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Frontier

Can Xue

Frontier

New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award Introduction by Porochista Khakpour. "One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"—Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden. Exploring...

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Can Xue

The Things We Don't Do

Andres Neuman

The Things We Don't Do

Neuman's earlier novels—Traveler of the Century and Talking to Ourselves—were both critical and commercial hits. This is his first collection of stories to appear in English. Andrés will be teaching in Columbia in the fall of 2015 and will be available for interviews, events, etc. He was named to the «Bogata39» list of the most important Spanish-language authors under the age of 40, and was also part of Granta's «Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists» special issue. His books have...

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Andres Neuman

The Planets

Sergio Chejfec

The Planets

A 2013 Best Translated Book Award Finalist[/b] When he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago, during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s. He convinces himself that M must have died in this explosion, and he begins to tell the story of their friendship through a series interconnected vignettes, hoping in this way to reanimate his...

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Sergio Chejfec

A Greater Music

Bae Suah

A Greater Music

From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow—to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering."—Sophie Hughes, Music & Literature Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a...

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Bae Suah

Justine

Iben Mondrup

Justine

"When Mondru's prose is ablaze, cruising around with her inside a bruised and beaten artist’s soul is a veritable party. . . . By God she's a great prose stylist full of character." Politiken Danish Women Writers Series Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist whose life is upended when her house burns down with all of the artworks for her upcoming exhibit inside. With little time left to recreate every-thing she's lost,...

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Iben Mondrup

The Cyclist Conspiracy

Svetislav Basara

The Cyclist Conspiracy

"Some books grow old with years, some are rejuvenated, some remain the same. But extremely rare are those that manage to force reality to change and adapt to what is written in them. Some twenty years ago The Cyclist Conspiracy seemed like postmodern brick-a-brack. Today, it is a historical record that becomes more and more true with every new day."David Albahari The Cyclist Conspiracy tells the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from...

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Svetislav Basara

The Brother

Rein Raud

The Brother

Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary Award[/b] The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of menmen who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's estate. Resigned to giving up on her dreams and ambitions, Laila took this swindling in stride, something that Brother won't stand for. Soon after his arrival, fortunes change dramatically, enraging this group of powerful men, motivating...

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Rein Raud

The Clouds

Juan José Saer

The Clouds

"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language."Ricardo Piglia"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."[i]BookforumIn modern-day Paris, Pichón Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscriptwhich might be fictional, or could be a memoirby Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five...

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Juan José Saer

Chronicle of the Murdered House

Lúcio Cardoso

Chronicle of the Murdered House

Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award "The book itself is strange—part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God—but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness."—Benjamin Moser, from the introduction Long considered one of the...

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Lúcio Cardoso

Abahn Sabana David

Marguerite Duras

Abahn Sabana David

Never-before translated work from one of France's most renowned authors. Duras also made Abahn Sabana David into the film Jaune le soleil, which is one reason why this title will appeal to professors of film studies in addition to those teaching French or comp lit. This is the third book of Duras's to come out from Open Letter, which includes The Sailor from Gibraltar, one of the press's best-selling, and most widely adopted, titles. It reads like a play in prose, and will be...

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Marguerite Duras

A Sudden Dawn

Goran Powell

A Sudden Dawn

The epic journey of Bodhidharma, who brought Zen and martial arts to the Shaolin Temple. This epic historical fiction novel opens with a young man named Sardili born of the warrior caste in 507 A.D. Sardili realizes that he would rather seek enlightenment than follow his family's military legacy and sets out on a life-long quest for truth and wisdom. Sardili becomes the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma, known as Da Mo in China. He travels throughout India, brings Buddhism to China, and single...

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Goran Powell

Zone

Mathias Enard

Zone

"The novel of the decade, if not of the century."Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He's carrying a briefcase whose contents he's selling to a representative from the Vatican; the briefcase contains a wealth of information about the violent history of the Zonethe lands of the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Algeria,...

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Mathias Enard

Party Headquarters

Georgi Tenev

Party Headquarters

Winner of the 2014 Contemporary Bulgarian Novelist Award co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and the America for Bulgaria Foundation. First novel of Tenev's to be published in English despite Angela Rodel winning a PEN Michael Henry Heim Translation Grant for her work on his short story collection, Holy Light. Party Headquarters also won the Vick Foundation Award for novel of the year—the most prestigious award for Bulgarian literature. He co-wrote the screenplay for...

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Georgi Tenev

Loquela

Carlos Labbe

Loquela

"[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it."Bookforum Loquela, Carlos Labbé's fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction's possibilities. At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement about narrative art. Behind the silence that...

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Carlos Labbe

The One Before

Juan José Saer

The One Before

"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges." The Independent The One Before is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short piecescalled «Arguments»and two longer stories"Half-Erased" and «The One Before»all of which revolve around the ideas of exile and memory.Many of the characters who populate Juan José Saer's other novels appear here, including Tomatis, Ángel Leto, and Washington Noriega (who...

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Juan José Saer

My Two Worlds

Sergio Chejfec

My Two Worlds

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conferencehe was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the two-dimensional information of...

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Sergio Chejfec

Lies, First Person

Gail Hareven

Lies, First Person

From the 2010 winner of the Best Translated Book Award comes a harrowing, controversial novel about a woman's revenge, Jewish identity, and how to talk about Adolf Hitler in today's world.Elinor's comfortable lifepopular newspaper column, stable marriage, well-adjusted kidsis totally upended when she finds out that her estranged uncle is coming to Jerusalem to give a speech asking forgiveness for his decades-old book, Hitler, First Person .A shocking novel...

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Gail Hareven

Through Dark Days and White Nights:...

Naomi F. Collins

Through Dark Days and White Nights: Four Decades Observing a Changing Russia

The author provides a personal, eye-witness account from the mid 1960's through the turn of the 21st century, starting as a graduate student at Moscow State University and ending as the wife of the American Ambassador to Russia. "This book is like a script for a documentary spanning four decades when an especially astute and literate observer watched Russia emerge from stagnation and enter a period of dramatic economic, social, and political change and, on...

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Naomi F. Collins

The Dark

Sergio Chejfec

The Dark

"Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark , the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.' This phrase describes the experience of reading Chejfec's novel. . . . These moments, when Chejfec combines exquisite prose with the human yearning for truth and beauty, keep us reading, weighing the novel's contradictions, sifting through the narrator's abstract reflections in search of his life’s...

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Sergio Chejfec

War, So Much War

Мерсе Родореда

War, So Much War

Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's «Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015»"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."Gabriel García Marquez"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability."Natasha Wimmer, The Nation"It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on my list...

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Мерсе Родореда

Showbiz, and More

Allan Boone's Wargon

Showbiz, and More

This novella, poetry and these short stories cover the entire range of human emotion. The novella, Showbiz, tells the story of an unusual man's great achievements and reach for an ideal, only to have everything he is and has accomplished defeated by the nature of his inner being and those who prey on it. His close friend experiences, in tandem, his own fulfillment and loss. Both are engulfed by the shallowness and cynicism of politics. The poems...

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Allan Boone's Wargon

A Jewish Journey

Sheldon Cohen

A Jewish Journey

Before World War II in Germany, two young boys–-one Jewish one Christian–-play football on the same team, little knowing that their paths will cross again on a war-torn battlefield. Max Tepper–-the son of Jewish immigrants. Max becomes the target of anti-Semitism at a very young age. Hopeful for a better future, he enrolls in the university eager to become a physician like his father. But at the outbreak of World War II, things change.Max becomes...

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Sheldon Cohen

Smokey and the Fouke Monster: A Tru...

Smokey Crabtree

Smokey and the Fouke Monster: A True Story

"Smokey and the Fouke Monster" tells a most interesting and unusual true story of how the town of Fouke, Arkansas became the center of attention for Monster hunters in the early and mid-seventies but also, how this one mysterious creature's unwelcomed presence lead to the making of the now infamous movie "The Legend Of Boggy Creek". The book tells of the risks and pitfalls sometimes associated with the business side of life and how it came to pass that...

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Smokey Crabtree

The Greatest Meeting

None

The Greatest Meeting

The Greatest Meeting This is the saga of the impassioned journeys of two men, their true premonitions of a mystical meeting, and their self-discoveries. Full of compelling adventure, love and betrayal, joy and sadness, their stories have never before been told. This extraordinary true historical novel takes place in Central Asia, and the Middle East; toady's Turkey in the thirteenth century during the tumultuous time of Changiz Khan's...

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