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The Factory
$14.95 Add to cartThe English-language debut of one of Japan’s most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they’ve b
- Author: Oyamada, Hiroko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228851
- Language: English
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The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial–one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century–the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in ord… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0805211063
- Language: English
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Pale Fire
$19.00 Add to cartA darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.
“Half-poem, half- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723420
- Language: English
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$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023
New York Times 2023 Critics’ Pick
New Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read)
NPR Best Book of … [more below]- Author: Yi, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601530
- Language: English
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
$27.00 Read moreA Best Novel of 2023 – Electric Literature and Largehearted Boy
“The novel is a magical-realist office drama infused with millennial anomie, and McGhee’s canny, often bittersweetly hilarious prose r
- Author: McGhee, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1662602111
- Language: English
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Harold
$26.00 Read moreA uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.
Steven Wright is one of the most signi- Author: Wright, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1668022699
- Language: English
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Carnality
$18.99 Add to cartIn this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground societ… [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Lina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1635420741
- Language: English
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Heart of a Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI first read Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite an
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 21, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150594
- Language: English
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The Seep
$16.00 Add to cartA 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
“A unique alien invasion story that focuses on the human and the myriad ways we see and don’t see our own world. Mesmerizing.”
–Jeff VanderMeer A blend of searin- Author: Porter, Chana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1641292156
- Language: English
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The Dog of the South
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife.
“Hilarious . . . is, to me,- Author: Portis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 05 2007
- ISBN10: 1585679313
- Language: English
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The Unconsoled
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0679735879
- Language: English
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The Guest Lecture
$17.00 Add to cartWith “a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I’ve read in current American fiction” (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker’s poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious
- Author: Riker, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160417
- Language: English
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Life for Sale
$17.00 Add to cart“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. – “An outst… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565140
- Language: English
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Temporary
$18.00 Add to cartIn Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s s
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Leichter, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1566895669
- Language: English
