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Living in a land distant from France, a memory of hawthorn blossoms in the month of May is evoked in the mind of the author of this text. The memory is associated with his reading of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust and he finds himself recalling images from the novel. His mind slips into a meditation of Proust's novel that gradually develops into an elaborate and original reading of the novel. The text that emerges, Proust's Vision of ...

- Previous work: The Irish Sea (Dalkey, 2017), won Spain's Argaria Prize for Best Narrative Work in 2014 and was short-listed for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize in 2018.

A hypothetical city is the sum of those things which can be said of it: giant and autumnal, a palimpsest of competing histories and traditions bounded by high black mountains and an excrement sea, the city itself a staging ground for a religious war between violent sectarians and bigoted fanatics, Recht's anatomizing of a city in distress is a masterwork of satire and subversion. Written during the height of the Northern Irish Troubles, but mo...

Similarly four complete poetry books and a selection of new poems and sequences-samples the ongoing project of C. S. Giscombe's long, long song of location and range.  In all the work collected here, location is a practice, range is the fact of the serial, the figuring of continuous arrival. The writing speaks to rivers, the souls of city life, animals, the counted and uncounted, the many instances that might indicate "a shape to all that soun...

Max roams parks associated with his successive loves, returning always to Kensington Gardens, until in the novel's final sentence of nearly 600 words, its soaring and flowing rhythm not unlike a string quartet's haunting concluding movement, he embraces all of London.

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Marianne is an adulteress tortured by guilt and by the harassment of a legal investigation. In an effort to escape from the pressures and judgments of the world, she withdraws into the privacy of reading and the printed word, fashioning a strange hybrid of fiction and reality.

It begins in New York with a painting of God by Fra Angelico, which has been stolen from the Louvre by a crowd connected with the famous Romanian thief Gigi Kent. It continues in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest, before ending up in the Maramures, the Carpathian region that bleeds from Romania into Ukraine. But are the Maramures real? Are they a dream, or a nightmare, come to earth? In Maramures (2001), Tsepeneag gives life to a world of memorable ...

The second novel in Goytisolo's Antagony tetralogy, following Recounting. The tetralogy has been compared by Mario Vargas Llosa to the novels of Marcel Proust, Hermann Broch, and James Joyce.

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