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HAVANA REAL One Blogger Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today

YOANI SANCHEZ Translated by M. J. Porter

A diary of life inside Havana by one of Cuba’s few bloggers, a worldwide sensation YOANI SANCHEZ, a University of Havana graduate in philology, emigrated to Switzerland in 2002. Two years later, she decided to return to Cuba, but promised herself she would live there as a free person and started her blog, Generation Y, upon her return.

In 2008, Time Magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World; it also named Generation Y one of the Best Blogs of 2009. Spain honored her with its highest award for journalism, the Ortega y Gasset Prize.

She lives with her husband, independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar, and their son in a high-rise apartment in Havana, overlooking Revolution Square.

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“ Provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba... empower[s] fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology.”

—BARACK OBAMA Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime in Cuba: the difficulty of shopping and chronic hunger; the art of repairing ancient appliances; the struggle for real news and the burdens of reading the party newspaper; the fear of admission to hospitals that lack basic supplies; and a life structured by a propaganda machine that pushes deep into the media, the public square, and the schools. Each sensitive dispatch is a brutal and honest depiction of Cuban life today.

For these simple acts of truth telling—which are published online at Sanchez's Generation Y blog, and collected here in English for the first time—Sanchez is treated as a domestic radical: she is summoned by the police; her friends are threatened; she was recently kidnapped and beaten. The state newspaper has gone so far to call her “a spy in the pay of capitalism.”

Her ultimate concern, however, is for her friends in prison, and for the many who have fled Cuba, and for all those who have ceased to believe in the future of the country. Here the situation is elegantly expressed, from the perspective of an important and compelling new voice, one that has already found a worldwide audience online.

•T ime Magazine listed Sánchez as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2008, stating that “under the nose of a regime that has never tolerated dissent, Sánchez has practiced what paper-bound journalists in her country cannot: freedom of speech.” She was also named one of the “10 Most Influential Latin American Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy magazine •A ctive author website (desdecuba.com/generationy/), which is syndicated in the US via The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com/yoanisanchez), and is available in 16 languages •S ánchez has already been profiled by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other American news outlets.

•E vents in NYC and Seattle, WA, about Cuba’s next generation of writers and how they are using the Internet (despite tightly restricted access).

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FIASCO IMRE KERTÉSZ Translated by Tim Wilkinson

Finally: The heretofore untranslated “missing” book from the trilogy that won Imre Kertész the Nobel Prize

IMRE KERTÉSZ was born in Hungary in 1929. At the age of fourteen he was imprisoned at Auschwitz and later at Buchenwald concentration camps. He is the author of 14 books of fiction and non-fiction, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” He lives in Berlin.

TIM WILKINSON is the primary English translator of Imre Kertész (his titles include Liquidation, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, The Pathseeker, and The Union Jack) as well as numerous other significant works of Hungarian history and literature. His translation of Kertész’s Fatelessness was awarded the PEN Club Translation Prize. He lives in London.

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Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelesseness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling the epic story of the author’s return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government.

Fiasco, as Imre Kertész himself has said, “is fiction founded on reality”—a Kafka-like account that is surprisingly funny in its unrelentingly pessimistic clarity, of the Communist takeover of his homeland. Forced into the army and assigned to escort military prisoners, the protagonist decides to feign insanity to be released from duty.

But meanwhile, life under the new regime is portrayed almost as an uninterrupted continuation of life in the Nazi concentration camps—which in turn, is depicted as a continuation of the patriarchal dictatorship of a joyless childhood. It is, in short, a searing extension of Kertész’ fundamental theme: the totalitarian experience seen as trauma not only for an individual but for the whole civilization—ours—that made Auschwitz possible.

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“ Fiasco plays with the art of bearing witness with great risk and proclaims the magnitude of what’s becoming an endangered species, the individual, whose death in this century has been repeatedly proclaimed, celebrated and, here, denied.” —Hans-Harald Müller, Die Welt (Germany) “ We knew Imre Kertész capable of dry wit in the most horrific moments, but his representation of the socialist world reveals a great sense of humor that we did not know about. …. here we all laugh. And we laugh intelligently.” —L’Express (France)

“ An unforgettable novel … a project with strong Kafkaesque and Camus-charged themes.”

—Reinhard Baumgart, Die Zeit (Germany)

SPURIOUS LARS IYER Two yammering intellectuals ponder life and the fungus taking over one of their homes in a hilarious (and smart!) British comedy

LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and his blog Spurious. He is also a contributor to Britain’s leading literary blog, Ready, Steady, Book.

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In a raucous debut that summons up Britain’s fabled Goon Show comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a “slightly more successful” friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences where they serve better gin.

Another reason for their journeys: the narrator’s home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about. Before it completely swallows his house, the narrator feels compelled to solve some major philosophical questions (such as “Why?”) and the meaning of his urge to write, as well as the source of the fungus . . . before it is too late. Or, he has to move.

Watch for the sequel to Spurious: Dogma, coming next year....

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DEAD FUNNY Humor in Hitler’s Germany

RUDOLPH HERZOG Translated by Jefferson Chase

In Nazi Germany, telling jokes about Hitler could get you killed

As a director, RUDOLPH HERZOG is best known for the reality crime series The Heist, a collaboration with David Glover, which aired on Channel 4 (U.K.) and was called “riveting”

by The Daily Telegraph. His documentary on humor in the Third Reich, Laughing With Hitler, scored top audience ratings on German Channel 1 and was also broadcast in English translation on the BBC. He is the son of the celebrated filmmaker Werner Herzog.

Author website: rudolphherzog.de JEFFERSON CHASE is one of the foremost translators of German history. He has translated Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Thomas Mann, and Gotz Aly, among many others.

Author photograph by Wolfgang Georgsdorf

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Is it permissible to laugh at Hitler? This is a question that is oft debated in Germany, where, in light of the dimension of the horrors committed in the name of its citizens, many people still have difficulty taking a satiric look at the Third Reich. And whenever some others do precisely that, accusations arise that they are downplaying and trivializing the Holocaust. But there is a long history of jokes about the Nazis.

In this groundbreaking volume, Rudolph Herzog presents the first history of humor and jokes directed at the Nazis: from the anti-Nazi theatre scene of the 20s and 30s, to the jokes about Hitler and the Nazis told during WW II, to the cracks told about Hitler in Germany today. It’s a fascinating and frightening history: Here we learn the tales of Germans—including many soldiers—who were imprisoned and executed for telling jokes about Hitler and other Nazi officials. Herzog also documents the surprising number of jokes in circulation during WWII and documents their not infrequent telling, as well as the regime's efforts to suppress them.

Jokes recorded during the Third Reich: Hitler visits a lunatic asylum.

The patients give the Hitler salute. As he passes down the line he comes across a man who isn’t saluting. “Why aren’t you saluting like the others?”

Hitler barks. “Mein Führer, I’m the nurse,” comes the answer.

“I’m not crazy!”

Göring recently added an arrow to the many medals on his chest. It’s there as a directional sign, signifying: “To be continued on my back.”

A poster for the Winter Assistance Organization reads: “No one should be allowed to go hungry or suffer form the cold.” A laborer says to a co-worker: “So now we’re not even allowed to do that.”

PRAISE FOR THE GERMAN EDITION “ A thrilling book.”

—Der Spiegel “ The first comprehensive book on comedy and humor in the Third Reich. [...] The author brings together all manifestations of humor—wit, newspaper cartoons, cabaret, variety shows, entertainment, film, pop songs and musicals… An important history.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung

THE ESSENTIAL HEINRICH BÖLL Melville House presents the second installment of eight titles comprising the “essential” Heinrich Böll, including the Nobel Prize-winner’s major novels, a memoir, and his collected stories, being published in succeeding seasons. A must for readers of 20th century literature.

• Extensive ARC mailing to booksellers • Intensive print media campaign • Posters and shelf-talkers available “ His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection.”

—The Daily Telegraph “ The renewal of German literature, to which Heinrich Böll’s achievements witness, and of which they are a significant part, is not an experiment with form. Instead it is a rebirth out of annihilation, a resurrection, a culture which, ravaged by icy nights and condemned to extinction, sends up new shoots, blossoms, and matures to the joy and benefit of us all.”

—The Nobel Prize Committee

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HEINRICH BÖLL was born in Cologne in 1917.

Despite his background as a Catholic pacifist, Böll was conscripted and saw combat during the Second World war. He was wounded four times before surrendering to American soldiers.

He published his first novel, The Train Was on Time, in 1949. His best-known novels include The Clown, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, and Group Portrait with Lady. Böll served as president of PEN and was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1972.

Translator LEILA VENNEWITZ was a distinguished a translator of many German author, most notably Heinrich Böll, Uwe Johnson, Hermann Hesse, Uwe Timm, Walter Kempowski, Alexander Kluge, and Alfred Andersch.

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THE TRAIN WAS ON TIME TRANSLATED BY LEILA VENNEWITZ WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

THE SAFETY NET TRANSLATED BY LEILA VENNEWITZ WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIE

Twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas boards a troop train in Germany to return to the front; recognizing that he will not survive the war, he predicts the time and place of his death. As he meditates on the futility of the war, his early battles, and his regrets, he is shocked to find that he can still make friends, sleep, eat, and drink—still live.

Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive “safety-net” of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, where every visitor is suspect and every object a potential bomb, Tolm and his family wait to discover when and how terror will overtake them.

“Böll has feelingly symbolized a guilty Germany doing penance for its sins through suffering and death.” —Time

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“The strongest response to modern terrorism by a serious novelist; an artful, gripping novel” —Kirkus Reivews

GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY TRANSLATED BY LEILA VENNEWITZ Leni Pfeiffer is a war widow who, with her neighbors, is fighting the demolition of their Cologne apartment building. Leni and her illegitimate son Lev become the nexus of Cologne’s counterculture, spurning the prevailing work ethic and assailing the dehumanization of life under capitalism.

“His most grandly conceived [novel]… the magnum opus which so far crowns his work” –The Nobel Prize committee

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TURK! A Kayankaya Mystery

JAKOB ARJOUNI Translated by Anselm Hollo The police don’t care when a Turkish immigrant is murdered, but wisecracking detective Kayankaya suspects there’s something bigger going on. Unfortunately, he’s right....

JOKOB ARJOUNI was born in Frankfurt in 1964.

He has written novels, plays, screenplays, and the mystery series featuring Turkish P.I. Kemal Kayankaya, including the books Kismet; More Beer; Happy Birthday Turk!; and One Man, One Murder, which won the German Thriller Award. His novel Magic Hoffmann was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award.

He lives in Germany and France.

ANSELM HOLLO is the author of more than thirty books, most recently the essay collection Caws & Causeries and Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000, which received the San Francisco Poetry Center’s Book Award for 2001.

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When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt’s red light district, the local polcie see no need to work overtime. But wisecracking private detective Kemal Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn’t the kind of guy who spent time with prostitutes.

What gives?

The deeper he digs, the more Kayankaya finds that the victim was a good guy, a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead, and why?

On the way to finding out, Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts, gets beaten up by anonymous thugs, survives a gas attack, and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat.

And then there’s the police cover-up he stumbles upon . . . .

• Part of the launch of a new Melville House mystery imprint • Early ARCs for booksellers, mystery publications • National media campaign • Author tour: New York • Intense outreach to mystery bookstores • One of the most popular crime writers in Europe • Highly plotted book with lots of action making it a compulsive page-turner • Protagonist is a wisecracker and extremely funny, although not slapstick • Political edge makes a classic genre feel fresh and smart ALSO AVAILABLE: • K ismet ISBN 9781935554233

“ A worthy of grandson of Marlowe and Spade.” —Der Stern (Germany) “Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler.” —Tempo (England) “ Pitch-black noir.” —La Depeche (France) “ A genuine storyteller who beguiles his readers without the need of tricks.” —L’Unita (Italy)

THE ZOO IN WINTER Selected Poems

POLINA BARSKOVA Translated by Boris Dralyuk and David Stromberg

The most important Russian poet of the younger generation

POLINA BARSKOVA, born in 1976, is widely regarded as the most important Russian poet of her generation.

Her first book of poems was published when she was still a teenager. After receiving a degree in Russian Literature and Classics from St. Petersburg University, she came to the US where she earned a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from UC Berkeley. Author of seven books of poetry, this is her first collection in English. Barskova teaches at Hampshire College.

BORIS DRALYUK is completing a PhD in Slavic Languages at UCLA. DAVID STROMBERG, author of BADDIES (Melville House) has written for The Believer, Forward, Jerusalem Post, and Ha’aretz.

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Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova’s poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova’s work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy—always fresh, new and even startling. A major English-language event, this volume collects poems from seven earlier books as well as from her recent work, all previously untranslated into English. The Zoo In Winter is a remarkable menagerie of poems, of a strange and intoxicating beauty.

from “The Circus Couplets of Lou Salomé” My fabled friend, See how it’s all so simple: To glide by on the smoothness of the dark, To make out the canals and bridges, And circumnavigate the towers Of the guards—so simple.

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“ Lavishly mordant, magically bitter, erotically sardonic” —Alicia Ostriker “ Polina Barskova’s work emerges from an intelligence and a sensibility in which poetry matters, and not only to poets. These poems arise from a confluence of history and lyric: fraught with danger but vibrant with inquiry.” —Marilyn Hacker

THE PEOPLE RELOADED The Green Movement and the Struggle for Freedom in Iran

EDITED BY NADER HASHEMI AND DANNY POSTEL A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran’s mass protests NADER HASHEMI teaches middle east and Islamic politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies.

DANNY POSTEL is the author of Reading “Legitimation Crisis” in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism. A former senior editor of openDemocracy, he is a now a contributing editor of Logos, a member of the editorial board of The Common Review, and a blogger for Truthout. He is also communications coordinator for Interfaith Worker Justice. His interviews and writings on Iran have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.

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Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass protests over the official results of a presidential election—engendering the slogan “Where is My Vote?”—has grown into something much larger, indeed the largest political protest since the 1979 revolution. The so-called “Green Movement” has been described as “an Iranian intifada,” a “great emancipatory event,” a “grassroots civil rights movement a century in the making,” and “something quite extraordinary, perhaps even a social revolution.” But is the movement as revolutionary and reformist as outside observers claim?

Does it have a chance of fundamentally changing Iranian politics or removing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from office?

This momentous anthology explores these critical questions and others by assembling the key statements, communiqués, manifestos, interviews, and debates to have emerged from this vibrant social movement—many of which are translated and published here for the first time.

This indispensable volume is the first to bring together the leading voices and key players in Iran’s Green Movement, providing an intellectual and political road map to this turning point in Iran’s history and a vital resource for the study of Iran, social movements, and the future of the Middle East.

Contributors, from both inside and outside Iran, include: Slavoj Žižek Hamid Dabashi Ervand Abrahamian Abdolkarim Soroush Stephen Kinzer Mir Hossein Mousavi Mehdi Karroubi Mohammad Khatami Akbar Ganji Mohsen Kadivar Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Ziba Mir-Hosseini Roger Cohen Nasrin Alavi Golbarg Bashi Asef Bayat Ali Alizadeh Ramin Jahanbegloo Fred Halliday Muhammad Sahimi And others

“ Many Iranians are recalling the 1979 revolution and the 1997 reform movement . . .The routes of demonstrations are the same as those against the shah. But this does not mean that people are imitating the 1979 revolution . . . repetition without mere imitation. For 30 years, the regime has claimed that freedom and, more recently, justice have been realized, praising the Iranian people for their political commitment and courage. Now people are taking these claims literally, calling the regime’s bluff.” —From the essay “The People Reloaded” by Morad Farhadpour and Omid Mehrgan

THE ART OF THE NOVELLA Thirty-five other titles in the Art of the Novella series are now available.

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LADY SUSAN JANE AUSTEN This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen’s small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will.

Austen clearly delighted in her monstrous heroine—tracing Lady Susan’s maneuverings to remarry yet continue on with her lover, and to marry off her young daughter, with great wit, zest and unfailing panache.

JACOB’S ROOM VIRGINIA WOOLF Jacob’s Room was the first book in Virginia Woolf’s unique, experimental style, making it an important text of early Modernism. Ostensibly, the story is about the life of Jacob Flanders, the title character, who is evoked purely by other characters’ perceptions and memories of him. Jacob remains an absence throughout. Elegiac in the tone, the work beautifully memorializes the longing and pain of a generation that lost so many of its most promising young men to World War I. 144 PAGES 9781935554363

Jane Austen was an English author whose novels of manners captured with an early realism the social forces of the day. Acknowledged as a master of the form, her novels, including Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice, are still widely read today.

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MRS. DALLOWAY VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness masterpiece follows Clarissa Dalloway through the course of a day as she prepares to host a party in the evening.

The beautiful June day brings back memories from her happy schoolgirl years. She wonders about her choice of husband—was she wrong to have married reliable Richard Dalloway, refusing the exciting Peter Walsh, and what was the place of her schoolgirl love? The story travels back and forth in time, densely weaving the texture of an intelligent, upper class woman’s life lived within the strictures of post-WW I England.

Virginia Woolf is hailed as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, widely regarded as an important figure in early Modernism. She experimented with stream-of-consciousness to illuminate her characters’ interior lives, and was an acclaimed innovator in both the language and form of such works as To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and Jacob’s Room.

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