International Booker Prize 2021

At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop (Author) Anna Moschovakis (Translated by) Series:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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10 Nov 2020

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At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop (Author) Anna Moschovakis (Translated by) Series:

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Picador USA

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Picador USA

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05 Oct 2021

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Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 160pp h191mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9781250800206 ISBN13: 978-1-250-80020-6 ISBN10: 125080020X EAN: 9781250800206 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

At Night All Blood is Black David Diop (Author) Anna Moschovakis (Translated by) Series:

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Pushkin Press

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05 Nov 2020

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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782275862 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-586-2 ISBN10: 178227586X EAN: 9781782275862 x Description: Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.

Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

At Night All Blood is Black David Diop (Author) Anna Moschovakis (Translated by) Series:

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Pushkin Press

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Pushkin Press

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06 May 2021

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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782277538 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-753-8 ISBN10: 1782277536 EAN: 9781782277538 x Description: Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.

Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?

At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories Mariana Enriquez (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:

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Hogarth Press

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Hogarth Press

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12 Jan 2021

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Hardback 208pp h210mm x w140mm x s14mm 367g ISBN13: 9780593134078 ISBN13: 978-0-593-13407-8 ISBN10: 0593134079 EAN: 9780593134078 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Mariana Enriquez (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:

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Granta Books

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Granta Books

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01 Apr 2021

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback h216mm x w135mm x s12mm 204g ISBN13: 9781783786718 ISBN13: 978-1-78378-671-8 ISBN10: 178378671X EAN: 9781783786718 x Description: 'Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train' Dave Eggers Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses. These brilliant, unsettling tales of revenge, witchcraft, fetishes, disappearances and urban madness spill over with women and girls whose dark inclinations will lead them over the edge.

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When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut (Author) Adrian Nathan West (Translated by) Series:

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New York Review of Books

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New York Review of Books

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14 Sep 2021

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Forthcoming

Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) Colour of cover - Tan/Light brown, CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary 192pp h216mm x w146mm 368g ISBN13: 9781681375663 ISBN13: 978-1-68137-566-3 ISBN10: 1681375664 EAN: 9781681375663 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut (Author) Adrian Nathan West (Translated by) Series:

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Pushkin Press

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03 Sep 2020

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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782276128 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-612-8 ISBN10: 1782276122 EAN: 9781782276128 x Description: When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.

Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.

At breakneck pace and with wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut (Author) Adrian Nathan West (Translated by) Series:

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Pushkin Press

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Pushkin Press

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06 May 2021

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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782276142 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-614-2 ISBN10: 1782276149 EAN: 9781782276142 x Description: When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.

Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.

With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:

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Lolli Editions

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Lolli Editions

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01 Oct 2020

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Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 136pp h180mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781999992880 ISBN13: 978-1-9999928-8-0 ISBN10: 1999992881 x Description: The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Those who will die, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Loved ones who have passed. Shopping and child-rearing. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory.

Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before - and what it means to be truly living.

Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn's crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, emotionally and ontologically, while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by work and the logic of productivity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova (Author) Sasha Dugdale (Translated by) Series:

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New Directions Publishing Corporation

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02 Mar 2021

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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 400pp h206mm x w132mm x s33mm 461g ISBN13: 9780811228831 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2883-1 ISBN10: 0811228835 EAN: 9780811228831 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova (Author) Sasha Dugdale (Translated by) Series:

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

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17 Feb 2021

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Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h197mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9781913097530 ISBN13: 978-1-913097-53-0 ISBN10: 1913097536 x Description: With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag and Osip Mandelstam, IN MEMORY OF MEMORY is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms - essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue and historical documents - Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The War of the Poor Eric Vuillard (Author) Mark Polizzotti (Translated by) Series:

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Picador

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Pan Macmillan

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07 Jan 2021

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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 80pp h223mm x w141mm x s18mm 212g ISBN13: 9781529038538 ISBN13: 978-1-5290-3853-8 ISBN10: 1529038537 EAN: 9781529038538 x Description: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021The fight for equality begins in the streets.From the internationally bestselling author of The Order of the Day: Eric Vuillard once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it's not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth?There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Muntzer: a complex and

controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich.Eric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the Day, Vuillard 'leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows' (L'OBS). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I Live in the Slums: Stories Can Xue (Author) Karen Gernant (Translated by) Zeping Chen (Translated by) Series:

World Republic of Letters Edition: (Yale)

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Yale University Press

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Yale University Press

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03 Jul 2020

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Unknown

Published in: United States Hardback 344pp h205mm x w135mm x s27mm 432g ISBN13: 9780300247435 ISBN13: 978-0-300-24743-5 ISBN10: 0300247435 EAN: 9780300247435 x Description: Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature Can Xue's stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to limn a disordered and poetic state given structure by philosophical wonder and emotional rigor. Combining elements of both Chinese materiality-the love of physical things-and Western abstract thinking, Can Xue invites her readers into an immersive landscape that blends empirical fact and illusion, mixes the physical and spiritual, and probes the space between consciousness and oblivion. She brings us to a place that is both readily familiar yet unmappable and can make us hyperaware of the inherent unreliability in our relationship to the world around us. Delightful, enchanting, and filled with secrets, Can Xue's newest collection shines a light on the forces that give contours to the visible terrain we acknowledge as reality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Pear Field Nana Ekvtimishvili (Author) Elizabeth Heighway (Translated by) Series:

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Peirene Press Ltd

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27 Oct 2020

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Translated From: Georgian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9781908670601 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-60-1 ISBN10: 1908670606 x Description: In post-soviet Georgia, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, on the corner of Kerch St., is an orphanage. Its teachers offer pupils lessons in violence, abuse and neglect. Lela is old enough to leave but has nowhere else to go. She stays and plans for the children's escape, for the future she hopes to give to Irakli, a young boy in the home. When an American couple visits, offering the prospect of a new life, Lela decides she must do everything she can to give Irakli this chance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Author) Series:

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Harvill Secker

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Vintage Publishing

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08 Oct 2020

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w128mm x s19mm 211g ISBN13: 9781911215998 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-99-8 ISBN10: 191121599X EAN: 9781911215998 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, full of trial and sacrifice, The Perfect Nine is a glorious epic about the founding of Kenya's Gikuyu people and the ideals of beauty, courage and unity.

'One of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieGikuyu and Mumbi settled on the peaceful and bounteous foot of Mount Kenya after fleeing war and hunger. When ninety-nine suitors arrive on their land, seeking to marry their famously beautiful daughters, called The Perfect Nine, the parents ask their daughters to choose for themselves, but to choose wisely. First the young women must embark on a treacherous quest with the suitors, to find a magical cure for their youngest sister, Warigia, who cannot walk. As they journey up the mountain, the number of suitors diminishes and the sisters put their sharp minds and bold hearts to the test, conquering fear, doubt, hunger and many menacing ogres, as they attempt to return home. But it is perhaps Warigia's unexpected adventure that will be most challenging of all.Blending folklore, mythology and allegory, Ngugi wa Thiong'o chronicles the adventures of Gikuyu and Mumbi, and how their brave daughters became the matriarchs of the Gikuyu clans, in stunning verse, with all the epic elements of danger, humour and suspense.

'A tremendous writer... it's hard to doubt the power of the written word when you hear the story of Ngugi wa Thiong'o' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Summer Brother Jaap Robben (Author) David Doherty (Translated by) Series:

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World Editions Ltd

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World Editions Ltd

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08 Apr 2021

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h216mm x w140mm ISBN13: 9781912987139 ISBN13: 978-1-912987-13-9 ISBN10: 1912987139 EAN: 9781912987139 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Inventory of Losses: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Judith Schalansky (Author) Jackie Smith (Translated by) Series:

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MacLehose Press

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Quercus Publishing

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20 Aug 2020

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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h220mm x w138mm x s26mm 460g ISBN13: 9781529400793 ISBN13: 978-1-5294-0079-3 ISBN10: 1529400791 EAN: 9781529400793 x Description: **NOW LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021**"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genredefying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian"As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging inventory" MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times"Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction" Financial Times "Books of the Year""Pure gold storytelling" SJONJudith Schalansky's strange

and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, which Robert MacFarlane called "utterly exquisite" (Guardian) and about which Time Out's reviewer said "Rarely has armchair travel been so farflung and romantic".Judith Schalansky is a wholly original writer whose books articulate perfectly what she wishes to say. Each of the pieces, following the conventions of a different genre, considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, including the paradisal pacific island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger, the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, Sappho's love poems, Greta Garbo's fading beauty, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and the former East Germany's Palace of the Republic. As a child of the former East Germany, it's not surprising that the dominant emotion in Schalansky's work should be "loss" and its aftermath, but what is extraordinary is the thoroughly engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, down-to-earth grasp of life's pitiless vitality, ironic humour, stylistic elegance and intensity of feeling that combine to make this book a masterpiece and one of the most original and beautifully designed books to be published in 2020.Translated from the German by Jackie Smith _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

An Inventory of Losses: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Judith Schalansky (Author) Jackie Smith (Translated by) Series:

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MacLehose Press

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Quercus Publishing

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27 Jan 2022

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Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781529400786 ISBN13: 978-1-5294-0078-6 ISBN10: 1529400783 EAN: 9781529400786 x Description: "A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian"As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a pandemic, it is hard to imagine a better guide to the resources of hope than Schalansky's deeply engaging inventory" MICHAEL CRONIN, Irish Times"Weaving fiction, autobiography and history, this sumptuous collection of texts offers meditations on the diverse phenomena of decomposition and destruction" Financial Times "Books of the Year"Following the conventions of a different genre, each of the pieces in Schalansky's Inventory considers something that is irretrievably lost to the world, from the paradisal island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger or the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, to Sappho's love poems, Greta Garbo's fading beauty or a painting by Caspar David Friedrich.As a child of the former East Germany, it's not surprising that "loss" and its aftermath should haunt Schalansky's writing, but what is extraordinary and exhilarating is the engaging mixture of intellectual curiosity, ironic humour, stylistic elegance, intensity of feeling and grasp of life's pitiless vitality, that combine to make this one of the most original literary works of recent times.Translated from the German by Jackie Smith _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Minor Detail Adania Shibli (Author) Elisabeth Jaquette (Translated by) Series:

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New Directions Publishing Publisher: Corporation

New Directions Publishing Corporation

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09 Apr 2021

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Published in: United States Paperback / softback With flaps 144pp h203mm x w135mm x s10mm 132g ISBN13: 9780811229074 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2907-4 ISBN10: 0811229076 EAN: 9780811229074 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Minor Detail Adania Shibli (Author) Elisabeth Jaquette (Translated by) Series:

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

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06 May 2020

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Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h197mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9781913097172 ISBN13: 978-1-913097-17-2 ISBN10: 191309717X x Description: MINOR DETAIL begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this 'minor detail' of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, MINOR DETAIL cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wretchedness Andrzej Tichy (Author) Nichola Smalley (Translated by) Series:

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And Other Stories

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And Other Stories

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02 Jun 2020

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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: Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges to a different sound, heading for a crash.

From sprawling housing projects to underground clubs and squat parties, Wretchedness is a blistering trip through the underbelly of Europe's cities.

Powered by a furious, unpredictable beat, this is a paean to brotherhood, to those who didn't make it however hard they fought, and a visceral indictment of the poverty which took them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________