Transit Books
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Let’s Tell This Story Properly
$16.95 Read moreMen behave badly in these stories, women suffer or negotiate for power, families bicker and try to cooperate. There is Uganda, and there is Britain, and then all the miles in between.–Los Angeles Tim
- Author: Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1945492228
- Language: English
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The Wilderness
$17.95 Add to cartA deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.
In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first … [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Savas, Ayseg?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893389098
- Language: English
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Traces of Enayat
$18.95 Add to cartFrom one of the preeminent poets of the Arabic-speaking world, a brilliant work of creative nonfiction retracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine.
“A subtle and
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492848
- Language: English
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River
$16.95 Add to cartOn a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she’s encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.
- Author: Kinsky, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1945492171
- Language: English
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Such Small Hands
$15.95 Add to cartOne of the Guardian Best Books of 2017
“Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schu
- Author: Barba, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1945492007
- Language: English
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My Life as a Godard Movie
$15.95 Add to cartA book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. “There’
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Walsh, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1945492643
- Language: English
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Migratory Birds
$15.95 Add to cartA sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks.
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Oliver, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 194549252X
- Language: English
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We All Loved Cowboys
$15.95 Add to cartTwo women take a road trip through Brazil in an exploration of identity, desire, and the limitations and possibilities of female sexuality.
- Author: Bensimon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1945492163
- Language: English
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I Who Have Never Known Men
$16.95 Add to cartUrsula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women
- Author: Harpman, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1945492600
- Language: English
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At Night He Lifts Weights
$16.95 Add to cartA disquieting vision of ecological dystopia in a collection by a major Korean writer.
An artist is plagued by desire for her mysterious double as disease spreads through an uncanny suburban landscape. … [more below]
- Author: Young-Sook, Kang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492708
- Language: English
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A New Name: Septology VI-VII
$17.95 Add to cartJon Fosse is one of Norway’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.
His work has been likened to that of Samuel
- Series: Septology #3
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1945492570
- Language: English
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I Is Another: Septology III-V
$17.95 Add to cartThe lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the second book of the celebrated Norwegian writer’s three-volumeSeptology.
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- Series: Septology #2
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1945492457
- Language: English
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The Other Name: Septology I-II
$17.95 Add to cartThe lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer’s Septology.
- Series: Septology #1
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1945492406
- Language: English
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A Shining
$16.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A New Yorker Best Book of 2023
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds him
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492775
- Language: English
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Septology
$22.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist
2022 National Book Award, Finalist
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Na- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492759
- Language: English
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The Birthday Party
$18.95 Add to cart2023 International Booker Prize, Longlist
New York Times Editors’ Choice
“A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence.”—The New York Times
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- Author: Mauvignier, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492651
- Language: English
