Shortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards."...The poet comes into possession of an important, essential message, one that has the prestige and mystery of eternity?." ?Daniel Cristea-EnacheF
Gate of the Sun is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. After their country is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts
?It will be a tragedy for the creative process if we parents, both black and white, deny our children the opportunity to read [Herman Charles] Bosman.”?Johnny Masilela?Bosman knows what to tell us and
A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile and eventual
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper
In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings, one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch ... This event is decisive i
Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive no
"The author's touch is always delicate and sure in handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion."---The New York Times Book Review"[H]is sympathy for the hybrid, the impure and the ambiguous
Meng Hao-jan (689–740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of China’s most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity a
“Kleist’s narrative language is something completely unique. It is not enough to read it as historical—even in his day nobody wrote as he did...An impetus squeezed out with iron, absolutely un-lyrical
“These exuberant stories, so startlingly fresh, so vigorous, and so wildly inventive, are a delight…”—Alastair Reid“Gombrowicz is one of the most original and gifted writers of the twentieth century:
