Aracoeli--Elsa Morante's final novel--is the story of an aging man's attempt to recover the past and get his life on track in the process. The Aracoeli of the title is the narrator's deceased mother...more details Format:Paperback Pages:311
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Merce Rodoreda
ISBN:9781934824115
Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merce Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town--burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:150
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Dubravka Ugresic;Ellen Elias-Bursac
ISBN:9781934824009
"Every day and age has its rules. Currently, good behavior dictates that we be politically correct, evade conflicts, espouse tolerance, and make no hasty judgments. To be judgmental is viewed as one of the most reprehensible human traits. People are likely to think today that an optimist is a good person...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:297
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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
ISBN:9781934824092
Accused of a terrible crime, Rupert constructs an elegant argument that--at least in his mind--exonerates him. His imagined defense is by turns shockingly honest and incredibly funny...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:131
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Jan Kjaerstad
ISBN:9781934824122
The final novel in a trilogy of books about the Norwegian television celebrity Jonas Wergeland, The Discoverer finds Jonas released from prison...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:448
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Jerzy Pilch
ISBN:9781934824085
"Before the mafiosi appeared in my apartment in the company of the dark-complected poetess Alberta Lulaj, before they wrenched me from my drunken sleep and set about demanding--first with dissembling pleas...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:155
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Bragi Olafsson;Janice Lafsson BragiBalfour
ISBN:9781934824016
Emil is back in Reykjavik from a trip to London. On the plane ride home he met a beautiful girl named Greta. He's hoping Greta will call--and that she won't call while he's on the phone with his girlfriend...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:157
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Marguerite Duras;Barbara Bray
ISBN:9781934824047
Disaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny...more details Format:Paperback Pages:276
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Clifford E Landers;Clifford Fonseca RubemLanders
ISBN:9781934824023
Most widely admired for his short fiction, The Taker and Other Stories is Fonseca's first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:166
A survivor of the labor camps, Vytautas Vargalys is a physically and mentally damaged man obsessed with finding out what's "really going on" in Soviet-ruled Vilnius...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:485