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  • A Father Is Born
    A Father Is Born
    Neuman, Andres
    The moving story of a man becoming a father, written by the winner of the 2009 Alfaguara Award."I am delighted that we are together, my son, becoming what we will both be."A man awaits his son’s birth. Captivated, he follows the mother’s pregnancy, imagining the child that will transform his house, his language, his relationship, and his family history. For a year, he annotates...

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  • Mother River
    Mother River
    Xue, Can / Gernant, Karen / Zeping, Chen
    Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIn Mother River, Can Xue, one of China’s most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself. This collection of thirteen stories weaves together vivid, dreamlike narratives that challenge our perceptions of time, identity, and existence. Through her signature blend of th...

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  • A Muzzle for Witches
    A Muzzle for Witches
    Ugresic, Dubravka
    Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is a conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragic, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing."But...

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  • Years and Years
    Years and Years
    Hwang, Jungeun
    From the internationally acclaimed author of One Hundred Shadows and I’ll Go OnYears and Years opens with the elderly Yi Sunil, devoted housewife and mother of three, making her annual pilgrimage to a remote village in South Korea to visit her grandfather’s grave—likely for the final time. What follows is a multigenerational exploration of desires thwarted by societal obligatio...

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  • Wafers
    Wafers
    Ha, Seong-Nan
    When truth is more gruesome than fiction—Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrusive thoughts—Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves—Ha Seong-nan is there.In Wafers, her third short-story collection to appear in English, Ha continues to weave troublesome coincidences into the seemingly banal in her signature style of engros...

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  • Culture of Lies, The
    Culture of Lies, The
    Ugresic, Dubravka
    The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugrešic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual pers...

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  • Un Amor
    Un Amor
    Mesa, Sara
    Subtly in the vein of Dogville or Coetzee’s Disgrace, and invoking the works of Agota Kristof, Un Amor probes ideas of language, alienation, and community through the eyes of a woman who, when brought into conflict, finds herself on the potential brink of deeper awareness of herself and her place in the world.On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in La Escapa, an arid ...

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  • Pachinko Parlor, The
    Pachinko Parlor, The
    Dusapin, Elisa Shua / Higgins, Aneesa Abbas
    From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time be...

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  • Taker and Other Stories, The
    Taker and Other Stories, The
    Fonseca, Rubem
    "Each of Fonseca's books is not only a worthwhile journey; it is also, in some way, a necessary one." —Thomas PynchonMost widely admired for his short fiction, The Taker and Other Stories is Fonseca’s first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Rubem Fonseca’s Rio ...

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  • Bad Handwriting
    Bad Handwriting
    Mesa, Sara
    From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young gi...

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  • Regal Lemon Tree, The
    Regal Lemon Tree, The
    Saer, Juan José
    One of the late Juan José Saer's most beloved novels, The Regal Lemon Tree shows a master stylist at his best. Set during the day and night of New Year's Eve—building up a barbecue that takes on ritual significance—the novel focuses on a couple in the north of Argentina who lost their only son six years prior. Wenceslao spends the day with his extended family and his memories w...

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  • Clerk, The
    Clerk, The
    Saccomanno, Guillermo
    Winner of the 2010 Premio Biblioteca Breve de NovelPerfectly normal men and women head to their desks every day in a city laid to waste by guerrilla incursions, menaced by hordes of starving people, murderous children and cloned dogs, patrolled by armed helicopters, and plagued with acid rain. Among them is the Clerk, who is willing to be humiliated in order to keep his job—unt...

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  • Garden by the Sea
    Garden by the Sea
    Rodoreda, Merce
    A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil WarThe novel that defined Mercè Rodoreda’s most prolific period is finally available in English for the first time. Set in 1920s Spain, Garden by the Sea takes place over six summers at a villa by the sea inhabited by a young couple and their beautiful, rich, joyous friends. They swim, drink, tease ea...

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  • Dreamed Part, The
    Dreamed Part, The
    Fresan, Rodrigo
    Following his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called “God particle,” The Writer from The Invented Part can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of his life, spinning out a series of insomniac visions every bit as thought-provoking as they are dreamlike. A mysterious foundation dedicated to preser...

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  • Frontier
    Frontier
    Xue, Can
    Can Xue, a leading Chinese experimental writer, focuses on the residents of a surreal small town at the base of a mountain. The facts of the narrative are simple, but the themes of the story are complex and difficult questions. Each chapter focuses on the life of an individual resident of Pebble Town, exploring the ways that odd happenings in the liminal town bleed into the inh...

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  • Death in Spring
    Death in Spring
    Rodoreda, Merce
    Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's masterpiece is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals--almost like Franco's Spain. ...

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  • Karaoke Culture
    Karaoke Culture
    Ugresic, Dubravka
    Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism."Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."—Times Literary SupplementOver the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe"s greatest —and most entertaining— thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop cultur...

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  • Vertical Motion
    Vertical Motion
    Can Xue
    "There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue."—Robert CooverTwo young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor wh...

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  • xSailor from Gibraltar, The
    xSailor from Gibraltar, The
    Duras, Marguerite
    "A haunting tale of strange and random passion."—New York TimesDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of TThe Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown wh...

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  • Fox
    Fox
    Ugresic, Dubravka
    A Best Book of 2018 at Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the New StatesmanFox is the story of literary footnotes and "minor" characters--unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic's characteristic wit, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan, through Balkan minefields and American road trips, and from the 1920s to the ...

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  • Among The Hedges
    Among The Hedges
    Mesa, Sara
    Soon, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women’s magazines. One day, a fifty-year-old man stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking w...

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  • Four by Four
    Four by Four
    Mesa, Sara

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  • Invented Part, The
    Invented Part, The
    Fresán, Rodrigo
    An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity--a meta-writer--capable of rewriting reality.With biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his charac...

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