The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Europa Editions
Publisher:
Europa Editions
Pub Date:
23 Jan 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 272pp h208mm x w132mm x s25mm 318g ISBN13: 9781609455651 ISBN13: 978-1-60945-565-1 ISBN10: 1609455657 EAN: 9781609455651 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Shokoofeh Azar (Author) Anonymous (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Publisher:
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Jan 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Persian; Farsi Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h210mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781787702110 ISBN13: 978-1-78770-211-0 ISBN10: 1787702111 EAN: 9781787702110 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: Farsi Edition Ms Shokoofeh Azar (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Wild Dingo Press
Publisher:
Wild Dingo Press
Pub Date:
01 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 297pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780648349822 ISBN13: 978-0-6483498-2-2 ISBN10: 0648349829 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Adventures of China Iron Gabriela Cabezon Camara (Author) Series:
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Charco Press
Publisher:
Charco Press
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 200pp ISBN13: 9781916465664 ISBN13: 978-1-9164656-6-4 ISBN10: 1916465668 x
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Las Aventuras de China Iron / The Adventures of China Iron Gabriela Cabezon Camara (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Literatura Random House Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Pub Date:
17 Dec 2019
Active
Publishing Status:
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h229mm x w135mm x s23mm 299g ISBN13: 9788439736264 ISBN13: 978-84-397-3626-4 ISBN10: 8439736266 EAN: 9788439736264 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h216mm x w136mm x s30mm 340g ISBN13: 9781529403664 ISBN13: 978-1-5294-0366-4 ISBN10: 1529403669 EAN: 9781529403664 x Description: 'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman RushdieHe's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here!In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He's practising. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths; he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same.Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war.A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall. Between the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue; exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools.With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. When citizens become the playthings of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his demonic grace and his thirst for freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion - a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h222mm x w142mm x s38mm 440g ISBN13: 9781529403657 ISBN13: 978-1-5294-0365-7 ISBN10: 1529403650 EAN: 9781529403657 x Description: 'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman RushdieHe's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and
he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here!In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He's practising. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths; he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same.Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war.A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall. Between the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue; exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools.With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. When citizens become the playthings of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his demonic grace and his thirst for freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion - a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pantheon Books
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub Date:
11 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Hardback Sewn 352pp h211mm x w145mm x s36mm 544g ISBN13: 9781524747466 ISBN13: 978-1-5247-4746-6 ISBN10: 1524747467 EAN: 9781524747466 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499268083 ISBN13: 978-3-499-26808-3 ISBN10: 3499268086 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Hardback ISBN13: 9783498035679 ISBN13: 978-3-498-03567-9 ISBN10: 3498035673 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyll: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Feb 2021
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781529403671 ISBN13: 978-1-5294-0367-1 ISBN10: 1529403677 EAN: 9781529403671 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor (Author) Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub Date:
19 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 232pp h197mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9781913097097 ISBN13: 978-1-913097-09-7 ISBN10: 1913097099 x Description: The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, HURRICANE SEASON, Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hurricane Season Nicole Melleby (Author) Series:
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Algonquin Books (division Publisher: of Workman)
Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Pub Date:
25 Mar 2020
Active
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 288pp h208mm x w137mm x s18mm 227g ISBN13: 9781643750323 ISBN13: 978-1-64375-032-3 ISBN10: 1643750321 EAN: 9781643750323 x Description: For Fig's dad, hurricane season brings the music. For Fig, hurricane season brings the possibility of disaster. Fig, a sixth grader, loves her dad and the home they share in a beachside town. She does not love the long months of hurricane season. Her father, a once-renowned piano player, sometimes goes looking for the music in the middle of a storm. Hurricane months bring unpredictable good and bad days. More than anything, Fig wants to see the world through her father's eyes, so she takes an art class to experience life as an artist does. Then Fig's dad shows up at school, confused and looking for her. Not only does the class not bring Fig closer to understanding him, it brings social services to their door. As the walls start to fall around her, Fig is sure it's up to her alone to solve her father's problems and protect her family's privacy. But with the help of her best friend, a cute girl at the library, and a surprisingly kind new neighbor, Fig learns she isn't as alone as she once thought . . . and begins to compose her own definition of family. Nicole Melleby's Hurricane Season is a radiant and tender novel about taking risks and facing danger, about friendship and art, and about growing up and coming out. And more than anything else, it is a story about love--both its limits and its incredible healing power.
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Hurricane Season Nicole Melleby (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Algonquin Books (division Publisher: of Workman)
Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Pub Date:
07 May 2019
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn 288pp h211mm x w142mm x s30mm 363g ISBN13: 9781616209063 ISBN13: 978-1-61620-906-3 ISBN10: 1616209062 EAN: 9781616209063 x Description: "Fig Arnold is an original and irresistible heroine in a story full of hope, art, and love." --R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder "A thoughtful portrayal of mental illness with queer content that avoids coming-out cliches." --Kirkus Reviews For Fig's dad, hurricane season brings the music. For Fig, hurricane season brings the possibility of disaster. Fig, a sixth grader, loves her dad and the home they share in a beachside town. She does not love the long months of hurricane season. Her father, a once-renowned piano player, sometimes goes looking for the music in the middle of a storm. Hurricane months bring unpredictable good and bad days. More than anything, Fig wants to see the world through her father's eyes, so she takes an art class to experience life as an artist does. Then Fig's dad shows up at school, confused and looking for her. Not only does the class not bring Fig closer to understanding him, it brings social services to their door. As the walls start to fall around her, Fig is sure it's up to her alone to solve her father's problems and protect her family's privacy. But with the help of her best friend, a cute girl at the library, and a surprisingly kind new neighbor, Fig learns she isn't as alone as she once thought . . . and begins to compose her own definition of family. Nicole Melleby's Hurricane Season is a radiant and tender novel about taking risks and facing danger, about friendship and art, and about growing up and coming out. And more than anything else, it is a story about love--both its limits and its incredible healing power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Temporada de Huracanes / Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Literatura Random House Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2017
Active
Publishing Status:
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 224pp h229mm x w135mm x s15mm 249g ISBN13: 9786073152730 ISBN13: 978-607-31-5273-0 ISBN10: 6073152736 EAN: 9786073152730 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 202g ISBN13: 9781784700447 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-044-7 ISBN10: 1784700444 EAN: 9781784700447 x Description: 'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers.Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest
writers.'One of Japan's most acclaimed authors explores truth, state surveillance and individual autonomy. Echoes 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own' Time Magazine**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE** _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 287g ISBN13: 9781787300750 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-075-0 ISBN10: 1787300757 EAN: 9781787300750 x Description: **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE** 'A masterpiece' GuardianDiscover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the Entertainment Weekly 'Quarantine Book Club'.Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers.'One of Japan's most acclaimed authors explores truth, state surveillance and individual autonomy. Echoes 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own' Time Magazine 'A quiet dystopia of loss and confusion rather than repression, perhaps better suited for a world of misinformation and environmental degradation than the Big Brother nightmares of last century' Slate _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pantheon Books
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub Date:
06 Aug 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 288pp ISBN13: 9780375715334 ISBN13: 978-0-375-71533-4 ISBN10: 0375715339 EAN: 9780375715334 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub Date:
28 Jul 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 288pp h203mm x w132mm x s21mm 308g ISBN13: 9781101911815 ISBN13: 978-1-101-91181-5 ISBN10: 1101911816 EAN: 9781101911815 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Discomfort of Evening: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 321g ISBN13: 9780571349364 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34936-4 ISBN10: 0571349366 EAN: 9780571349364 x Description: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020* 'One of the best debut novels I have ever read. Shockingly good ... A classic.' Max Porter The sensational Dutch bestseller: 'Exceptional' (Financial Times) 'Exhilarating' (Independent) 'Luminous' (Observer) 'Beautifully wild' (Guardian) I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all. A bestselling sensation in the Netherlands, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's radical debut novel is studded with images of wild, violent beauty: a world of language unlike any other, exquisitely captured in Michele Hutchison's translation. 'THE MOST TALKED ABOUT DEBUT NOVEL OF 2020 ALREADY' [Dazed & Confused] ONE OF VOGUE'S TOP FIVE DEBUTS OF 2020 ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S HIGHLIGHTS OF 2020 ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S TOP TEN BEST NEW BOOKS IN TRANSLATION _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Discomfort of Evening Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Graywolf Press
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Pub Date:
22 Sep 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 224pp h210mm x w140mm x s0mm ISBN13: 9781644450345 ISBN13: 978-1-64445-034-5 ISBN10: 1644450348 EAN: 9781644450345 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
De Avond is Ongemak Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Author) Series: Imprint:
Edition: Comprehensive Project Management Services Limited
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Publisher:
Comprehensive Project Management Services Limited
Publishing Status:
Published in: Nigeria Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9789025458430 ISBN13: 978-90-254-5843-0 ISBN10: 9025458432 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Dog Michiel Heyns (Translated by) Willem Anker (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Pushkin Press
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
25 Jun 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274230 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-423-0 ISBN10: 1782274235 EAN: 9781782274230 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.
Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; the story of his country, and of our blood-soaked history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Dog Michiel Heyns (Translated by) Willem Anker (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Pushkin Press
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782274223 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-422-3 ISBN10: 1782274227 EAN: 9781782274223 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
At the end of the eighteenth century, a giant strides the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally.
Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and spoiling for a fight. This is his story; the story of his country, and of our blood-soaked history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Other Name: Septology I-II Jon Fosse (Author) Damion Searls (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Norwegian Nynorsk Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h197mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9781910695913 ISBN13: 978-1-910695-91-3 ISBN10: 1910695912 x Description: What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgangers - two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions about life, death, love, light and shadow, faith and hopelessness. Written in melodious and hypnotic `slow prose', THE OTHER NAME: SEPTOLOGY I-II is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, `a major European writer' (Karl Ove Knausgaard), in which everything is always there, and past and present flow together. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller Nino Haratischvili (Author) Charlotte Collins (Translated by) Ruth Martin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Scribe Publications
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 944pp h234mm x w153mm x s56mm 1048g ISBN13: 9781911617471 ISBN13: 978-1-911617-47-1 ISBN10: 1911617478 EAN: 9781911617471 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ... Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the centre of the Russian Revolution in
St Petersburg. Stasia's is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century. Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the reader rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller Nino Haratischvili (Author) Charlotte Collins (Translated by) Ruth Martin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Scribe Publications
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Pub Date:
12 Nov 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 944pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781913348298 ISBN13: 978-1-913348-29-8 ISBN10: 1913348296 EAN: 9781913348298 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace. Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers, thanks to a recipe for hot chocolate that bewitches its drinkers. But this chocolate carries a bitter - some say cursed - aftertaste ... Tumbling through the years, across vast expanses of longing and loss, witness generation after generation of this remarkable family as they struggle and thrive, divide and reunite, and live and die in the red century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Serotonin Michel Houellebecq (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h240mm x w162mm x s31mm 536g ISBN13: 9781785152238 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-223-8 ISBN10: 1785152238 EAN: 9781785152238 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is dying of sadness. His young girlfriend hates him and his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture is pretty much over. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Recently released for public consumption, Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. Armed with this new drug, Labrouste decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside where he used to work promoting regional cheeses, and where he had once been in love. But instead of happiness, he finds a rural community devastated by globalisation and European agricultural policies, and local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to what they remember as the golden age.Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.
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Serotonin Michel Houellebecq (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2019
Active
Publishing Status:
Hardback Sewn 320pp h211mm x w142mm x s28mm 408g ISBN13: 9780374261023 ISBN13: 978-0-374-26102-3 ISBN10: 0374261024 EAN: 9780374261023 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Serotonin Michel Houellebecq (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador USA
Publisher:
Picador USA
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 320pp h210mm x w137mm x s0mm ISBN13: 9781250758088 ISBN13: 978-1-250-75808-8 ISBN10: 1250758084 EAN: 9781250758088 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Serotonin Michel Houellebecq (Author) Shaun Whiteside (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 390g ISBN13: 9781785152245 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-224-5 ISBN10: 1785152246 EAN: 9781785152245 x Description: THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for. Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Emmanuelle Pagano (Author) Sophie Lewis (Translated by) Jennifer Higgins (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Peirene Press Ltd
Publisher:
Peirene Press Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 128pp ISBN13: 9781908670540 ISBN13: 978-1-908670-54-0 ISBN10: 1908670541 x Description: Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in the middle of summer and the glitter found between the pages of a borrowed novel takes you into another world. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed in rural France with honesty and humour. This is a superb cumulative collection from a unique French voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2020 Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
31 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h225mm x w146mm x s23mm ISBN13: 9781786077929 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-792-9 ISBN10: 1786077922 EAN: 9781786077929 x Description: A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale 'She has a gift for fiction that is pure, original, revelatory.' El Pais A New York Times 'Book to Watch Out for in May' They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're not pets, nor ghosts, nor robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without you knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, untraceable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the beauty of connection between far-flung souls - but they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly linked world. Trusting strangers can lead to unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous adventures, but what if it can also pave the way for unimaginable terror? Schweblin has created a dark and complex world that is both familiar but also strangely unsettling, because it's our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Eyes Samantha Schweblin (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9781786077943 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-794-3 ISBN10: 1786077949 EAN: 9781786077943 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Eyes Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Riverhead Books
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub Date:
05 May 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Hardback Sewn 256pp h203mm x w130mm x s15mm 336g ISBN13: 9780525541363 ISBN13: 978-0-525-54136-3 ISBN10: 0525541365 EAN: 9780525541363 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mac and His Problem Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
29 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 224pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 227g Trade paperback (UK) ISBN13: 9781787300453 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-045-3 ISBN10: 1787300455 EAN: 9781787300453 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEEnrique Vila-Matas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' (Colm Toibin)Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice - delighted by the themes of repetition and falsification, and humbly armed with an encyclopaedic knowledge of literature. Mac's wife, Carmen, thinks he is simply wasting his time and in danger of sliding further into depression and idleness. But Mac persists, diligently recording his daily walks through the neighbourhood. It is the hottest summer Barcelona has seen in over one hundred years.Soon, despite his best intentions (not to write a novel), Mac begins to notice that life is exhibiting strange literary overtones and imitating fragments of plot. As he sizzles in the heatwave, he becomes ever more immersed in literature - a literature haunted by death but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.Intricate, erudite and practically fizzing on the page, Mac and His Problem is a masterpiece of metafiction and a testament to the power and playfulness of great literature. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dietario Voluble Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Narrativas Hispanicas
Edition:
Imprint:
Editorial Anagrama
Publisher:
Editorial Anagrama
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Spain Hardback 275pp ISBN13: 9788433971753 ISBN13: 978-84-339-7175-3 ISBN10: 8433971751 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doctor Pasavento Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editorial Anagrama
Publisher:
Editorial Anagrama
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Spain Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9788433968821 ISBN13: 978-84-339-6882-1 ISBN10: 8433968823 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
El Viajero Maas Lento: El Arte de No Terminar NADA Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Primeraciaon ed.
Imprint:
Editorial Seix Barral
Publisher:
Editorial Seix Barral
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: United States Hardback 222pp ISBN13: 9788432209437 ISBN13: 978-84-322-0943-7 ISBN10: 8432209430 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perder Teorias Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Unicos 17
Edition:
Imprint:
Editorial Seix Barral
Publisher:
Editorial Seix Barral
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: United States Hardback 64pp illustrations ISBN13: 9788432243240 ISBN13: 978-84-322-4324-0 ISBN10: 8432243248 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aire de Dylan / Dylan's Air Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Debolsillo
Publisher:
Debolsillo
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 288pp h188mm x w124mm x s18mm 272g ISBN13: 9788466344869 ISBN13: 978-84-663-4486-9 ISBN10: 8466344861 EAN: 9788466344869 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bartleby y compania Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Debolsillo
Publisher:
Debolsillo
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: Spain Paperback / softback 176pp ISBN13: 9788466329859 ISBN13: 978-84-663-2985-9 ISBN10: 8466329854 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mac y su contratiempo Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Debolsillo
Publisher:
Debolsillo
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: Spain Paperback / softback 280pp ISBN13: 9788466344852 ISBN13: 978-84-663-4485-2 ISBN10: 8466344853 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Suicidios ejemplares Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Debolsillo
Publisher:
Debolsillo
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: Spain Paperback / softback 176pp ISBN13: 9788490624227 ISBN13: 978-84-9062-422-7 ISBN10: 8490624224 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aliss at the Fire Jon Fosse (Author) Damion Searls (Author) Series:
Scandinavian Literature Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
16 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 107pp ISBN13: 9781564785732 ISBN13: 978-1-56478-573-2 ISBN10: 1564785734 EAN: 9781564785732 x Description: In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at the Fire is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Day I'll Tell You Everything Emmanuelle Pagano (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Text Publishing Company
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 256pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781922268914 ISBN13: 978-1-922268-91-4 ISBN10: 1922268917 EAN: 9781922268914 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Scenes from a Childhood Jon Fosse (Author) Damion Searls (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub Date:
25 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h195mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9781910695531 ISBN13: 978-1-910695-53-1 ISBN10: 191069553X x Description: SCENES FROM A CHILDHOOD is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Fosse's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
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Trysting Emmanuelle Pagano (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
And Other Stories
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Pub Date:
17 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
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." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bodies politic Michiel Heyns (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Publisher:
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: South Africa Paperback / softback 311pp ISBN13: 9781868422982 ISBN13: 978-1-86842-298-2 ISBN10: 1868422984 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The White Review No. 25 Francesca Wade (Edited by) Zeljka Marosevic (Edited by) Terry Castle (Interviewee) Enrique Vila-Matas (Interviewee) Christine Okoth (Contributions by) Carlos Busqued (Contributions by) Young-Sook Kang (Contributions by) Patricia Portela (Contributions by) Edward Herring (Contributions by) Charlotte Geater (Contributions by) So Mayer (Contributions by) Kaye Donachie (Contributions by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The White Review
Publisher:
The White Review
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 200pp h257mm x w185mm x s13mm 454g ISBN13: 9780995743779 ISBN13: 978-0-9957437-7-9 ISBN10: 0995743770 EAN: 9780995743779 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Poor Season for Whales Michiel Heyns (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Publisher:
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: South Africa Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h233mm x w152mm 500g ISBN13: 9781776190225 ISBN13: 978-1-77619-022-5 ISBN10: 177619022X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wolf, Wolf: a novel Eben Venter (Author) Michiel Heyns (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
New edition
Imprint:
Scribe Publications
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Pub Date:
12 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Afrikaans Published in: Australia Hardback Paper over boards 272pp h210mm x w135mm x s26mm ISBN13: 9781922247865 ISBN13: 978-1-922247-86-5 ISBN10: 1922247863 EAN: 9781922247865 x Description: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2014 How should a man be? Mattie Duiker is trying very hard to live up to his dying father's wishes. He is putting aside childish things, starting his first business serving healthy take-away food to the workers in his district of Cape Town. His Pa is proud. At the same time, Mattie is pulled toward an altogether different version of masculinity, in which oiled and toned bodies cavort for him at the click of a mouse. His porn addiction both threatens his relationship with his boyfriend, Jack, and imperils his inheritance. Pa's peacocking days as a swaggering businessman are done, but even as the cancer shrivels and crisps him, the old man's ancient authority intensifies as it shrinks, like Mattie's own signature sauce. Pa haltingly prepares his son for life without him, and himself for life without a male heir. And, while the family wrestles with matters of entitlement and inheritance, around them a new South Africa is quietly but persistently nudging its way forwards. Wolf, Wolf is a novel of old rigid states and new unfinished forms, of stiff tolerance and mournful nostalgia. With uncommon sensitivity to place, time, and sex, Eben Venter reveals himself to the world outside his homeland as one of its most astute and acute observers, giving shape in story to some of the sea-changes of our time, in the manner of Coetzee and Roth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cabinet d'amateur, an oblique novel: Enrique Vila-Matas Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Whitechapel Gallery
Publisher:
Whitechapel Gallery
Pub Date:
17 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h225mm x w145mm 230g 10 Illustrations, color ISBN13: 9780854882731 ISBN13: 978-0-85488-273-1 ISBN10: 0854882731 EAN: 9780854882731 x Description: The first of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona's `la Caixa' Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newlycommissioned fictional works by some of the most original English and Spanish-language writers working today. Established in Barcelona in 1985 by Fundacion `la Caixa', the `la Caixa' Collection of Contemporary Art features over 1,000 works of international contemporary art from the last 30 years, including artists such as Antoni Tapies, Joseph Beuys, Cornelia Parker and Doris Salcedo. For a major four-part display running from 2019-20, Whitechapel Gallery has partnered with `la Caixa' Collection to showcase key pieces from the Collection,
with each of the four `chapters' curated by a contemporary writer, who will also contribute a brand new work of fiction in response to their selection. Each display will be accompanied by a fullyillustrated catalogue featuring the works displayed and the new text, accompanied by a foreword and introduction from both institutions.The first chapter, on display in Spring 2019, will be selected by the award-winning Spanish novelist Enrique VilaMatas (b. Barcelona, 1948; lives and works in Barcelona), who has been described by The New Yorker as `arguably Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure'. His work is often described as metafiction, a form of writing frequently used to examine the relationship between art and life. Vila-Matas' books include Because She Never Asked (2015, originally written for Sophie Calle), The Illogic of Kassel (2014), Dublinesque (2010) and Bartleby & Co (2000), and his new book, titled Mac y su contratiempo (Mac's Problem) will be released in English in April 2019, coinciding with the display at Whitechapel Gallery. Vila-Matas has selected works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Miquel Barcelo, Dora Garcia, Carlos Pazos and Gerhard Richter. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F: A Novel Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
21 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 235g ISBN13: 9781784296230 ISBN13: 978-1-78429-623-0 ISBN10: 1784296236 EAN: 9781784296230 x Description: 'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it. A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative.**Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015** _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F: A Novel Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h215mm x w139mm x s20mm 292g ISBN13: 9781848667518 ISBN13: 978-1-84866-751-8 ISBN10: 1848667515 EAN: 9781848667518 x Description: **Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015** The Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity. Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
06 Nov 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h200mm x w128mm x s22mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575084018 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08401-8 ISBN10: 0575084014 EAN: 9780575084018 x Description: From the notorious, bestselling author of ATOMISED: a scholarly love letter on the hugely influential and reclusive literary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.'In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houellebecq, the controversial and bestselling author of ATOMISED, focuses his considerable analytical skills on H.P. Lovecraft - one of the seminal horror writers of the early 20th century. Houellebecq's insights into the craft of writing illuminate both Lovecraft and Houellebecq's own work. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a uniquely dark worldview. But even as he outlines Lovecraft's rejection of this loathsome world, it is Houellebecq's adulation for the author that drives this work and makes it a love song, infusing the writing with an energy and passion that characterises Houellebecq's new novel. This is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Lovecraft, Houellebecq, or the past and future of horror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Me and Kaminski Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h198mm x w145mm x s14mm 146g ISBN13: 9781847249890 ISBN13: 978-1-84724-989-0 ISBN10: 1847249892 EAN: 9781847249890 x Description: A wryly comic account of a career in meltdown, from the author of Measuring the World'An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both' - New StatesmanSebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski. Yet Kaminski - once a pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse - is not the kind of character to willingly embrace such a project. And Zollner - inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history - is hardly the man to undertake it. So it's a good job Sebastian has an ace up his sleeve, and that Kaminski will have little choice in the matter... Half road novel, half satire on the contemporary art scene, Kaminski and Me is a wryly humorous meditation on art, memory, and identity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Quercus Publishing
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h199mm x w132mm x s25mm 238g ISBN13: 9781847241146 ISBN13: 978-1-84724-114-6 ISBN10: 184724114X EAN: 9781847241146 x Description: Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognised as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home in Goettingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Measuring the World is a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterization. It brings the two eccentric geniuses to life, their longings and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Possibility of an Island Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Jul 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h196mm x w132mm x s29mm 304g ISBN13: 9780753821183 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2118-3 ISBN10: 0753821184 EAN: 9780753821183 x Description: The controversial, gripping novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed author of ATOMISED and SEROTONIN.'Essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the contemporary world' DAILY MAILWho, among you, deserves eternal life?Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, Daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love.A thousand years on, war, drought and earthquakes have decimated the earth and Daniel24 lives alone in a secure compound - his only companion, a cloned dog named Fox. Outside, the remnants of the human race roam in packs, while Daniel24 attempts to decipher his predecessor's history. In a nightmarish vision of the implosion of the modern world, he, like his predecessor attempts to fathom the meaning of love, sex, suffering and regret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Should Have Left: now a major motion picture Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
riverrun
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 128pp h170mm x w170mm x s17mm 148g ISBN13: 9781786484048 ISBN13: 978-1-78648-404-8 ISBN10: 1786484048 EAN: 9781786484048 x Description: A thrilling exploration of psychological disturbance and fear from the bestselling and prize-winning author of Measuring the World.*Now a major film starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried*On retreat in the wintry Alps with his family, a writer is optimistic about completing the sequel to his breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb him except the wind whispering around their glassy house. The perfect place to focus. Intruding on that peace of mind, the demands of his four-year-old daughter splinter open long-simmering arguments with his wife. I love her, he writes in the notebook intended for his script. Why do we fight all the time?Guilt and expectation strain at his concentration, and strain, too, at the walls of the house. They warp under his watch; at night, looking through the window, he sees impossible reflections on the snow outside.Then the words start to appear in his notebook; the words he didn't write.Familiar and forbidding by turns, this is an electrifying experiment in form by one of Europe's boldest writers. The ordinary struggles of a marriage transform, in Kehlmann's hands, into a twisted fable that stays darkly in the mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bartleby y Compa [Bartleby & Co.] Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yuan Liu Chu Ban Gong Si
Publisher:
Yuan Liu Chu Ban Gong Si
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Chinese Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 448pp h208mm x w147mm x s18mm 386g ISBN13: 9789573266952 ISBN13: 978-957-32-6695-2 ISBN10: 9573266954 EAN: 9789573266952 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Button-Chan Ogawa Yoko (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
PHP Kenkyujo/tsai fong books
Publisher:
PHP Kenkyujo/tsai fong books
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Japanese Hardback Sewn 33pp h251mm x w193mm x s8mm 272g ISBN13: 9784569785011 ISBN13: 978-4-569-78501-1 ISBN10: 4569785018 EAN: 9784569785011 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Agaat Marlene Van Niekerk (Author) Michiel Heyns (University of Stellenbosch) (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tin House Books
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Pub Date:
27 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 581pp h215mm x w161mm x s32mm 531g ISBN13: 9780982503096 ISBN13: 978-0-9825030-9-6 ISBN10: 0982503091 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pajaros En La Boca Y Otros Cuentos Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Almadia
Publisher:
Almadia
Pub Date:
30 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 232pp h208mm x w135mm x s15mm 295g ISBN13: 9786078486663 ISBN13: 978-607-8486-66-3 ISBN10: 6078486667 EAN: 9786078486663 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Children's Day Michiel Heyns (University of Stellenbosch) (Author) A L Kennedy (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tin House Books
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 244pp h193mm x w124mm x s20mm 249g ISBN13: 9780980243666 ISBN13: 978-0-9802436-6-6 ISBN10: 0980243661 EAN: 9780980243666 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Una Casa Para Siempre / A Home Forever Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Debolsillo
Publisher:
Debolsillo
Pub Date:
21 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 128pp h188mm x w124mm x s13mm 136g ISBN13: 9788466342339 ISBN13: 978-84-663-4233-9 ISBN10: 8466342338 EAN: 9788466342339 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Boathouse Jon Fosse (Author) May-Brit Akerholt (Translated by) Series:
Norwegian Literature Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 144pp ISBN13: 9781628971828 ISBN13: 978-1-62897-182-8 ISBN10: 1628971827 EAN: 9781628971828 x Description: One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend and his wife. Told partially in a stream-of-consciousness style and with an atmosphere reminiscent of a gripping crime novel, Boathouse slowly unravels the story of a love triangle leading to jealousy, betrayal, and eventually death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Distancia de Rescate Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Almadia
Publisher:
Almadia
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 132pp h208mm x w135mm x s10mm 159g ISBN13: 9786078667154 ISBN13: 978-607-8667-15-4 ISBN10: 6078667157 EAN: 9786078667154 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Is Another: Septology III-V Jon Fosse (Author) Damion Searls (Translated by) Series:
Septology
Edition:
Imprint:
Transit Books
Publisher:
Transit Books
Pub Date:
18 Mar 2021
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 330pp h203mm x w133mm x s0mm ISBN13: 9781945492457 ISBN13: 978-1-945492-45-7 ISBN10: 1945492457 EAN: 9781945492457 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kentukis Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Espanol
Publisher:
Vintage Espanol
Pub Date:
05 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 224pp h201mm x w132mm x s20mm 227g ISBN13: 9781984897657 ISBN13: 978-1-9848-9765-7 ISBN10: 1984897659 EAN: 9781984897657
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Melancholy Jon Fosse (Author) Grethe Kvernes (Author) Damion Searls (Author) Series:
Norwegian Literature Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 296pp ISBN13: 9781564784513 ISBN13: 978-1-56478-451-3 ISBN10: 1564784517 EAN: 9781564784513 x Description: In real life, Lars Hertervig would become, along with Edvard Munch, one of Norway's most renowned painters-but in Melancholy he is a promising young artist tortured by doubt and unhinged by unrequited love. After agonizing over his work, drinking alone in a student bar, and obsessively revisiting the loss of his great love, he quits painting entirely, suffers a nervous collapse, and finds himself incarcerated in an insane asylum.
Told with a seamlessly powerful and compulsive voice, the narrator's art becomes, in the end, a means of extricating himself from the tortures of love. "I'll get away from Gaustad Asylum," he says when he's finally released, "and I'll paint your picture away." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Melancholy II Jon Fosse (Author) Eric Dickens (Translated by) Series:
Norwegian Literature Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
29 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 97pp ISBN13: 9781564789044 ISBN13: 978-1-56478-904-4 ISBN10: 1564789047 EAN: 9781564789044 x Description: Not so much a sequel as an alternate perspective, Jon Fosse's coda to his brilliant and much-lauded Melancholy picks up the story of tormented landscape painter Lars Hertervig in 1902, shortly after his death. Taking place, like Melancholy, over the course of a single day, it treats us to the thoughts of Hertervig's sister, carrying on with her life in the absence of her eccentric brother. She recalls their childhood under a domineering father, remembering Hertervig's difficulties fitting in, and likewise Hertervig the man: poor, always hovering on the brink, fanatical about painting and his own perceived shortcomings as an artist and human being. In the same hypnotic prose for which Fosse is famous, Melancholy II serves as an investigation not only into the "collateral damage" wrought by art and artists, but into a master's tools and obsessions as well. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Morning and Evening Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
29 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 80pp 666g ISBN13: 9781628971088 ISBN13: 978-1-62897-108-8 ISBN10: 1628971088 EAN: 9781628971088
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Pajaros En La Boca Y Otros Cuentos / Mouthful of Birds Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Literatura Random House Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2018
Active
Publishing Status:
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h229mm x w135mm x s13mm 227g ISBN13: 9788439733652 ISBN13: 978-84-397-3365-2 ISBN10: 8439733658 EAN: 9788439733652 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trilogy Jon Fosse (Author) May-Brit Akerholt (Translated by) Series:
Norwegian Literature Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
09 Dec 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 200pp ISBN13: 9781628971392 ISBN13: 978-1-62897-139-2 ISBN10: 1628971398 EAN: 9781628971392 x Description: Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council's Prize for Literature in 2015. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When an Angel Goes Through the Stage and Other Essays Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub Date:
25 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 96pp 666g ISBN13: 9781628971095 ISBN13: 978-1-62897-109-5 ISBN10: 1628971096 EAN: 9781628971095 x
Description: Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater-including the irresistable "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"-this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian." "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher." Called "the new Ibsen," and heralded throughout Europe, Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers. Born in 1959, he has published some thirty books of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction since 1983. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beerholms Vorstellung Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499245497 ISBN13: 978-3-499-24549-7 ISBN10: 3499245493 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Die Vermessung der Welt Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499241000 ISBN13: 978-3-499-24100-0 ISBN10: 3499241005 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Die Vermessung der Welt - Das Buch zum Film Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499253270 ISBN13: 978-3-499-25327-0 ISBN10: 3499253275 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499249273 ISBN13: 978-3-499-24927-3 ISBN10: 3499249278 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ich und Kaminski Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Suhrkamp Verlag
Publisher:
Suhrkamp Verlag
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783518456538 ISBN13: 978-3-518-45653-8 ISBN10: 3518456539 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ruhm - Ein Roman in neun Geschichten Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499249266 ISBN13: 978-3-499-24926-6 ISBN10: 349924926X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unter Der Sonne Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9783499246333 ISBN13: 978-3-499-24633-3 ISBN10: 3499246333
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Du hattest gehen sollen Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Hardback ISBN13: 9783498035730 ISBN13: 978-3-498-03573-0 ISBN10: 3498035738 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ruhm; Ein Roman in neun Geschichten Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Publisher:
Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
Pub Date:
19 Jan 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: German Published in: Germany Hardback ISBN13: 9783498035433 ISBN13: 978-3-498-03543-3 ISBN10: 3498035436 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fosse: Plays Six Jon Fosse (Author) May-Brit Akerholt (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
06 May 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 312pp h210mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781783190867 ISBN13: 978-1-78319-086-7 ISBN10: 1783190868 x Description: Jon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays - and those of all great playwrights - grew out of their time, and influenced the current styles of drama, and were part of what brought their times forward, so do Fosse's plays now. Fosse: Plays Six marks the culmination of this Norwegian playwright's body of work for the stage to be published in the English language. The volume includes the plays Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song and Sea. Rambuku: Two people. One finds it difficult to speak. The other attempts to understand. But what is Rambuku? Or who is Rambuku? Freedom: There is a sense of otherness in Fosse's work that challenges our notions of a concept such as 'freedom'. This play questions if freedom, as we often understand it, is perhaps a prison. Over There: A woman follows a man to his death. But do they see the same images on the way to the top of the mountain? These Eyes: A snapshot of the dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between space which becomes their reality. Girl in Yellow Raincoat: An examination of our collective weakness, and the fragility of children. It asks questions about notions surrounding fear. Christmas Tree Song: A man celebrates Christmas alone (and reflects in a somewhat ironic way) on his life as he attempts to put up a Christmas tree. Sea: A group of people gathered in a kind of limbo, on a ship, disappearing into something unknown. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Girl on the Sofa Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Absolute Classics
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 96pp ISBN13: 9781840023268 ISBN13: 978-1-84002-326-8 ISBN10: 1840023260 x Description: A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa, but she's beginning to doubt her artistic ability. Still at odds with her sister and her mother and haunted by her dead father, she's unable to shake the continuing presence of the past in her life _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jon Fosse: Plays 5 Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 260pp ISBN13: 9781849430746 ISBN13: 978-1-84943-074-6 ISBN10: 1849430748 x Description: "Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and Sleep In their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common concept of time. The past is recreated through present moments, the future hinted at through shared memories, yet experienced from different perspectives. Fosse's drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters' relationships. The whole life of Suzannah Ibsen unfolds as she waits for her playwriting husband to come home. In Sleep, one day captures the lives of a young woman and a young man as they grow into middle-age and old age. Living Secretly asks questions about how to live with and open up to one's actions through sequences of time. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future. Warm's characters move back and forth through time to capture past images and actions, in an effort to make sense of the present. Telemakos reinvents an old classic from a contemporary point of view. Fosse's damatic voice is full of poetic intensity, yet wryly ironic, and with a sense of the comedy of the human condition. Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, Telemakos, Sleep and A Red Butterfly s Wings." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Songs Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
OBERON MODERN PLAYS
Edition:
Imprint:
Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 104pp ISBN13: 9781840022827 ISBN13: 978-1-84002-282-7 ISBN10: 1840022825 x Description: They have a child and life changes. He can't go out and she can't stay in. He writes words that no one will publish and she takes a lover. "I don't know what it is/ that always make something happen/ But it must be something/ because something always happens/ I don't want anything to happen/ and then something/ happens all the same."
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Plays One: Someone is Going to Come Home, the Name, the Guitar Man, the Child Jon Fosse (Author) Series:
MODERN PLAYWRIGHT Edition:
Imprint:
Oberon Modern Plays
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
01 Aug 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 200pp ISBN13: 9781840022704 ISBN13: 978-1-84002-270-4 ISBN10: 1840022701 x Description: "Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together, just the two of them, so they leave the city and buy a remote house by the sea. But is it possible to do what they want to do? Won't somebody come? Surely someone will come. The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always on the move, always passing him by. The Name (winner of the Ibsen Prize in Norway) tells the story of an estranged family forced to live under one roof. When a pregnant girl and the father of the child have nowhere to live, they move into her parents' house. But the parents have never met the father-to-be, and don't yet know about the pregnancy. In The Child a man and a woman find each other in a bus stop on a rainy night. They hold each other close. They rent an old house out of town. The woman becomes pregnant. But the child is too small to survive. In these four varied plays Jon Fosse's unique linguistic style, at once poetic and naturalistic, magnifies the love and pain of ordinary people seeking to live their lives." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hotel Iris Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
30 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 164pp h213mm x w137mm x s15mm 204g ISBN13: 9780312425241 ISBN13: 978-0-312-42524-1 ISBN10: 0312425244 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Middlebury College) (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador USA
Publisher:
Picador USA
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 162pp h208mm x w147mm x s13mm 163g ISBN13: 9780312674465 ISBN13: 978-0-312-67446-5 ISBN10: 0312674465 EAN: 9780312674465 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submission Michel Houellebecq (Author) Lorin Stein (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador USA
Publisher:
Picador USA
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 256pp h206mm x w137mm x s18mm 227g ISBN13: 9781250097347 ISBN13: 978-1-250-09734-7 ISBN10: 1250097347 EAN: 9781250097347 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
THE Diving Pool Ogawa Yoko (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Picador USA
Publisher:
Picador USA
Pub Date:
22 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 164pp ISBN13: 9780312426835 ISBN13: 978-0-312-42683-5 ISBN10: 0312426836 x Description: The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom Akutagawa Awardwinning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
St Martin's Press
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
03 Feb 2009
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 180pp h210mm x w161mm x s13mm 186g ISBN13: 9780312427801 ISBN13: 978-0-312-42780-1 ISBN10: 0312427808 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux3pl
Publisher:
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux3pl
Pub Date:
08 Jul 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 334pp h210mm x w140mm x s18mm 376g ISBN13: 9780374538071 ISBN13: 978-0-374-53807-1 ISBN10: 0374538077 EAN: 9780374538071
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Vampire in Love Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
And Other Stories
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Pub Date:
03 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
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. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Distancia de Rescate / Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Literatura Random House Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Pub Date:
19 May 2020
Forthcoming
Publishing Status:
Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 128pp h230mm x w137mm x s12mm 210g ISBN13: 9788439729488 ISBN13: 978-84-397-2948-8 ISBN10: 8439729480 EAN: 9788439729488 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ermine Of Czernopol Gregor von Rezzori (Author) Philip Boehm (Translated by) Zadie Smith (Introduction by) Daniel Kehlmann (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
NYRB Classics
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 376pp h203mm x w20mm x s126mm 414g ISBN13: 9781590173411 ISBN13: 978-1-59017-341-1 ISBN10: 1590173414 EAN: 9781590173411 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Riverhead Books
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 192pp h175mm x w124mm x s13mm 136g ISBN13: 9780399184604 ISBN13: 978-0-399-18460-4 ISBN10: 0399184600 EAN: 9780399184604 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fever Dream Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Riverhead Books
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Hardback Sewn 192pp h180mm x w124mm x s25mm 249g ISBN13: 9780399184598 ISBN13: 978-0-399-18459-8 ISBN10: 0399184597 EAN: 9780399184598 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mouthful of Birds: Stories Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Riverhead Books
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub Date:
07 Jan 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 240pp h206mm x w130mm x s18mm 181g ISBN13: 9780399184635 ISBN13: 978-0-399-18463-5 ISBN10: 0399184635 EAN: 9780399184635 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mouthful of Birds: Stories Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Riverhead Books
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub Date:
08 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Hardback Sewn 240pp h208mm x w137mm x s28mm 299g ISBN13: 9780399184628 ISBN13: 978-0-399-18462-8 ISBN10: 0399184627 EAN: 9780399184628 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Platform Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 272pp h205mm x w133mm x s15mm 195g ISBN13: 9781400030262 ISBN13: 978-1-4000-3026-2 ISBN10: 1400030269 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World Bernard -Henri Levy (Author) Michel Houellebecq (Author) Miriam Rachel Frendo (Translated by) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 309pp h203mm x w135mm x s18mm 236g Frontispiece ISBN13: 9780812980783 ISBN13: 978-0-8129-8078-3 ISBN10: 0812980786 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Elementary Particles Houellebecq Michel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Books
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 272pp ISBN13: 9780375727016 ISBN13: 978-0-375-72701-6 ISBN10: 0375727019 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Map and the Territory Michel Houellebecq (Author) Gavin Bowd (Translated by) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub Date:
13 Nov 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 269pp h203mm x w135mm x s21mm 286g ISBN13: 9780307946539 ISBN13: 978-0-307-94653-9 ISBN10: 0307946533 EAN: 9780307946539 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Possibility of an Island Michel Houellebecq (Author) Gavin Bowd (Translated by) Series:
Vintage International
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Inc
Publisher:
Random House USA Inc
Pub Date:
08 May 2007
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 337pp h201mm x w134mm x s20mm 254g ISBN13: 9780307275219 ISBN13: 978-0-307-27521-9 ISBN10: 0307275213 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Should Have Left Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
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Pantheon Books
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Hardback Sewn 128pp h183mm x w119mm x s15mm 136g ISBN13: 9781101871928 ISBN13: 978-1-101-87192-8 ISBN10: 110187192X EAN: 9781101871928 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Should Have Left Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub Date:
12 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 128pp h201mm x w130mm x s10mm 159g ISBN13: 9780525432913 ISBN13: 978-0-525-43291-3 ISBN10: 0525432914 EAN: 9780525432913 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aqui No Es Miami / This Is Not Miami Fernanda Melchor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Literatura Random House Publisher:
Literatura Random House
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Language: Spanish Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 160pp h229mm x w132mm x s13mm 181g ISBN13: 9786073160698 ISBN13: 978-607-31-6069-8 ISBN10: 6073160690 EAN: 9786073160698 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Docteur Pasavento Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Contemporary French Fiction
Publisher:
Contemporary French Fiction
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) h175mm x w117mm x s23mm 318g ISBN13: 9782757833681 ISBN13: 978-2-7578-3368-1 ISBN10: 2757833685 EAN: 9782757833681 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
H.P. Lovecraft: contre le monde, contre la vie Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions 84
Publisher:
Editions 84
Pub Date:
08 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290028537 ISBN13: 978-2-290-02853-7 ISBN10: 2290028533 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lanzarote et autres textes Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions 84
Publisher:
Editions 84
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290108802 ISBN13: 978-2-290-10880-2 ISBN10: 2290108804 This Product Replaces: 9782290011522 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paris ne finit jamais Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Christian Bourgois
Publisher:
Christian Bourgois
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782267023930 ISBN13: 978-2-267-02393-0 ISBN10: 2267023938 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plateforme: au milieu du monde Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions 84
Publisher:
Editions 84
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback 320pp ISBN13: 9782290028520 ISBN13: 978-2-290-02852-0 ISBN10: 2290028525 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poesie: avec Configuration du dernier rivage Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions 84
Publisher:
Editions 84
Pub Date:
08 Jan 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290095379 ISBN13: 978-2-290-09537-9 ISBN10: 2290095370 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rester vivant et autres textes Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions 84
Publisher:
Editions 84
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290108765 ISBN13: 978-2-290-10876-5 ISBN10: 2290108766 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Amours En Marge Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
16 Mar 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742782048 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-8204-8 ISBN10: 2742782044 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La Benediction Inattendue Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782330006464 ISBN13: 978-2-330-00646-4 ISBN10: 2330006462 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La carte et le territoire Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Editions Flammarion
Publisher:
Editions Flammarion
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782081365452 ISBN13: 978-2-08-136545-2 ISBN10: 2081365456 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La carte et le territoire Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
J'ai lu
Publisher:
J'ai lu
Pub Date:
23 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback 413pp ISBN13: 9782290032039 ISBN13: 978-2-290-03203-9 ISBN10: 2290032034 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La Fromule Preferee Du Professeur Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742772230 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-7223-0 ISBN10: 2742772235 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La marche de Mina Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
20 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742795253 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-9525-3 ISBN10: 2742795251 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La petite piece hexagonale Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742767106 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-6710-6 ISBN10: 274276710X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La possibilite d'une ile Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
J'ai lu
Publisher:
J'ai lu
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290069905 ISBN13: 978-2-290-06990-5 ISBN10: 2290069906 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La poursuite du bonheur Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
J'ai lu
Publisher:
J'ai lu
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290230305 ISBN13: 978-2-290-23030-5 ISBN10: 2290230308 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
L'absence d'oiseaux d'eau Emmanuelle Pagano (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Gallimard
Publisher:
Gallimard
Pub Date:
20 Jul 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782070440818 ISBN13: 978-2-07-044081-8 ISBN10: 2070440818 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Le Musee Du Silence Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742754915 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-5491-5 ISBN10: 2742754911 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Les Paupieres Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
20 Oct 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742785551 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-8555-1 ISBN10: 2742785558 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Manuscrit zero Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782330109530 ISBN13: 978-2-330-10953-0 ISBN10: 2330109539 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Non reconcilie: anthologie personnelle 1991-2013 Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Gallimard
Publisher:
Gallimard
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback 221pp ISBN13: 9782070456895 ISBN13: 978-2-07-045689-5 ISBN10: 2070456897 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Particules elementaires Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
J'ai lu
Publisher:
J'ai lu
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback 320pp ISBN13: 9782290028599 ISBN13: 978-2-290-02859-9 ISBN10: 2290028592 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Soumission Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
J'ai lu
Publisher:
J'ai lu
Pub Date:
04 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782290113615 ISBN13: 978-2-290-11361-5 ISBN10: 2290113611 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tristes Revanches Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742777907 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-7790-7 ISBN10: 2742777903 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Une Parfaite Chambre De Malade Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Actes Sud
Publisher:
Actes Sud
Pub Date:
16 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: French Published in: France Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9782742756612 ISBN13: 978-2-7427-5661-2 ISBN10: 2742756612 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pajaro En LA Cabeza Daniel Nesquens (Author) Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ediciones SM
Publisher:
Ediciones SM
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: Spanish Published in: Spain Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9788467521429 ISBN13: 978-84-675-2142-9 ISBN10: 8467521422 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Serpent's Tail Classics
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h200mm x w130mm x s10mm 100g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781846687846 ISBN13: 978-1-84668-784-6 ISBN10: 1846687845 EAN: 9781846687846 x Description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation. Like A Confederacy of Dunces, Houellebecq's bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whatever Michel Houellebecq (Author) Paul Hammond (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Out of print
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h197mm x w128mm x s10mm 115g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781852425845 ISBN13: 978-1-85242-584-5 ISBN10: 1852425849 EAN: 9781852425845 This Product is Replaced By: 9781846687846 x Description: Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Public Enemies Bernard Henri-Levy (Author) Michel Houellebecq (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Miriam Frendo (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h212mm x w134mm x s23mm 346g ISBN13: 9781848871601 ISBN13: 978-1-84887-160-1 ISBN10: 1848871600 EAN: 9781848871601 x Description: 'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy ('BHL') began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result. In their inimitably witty, inimitably fascinating, inimitably confrontational correspondence, they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame and even - naturally - themselves. By turns caustic and touching, sincere and candid, Public Enemies reveals how these two immensely procovative writers came to be who they are. Never dull, always incendiary, this is one literary fight you can't ignore. The sparks fly from every page... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Christmas Eve Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Christopher Hampton (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 64pp h198mm x w128mm x s4mm 78g ISBN13: 9780571345250 ISBN13: 978-0-571-34525-0 ISBN10: 0571345255 EAN: 9780571345250 x Description: It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks.
Played out in real time, this riveting thriller pits two powerful antagonists head to head. Both think they are saving their country. Only one of them will win. Daniel Kehlmann's Christmas Eve , translated by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath, in October 2017. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mentor Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Christopher Hampton (Translated by) Christopher Hampton (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 64pp h198mm x w126mm x s5mm 80g ISBN13: 9780571339648 ISBN13: 978-0-571-33964-8 ISBN10: 0571339646 EAN: 9780571339648 x Description: Benjamin Rubin is a cantankerous old writer, whisky aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of long-ago success. Martin Wegner is a rising young literary star, heralded as 'the voice of his generation'. When Martin is given the opportunity to develop his new play under the mentorship of his idol, the writers meet in a dilapidated art-nouveau villa somewhere in the German countryside. Two massive egos are set on a collision course in this perceptive and compelling comedy about art and artists and the legacy of fame. Christopher Hampton's translation of The Mentor by Daniel Kehlmann premiered at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, in April 2017. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Atomised Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 266g ISBN13: 9780099283362 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928336-2 ISBN10: 0099283360 EAN: 9780099283362 x Description: Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bartleby And Co Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jul 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9780099453727 ISBN13: 978-0-09-945372-7 ISBN10: 009945372X EAN: 9780099453727 x Description: Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing. He has, in short, become a 'Bartleby', so named after the character in Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do something, always replied: 'I would prefer not to.'One day Marcelo sets out to make a search through literature for all those other possible Bartlebys, and with this in mind he has the engagingly original notion of keeping a diary and writing footnotes to an invisible text. His references to authors, both real and invented, provide the reader with extravagant doses of humour that are at once hilarious, irreverent and stimulating. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dublinesque Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Rosalind Harvey (Translated by) Anne McLean (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 May 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 224g ISBN13: 9780099555841 ISBN13: 978-0-09-955584-1 ISBN10: 0099555840 EAN: 9780099555841 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto BolanoSamuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety and, looking for distraction, he concocts a spur-of-the-moment trip to Dublin, a city he has never visited but once dreamed about.He sets off for Dublin on the pretext of honouring James Joyce's Ulysses on Bloomsday. But as he and his friends gather in the cemetery to give their orations, a mysterious figure in a mackintosh resembling Joyce's protege Samuel Beckett hovers in the background. Is it Beckett, or is it the writer of genius that Riba has spent his whole career trying, and failing, to find? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lanzarote Michel Houellebecq (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 109g ISBN13: 9780099448365 ISBN13: 978-0-09-944836-5 ISBN10: 009944836X EAN: 9780099448365 x Description: Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an island full of 21st century hedonism, set in
a bizarre lunar landscape - Lanzarote. On Lanzarote, one can meet some fascinating human specimens, notably Pam and Barbara - 'non-exclusive' German lesbians - who can give rise to some interesting combinations. Will they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector from Luxembourg, currently living in exile in Brussels? Or will he join the 'Azraelian' sect, as they prepare for humanity to be regenerated by extra-terrestrials? As for our narrator, will he consider his week's holiday on the island a success? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mac and His Problem Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2021
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784708115 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-811-5 ISBN10: 1784708119 EAN: 9781784708115 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Montano Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Jonathan Dunne (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 235g ISBN13: 9781910701140 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-14-0 ISBN10: 1910701149 EAN: 9781910701140 x Description: A man's obsession with literature leads him to see the world through the eyes of fictionLiterature can be contagious; it can also be our only means of salvation. That at least is the experience of Montano, the 'unreliable narrator' of Enrique Vila-Matas' prize-winning novel, a man and a writer who is so obsessed with the books of certain celebrated contemporaries that he is unable to put pen to paper or utter a word without summoning up their work or their lives, and whose malady is that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir, part philosophical musings, Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Perec, Bolano, Coetzee, Sebald and Magris cross endlessly surprising paths, while his protagonist leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Yet for all the author's dazzling literary pyrotechnics, this is a novel that is always witty and accessible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Never Any End to Paris Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Anne McLean (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9780099587460 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958746-0 ISBN10: 0099587467 EAN: 9780099587460 x Description: Trying to be Ernest Hemingway is never easy.After reading A Moveable Feast, aspiring novelist Enrique Vila-Matas moves to Paris to be closer to his literary idol, Ernest Hemingway. Surrounded by the writers, artists and eccentrics of '70s Parisian cafe culture, he dresses in black, buys two pairs of reading glasses, and smokes a pipe like Sartre. Now, in later life, he reflects on his youth while giving a three-day lecture on irony. And he's still convinced he looks like Hemingway.Never Any End to Paris is a hilarious, playful novel about literature and the art of writing, and how life never quite goes to plan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Platform Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 255g ISBN13: 9780099437888 ISBN13: 978-0-09-943788-8 ISBN10: 0099437880 EAN: 9780099437888 x Description: Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes a leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie attracts his attention. Too bashful to pursue her, Michel prefers the uncomplicated pleasures of Thai massage parlours and sex with local women. Back in Paris, he calls Valerie and they plunge into a passionate affair, which strays into S&M, partner-swapping and sex in public. Michel quits his job, and tries to help Valerie and her boss, Jean-Yves, in their ailing travel business, by offering travel packages based on sex tourism in the third world. When their project comes to fruition and the three return to Thailand, Michel discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor the most dangerous of human passions... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Revenge Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
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Vintage
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Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Jul 2014
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Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 127g ISBN13: 9780099553939 ISBN13: 978-0-09-955393-9 ISBN10: 0099553937 EAN: 9780099553939 x Description: A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Revenge Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
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Vintage Classics
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Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2020
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback A-format paperback 176pp h178mm x w110mm x s13mm 120g ISBN13: 9781784876371 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-637-1 ISBN10: 1784876372 EAN: 9781784876371 x Description: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' GuardianMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders - locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven stories here in Yoko Ogawa's Revenge. As tales of the macabre pass from character to character - an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman - Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty. Translated by Stephen SnyderElegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submission Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
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Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2016
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9781784702052 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-205-2 ISBN10: 1784702056 EAN: 9781784702052
x Description: As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National's alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator Francois - misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Diving Pool Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
02 Apr 2009 (03 Jul 2014) Publishing Status:
Vintage Publishing Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 127g ISBN13: 9780099521358 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952135-8 ISBN10: 0099521350 EAN: 9780099521358 x Description: Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion.Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the disturbing figure of the crippled caretaker. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa (Author) Stephen Snyder (Translated by) Series:
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Vintage
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01 Apr 2010 (03 Jul 2014) Publishing Status:
Vintage Publishing Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 138g ISBN13: 9780099521341 ISBN13: 978-0-09-952134-1 ISBN10: 0099521342 EAN: 9780099521341 x Description: He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
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Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jan 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp ISBN13: 9781846551710 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-171-0 ISBN10: 1846551714 x Description: He is a brilliant maths professor, with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them.The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her little boy. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory. "The Housekeeper and the Professor" is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Vintage Classic Japanese Edition: Series
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Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h190mm x w135mm x s14mm 171g ISBN13: 9781784875442 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-544-2 ISBN10: 1784875449 EAN: 9781784875442 x Description: VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Illogic of Kassel Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Anne McLean (Translated by) Anna Milsom (Translated by) Series:
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Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 195g ISBN13: 9780099597841 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959784-1 ISBN10: 0099597845 EAN: 9780099597841 x Description: A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany. The writer's mission will be to transform himself into a living art installation, by sitting down to write every morning in a Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of town. Once in Kassel, the writer is surprised to find
himself overcome by good cheer. As he strolls through the city, spurred on by his spontaneous, quirky response to art, he begins to make sense of the wonders that surround him.'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel' Roberto Bolano'Vila-Matas's work made a tremendous impression on me'Paul Auster _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Map and the Territory Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
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Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2012
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 213g ISBN13: 9780099554578 ISBN13: 978-0-09-955457-8 ISBN10: 0099554577 EAN: 9780099554578 This Product Replaces: 9780434021406 x Description: Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq. The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame. But, his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worst of all, he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime, involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq...Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013 Michel Houellebecq (Author) Series:
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William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h222mm x w144mm x s31mm 477g ISBN13: 9781785150234 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-023-4 ISBN10: 1785150235 EAN: 9781785150234 x Description: Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission Dual-language editionThis selection of poems chosen from four collections shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and emphasises the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on similar themes as his novels, Unreconciled is a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe and, ultimately, redemption. In a world of supermarkets and public transport, Houellebecq manages to find traces of divine grace even as he exposes our inexorable decline into chaos. Told through forms and rhythms that are both ancient and new, with language steeped in the everyday, Houellebecq's vision of our era is one brimming with tensions that cannot - and will not - be reconciled. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1914-Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art Lavinia Greenlaw (Author) Ali Smith (Author) Ales Steger (Author) Jeanette Winterson (Author) Elif Shafak (Author) NoViolet Bulawayo (Author) Colm Toibin (Author) Xiaolu Guo (Author) Erwin Mortier (Author) Alessandro Baricco (Author) Kamila Shamsie (Author) Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Jamie Keenan (Designed by) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
01 Jul 2014
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Language: English Translated From: Multiple languages Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782271185 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-118-5 ISBN10: 178227118X EAN: 9781782271185 x Description: A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world.
In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write.
Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War's centenary by reinvigorating these questions. The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium's legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for.
Contributors include:
Ali Smith - Scotland
Ales Steger - Slovenia
Jeanette Winterson - England
Elif Shafak - Turkey
NoViolet Bulawayo - Zimbabwe
Colm Toibin - Ireland
Xiaolu Guo - China
Erwin Mortier - Belgium
Kamila Shamsie - Pakistan
Daniel Kehlmann - Germany
'Tender, compassionate humanity' Peter Conrad, Observer 'A global gathering of essayists here reimagine the war from a variety of vantage points' Guardian 'This superb collection of essays by some of today's leading writers stands out among the many books commissioned to mark the centenary of the First World War.' The Lady
Lavinia Greenlaw's poetry includes The Casual Perfect and A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde. Other works include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. She was the first artist-in-residence at the Science Museum, and received the Ted Hughes Award for her sound work Audio Obscura. Her work for BBC radio includes documentaries about Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, the darkest place in England and Arctic light. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World Ali Smith (Author) Yiyun Li (Author) Pankaj Mishra (Author) Alaa Al Aswany (Author) Michael Dirda (Author) Iain Sinclair (Author) Ian Sansom (Author) Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Andrey Kurkov (Author) Dorthe Nors (Author) Sasa Stanisic (Author) Stefano Benni (Author) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Author) Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Publisher:
Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
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Language: English Translated From: Multiple languages Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272960 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-296-0 ISBN10: 1782272968 EAN: 9781782272960 x Description: A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and place. Ali Smith chronicles the secrets and personal stories hidden within the pages of secondhand books; Alaa Al Aswany tells of the Cairo bookshop where revolutionaries gathered during the 2011 uprisings; Elif Shafak evokes the bookstores of Istanbul, their chaos and diversity, their aroma of tobacco and coffee. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor recalls the quandary of choosing just one book at a favourite childhood store in Nairobi, while Iain Sinclair shares his grief on witnessing a beloved old haunt close down. Others explore bookshops they have stumbled upon, adored and become addicted to, from Delhi to Bogota. These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell. Contributors include: Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt) Stefano Benni (Italy) Michael Dirda (USA) Daniel Kehlmann (Germany) Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) Yiyun Li (China)
Pankaj Mishra (India) Dorthe Nors (Denmark) Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) Elif Shafak (Turkey) Ian Sansom (UK) Iain Sinclair (UK) Ali Smith (UK) Sasa Stanisic (Germany/Bosnia) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fever Dream: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
05 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h180mm x w129mm x s12mm MMP ISBN13: 9781786072382 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-238-2 ISBN10: 1786072386 EAN: 9781786072382 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fever Dream: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 Samanta Schweblin (Author) Series:
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Oneworld Publications
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Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h180mm x w129mm x s15mm ISBN13: 9781786070906 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-090-6 ISBN10: 1786070901 EAN: 9781786070906 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is brought into shocking focus.
One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and desperation of family. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mouthful of Birds: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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Oneworld Publications
Publisher:
Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm MMP ISBN13: 9781786076694 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-669-4 ISBN10: 1786076691 EAN: 9781786076694 x Description: Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, 2019 A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are impossible to forget. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mouthful of Birds: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 Samanta Schweblin (Author) Megan McDowell (Translated by) Series:
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Oneworld Publications
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Oneworld Publications
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 240pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm TPB with flaps ISBN13: 9781786074560 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-456-0 ISBN10: 1786074567 EAN: 9781786074560 x Description: Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, 2019 A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are impossible to forget. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing.
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In the Presence of Schopenhauer Michel Houellebecq (Author) Andrew Brown (Translated by) Series:
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Polity Press
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Polity Press
Pub Date:
22 May 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 100pp h216mm x w138mm x s15mm 666g ISBN13: 9781509543250 ISBN13: 978-1-5095-4325-0 ISBN10: 1509543252 EAN: 9781509543250 x Description: The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of his major philosophical work, The World as Will and Representation. Houellebecq found in Schopenhauer - the radical pessimist, the chronicler of human suffering, the lonely misanthrope - a powerful conception of the human condition and of the future that awaits us, and when Houellebecq's first writings appeared in the early 1990s, the influence of Schopenhauer was everywhere apparent. But it was only much later, in 2005, that Houellebecq began to translate and write a commentary on Schopenhauer's work. He thought of turning it into a book but soon abandoned the idea and the text remained unpublished until 2017. Now available in English for the first time, In the Presence of Schopenhauer is the story of a remarkable encounter between a novelist and a philosopher and a testimony to the deep and enduring impact of Schopenhauer's philosophy on one of France's greatest living writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Brief History of Portable Literature Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Anne McLean (Translated by) Thomas Bunstead (Translated by) Series:
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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12 Jun 2015
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 128pp h203mm x w132mm x s8mm 114g ISBN13: 9780811223379 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2337-9 ISBN10: 081122337X EAN: 9780811223379 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bartleby & Co. Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Jonathan Dunne (Translated by) Series:
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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17 May 2007
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 178pp h203mm x w132mm x s15mm 195g ISBN13: 9780811216982 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1698-2 ISBN10: 0811216985 EAN: 9780811216982 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bartleby & Co. Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Jonathan Dunne (Translated by) Series:
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20 Dec 2004
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Published in: United States Hardback 178pp h213mm x w145mm x s20mm 375g ISBN13: 9780811215916 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1591-6 ISBN10: 0811215911 EAN: 9780811215916 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Because She Never Asked Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Valerie Miles (Translated by) Series:
New Directions Pearls 0
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2015
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 80pp h178mm x w114mm x s10mm 89g ISBN13: 9780811222754 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2275-4 ISBN10: 0811222756 EAN: 9780811222754 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dublinesque Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Rosalind Harvey (Translated by) Anne McLean (Translated by) Series:
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30 Nov 2012
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 320pp h203mm x w132mm x s20mm 280g ISBN13: 9780811219617 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1961-7 ISBN10: 0811219615 EAN: 9780811219617 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mac's Problem Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Sophie Hughes (New Directions) (Translated by) Series:
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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17 May 2019
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 224pp h203mm x w132mm x s15mm 234g ISBN13: 9780811227322 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2732-2 ISBN10: 0811227324 EAN: 9780811227322 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Montanao's Malady Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Jonathan Dunne (Translated by) Series:
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05 Jun 2007
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 256pp h203mm x w132mm x s18mm 270g ISBN13: 9780811216289 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1628-9 ISBN10: 0811216284 EAN: 9780811216289 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Never Any End to Paris Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Anne McLean (Translated by) Series:
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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26 Jul 2011
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 208pp h206mm x w132mm x s15mm 225g ISBN13: 9780811218139 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-1813-9 ISBN10: 0811218139 EAN: 9780811218139 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vampire in Love Enrique Vila-Matas (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Series:
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
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06 Sep 2016
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 282pp h203mm x w132mm x s20mm 268g ISBN13: 9780811223461 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2346-1 ISBN10: 0811223469 EAN: 9780811223461 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Housekeeper & The Professo Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
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Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
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Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2005
Publishing Status:
Unknown
Language: Japanese Paperback Trade paperback (US) h150mm x w104mm x s13mm 159g ISBN13: 9784101215235 ISBN13: 978-4-10-121523-5 ISBN10: 4101215235 EAN: 9784101215235 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________