New Directions Publishing Corporation
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The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
$9.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of ci… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205568
- Language: English
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No Longer Human
$14.95 Add to cartMine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narr
- Series: New Directions Book.
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1973
- ISBN10: 0811204812
- Language: English
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The Fifth Year
$15.95 Add to cartThe Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents’ farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her gra… [more below]
- Author: Haushofer, Marlen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239985
- Language: English
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Businessmen as Lovers
$16.95 Read moreMimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture
- Author: Tonks, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 081124024X
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis
$19.95 Read moreHere is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s celebrated “heteronyms.” Fernando Pessoa did not simply write under pseudonyms–he created a coterie of imagined authors, each with a ful… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0811237893
- Language: English
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Chasing Homer
$16.95 Add to cartIn this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed–careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240908
- Language: English
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City of Rats
$15.95 Read moreLife isn’t easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rak?, he’s got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an–as spring blo
- Author: Copi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0811238377
- Language: English
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Nightmare of the Embryos
$15.95 Read moreNightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947-2022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously
- Author: Mehr, Mariella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 081123973X
- Language: English
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The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks
$14.95 Read moreSato Reang enjoys an idyllic childhood of soccer, fighting crickets, and mischief in his Indonesian village–until the day he must be circumcised, and his observant father forces him into a life of Is
- Author: Kurniawan, Eka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239764
- Language: English
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Ruins, Child
$15.95 Read moreSet in what may be the future, and centered on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered t… [more below]
- Author: Scodellaro, Giada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240215
- Language: English
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)
$15.95 Read moreWe’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever mo… [more below]
- Author: Balle, Solvej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0811238415
- Language: English
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On Booze
$15.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239942
- Language: English
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Lithium
$15.95 Add to cartMal?n Denis’s Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. “Language in this book,” the author notes, “acts as a pharmakon–both poison and remedy–inviting the reader to naviga… [more below]
- Author: Denis, Malén
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239055
- Language: English
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They
$16.95 Add to cartFollowing a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they–the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark–now reside in an apartment over the hairdre… [more below]
- Author: Helle, Helle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239128
- Language: English
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The Disappearing ACT
$15.95 Add to cartThe writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is
- Author: Stepanova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239403
- Language: English
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains
$15.95 Add to cartOn a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at th… [more below]
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220265
- Language: English
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$17.95 Add to cartMasterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from Th
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239969
- Language: English
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A Certain Lucas
$15.95 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cort?zar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentrically interlocking pieces, by turns comic, philosophical, allusive, and always a pleasure to read. In s… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239373
- Language: English
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
$29.95 Add to cartSet in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron B?la Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. … [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0811226646
- Language: English
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Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem
$14.95 Add to cartIn Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self–on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds o… [more below]
- Author: Mars-Jones, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811230058
- Language: English
