Margellos World Republic of Letters
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The Enchanting Lives of Others
$32.00 Add to cartA celebration of the beguiling power of literature, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers
At the Pigeon Book Club, a circle of readers gathers for exhilarating meetings to discuss literature.- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 030028165X
- Language: English
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Arabesques: New Stories
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed Ukrainian author, snapshots of a city haunted by war
The women, men, and children in Serhiy Zhadan’s new collection of stories testify to the dignity of daily life in the war-battere- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0300284349
- Language: English
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Notes to a Black Woman
$20.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice and defend the dignity of migrant workers
In the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonie- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ega, Francoise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300270291
- Language: English
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Stolen Flower
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a trailblazing poet, a trilingual narrative in verse that bears witness to a devastating crime and testifies to the power of collective defiance
In 2007, Mexican soldiers raped and left for dead- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Pineda, Irma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282486
- Language: English
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The Image of Her
$25.00 Add to cartSimone de Beauvoir’s gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection
Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0300287178
- Language: English
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Montevideo
$27.00 Add to cartThe award-winning newest novel by Spain’s premier writer–a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature
The narrator of Montevideo is an itinerant writer and erstwhile dr… [more below]- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Vila-Matas, Enrique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284837
- Language: English
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We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
$20.00 Add to cartA multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by “a writer of immense poetic power” (The Guardian)
“Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work–poetry, history and- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ismailov, Hamid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 030027274X
- Language: English
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The Holy Innocents
$18.00 Add to cartA shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco’s dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist
“A ferocious story.”–The Guardian “[Delibes] is a master of compression, using the art of om- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Delibes, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275137
- Language: English
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Love in the New Millennium
$18.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers “In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, ap- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278268
- Language: English
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Love in the New Millennium
$30.00 Add to cartThe gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force–and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy
Task Force 58 was World War II’s most power- Author: Mawdsley, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300255454
- Language: English
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Rosa Mistika
$18.00 Add to cartA controversial Swahili classic by one of Tanzania’s most revered writers, banned on publication and finally translated into English
Teenage Rosa lives with her parents and four younger sisters in a- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Kezilahabi, Euphrase
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300276559
- Language: English
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Ballerina
$18.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France–a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous im- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Modiano, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278195
- Language: English
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The Children of the Dead
$22.00 Add to cartThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek–a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria
“The surface of [Jelinek’s] prose cracks and bursts .- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Jelinek, Elfriede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281943
- Language: English
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Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories
$18.00 Add to cartFrom beloved Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, a newly discovered novella and five short stories of love, grief, and maternal longing
Shūsaku Endō, widely considered one of the gr- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279434
- Language: English
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
$26.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European inte- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Mittelmeier, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 300259301
- Language: English
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024
$28.00 Add to cartA selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English
“A lush bouquet of essential poems from one of our species’ most urgent living p- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275463
- Language: English
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The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille
$16.00 Read moreThe original English-language translation of ? Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece Cr? na Cille, which Colm T?ib?n has called the “greatest novel to be written in the Irish language”
“An audacious novel ren- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: O. Cadhain, Mairtin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219822
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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Exiled Shadow
$30.00 Read moreA virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea
“One of the most eloquent living witnesses of the European 20th century, Norman Manea,- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Manea, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0300265727
- Language: English
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I Live in the Slums: Stories
$26.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature “There’s something inescapably- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0300247435
- Language: English
