72-8 ISBN10: 190827672X x Description: A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolano and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies - loved, sanctified, lusted after, and defiled - that violent crime has touched. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets Yuri Herrera (Author) Valeria Luiselli (Author) Kamila Shamsie (Author) Deborah Levy (Author) Ben Okri (Author) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Author) Vicente Molina-Foix (Author) Rhidian Brook (Author) Daniel Hahn (Edited by) Margarita Valencia (Edited by) Salman Rushdie (Introduction by) Series:
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Description: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.' - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international authors to each write an original and previously unpublished story as their tribute to these giants of world literature. In order to celebrate the international influence of both writers and offer us new and intriguing perspectives on them, six English-speaking authors have taken inspiration from Cervantes and his work, while six Spanish-language authors have written stories inspired by Shakespeare. The authors are Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Vicente Molina Foix, Soledad Puertolas, Hisham Matar, Nell Leyshon, Rhidian Brook and Valeria Luiselli. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Made in Saturn Rita Indiana (Author) Sydney Hutchinson (Translated by) Series:
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14 Jan 2020
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 176pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508601 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-60-1 ISBN10: 1911508601 x Description: These are the children of revolutions, and this is their story. This is the Caribbean. This is Argenis Luna: an artist who no longer paints, a heroin addict who no longer uses, and an overgrown child trying to make sense of his inheritance in a country where his once-revolutionary father is now part of the ruling elite. Thrown out of rehab in Havana, with Goya's tyrannical god Saturn on his mind, Argenis picks his way through the detritus of an abandoned generation: the drag queens, artists, hustlers and lovers trying to build lives amidst the wreckage. Mesmerising and visionary, Made in Saturn is a hangover from a riotous funeral, a rapid-fire elegy for the revolutionary spirit, and a glimpse of hope for all who feel eclipsed by those who came before them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tentacle Rita Indiana (Author) Achy Obejas (Translated by) Series:
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07 Nov 2018
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508342 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-34-2 ISBN10: 1911508342 x Description: Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean - and humanity - from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was with the help of a sacred anemone.Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it's a restless, addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I am the Brother of XX Fleur Jaeggy (Author) Gini Alhadeff (Translated by) Series:
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23 Jun 2017
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508021 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-02-1 ISBN10: 1911508024 x Description: A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics, tormented families or famously private writers, Jaeggy's terse, telegraphic writing is always psychologically clear-eyed and deeply moving, always one step ahead, or to the side, of her readers' expectations. In this, her long-awaited return, we read of an 'eerie maleficent calm, a brutal calm', and recognise the timbre of a writer for whom a paradoxical world seethes with quiet violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Proleterka Fleur Jaeggy (Author) Alastair McEwen (Translated by) Series:
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28 Mar 2019
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp ISBN13: 9781911508564 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-56-4 ISBN10: 1911508563 x Description: A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the SS Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother, cold and unconcerned; the father who was allowed only rare visits with the child; the years spent stashed away with relatives or at boarding school. For the girl and her father, their time on the ship becomes their `last and first chance to be together.' On board, she becomes the object of the sailors' affection, receiving a violent, carnal education. Mesmerised by the desire to be experienced, she crisply narrates her trysts as well as her near-total neglect of her father.Proleterka is a ferocious study of distance, diffidence and `insomniac resentment.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sweet Days of Discipline Fleur Jaeggy (Author) Tim Parks (Translated by) Series:
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05 Feb 2018
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 102pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 120g ISBN13: 9781911508182 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-18-2 ISBN10: 1911508180 x Description: Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling energy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Esperanza Street Niyati Keni (Author) Series:
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28 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 326pp h197mm x w18mm ISBN13: 9781908276483 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-48-3 ISBN10: 1908276487 EAN: 9781908276483 x Description: 'I was eight when my father brought me to one of the big houses at the top of Esperanza Street and left me with Mary Morelos. 'I haven't the time to fix broken wings,' she said. 'Does he have any trouble with discipline?' My father glanced at me before answering.' So begins the story of Joseph, houseboy to the once-wealthy Mary Morelos, who lives in the three-storey Spanish colonial house at the top of Esperanza Street. Through Joseph's eyes we witness the destruction of the community to which they are both, in their own way, bound. Set in a port town in the Philippines, Niyati Keni's evocative and richly populated debut novel is about criminality under the guise of progress, freedom or the illusion of it, and about how the choices we make are ultimately the real measure of who we are. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brother in Ice Alicia Kopf (Author) Mara Faye Lethem (Translated by) Series:
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19 Apr 2018
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Translated From: Catalan Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 190g ISBN13: 9781911508205 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-20-5 ISBN10: 1911508202 x Description: `She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can't be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said, what has already been seen. It's cold out there.'This hybrid novel-part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue-uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist's own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, and a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptual and emotionally compelling, it advances fearlessly into the frozen emotional lacunae of difficult family relationships. Deserving winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan and Spanish publication, Brother in Ice is a richly rewarding journey into the unknown. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
People in the Room Norah Lange (Author) Charlotte Whittle (Translated by) Series:
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31 Jul 2018
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 190g ISBN13: 9781911508229 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-22-9 ISBN10: 1911508229 x Description: A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with dark and mysterious consequences. Lange's imaginative excesses and almost hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a twentieth-century masterpiece. Too long viewed as Borges's muse, Lange is today recognised in the Spanish-speaking world as a great writer and is here translated into English for the first time, to be read alongside Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras.
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An Amorous Discourse In The Suburbs Of Hell Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
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02 Oct 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 100pp h180mm x w8mm ISBN13: 9781908276469 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-46-9 ISBN10: 1908276460 EAN: 9781908276469 x Description: She is a shimmering, tattooed and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He, an accountant worn down by the day-to-day struggles of the nine to five, is dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts, with scornful wit, to shock him out of his commuter's habits and into an experience of ecstasy. Man Booker Prize shortlisted Deborah Levy whips up a storm of romance and slapstick, of heavenly and earthly delights, in this dystopian philosophical poem about individual freedom and the search for the good life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Vodka Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
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01 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp ISBN13: 9781911508090 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-09-0 ISBN10: 1911508091 x Description: 'Elisa said Yes and I said Yes. We said Yes in all the European languages. Yes. We said yes we said yes, yes to vague but powerful things, we said yes to hope which has to be vague, we said yes to love which is always blind, we smiled and said yes without blinking.' ('A Better Way to Live') ----------- How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London, a bird mimics an old-fashioned telephone; in adland, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour and curiosity, stories about what it means to live and love, together and alone. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swimmming home Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
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23 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp ISBN13: 9781911508083 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-08-3 ISBN10: 1911508083 x Description: Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Map Of Tulsa Benjamin Lytal (Author) Series:
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01 Mar 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 266pp h198mm x w23mm ISBN13: 9781908276308 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-30-8 ISBN10: 1908276304 EAN: 9781908276308 x Description: The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa's secrets. He drives the highways in his parents' car. Finally he makes himself stop and walk into a bar. He's invited to a party. And there he meets Adrienne Booker, a girl who rules Tulsa, in her way. A high-school dropout and promising artist with a penthouse apartment, she takes a special interest in Jim. Through her eyes, he will rediscover his hometown: its wasted sprawl, the beauty of its late nights and, at the city's centre, the unsleeping light of its skyscrapers. Five years later, Jim comes home again, to face the truth about that summer. A novel in two parts, A Map of Tulsa is love story and elegy, a meditation on mobility and its consequences, a book about the distances inside America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Empty Words Annie McDermott (Translated by) Mario Levrero (Author) Series:
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04 Jun 2019
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 152pp ISBN13: 9781911508502 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-50-2 ISBN10: 1911508504 x Description: An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to keep a notebook of handwriting exercises, hoping that if he is able to improve his penmanship, his personal character will also improve. What begins as a mere physical exercise becomes involuntarily coloured by humorous reflections and tender anecdotes about living, writing, and the sense - and nonsense - of existence. The first book by Mario Levrero to be translated into English, Empty Words is the perfect introduction to a major author and a significant point of reference in Latin American writing today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All the lights Clemens Meyer (Author) Katy Derbyshire (Translated by) Series:
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30 Sep 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 238pp ISBN13: 9781908276018 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-01-8 ISBN10: 1908276010 x Description: A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together...Stories about people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and down by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now and at the Hour of Our Death Susana Moreira Marques (Author) Julia Sanches (Translated by) Series:
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03 Sep 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 140pp h197mm x w11mm ISBN13: 9781908276629 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-62-9 ISBN10: 1908276622 EAN: 9781908276629 x Description: "This book is fearless and luminous and full of grace; it travels to the edge of death and finds life there. Its attention to the particulars of love - between the ones who will go and the ones they will leave - is something close to sublime."--Leslie Jamison, author of "The Empathy Exams"A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important.Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travels to Tras-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations.Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques's book speaks about death in a fresh way.Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and journalist. She was born in Oporto in 1976 and now lives in Lisbon, where she writes for "Publico" and "Jornal de Negocios." Between 2005 and 2010 Moreira Marques lived in London, working at the BBC World Service while also serving as a correspondent for Portuguese newspaper "Publico." Her journalism has won several prizes, including the Premio AMI--Jornalismo Contra a Indiferenca and the 2012 UNESCO "Human Rights and Integration" Journalism Award (Portugal).Julia Sanches's translations have appeared in "Suelta," "The Washington Review," "Asymptote," "Two Lines," and "Revista Machado," amongst others. She currently lives in New York City. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Districts Gerald Murnane (Author) Series:
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31 Jan 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781911508380 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-38-0 ISBN10: 1911508385 x Description: A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictional characters, turns of phrase and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloguing his memories, little knowing what secrets they will yield and where his `report' will lead.Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose. Winner of the Australian 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award and shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, this is Murnane's first work to be published in the UK in thirty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Short Fiction Gerald Murnane (Author) Series:
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27 Feb 2020
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x Description: Originally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane's evolution as a writer. Spare, transparent and profane, This career-spanning volume ranges from 'Finger Web', a fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny, to 'Land Deal', which imagines Australia's colonisation and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams, to 'The Interior of Gaaldine', a story which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself, and which points the way toward Murnane's later works, from Barley Patch to Border Districts. With potent style and determined vision, Murnane creates sensitive portraits of intimate relationships - with parents, uncles and aunts, and particularly children - and probes each situation for anxiety and embarrassment, shame or delight. Murnane treats emotions and thoughts as he does minor objects: he shines light through them and makes them new, remaking the vessel of literature as he goes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs Gerald Murnane (Author) Series:
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05 Mar 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508663 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-66-3 ISBN10: 1911508660 x Description: 'Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music. My experience is that all art, including all music, aspires to the condition of horse-racing.' This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classics Border Districts and Tamarisk Row, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award. He writes of himself: as a boy making racehorses of his marbles, an obsession shared with Jack Kerouac; as a writer, working his first ten years in secret; as a reader, trying to understand the mystery of the right sentence by way of Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost; as a teacher, exploring the endless ways in which words can express the contours of our thoughts. From these vantage points Murnane sees the worlds of significance that lie within, or just beyond, the everyday details of Australian life. Carrying the reader with him across the valleys, plains and grasslands of his mind, this singular author creates an immersive landscape in which every word has its own space, shape and weight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Alphabet Of Birds S. J. Naude (Author) Series:
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06 Jan 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h197mm x w15mm ISBN13: 9781908276445 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-44-5 ISBN10: 1908276444 EAN: 9781908276445 x Description: If death comes to a loved one, can we grieve alone? When all around is in ruins, can we confine our lives to one beautiful room constructed out of art, or love, or family ties? And when the words we know prove inadequate, can we turn to the language of birds? In an arty mansion in Milan's industrial zone, two men are shown one of the last remaining Futurist noise machines - an Intonarumore - and a painful old truth surfaces. A musician travels to three continents to see her siblings before returning to Johannesburg; her home is plundered every night around her as she composes a requiem. A man follows his male lover from London to Berlin's clubbing scene and on to a ruined castle in which the lover's family lives. He is looking for an antidote. The protagonists in SJ Naude's South African Literary Award-winning short story collection are listening out for answers that cannot be expressed. Offering fresh perspectives on gay, expat and artistic subcultures and tackling the pain of loss head on, Naude's stories go fearlessly and tenderly to the heart of our experiences of desire, love and death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Hanne Orstavik (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
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30 Oct 2019
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Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback h198mm x w129mm 128g ISBN13: 9781911508724 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-72-4 ISBN10: 1911508725 x Description: As clear and relentless as the cold air, Love unfolds over one winter's evening. Single mother Vibeke and her son Jon have just moved to a small, remote town in the north of Norway. Tomorrow Jon will be nine. As Vibeke gets changed after work, Jon wonders what surprises his mother has prepared for him. He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake. But preoccupied with concerns of her own, she too ventures out. Inextricably linked yet desperately at odds, mother and son make their lonely ways through the unforgiving night. Beautifully translated into English by Martin Aitken, this edition is the twenty-eighth international publication of Love. Hanne Orstavik's astonishing grasp of human fragility and her economy of form power this acknowledged masterpiece of Norwegian literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trysting Emmanuelle Pagano (Author) Series:
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17 Nov 2016
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 176pp ISBN13: 9781908276766 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-76-6 ISBN10: 1908276762 x Description: It s as though you had to know the password for our relationship . . . What is love? Why do some people make our hearts flutter, while others leave us cold? A seductive blend of Maggie Nelson and Marguerite Duras, Trysting seizes romance s slippery truths by letting us glimpse nearly 300 beguiling relationships: scenes between all genders and sexualities, including first dates, infidelities, dependencies, missed connections, bitter memories, and first passions. Proving that the erotic knows no bounds, almost anything can be a means of attraction: from amnesia and throat-clearing to sign language, earplugs, back hair, arthritis, PVC, and showers. Combining aphorisms, anecdotes, and adventures, Trysting is a tour de force that gives a new perspective on a question as old as humanity. " _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dear Evelyn Kathy Page (Author) Series:
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06 Sep 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508281 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-28-1 ISBN10: 1911508288 x Description: Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, however, he discovers Evelyn, a magnetic and independent-minded woman from a narrow, terraced street not far from his own.This is a love story, albeit an unconventional one, about two people who shape each other as they, their marriage and their country change. From London before the sexual revolution to the lewd frescos of Pompeii, from the acrid devastation of Churchill's North African campaign to the cloying bounty of new-built suburbs, Dear Evelyn is a novel of contrasts, whose portrait of a seventy-year marriage unfolds in tender, spare, and excruciating episodes.
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Captain of the Steppe Oleg Pavlov (Author) Ian Appleby (Translated by) Series:
Tales from the Last Days 1
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30 Apr 2013
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps h210mm x w138mm ISBN13: 9781908276186 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-18-6 ISBN10: 1908276185 x Description: 'It was easy to fall into Karabas, as easy as falling down a hole, but it was hard, to put it bluntly, to get out again. Never mind the zeks, even the soldiers were exiled ...' Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year's papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men ...This blackly comic novel shows the unsettling consequences of thinking for yourself under the Soviet system. Oleg Pavlov's first novel, published when he was only 24, Captain of the Steppe was immediately praised for its chilling but humane and hilarious depiction of the Soviet Empire's last years. The first in a trilogy, this novel already confirms Pavlov as a worthy successor to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Matiushin Case Oleg Pavlov (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm French Flaps ISBN13: 9781908276360 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-36-0 ISBN10: 1908276363 x Description: The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (And Other Stories, 2013), from the author's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the last years of the Soviet Union, it follows the experience of Matiushin, a young, sensitive, disoriented man, damaged first by violence in his family then by the brutality of army life in Central Asia. Indebted to the different traditions of 'labour camp prose' pioneered by Solzhenitsyn and Shalamov, the novel is, however, much more than an expose of societal ills, shocking enough though these are. Its literary achievement lies elsewhere: in the way that the horrific realities of conscript life are steeped in the unique mood of dreaminess and timelessness created by the setting and by Pavlov's prose-style and in the unique type of tension that this mood creates. Matiushin's 'crime and punishment' emerge from this tension with compelling inevitability; the victim turns killer. The hell that Oleg Pavlov describes is physical and societal, but above all psychological, and, as such, no less universal than that described by Dante or Dostoevsky. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Malacqua Nicola Pugliese (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm No outer packaging ISBN13: 9781911508069 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-06-9 ISBN10: 1911508067
x Description: After a four-day deluge, Naples is flooded. Buildings collapse, sinkholes appear. Strange events spread across the city: ghostly voices emanate from a medieval castle and five-lire coins begin to play music, but only to ten-year-old children. A melancholy journalist searches for meaning as the narrative takes us into the minds of those who have suffered in the floods. Despite phenomenal initial success, the novel was withdrawn from publication at the author's request, and not reissued until after his death in 2012. Now translated into English for the first time, Malacqua remains a timely critique and a richly peopled portrait of a much-mythologised city. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Berg Ann Quin (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508540 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-54-0 ISBN10: 1911508547 x Description: `A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father . . .' So begins Ann Quin's madcap frolic with sinister undertones, a debut `so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it' (The Guardian). Alistair Berg hears where his father, who has been absent from his life since his infancy, is living. Without revealing his identity, Berg takes a room next to the one where his father and father's mistress are lodging and he starts to plot his father's elimination. Seduction and violence follow, though not quite as Berg intends, with Quin lending the proceedings a delightful absurdist humour. Anarchic, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic of post-war avant-garde British writing, and now finally back in print after much demand. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Ann Quin (Author) Joshua Cohen (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508847 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-84-7 ISBN10: 1911508849 x Description: S has disappeared from Ruth and Leonard's home in Brighton. Suicide is suspected. The couple, who had been spying on their young lodger since before the trouble, begin to pour over her diary, her audio recordings and her movies - only to discover that she had been spying on them with even greater intensity. As this disturbing, highly charged act of reciprocal voyeurism comes to light, and as the couple's fascination with S comes to dominate their already flawed marriage, what emerges is an unnerving and absorbing portrait of the taboos, emotional and sexual, that broke behind the closed doors of 1950s British life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments Ann Quin (Author) Jennifer Hodgson (Edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 178pp h196mm x w127mm x s20mm 340g ISBN13: 9781911508144 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-14-4 ISBN10: 1911508148 EAN: 9781911508144
x Description: "Quin's prose never falters; it's stunning." --The Paris Review This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. Ann Quin (b. 1936, Brighton) was a British writer. Prior to her death in 1973, she lived between Brighton, London, and the US, publishing four novels: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969), and Tripticks (1972). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don'T Try This at Home Angela Readman (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h197mm x w10mm ISBN13: 9781908276520 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-52-0 ISBN10: 1908276525 EAN: 9781908276520 x Description: A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie - into Elvis. Clary's father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive. Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner Angela Readman's debut collection is aptly titled, for each story packs its share of explosive material. Exposing all kinds of prejudice - against age, status, disability - the stories also offer quirky new strategies for troubled lives. If Angela Carter is Readman's fairy godmother, then David Lynch is her wicked stepbrother. Don't say you weren't warned ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Something Like Breathing Angela Readman (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 256pp h197mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9781911508304 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-30-4 ISBN10: 191150830X x Description: It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: `The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy elephant at the fair. It had to be won with a clear aim,' writes Lorrie. Yet fun-loving Lorrie isn't sure Sylvie's is the friendship she wants to win. As the adults around them struggle to keep their lives on an even keel, the two young women are drawn into a series of events that leave the small town wondering who exactly Sylvie is and what strange gift she is hiding.Readman's feel for emotional nuance and flair for mixing strangeness with poignant detail make this long-awaited debut novel one to savour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Taiga Syndrome Cristina Rivera Garza (Author) Suzanne Jill Levine (Translated by) Aviva Kana (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508687 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-68-7 ISBN10: 1911508687 x Description: A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple that has fled to the far reaches of the Earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down - that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation serves to betray both sense and the senses. The stories of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective's quest. As she enters a territory overrun with the primitive excesses of capitalism - accumulation and expulsion, corruption and cruelty -the lessons of her journey unfold: that sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Iliac Crest Cristina Rivera-Garza (Author) Sarah Booker (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 136pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508267 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-26-7 ISBN10: 1911508261 x Description: On a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. In increasingly desperate attempts to defend his masculinity, perplexed by the stranger's dubious claims to be the writer Amparo Davila, he finds himself spiralling deeper into a haunted past that may or may not be his own. This surreal novel enfolds a masterful exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Leave with the Reindeer Olivia Rosenthal (Author) Sophie Lewis (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508427 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-42-7 ISBN10: 1911508423 x Description: To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, and questions its limits, by exploring how humans relate to animals. Rosenthal weaves an intricate pattern, combining the central narrative with many other voices - vets, farmers, breeders, trainers, a butcher - to produce a polyphonic composition full of fascinating and disconcerting insights.Wise, precise, generous, To Leave with the Reindeer takes a clear-eyed look at the dilemmas of domestication, both human and animal, and the price we might pay to break free.
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Martin John Anakana Schofield (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781908276667 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-66-7 ISBN10: 1908276665 EAN: 9781908276667 x Description: Martin John must put a stop to it. They have an agreement, he and Mam. Get out to Aunty Noanie on Wednesday. Stop talking rubbish. Don't go near the buses and don't go down on the Tube. Keep yourself on the outside. Get a job at night. Get a job at night or else I'll come for ya. But Martin John can't stop. Meddlers are interrupting him and Martin John doesn't like Meddlers. If he's interrupted he can't complete his circuits; if he can't complete his circuits, bad things may happen. That's a fact. Written with all the electrifying humour of her award-winning debut Malarky, exhibiting a startling grasp of the loops and obsessions of a molester's mind, Martin John is a testament to Anakana Schofield's skill and audacity-and stands as a brilliant, Beckettian exploration of a man's long slide into deviancy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 120pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 160g ISBN13: 9781911508243 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-24-3 ISBN10: 1911508245 x Description: With Pure Hollywood, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career. In tales of rare wit, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of longing and danger. An alcoholic actress takes her children to live in 'a rusted box on stilts' in the desert. In an exclusive island resort, a young family's holiday has terrible consequences. A newly-wed couple who, while still 'newly everything', fall in with a misanthropic painter burned by love. 'On the beach, they agreed, their daydreaming was sometimes dangerous.' Schutt's sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives are shot through with surprise and, as Ottessa Moshfegh has it, 'exquisitely weird writing'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Zbinden's Progress Christoph Simon (Author) Donal McLaughlin (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps 182pp h210mm x w138mm ISBN13: 9781908276100 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-10-0 ISBN10: 190827610X x Description: Lukas Zbinden leans on the arm of Kazim, as they walk slowly down the stairway towards the door of his old people's home. Step by step, the irrepressible Lukas recounts the life he shared with his wife Emilie and his son. She loved to walk in the countryside; he loved towns and meeting strangers. Different in so many ways, what was the secret of their life-long love? And why is it now so hard for him to talk to his son? Gradually we get to know a man with a twinkle in his eye and learn the captivating story of this man, his late wife, their son and the many people he has met along the way. Zbinden's Progress is heart-rending, heart-warming and hilarious. --- Winner of the Bern Literature Prize 2010
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All Dogs are Blue Rodrigo Souza Leao (Author) Deborah Levy (Author) Stefan Tobler (Translated by) Zoe Perry (Translated by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 117pp h198mm x w11mm ISBN13: 9781908276209 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-20-9 ISBN10: 1908276207 EAN: 9781908276209 x Description: All Dogs are Blue is a fiery and scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio de Janeiro insane asylum. Our narrator is upset by his ever-widening girth and kept awake by the Rio funk blaring from a nearby favela - fair enough, but what about the undercover agents infil- trating the asylum? He misses the toy dog of his child- hood, keeps high literary company with Rimbaud (a mischief-maker) and Baudelaire (a bit too serious for him), and finds himself the leader of a popular cult. All Dogs are Blue burst onto the Brazilian literary scene in 2008. Its raw style and comic inventiveness took readers by storm. But it was to be Rodrigo de Souza Leao's last masterpiece. He died that year, aged 43, in a psychiatric clinic. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Happiness is Possible Oleg Zaionchkovsky (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) A.D. Miller (Introduction by) Series:
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30 Apr 2012
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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback With flaps h210mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9781908276094 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-09-4 ISBN10: 1908276096 x Description: Happiness is Possible tells the story of a writer late delivering his novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife walked out. All he can produce is notes about the happiness of others. But something draws him into the Moscow lives around him, bringing together lonely neighbours, restoring lost love, and helping out with building renovations. And happiness seems determined to catch up with him as well _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Against Memoir Michelle Tea (Author) Series:
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24 Aug 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508625 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-62-5 ISBN10: 1911508628 x Description: `I must find my own complicated junkie to have violent sex with. In 1994, nothing seemed like a better idea, save being able to write about it later.' Michelle Tea is our exuberant, witty guide to the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America. Along the way she reclaims SCUM Manifesto author Valerie Solanas as an absurdist, remembers the lives and deaths of the lesbian motorbike gang HAGS, and listens to activists at a trans protest camp. This kaleidoscope of love and adventure also makes room for a defence of pigeons and a tale of teenage goths hustling for tips at an ice creamery in a `grimy, busted city called Chelsea'. Unsparing but unwaveringly kind, Michelle Tea reveals herself and others in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. Against Memoir is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Best known as writer of fiction and memoir, this
is the first time Tea's journalism has been collected. Delivered with her signature candour and dark humour, Against Memoir solidifies her place as one of the leading queer writers of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Wave Michelle Tea (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781908276902 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-90-2 ISBN10: 1908276908 x Description: Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird.While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and meta-textual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility. But as she struggles to make queer love and art without succumbing to selfdestructive vice, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she'll have to compromise her artistic process if she's going to properly ride out doomsday. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wretchedness Andrzej Tichy (Author) Nichola Smalley (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 176pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508762 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-76-2 ISBN10: 1911508768 x Description: Waiting by the canal, a young cellist meets a junkie, high and drifting. He gives him twenty krona and they exchange a few words; the encounter is unremarkable. Yet for the cellist - who grew up a poor immigrant in the outskirts of Malmoe, and who lost friends and family to drug abuse, crime and death - a barrier in his mind has collapsed, and he leaves the canal chased by a creeping floodtide of memories, all of which threaten to drag him back to where he came from. Tearing through sprawling social housing estates, basement clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a tumultuous and raging journey into the underbelly of Europe. With a rhythmic, mesmerising flow, Tichy probes the bittersweet pleasures of escaping one's origins, and of loving one's neighbour without question - even when that neighbour is an addict, a criminal, wretched. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Remainder Alia Trabucco Zeran (Author) Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508328 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-32-8 ISBN10: 1911508326
x Description: Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vertigo Joanna Walsh (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 120pp h203mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781908276803 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-80-3 ISBN10: 1908276800 EAN: 9781908276803 x Description: This is a woman as a mother, daughter, wife, spectator, lover, mistress. Observer and commentator. Actor and reactor. Dressed up bright as a child or submerged in the grey elegance of Paris, she shifts readily between roles, countries, and languages. Skilled and and successful, she controls how much she cares. Yet as every new woman emerges and every new story is told, each with a sharper, more deadpan, more aching simplicity, the calm surfaces of Joanna Walsh's Vertigo shatter, pulling us deep into the panic that underlies everyday life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Worlds from the Word's End Joanna Walsh (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508106 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-10-6 ISBN10: 1911508105 x Description: The much-anticipated fiction follow-up to Vertigo, this collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In 'Like a Fish Needs a ...' - perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud and and and ...) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O'Brien. Meanwhile, in 'Worlds from the Word's End', Walsh conjures up a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion - something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vampire in Love Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Series:
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03 Nov 2016
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781908276865 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-86-5 ISBN10: 190827686X x Description: Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choir boy. A fledgling writer on
barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras's Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a lonely ophthalmologist and visits his abandoned villa. The stories in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas's delightful erudition and wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art and life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me Juan Pablo Villalobos (Author) Daniel Hahn (Translated by) Series:
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30 Apr 2020
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 288pp h198mm x w128mm ISBN13: 9781911508489 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-48-9 ISBN10: 1911508482 x Description: 'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin-a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as 'Projects' and to others as 'dickhead' - who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His mission? To make Laia, the daughter of a corrupt politician, fall in love with him. He accepts . . . though not before the crime boss has forced him at gunpoint into a discussion on the limits of humour in literature. Part campus novel, part gangster thriller, I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me is Villalobos at his best. Exuberantly foul-mouthed and intellectually agile, this hugely entertaining novel finds the light side of difficult subjects - immigration, corruption, family loyalty and love - in a world where the difference between comedy and tragedy depends entirely on who's telling the joke. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Down the Rabbit Hole Juan Pablo Villalobos (Author) Rosalind Harvey (Translated by) Series:
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Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 80pp h197mm x w7mm ISBN13: 9781908276285 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-28-5 ISBN10: 1908276282 This Product Replaces: 9781908276001 x Description: Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, dealers, and the odd corrupt politician or two. Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly-comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child's wish. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Published in: United Kingdom General merchandise 192pp ISBN13: 9781908276223 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-22-3 ISBN10: 1908276223 x Description: Anarchy in Mexico - a comic novel about screwed-up families and politics from the author of Down the Rabbit HoleVillalobos' first novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011 and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno - a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows - and a poor family is struggling to get by. The father, a school teacher, insists on practising and teaching the art of the insult, while the mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas to serve to their numerous progeny: Aristotle, Orestes, Archilochus, Callimachus, Electra, Castor and Pollux. The family witnesses a revolt against the Institutional Revolutionary Party and its umpteenth electoral fraud. This political upheaval is only the beginning of Orestes' adventures and his uproarious crusade against the boredom of rustic life and the tyranny of his older brother.In Quesadillas Juan Pablo Villalobos serves up a wild banquet. Chock-full of inseminated cows, Polish immigrants, parading pilgrims, alien spacecraft and psychedelic watermelons, almost anything goes in this madcap Mexican satire of politics and class.Orestes meets a procession of pilgrims, a stoner uncle called Pink Floyd and a beguiling politician who teaches him how to lie, and he learns some valuable lessons about families, truth and bovine artificial insemination. With Quesadillas, Juan Pablo Villalobos serves up a wild banquet. Anything goes in this madcap Mexican satire about politics, big families, and what it means to be middle class. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
101 Detectives Ivan Vladislavic (Author) Series:
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11 Jun 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h200mm x w8mm ISBN13: 9781908276568 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-56-8 ISBN10: 1908276568 EAN: 9781908276568 x Description: 'What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or oesophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective.' In this new collection of stories, award-winning author Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as just that - a story - or you can dig a little deeper. Take a closer look, examine the artefact from all angles, and consider the clues and patterns concealed within. Whether skewering extreme marketing techniques or constructing dystopian parallel universes; whether mourning a mother's loss or tracing a translator's on-stage breakdown, Vladislavic's pitch-perfect inquisitions will make you question your own language - how it defines you, and how it undoes you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Folly Ivan Vladislavic (Author) Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 148pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781908276704 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-70-4 ISBN10: 1908276703 x Description: Mr and Mrs Malgas are going quietly about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears on the vacant plot next to their home. Arriving with portmanteau in hand and a head full of extraordinary ideas, the stranger at once begins to fashion tools and cutlery from old iron and rubbish. Soon he enlists Mr Malgas's help: drawn in by the stranger's conviction, Mr Malgas clears the land, all the while struggling to catch sight of the grand
mansion that is supposedly springing up around them. His vision, however, continues to fail him - until, one day, it doesn't. When The Folly appeared in South Africa in 1993, with its story of the seductive and dangerous illusions language can breed, it was read as an evocative allegory of the rise and fall of apartheid. Vladislavic's remarkable first novel is sure to strike new chords for contemporary readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Restless Supermarket Ivan Vladislavic (Author) Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
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30 Apr 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 304pp 298g ISBN13: 9781908276322 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-32-2 ISBN10: 1908276320 x Description: It is 1993, and Aubrey Tearle's world is shutting down. He has recently retired from a lifetime of proofreading telephone directories. His favorite neighborhood haunt in Johannesburg, the Cafe Europa, is about to close its doors; the familiar old South Africa is already gone. Standards, he grumbles, are in decline, so bad-tempered, conservative Tearle embarks on a grandiose plan to enlighten his fellow citizens. The results are disastrous, hilarious, and poignant.Ivan Vladislavic is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Double Negative Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
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01 Nov 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 245pp ISBN13: 9781908276261 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-26-1 ISBN10: 1908276266 x Description: "One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today."--Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa's extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art, and what we should really be seeking. Ivan Vladislavic is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs Lina Wolff (Author) Frank Perry (Translated by) Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
Pub Date:
14 Jan 2016
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Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w22mm ISBN13: 9781908276643 ISBN13: 978-1-908276-64-3 ISBN10: 1908276649 x Description: This brilliant translation by Frank Perry won the 2017 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the 2019 Bernard Shaw prize At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, Bret
Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Cambo, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness of touch, the debut novel in English by Swedish sensation Lina Wolff is a black and Bolano-esque take on the limitations of love in a dog-eat-dog world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Many People Die Like You Lina Wolff (Author) Saskia Vogel (Translated by) Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2020
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Forthcoming
Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 208pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508809 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-80-9 ISBN10: 1911508806 x Description: An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's had sex with her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping cava through the maquette of a giant penis becomes a murder weapon in the hands of a disaffected housewife. In this collection from the winner of Sweden's August Prize, Lina Wolff gleefully wrenches unpredictability from the suffocations of day-to-day life, shatters balances of power without warning, and strips her characters down to their strangest and most unstable selves. Wicked, discomfiting, delightful and wry, delivered with the deadly wit for which Wolff is known, Many People Die Like You presents the uneasy spectacle of people in solitude, and probes, with savage honesty, the choices we make when we believe no one is watching ... or when we no longer care. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Polyglot Lovers Lina Wolff (Author) Saskia Vogel (Translated by) Series:
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And Other Stories
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And Other Stories
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2019
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Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911508441 ISBN13: 978-1-911508-44-1 ISBN10: 191150844X x Description: `Do you have to stare like that?' I asked. `Think about the actors in porn. They've got no problem showing themselves off.' `Think about when I broke your nose,'I replied.Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded by a snowstorm in Stockholm, far from her village in the south of Sweden. Ellinor finds herself at the heart of an intrigue involving an ex-wife who happens to be a blind medium, an overweight literary critic with a Houellebecq obsession, and a manuscript: a very important manuscript. Cut to Max Lamas, its author, who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him, in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a marchesa on the brink of ruin, and where her granddaughter, Lucrezia, brings this tale to its final, shocking conclusion. The Polyglot Lovers, winner of the 2016 August Prize, Sweden's most prestigious literary prize, is a masterclass in comic plot and timing, as well as a delight for readers, thanks to Wolff's trademark deadpan wit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________