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First time all of these charmingly literary stories-each of which has appeared in an American journal-have been collected.

Traces the evolution of Gelman's poetry, and his encounter with the political when his son and daughter-in-law were disappeared.

A middle-aged lexicographer, Helena Verbloem, travels alone to Durban to assist in the creation of a dictionary of Afrikaans words that have fallen out of use. Shortly after her arrival, her apartment is burglarized, and her collection of precious shells, shells that she had been collecting for a lifetime, is stolen. Meeting with indifference from the local police, she decides to investigate the crime on her own, with the help of her new frien...

Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conferencehe was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to trans...

Two 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 neighbors consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while hes asleep. After a ten-year absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a high-rise that is floating in the air, wh...

Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.

The Smoke of Distant Fires contains thirteen new poems from the contemporary Peruvian poet, essayist, critic, translator, and childrens book author, Eduardo Chirinos. Precisely organized and formally inventive, each poem in the collection is itself a collection of ten numbered stanzas, and each of the stanzas themselves are fully formed poems, a series of rhythmic, elliptical fables from a fully recognizable, yet wholly original, world. The th...

Wechsler has lost his memory, Amnon can see into people's minds. Their story collide (literally) over a "fake" holocaust memoir.

Neither strictly a collection of stories nor a novel, the ten pieces that comprise My First Suicide straddle the line between intimate revelation and drunken confession. These stories reveal a nostalgic and poetic Pilch, one who can pen a character's lyrical ode to the fate of his father's perfect chess table in one story, examine a teacher's desperate and dangerous infatuation with a student in the next, and then, always true to his obsession...

A writer remembers his childhood friend, M, who was disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War.

An exciting overview of contemporary Spanish literature from young Latin American writers.

A lyrical and moving modern fable on the absurdity of war. The first English translation of Omarsdottir's work.

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julin is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Vernica to return from her art class. Each night, Julin has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before she goes to sleep, and each Sunday he works on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai, but something about this night is different. As Julin be...

Fictional retelling of the most famous spiritualists of the nineteenth century-the Fox Sisters, who conned everyone with their mysterious knockings.

Radical politics and the love-hate of best-friendship are the core of this novel by Greece's leading female writer.

A genre-bending novel about two missing children, a fear-inducing drug called "hadón, " and seven scientists collaborating on a novel-game.

Whisky, snooker, and erotic dreams amid the smoldering racism and murders plaguing a Free State town in South Africa.

A mother and son bond over booze and weed, as they travel to Amsterdam for her special cancer treatment.

From the Best Translated Book Award-winning author, a novel of revenge, insanity, lies, and Hitler.

Featuring 28 extremely influential Spanish-language authors, each of whom selected the "ultimate highlights" of his or her writing career.