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Juan Jos Saers Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun, or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have some connection to the crime: a young reporter, ngel, who lives with his mother and works the courthouse beat, a dissolute attorney who clings to life only for his nightly baccarat game, a misanthropic and dwindling judge whos crea...

Pilch's prose is masterful, and the bulk of The Mighty Angel evokes the same numb, floating sensation as a bottle of Zloldkowa Gorzka." -L Magazine The Mighty Angel concerns the alcoholic misadventures of a writer named Jerzy. Eighteen times he's woken up in rehab. Eighteen times he's been released-a sober and, more or less, healthy man-after treatment at the hands of the stern therapist Moses Alias I Alcohol. And eighteen times he's stopped ...

In this spaghetti western, a mysterious man arrives in a corrupt town seeking revenge for his "sister" and upends everything.

This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family.

A stylistically brilliant look at the male-dominated art world, madness, and identity.

A scathing critique of humanity set in a nuclear wasteland following the fall of the Second Soviet Union.

A surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award.

Disaffected, 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 The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of the Gibraltar, a yach...

These three pieces-a memoir-essay and two long poems-are the first from this contemporary Russian poet to appear in English.

Keine Beschreibung.

An inside look at Michael Henry Heim-one of the most prolific and culturally important translators ever.

Saer's final novel, bringing together many prior themes and characters, and gathering them at a party with lots of wine.

A humorous picaresque set in sixteenth-century Spain, Thrown into Nature tells the story of Dr. Nicols Monardes, whose medical treatise Of the Tabaco and His Great Vertues was partially responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe. His Portuguese assistant, Da Silva, narrates the absurd adventures of the wealthy and influential Dr. Monardes, who steadfastly believed that tobaccowhether the leaves were made into a poultice, the smoke was piped...

The story of a woman's life told in reverse, this is the first Latvian novel to be published in America.

A murder mystery connecting many of the earth-shaking events of the past 50 years from one of Mexico's hottest authors.

A comic gem, Jerzy Pilchs A Thousand Peaceful Cities takes place in 1963, in the latter days of the Polish post-Stalinist thaw. The narrator, Jerzyk (little Jerzy), is a teenager who is keenly interested in his father, a retired postal administrator, and his fathers closest friend, Mr. Tr?ba, a failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, would-be Polish insurrectionist, and one of the wildest literary characters since Sternes Uncle Toby. One drunken...

Originally published: Italy: Giulio Einaudi Editore, Torino, 1982.

A work of contemporary reportage in which the author traverses Europe while recounting stories from his family's past.

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

Iceland's first modernist novel is a wild excursion through the mind of a senile man trying to write his memoirs.