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Kader Abdolah, Nancy Forest-Flier
The King

The King, young Shah Naser, takes to the throne of Persia at a turning point of history: he inherits an enchanted medieval world of harems, eunuchs, and treasures as well as a palace of secret doors, sudd…

lieferbar ab 5.8.2026.

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César Aira,
Five

Five , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together-each an astonishing work-Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical…

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Ingeborg Bachmann,
Ingeborg Bachmann: The Complete Stories

Complete Stories spans three decades of work from one of the most important German-language writers of the last century. Each of these short stories, beautifully translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis,…

lieferbar ab 20.10.2026.

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Ingeborg Bachmann, Kurt Beals
The Frankfurt Lectures

Ingeborg Bachmann, one of the greatest German-language writers of the last century, delivered these astonishing lectures on the questions of poetics at Frankfurt University in 1959 and 1960.In these lucid…

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Matsuo Basho,
The Narrow Road of Oku

In the spring of 1689, Basho set off from Tokyo on a now-famous pilgrimage: this epic walk, spanning about 1500 miles, took him to the deep north of Honshu, and then back along the island's western coast …

lieferbar ab 25.8.2026.

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H. E. Bates
A Party for the Girls - Stories

New Directions Revived Modern Classics

The six long stories of A Party for the Girls present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character--consider the opening line of th…

lieferbar ab 21.8.2026.

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Caren Beilin
Sea, Poison

Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-this city of hospitals -who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To star…

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Helene Bessette,
Twenty Minutes of Silence

In an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man-a husband, father, and employer-has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during the w…

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Kamau Brathwaite
Arrivants

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants -containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)-a brilliant and visionary exploration of t…

lieferbar ab 18.8.2026.

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Kamau Brathwaite
Equinox

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and phot…

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Anne Carson
Beware the Man Whose Handwriting Sways Like a Reed in the Wind

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of recent neurological changes in my brain…

lieferbar ab 23.2.2027.

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Anne Carson
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia…

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Paul Celan,
Conversation in the Mountains

"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens." So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes:…

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
London

London centers on Ferdinand, the protagonist of Céline'sLondon who is a gravely injured WWI soldier with a severe wound to his ear and suffers from both vertigo and the endless noise he can't stop hearing…

lieferbar ab 13.10.2026.

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
Death on the Installment Plan

Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline's earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked E…

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Copi,
City of Rats

Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an-as spring blooms i…

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Julio Cortázar,
A Certain Lucas

A kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentrically interlocking pieces, by turns comic, philosophical, allusive, and always a pleasure to read. In short…

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Edward Dahlberg
Because I Was Flesh

Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep…

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Amparo Davila,
Behind the Gate

Written in sharp, impressionistic prose steeped in horror, Amparo Dávila's stories are tiny nightmares come to life. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who shows, sometimes in just a few pages, that…

lieferbar ab 13.10.2026.

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Malén Denis,
Lithium

Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a pharmakon -both poison and remedy-inviting the reader…

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