Originally published in 1975, The Defense and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels (preceded by The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire) about the aftermat
A brilliant new collection from a master world poetOne of the most gifted poets of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a contemporary classic. Few writers in poetry or prose have attained the lucid intellige
First published in Warsaw in 1816, Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition has been largely—and unjustly—ignored by the Polish literary canon. Ingeniously structured and?vividly related by a Tristram Shandy
"His poems are meditative and beautiful, his diction fragile and clear...In short, it is a lovely book, and BOA Editions has provided us with a fine candidate for torchbearer."--Hey Small Press!"We ar
Presents loosely connected novellas that depict Polish life and situations such as suicide, teacher infatuation, chess, and sexual fantasy from the male perspective.
Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word “robot”This legendary but previously hard-to-get novel is a hilarious dystopian satire
In My Father’s Books, the first volume in Luan Starova’s multivolume Balkan Saga, he explores themes of history, displacement, and identity under three turbulent regimes—Ottoman, Fascist, and Stalinis
Milan Kundera on Marek Bienczyk’s Transparency: “The subject of transparency has always interested me; in The Art of the Novel I discussed it as one of the key words in my personal lexicon. Marek Bien
The Table That Ran Away to the Woods tells the story of a writing desk that one day “grabbed two pairs of shoes / ran downstairs, and took flight,” escaping into the countryside with its owners in bar
The Brotherhood, a secret society that meets in dreams, seeks to intervene in pivotal events of the past, as their story is told through a series of historical documents.
God’s Horse (1996) and The Atheists’ School (1999), Wilhelm Dichter’s novelistic memoirs, are both striking for their spare, precise prose and for the fullness with which they inhabit the perspectives
Cyprian Norwid immerses the reader in his inventive and idiosyncratic verse in this stunning selection from his most revered poems, including a healthy sample from the celebrated Vade-mecum. True to t
Taking cues from the wartime epics of Ford Madox Ford and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Vitomil Zupan tells the harrowing story of partisan soldier “Berk” and his surreal experiences as a guerrilla during t
Driven by a restlessness that he can barely comprehend, Ot consorts with merchants, peasants, pilgrims, pagans, heretics, thieves, and prostitutes, while continually trying to evade the forces of the
Thrown is a hilarious picaresque about a sixteenth-century doctor and his faithful sidekick who travel Spain "curing" every ailment possible with the use of tobacco in a variety of forms—the leaves ma
"The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaux, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago."?W.S. MerwinIn this inventive novel, Magdalena Tulli creates a wo
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa’s poetry embodies in an original form the most profo
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa’s poetry embodies in an original form the most profo
