World Literature
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The Beggar Student
$12.95 Add to cartA fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 081123858X
- Language: English
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Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape
$28.99 Add to cartA vibrant and brilliant new collection of award-winning short fiction from the acclaimed author of the “charming, witty, and incredibly humane” (The Pittsburgh Gazette) debut The Eternal Audience of O… [more below]
- Author: Ngamije, Rémy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668012464
- Language: English
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Woo Woo
$27.00 Add to cartA thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance
Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual ar- Author: Baxter, Ella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222555
- Language: English
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)
$15.95 Read moreThe first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies
- Author: Balle, Solvej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237273
- Language: English
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
$15.95 Add to cartTara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd Novembe
- Author: Balle, Solvej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237257
- Language: English
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Those Opulent Days: A Mystery
$27.00 Add to cartJacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that meshe
- Author: Pham, Jacquie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163807
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Ruins
$29.00 Add to cartIn this “rare feast” of a novel, an Indian woman inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home-and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy).
Lila De is on the verge- Author: Roy, Nayantara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755846
- Language: English
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Deshoras / Unreasonable Hours
$21.95 Read moreEl último libro de cuentos de Cortázar.
«Cortázar es el mejor. –Roberto Bolaño «La verdadera revolución de Cortázar está en sus cuentos. Más discreta pero más profunda y permane- Author: Cort?zar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 8420463833
- Language: Spanish
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Shy Creatures
$30.00 Add to cartAn alluring literary mystery full of secrets and lies, when an art teacher at a psychiatric hospital in 1960s England finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious patient who has s
- Author: Chambers, Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063258226
- Language: English
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Lazarus Man
$29.00 Add to cartIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tene- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374168156
- Language: English
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Beggar’s Bedlam
$21.00 Add to cartA hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India.
Beggar’s Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent o- Series: India List
- Author: Bhattacharya, Nabarun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1803093781
- Language: English
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Elevator in S?i G?n
$15.95 Add to cartA young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother’s funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in Saigon, and staged a grotesquely lavish ceremony for t
- Author: Thu?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238547
- Language: English
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The Finest Thief in the Kingdom: Libyan Tales from Sadeq Naihoum
$14.95 Read moreThe collection’s title, Min Qisas Alatfal, literally means Children’s Tales, however these stories are far from your average bedtime read. They are socio-political tales told from a satirical and crit… [more below]
- Author: Naihoum, Sadeq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1850773424
- Language: English
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Sojourn
$16.95 Read moreIn this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state.
An Indian writer has come to B- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168137708X
- Language: English
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The Rainbow Troops
$19.00 Read moreFrom Indonesia, an inspiring, record-breaking bestseller–and a modern-day fairy tale
Published in Indonesia in 2005, The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata’s closely autobiographical debut novel, sold more- Author: Hirata, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534446
- Language: English
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Napoleon Symphony
$14.95 Add to cartA grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed–in liberty, equality, and fraternity–from Beethoven’s Third “Eroic
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350150
- Language: English
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Humorous American Short Stories: Selections from Mark Twain, O. Henry, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and More
$8.00 Read moreIncludes James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a 2013 motion picture! Spanning nearly 300 years of American humor, this anthology of entertaining tales ranges from the inventive mind of B… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 048649988X
- Language: English
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Ammon’s Horn, or the Mystery of the Brain
$17.99 Read moreFive cutting-edge scientists compete for $100 million and control of a new institute dedicated to eradicating Alzheimer’s in this edifying, Da Vinci Code-esque thriller.
Spurred by his wife’s Alzheime- Author: Magistretti, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423600
- Language: English
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My Shadow Is Yours
$16.99 Read moreA recent college graduate accompanies a reclusive middle-aged writer on a chaotic road trip to Milan in this hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, friendship, and the pitfalls of nostalgia
In 1995- Author: Nesi, Edoardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420687
- Language: English
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Europeana
$15.95 Add to cartTracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through
Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik
Ourednik explores the h… [more below]- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Ourednik, Patrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975016
- Language: English
