One of the best-selling poetry collections of the past decade, Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s the easiness and the loneliness took Denmark by storm with its refreshing honesty and directness about growing up
While researching a resilient moth, Karolina spends her evening playing snooker and drinking whisky, and her nights plagued by erotic dreams. As political, spiritual, and sexual tensions in the small
"Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy c
The Smoke of Distant Fires contains thirteen new poems from the contemporary Peruvian poet, essayist, critic, translator, and childrens book author, Eduardo Chirinos. Precisely organized and formally
"It all blends here unexpectedly: that past and memory with the present and space. [. . .] At times, your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading."?Andrzej Stasiuk?A masterful tribute to Georges Pe
"Flawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopoulou's Why I Killed My Best Friend uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFFs.
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
Rupert has been accused of a terrible crime, and his imagined defense begins the night he met the love of his life, Mira. By turns shockingly honest, incredibly funny, and clearly unhinged, Rupert's
Heribert Julia and Humbert Herrera are opposites: the one can no longer paint, and doesn't much care, the other wants to create the sculpture to end all sculptures, the film of all films, the exhibit
By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man—the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band—composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alte
A major work from Mercè Rodoreda’s early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleei
A clerk at the State Bank begins to notice that something strange is going on and money is disappearing. Meanwhile, he gets a couple guinea pigs, and at night, our hero begins to conduct experiments w
Death in Spring tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy. The boy struggles to come to terms with the rhyme and reason of
Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.
As Minna Proctor states, "Gorgeously rooted in the best modernist tradition of writers like Italo Calvino and Antonio Tabucchi, Mozzi is among the most fiercely literary authors emerging from Italian
As Eliot Weinberger states in his introduction, from the moderns onwards, the juxtaposition of disparate elements, and the making of the strange through dislocation became an essential part of poetry.
"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges."?The IndependentThe One Before is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short pieces?called "Arguments"?and two longer stories?"Half-Erase
"Bae Suah offers the chance to unknowto see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we knowwhich is no small offering."Sophie Hughes,Music & LiteratureNear the beg
"The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year." SjónA passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confro
"The Brother opens opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men--men who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's e
"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
Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear.
With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.“When you live in an adopted country, when you’re an exile in
In the last days of the post-Stalinist thaw in 1963 Poland, Jerzyk becomes involved with an assassination plot arranged by his father, uncle, and their friend Mr. Traba in an attempt to take back thei
All the heroes of this collection?Ulysses and his minions trapped in the Trojan horse; the man who cannot escape his house; Gregor the cockroach, who wakes one day to discover he has become a human te
