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.
Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Award"Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individu
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.
"Captivating and wild. . . . There is a vast, oceanic narrative power in Jóanes Nielsen's Faroese chronicle The Brahmadells." Anders Juhl RasmussenOne of the first Faroese books to be trans
"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
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is a psychological mystery about Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted th
An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and many others, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. A very cosmopolitan writer, his early poems—many of which
"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
La Grande—Saer's final novel, which is also a fantastic entry-point to his world—centers around two related stories: that of Gutierrez, his sudden departure from Argentina thirty years before, and his
The Might Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released - a sober and, more or less, healthy man - after
"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
"Those of you who stay with Blas de Roblès's ultimately quite satisfying novel will find yourselves with a new European literary star to steer by."?Alan Cheuse, NPRA stolen diamond and three right fee
"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
At its core, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction, it’s also about t
