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Wolfgang Koeppen,
The Hothouse

The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his self-imp…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Havi…

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László Krasznahorkai,
The Prisoner of Urga

In this book of journeys--to enlightenment? to a way out of a terrible life crisis? to the Celestial Empire? to a meeting with the gods?--a holy fool of a character named László Krasznahorkai travels for …

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Agota Kristof,
The Illiterate

Narrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Ágota Kristóf's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in fact…

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Eka Kurniawan,
The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks

Sato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village-until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Islamic…

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Enrique Lihn,
Celeste, Daughter of the Earth and Other Early Poems

Enrique Lihn is among the most important Chilean poets, alongside Nicanor Parra, since the generation of Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda. Lihn's first two poetry books represented here…

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Adam Mars-Jones
Box Hill - A Story of Low Self-Esteem

In Box Hill , a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self-on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Bo…

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Mariella Mehr,
Nightmare of the Embryos

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947-2022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously one o…

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Thomas Merton
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

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As wide a following as the late Thomas Merton had while he lived, ever since his tragic accidental death in Bangkok in 1968, there has been a steady upsurge of interest in both his life and writings. A pr…

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Mirabai,
Blue Like My Beloved

Some people praise me, some talk trash. I just sing about god.My road is the road where the saints walk, and I'm taking it.-MirabaiThe sixteenth-century poet and saint Mirabai has long been an iconic figu…

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Osdany Morales,
Security Questions

"It was through writing this book," Osdany Morales says, "that I realized I carried many memories in literary form--that exile had established a past I could already recount without waiting…

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Hiroko Oyamada,
Garden

Crabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of humans in this stunning c…

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José Emilio Pacheco,
The Selected Poems of José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco's Selected Poems is a major bilingual retrospective of the poetry of one of Mexico's foremost writers. Born in 1939, Pacheco achieved recognition early, and while still in his twenties…

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Nicanor Parra,
Ecopoems, Storm, & Some Fringe Benefits

When Nicanor Parra died at the age of 103 on January 23, 2018, he was memorialized in the press around the world, from El País to the BBC to The New York Times and on, while Chilean President Michelle Bac…

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Fernando Pessoa,
The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis

Here is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa's celebrated "heteronyms", a coterie of writers that Pessoa created and conceived as distinct personalities, each with a unique liter…

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Marcel Proust,
Letters to His Neighbor

Marcel Proust's genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined …

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Raymond Queneau
The Flight of Icarus: Novel

Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus …

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C F Ramuz,
Into the Sun

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "acc…

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Olga Ravn,
My Work

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsiv…

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Keith Ridgway
Dooneen

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that-there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; …

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