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  • Unfit
    Unfit
    Harwicz, Ariana
    A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love—and what we would do to destroy the ones we hateLisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system’s sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she’s alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her childre...

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  • Covert Joy
    Covert Joy
    Lispector, Clarice / Kushner, Rachel
    From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fictionThis radiant selection of Clarice Lispector’s best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as “The Smallest Woman in the World,”“Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Lispector’s luminous regard ...

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  • No One Knows
    No One Knows
    Dazai, Osamu / McCarthy, Ralph
    Fourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazai’s fabled career, some never before seen in EnglishNo one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that. Osamu Dazai was a master raconteur w...

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  • Suggested in the Stars
    Suggested in the Stars
    Tawada, Yoko
    On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada’s new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends’ astonishing and intrepid adventuresIt’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth?Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change?but surprising he...

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  • I Don't Care
    I Don't Care
    Kristóf, Ágota
    Here, in English at last, is a collection of Ágota Kristóf’s short—sometimes very short—stories, which she selected herself, translated by the peerless Chris Andrews. Written immediately before her masterful trilogy (The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie), Kristóf’s short fictions oscillate between parables, surrealist anecdotes, and stories animated by a realism stripped to t...

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  • Self-Portraits
    Self-Portraits
    Dazai, Osamu
    Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best—and worst“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete aristocracy to its posturi...

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  • Kairos
    Kairos
    Erpenbeck, Jenny
    WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREJenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—an unforgettably compelling masterpiece—tells the story of the romance begun ...

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  • Obscene Bird of Night, The
    Obscene Bird of Night, The
    Donoso, José
    “To say he’s the best Chilean novelist of the century is to insult him. I don’t think Donoso had such paltry ambitions.” — Roberto BolañoNewly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece finally sees the light of day. Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell, Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades. With a contributi...

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  • World Goes on, The
    World Goes on, The
    Krasznahorkai, László
    Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László KrasznahorkaiIn The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawin...

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  • You Glow in the Dark
    You Glow in the Dark
    Colanzi, Liliana
    Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive powerThe seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi’s writing?at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific?casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some st...

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  • Time Without Keys
    Time Without Keys
    Vitale, Ida
    “Like this bird / that waits until the light dies / to begin singing, / I write in darkness, / when nothing shines / and calls out from the earth.”A landmark collection of poetry by one of Latin America’s most important living writersThe celebrated writer Álvaro Mutis envied new readers of Ida Vitale’s poetry: “unexpected pleasures await them.” Time Without Keys: Selected Poems...

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  • Gentle Barbarian, The
    Gentle Barbarian, The
    Hrabal, Bohumil
    The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of Boudník’s creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transc...

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  • Caterpillar Dogs, The
    Caterpillar Dogs, The
    Williams, Tennessee
    Seven previously unpublished stories of the Great Depression by America’s poet laureate of the lostThese tales were penned by one Thomas Lanier Williams of Missouri before he became a successful playwright, and yet his voice is unmistakable. The reliable idiosyncrasies and quiet dignity of Williams’s eccentrics are already present in his characters. Consider the diminutive octo...

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  • Flowers of Buffoonery, The
    Flowers of Buffoonery, The
    Dazai, Ozamu
    The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanatorium where Yozo Oba-the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age-is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dispiriting backdrop, everyone tries to maintain a light-hearted, even clownish a...

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  • Spadework for a Palace
    Spadework for a Palace
    Krasznahorkai, Laszlo
    WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZESpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the ide´es fixes of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his l...

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  • A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
    A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the...
    Krasznahorkai, Laszlo
    WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZEThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: “he continually saw the garden in his mind’s eye withou...

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  • Scattered All Over the Earth
    Scattered All Over the Earth
    Tawada, Yoko
    Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient ...

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  • Battles in the Desert
    Battles in the Desert
    Pacheco, José Emilio
    This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in "the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods." A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), wh...

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  • Hurricane Season
    Hurricane Season
    Melchor, Fernanda
    The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters--inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable--forming a...

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  • All Fires the Fire
    All Fires the Fire
    Cortázar, Julio
    A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story “Blow--Up” ) creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where...

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  • The Last Wolf & Herman
    The Last Wolf & Herman
    Krasznahorkai, Laszlo
    WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZEThe Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell–it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, and appalled by a species’ end) is narrated— all in a sin...

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  • Houseguest, The
    Houseguest, The
    Dávila, Amparo
    The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storytellerLike those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted?you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She...

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  • Pereira Maintains
    Pereira Maintains
    Tabucchi, Antonio
    Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira’s apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his own inhibitions, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism, and this arc is ...

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  • A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
    A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
    Tanizaki, Junichiro
    A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarreThe three pieces in this collection?the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”?are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki’s favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated even further he...

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  • Extracting the Stone of Madness Poems 1962-1972
    Extracting the Stone of Madness Poems...
    Pizarnik, Alejandra
    Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and...

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  • Collected Poems
    Collected Poems
    Thomas, Dylan
    The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder James Laughlin who identified Thomas' body at the morgue of St. Vincent's Hospital.)Since its initial publication ...

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  • Nazi Literature in the Americas
    Nazi Literature in the Americas
    Bolaño, Roberto
    Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolaño's books to reach a wide public. When it was published by Seix Barral in 1996, critics in Spain were quick to recognize the arrival of an important new talent. The book presents itself as a biographical dictionary of American writers who flirted with or espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twe...

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  • Love Poems
    Love Poems
    Neruda, Pablo
    Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover's body: "today our bodi...

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  • Journey to the End of the Night
    Journey to the End of the Night
    Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
    The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of...

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  • Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II The
    Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume II The
    Williams, Tennessee
    "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams" brings together in a matching format the plays of a genius of the American theatre. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes. ...

    $731.00 MXN

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