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Paperback. Etat : new. Ponti, Claude (illustrateur). Paperback. AN "UGLY DUCKLING" TALE THAT KIRKUS REVIEWS CALLS A "WONDERFULLY STRANGE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY" FROM ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORSAN "UGLY DUCKLING" TALE THAT KIRKUS REVIEWS CALLS A "WONDERFULLY STRANGE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY" FROM ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORSWhen he is born, Hiznobyuti is not exactly handsome. In fact, his parents and siblings say, "He's no beauty!" They say it so often, Hiznobyuti assumes it is his name. Wherever he goes, only embarrassment and shame await him. Hiznobyuti hides himself away, working on his inventions, until one day he receives a message from the stars. After a fight with his family, Hiznobyuti decides to run away. On a beautiful adventure by himself, he learns the secrets of the universe- how to communicate with trees and birds, how to wake up the sun, and how to see himself for who he truly is - a hero! When he returns from his journey, Hiznobyuti family rejoices and apologizes for not understanding how beautiful and important he was to them all along. From one of France's most celebrated children's writers comes a tender and playful portrait of what it means to be unique--the story of an "ugly duckling" who leaves his family to journey through a fantastical world. Full color.x 10. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Ponti, Claude (illustrateur). Paperback. French luminary Claude Ponti invents his own brilliant universe and invites everyone inside, in a book that was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Betsy Bird writes in School Library Journal, "Lush and lovely, cuddly and warm . . . one uncanny valley you may never wish to leave."In My Valley, Claude Ponti leads us on a journey through an enchanted world inhabited by "Touims" (tiny, adorable, monkey-like creatures), secret tree dwellings, flying buildings, and sad giants. Clever language and beautifully detailed maps of imaginary landscapes will delight children and adults alike. Ponti himself has said, "My stories are like fairytales, always situated in the marvelous, speaking to the interior life and emotions of children. That way each child can get what they want out of the images- the characters and dreams are their own." "Originally published as Ma vallaee by L'Ecole des loisirs, 1998 Paris"--Copyright page. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. (2004), 330pp, slight edgewear to dj.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Duezakin, Akin (illustrateur). Hardcover. A book of philosphical questions for young children, by the acclaimed author of SOPHIE'S WORLD (over 40 million copies sold worldwide).Early readers of SOPHIE'S WORLD are now old enough to have young children of their own.A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape. Soon we realize he is on a journey of thoughts and dreams, asking questions about loss, myth, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being. Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions merge with the beautiful illustrations of Akin D zakin into a tale of friendship, love, and grief - and about daring to think about life as you live it. A book of philosophical question for children by Sophie's World author Jostein Gaardner, accompanied by dreamy illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. To Mervas is a turbulent journey through the wilderness of memory, domestic violence, and the vast gulf between lost lovers. After years of insulating herself from humanity in the wake of her disabled son's death, Marta is jolted out of exile when a cryptic note arrives from Mervas, a ghost town deep in Sweden's desolate northern wilds. The letter is from Kosti, her once-great love, shattering a silence of more than twenty years. When spring comes she sets off alone for Mervas, without any notion of who or what might await her there. Physical and emotional abuse, longing and loss, and the nature of love and redemption are explored with remarkable empathy and a visceral lyricism in Elizabeth Rynell's stirring novel. A searing, raw, and haunting story of a reclusive woman's journey through love. A symphony of emotion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir- to die + miroir- mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic images, protean characters and what the author describes as "landscapes and spaces beyond death, spaces that have always existed and will always exist." An Orphic voyage into memory and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed. Mouroir. Breyten Breytenbach composed this wondrous ship of thought, this docu-dream, during a horrific period of incarceration. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Bosnian poet Selma Asotic's fearless debut on memory and resistanceBosnian poet Selma Asotic's fearless debut on memory and resistanceIn a pocket, Asotic finds a brood of planets. In the wind, a cathedral of voice. And in the throat, a thorn bush hums. She slakes her thirst with briny water, and later, tucks a thorn under the tongue. Ready to speak. The poet's voice is warm with questions, recursions, and doubts. "Do you remember nothing from your life?" she asks, observing the challenge of memory and family history in the wake of the Bosnian War. The poet recalls men returning from war, with bodies no bigger than marbles in a palm. A bullet may pierce through a door and become a peephole. Through it, Asotic can see the myths of war - that shrapnel makes men celestial - or fragments of her own mayhemmed matrilineage. Her lines, blossoming and chimeric, search for a home, and a mother, in peacetime. Her language is alchemized into the corporeal, illumining the bodies that touch and leave us, like waves washing away their gestures. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Four stories narrated from four different perspectives crisscross throughout this poignant and playful novel. Young Tomas - who wants above all else to be intelligent - embarks upon a dizzying search for a rare blue dragonfly, of which he believes there are only nine or ten in the world (and therefore probably only two or three in his town). Drawing us into the channels of his mercurial mind, skipping through misadventures and stumbling upon a host of small wonders, we are introduced to three generations of his motley family tree and accompany them on their odd quests. From the moonlit creation of a rugby field on a golf course, to the unearthing of the escapades of his anarchist grandfather, a celebrated carpenter, the medley of tales flips on their heads standard assumptions about age, wisdom, sensibility, and truth, inviting us to open our eyes to the bounty of tiny marvels that make up our world. Weaving the invisible with the unspeakable, a young Basque boy lets us into his private world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett's world- a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression gets straight to the point. In an entirely original voice, Eric Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the paths we've been traveling, and where we might be going - or not. Chevillard asks luminous and very funny questions about who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Concerned with giving voice to Cape Verdean life, Fortes writes in Cape Verdean Creole - and not just standard Portuguese - a powerful statement reinforcing the islands' distinctive African nature. However, his poems are often written from the perspective of an exile - and themes of exile and redemptive return recur in his work. This collection introduces English readers to Fortes, and the poet's beautiful and unique use of language. "First published by Dom Quixote Publishers in 2001."--Title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely livedOne of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely livedEnnemonde Girard- Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife- a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde's astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the people of the High Country, where vengeance is an art form, hearts are superfluous, and only boldness and cunning such as Ennemonde's can win the day. A gleeful, broad sardonic grin of a novel."Roads move cautiously around the High Country." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also of her sons, daughters, neighbors, lovers, and enemies, and especially of the mountains that stand guard behind their home in the Camargue. This is a place of stark and terrifying beauty, where violence strikes suddenly, whether from the hand of a neighbor or from the sky itself.Giono captures every wrinkle, glare, and glance with wry delight, celebrating the uniquely tough people whose eyes sparkle with the cruel majesty of the landscape. Full of delectable detours and startling insights, Ennemonde will take you by the hand for an unforgettable tour of this master novelist's singular world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words.Winner of the 2018 Italian Prose in Translation AwardA metaphysical detective story about love and existence from the Italian master, Antonio Tabucchi. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words.Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound- Isabel died in prison under Salazar's regime, or perhaps wasn't arrested at all. As Tadeus interviews one old acquaintance of hers after the next, a chameleon-like portrait of a young, ideological woman emerges, ultimately bringing Tadeus on a metaphysical journey across the continent. Constructed in the form of a mandala, For Isabel is the spiraling search for an enigma, an investigation into time and existence, the power of words, and the limits of the senses. In this posthumous work Tabucchi creates an ingenious narration, tracing circles around a lost woman and the ultimate inaccessible truth. A metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Fireflyis a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world asa threatening conspiracy. Told inbreathless and lyrical prose, the novel isa loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba's isolation in the world. By the Prix Medicis-winning Cuban writer, a bildungsroman that responds to the questions of the "Boom" generation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Child Poet is an evocative memoir of a child's dreams, in a stunning translation by the author's daughter.An icon of Latin American literature captures the strangeness of childhood as he explores the aftermath of a long-ago injury in this "searching, lyrical memoir" with elements of magical realism "reminiscent of Garcia Marquez" (Kirkus Reviews)Homero Aridjis has always said that he was born twice. The first time was to his mother in April 1940 and the second time was as a poet, in January 1951. His life was distinctly cleaved in two by an accident. Before that fateful Saturday, he was carefree and confident, the youngest of five brothers growing up in the small Mexican village of Contepec, Michoacan. After the accident-in which he nearly died on the operating table after shooting himself with a shotgun his brothers had left propped against the bedroom wall-he became a shy, introspective child who spent afternoons reading Homer and writing poems and stories at the dining room table instead of playing soccer with his classmates. After the accident, his early childhood became like a locked garden. But in 1971, when his wife became pregnant with their first daughter, the memories found a way out. Visions from this elusive period started coming back to him in astonishingly vivid dreams, giving shape to what would become The Child Poet.Aridjis is joyously imaginative. The Child Poet has urgency but still takes its time, celebrating images and feelings and the strangeness of childhood. Readers will love being in the world he has created. Aridjis paints the pueblo of Cotepec-the landscape, the campesinos, the Church, the legacy of the Mexican Revolution-through the eyes of a sensitive child. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. First published as a feuilleton in a left-wing newspaper in 1850, The Salt Smugglers provides a political satire of the waning days of France's short-lived Second Republic. With nods to Diderot and Sterne, this shaggy-dog story deals less with contraband salt smugglers than with the subversive power of fiction to transgress legal and esthetic boundaries. By writing what he claimed was a purely documentary account of his picaresque adventures in search of an elusive book recording the true history of a certain seventeenth-century swashbuckler, Nerval sought to deride the press censors of the day who forbade the serial publication of novels in newspapers - and in the process he provocatively deconstructed existing distinctions between fact and fiction. Never before translated into English and still unavailable as a separately published volume in French, The Salt Smugglers is a pre-postmodern gem of experimental prose. Richard Sieburth's vibrant translation and illuminating afterword remind us why Gerard de Nerval's blend of sly irony and acerbic social criticism proved so inspiring to authors as various as Baudelaire, Proust, and Leiris. Major "undiscovered" experimental novel of nineteenth-century France. A hilarious satire of life, literature, and politics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Two novellas from one of the most exciting writers in contemporary Russia.Two novellas from one of the most exciting writers in contemporary Russia.Horsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich- "Horsemen of the Sands" and "The Storm." The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg, also known as the "Mad Baltic Baron," a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. "The Storm" centers on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students, teachers, parents, and staff. Two novellas from one of the most exciting writers in contemporary Russia. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In this wildly inventive page-turner, a feckless narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His characters multiply and go astray; his employer is asleep in a drunken stupor. The increasingly desperate narrator clambers over rooftops and through underground passages, watching helplessly as his characters reappear in different times and settings and start rival stories against his will. A story about the sadness of the world and of the inadequacy of language and storytelling to describe and understand it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth-body artwork of Ana MendietaThe Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma and its horrific relevance in todays Colombia, where mass killings continue. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernandez-Pachons poem is an astounding response to a traumatic event in recent Colombian history: the massacre in the village of El Salado between February 16 and 21, 2000. Paramilitary forces tortured and killed sixty people, interspersing their devastating violence with music in the town square.Pablo Rodriguez steps thirteen paces out into the night and buries a wooden box. Its contents: a chain, a medallion, a few overexposed photographs, and finally, a deed. He burrows into the ground without knowing quite why, but with the certainty of a heavy change pressing through the air, of fear settling like a cat in his throat. Meanwhile, his wife Ester a sharpshooter and keeper of all village secrets slips into her fifth dream of the night. As Ester tosses and Pablo pats his fresh mound of earth, another character emerges in Eliana Hernandez-Pachons vivid and prophetic triptych.The Brush is a tangled grove, a thicket of vines, an orchid pummeled with rain. It is also an extraordinary depiction of ecological resistance, of the natural world that both endures human cruelty and lives on in spite of it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. BP2 - An advance reading copy trade paperback book in very good condition that is lightly curled, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux. 7.5"x6", 317 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright, critic, and prominent public intellectual. He has published 10 novels, which have been translated into several foreign languages, including English, as well as several works of literary criticism. He has also written three plays. Between 1993 and 2009, he served as editor of Al-Mulhaq, the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Nahar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Poems (1945-1971), first published in 1978 and now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains work from the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The first of these volumes was written during the Axis occupation of Greece, and the last was published thirty years later during the military junta of 1967-74. Part poetic auto- biography, part historical document, this collection thus chronicles one writer's reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Evocative and deeply moving, Sachtouris's poetry builds up, block by linguistic block, an unforgettable vision that speaks even to those who inhabit worlds different and distant from his own. Bilingual edition of a major Greek voice. Full of brilliant imagery, alive, visceral, violent, melancholy, heart-wrenching. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This "charming . . . short account of ordinary goings-on in a French cafe" explores love, work, loneliness, and aging as it follows the daily life of a middle-aged Parisian bartender (Lemony Snicket)Pierre is a veteran bartender in a cafe in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go-the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time-to-time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit-sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him.Soon, however, the cafe must close its doors, and Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thoughts over three days, Pierre's humanity and profound solitude both emerge. The Waitress Was New is a moving portrait of human anguish and weakness, of understated nobility and strength. A veteran waiter is set adrift when his cafe closes its doors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette. Olga RavnAn incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves from within the limits of the psychiatric systemPerfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen and devotees of Sylvia PlathIn honest, crackling investigations of the psychiatric system and the young people trying to find their way, Grabols soaring debut offers a critique of institutionalization and an urgent recalibrating of the language and conceptions of care.Im not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me, says Fine Grabols nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. A chair that greets you, or shiny tiles of floor that follow a peculiar grammar of their own. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot sleep, and practices her daily routines with the urgency of survival peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice all an acutely calibrated exploration into having a home.Structured as a series of intimate vignettes like those of Olga Ravn, What Kingdom thrums with the swirling voices of this shared home. Hector blares Michael Jackson from the recreation room and recalls a past in Peru when his psychoses were treated with exorcism. The town would shake the devil out of his small, teenage body before he was relocated to Denmark. Or Marie, who has lived in the temporary unit since she was eighteen, has no idea that her mother lives just four floors below in a permanent care unit.Echoing the aching writings of Janet Frame on electroconvulsive therapy, or Linda Bostroem Knausgards mythical meditations on silence and mental health, Fine Grabol renders a delicate and deep uncoupling from the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A remarkable and bracing collection of "classic anti-war writing" (Richard Flanagan) from Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic, whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander HemonMiljenko Jergovic's remarkable debut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In "melancholy, dreamlike" prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro "recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovic's book is the strongest of the three" (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergovic spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergovic's deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs - the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background. These slices of life of war-ridden Sarajevo are full of humanity--they stretch the spirit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Vivifying poetry of nature and the spirit - explore a mystical world of hawkmoths and elvers, skylarks and salamanders, with the shimmering grace of Gary Snyder"Lehnert makes nature's wonders shine. His poems expand our view of life - and its inexpressible reason for being." - Der SonntagVivifying poetry of nature and the spirit - explore a mystical world of hawkmoths and elvers, skylarks and salamanders, with the shimmering grace of Gary Snyder"Lehnert's imagination is precise, patient, yearning. it documents the vast interconnectedness of being on earth in the mundane hydraulics of existence-sap, slime, metabolic exchange-and enacts it in a dense weave of sound." -Karen Leeder, Times Literary SupplementWickerwork traffics in details that might have otherwise gone unnoticed- the far sides of fishes, red jellyfish fraying on a tide, the way a hazel tree learns from the falling of snow how to scatter her pollen. This bilingual edition is the first comprehensive collection of Christian Lehnert's work to appear in English, translated by the celebrated translator and scholar, Richard Sieburth.Readers can dive down into the depths of Lehnert and Sieburth's primordial works- where slime, dirt, membranes, clay, and clouds give way to stretching summer shadows under beech trees, the clatter of a bird lifting into sky. Ever attentive to the rattle of a rhythm passing through language, Lehnert sees in the nimble scurrying of a salamander "tiny bolts of lightning driven through the dark." He writes with singular grace of a sycamore's sap, "the blood scabbing the wounds of its roots."With its intense, philosophical relationship to the physical world, Wickerwork will open readers's eyes to their own natural environment. Lehnert notes that certain trees have the power to remind us that the growth and protean spirit of things is never in doubt. Here, growth feels possible, necessary, a fact as simple as it is divine. "First published in German as Cherubinischer Staub, Gedichte and Opus 8. Im Flechtwek by Suhrkamp Verlag"--Title verso page. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A sensitive portrait of one boy's travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a "genius" of "nuanced interior moments" (Los Angeles Times)A sensitive portrait of one boy's travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a "genius" of "nuanced interior moments" (Los Angeles Times)Fabre's ability to act as a "discreet megaphone of the man in the crowd" (Elle Magazine) will take you by surprise and leave an immutable mark on your heart.Edgar loves nothing more than listening to the birds in the trees, the squeaking of moles in nearby chalk quarries, the conversations trickling out of the carpeted offices surrounding his favorite park in the suburbs of Paris. He also listens to the hushed conversations of passersby, strangers who whisper that he is "not all there." But what constitutes the supposedly insufficient character of Edgar's interior life?Dominique Fabre gives himself over to Edgar's way of seeing, his sensitivity, his innocence and wisdom, his longings and perceptions, his tentative interpolations into the social fabric of 1960s France, and in each passage we find a stirring answer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brothers role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmers twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin ultimately poses difficult questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into ones own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing. Winner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz R zewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. R zewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, R zewicz continues to be a prolific writer and an acerbic commentator on his life and times. This collection combines his latest three volumes-professor's knife,gray zone, andexit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master. "The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is Rozewicz's great achievement throughout twenty volumes of poetry."—"Guardian" From the earliest days of his poetic career, Tadeusz Rozewicz found a unique, pared-down style that consciously avoided metaphor and sought a new, painfully clear voice in which to express the horrors of wartime experiences. His work was immediately recognized as new and vital in Polish poetry, and he came to be regarded as one of the most important writers of his generation. "New Poems" is a collection of Rozewicz's three latest volumes in their entirety: "exit" (1998), "the professor's knife" (2001), and "gray zone" (2002). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. With an introduction by award-winning author Alberto Manguel, Milongas is Edgardo Cozarinsky's love letter to tango, and the diverse array of people who give it life.With an introduction by award-winning author Alberto Manguel, Milongas is Edgardo Cozarinsky's love letter to tango, and the diverse array of people who give it life.From tango's origins in the gritty bars of Buenos Aires, to milongas tucked away in the crypt of a London Church, a cafe in Krak w, or the quays of the Seine, Cozarinsky guides us through a shape-shifting dance's phantasmagoric past.In neighborhood dance halls vibrant and alive through the early hours of the morning, where young and old, foreign and native, novice and master come together to traverse borders, demographics, and social mores, "it is impossible to distinguish the dance from the dancer."As conspiratorial as he is candid, Cozarinsky shares the secrets and culture of this timeless dance with us through glimmering anecdote, to celebrate its traditions, evolution, and the devotees who give it life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. From a South African writer who is poised to enjoy a much higher profile on the word stage, a gorgeously-wrought, ingeniously structured novel tracing the interwoven lives of four characters in Johannesburg.The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johannesburg- a statistician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested in genocide, and a contractor who puts up billboards on construction sites. Arcing across distance and time, Vladislavic deftly explodes our comfortable views and brings us behind the curtains of the city while subtly expanding our notions of what is possible in the novel form. A gorgeously-wrought, ingeniously structured novel tracing the interwoven lives of four characters in Johannesburg. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctorface an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise, and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating glimpse into contemporary life in India. Coming out of a great storytelling tradition, My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India's most celebrated writers. First published in Bengali as Moner mato meye: Kolkata [India]: Deb Sahitya Kutir, 1951. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.