Restless Books - Böcker

This Restless Classics edition presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity. Anton Chekhov wrote nearly one thousand stories, a body of work that is unmatched in its alchemy of sensitivity...

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FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024 A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasnt slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs ...

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The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo's magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation's precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master's daughter

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Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges heir and the vanguard of the Po...

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Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others. In the mid 1990s...

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"e;Brimming with intolerable rapture, I almost killed myself many, many times. I wasn't trying to; my love for life just kept spilling me over boundaries into places from which some people don't come back. Hardly restricted by social conventio...

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American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honest...

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American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honest...

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Named one of "e;the best Russian novels of the 21st Century,"e; The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union's collapse."e;I am ...

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The Israeli Republic "e;suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political a...

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Nest of Worlds is the first novel to appear in English from contemporary Polish science fiction master Marek S. Huberath. This metafictional adventure, owing as much to Borges, Saramago, and even Thomas More as it does to Stanislaw Lem, describes ...

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With delicacy and precision, the major Chinese poet Xiao Hai conjures shadows to explore philosophical questions of illusion and reality, history and time, art and language. Composed of several hundred interconnected poems, Xiao's collection is, i...

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The Spines of Love collects work from Victor Teran's poetic oeuvre for the first time in a trilingual edition: in their original Isthmus Zapotec (an endangered indigenous Mexican language) and in David Shook's Spanish and English translations. Sen...

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A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "e;motor-car"e; to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the count...

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Four Corners is Kira Salak's riveting account of her epic, solo jungle trek across the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea-often called the last frontier of adventure travel. Traveling by dugout canoe and on foot, confronting the dang...

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With At the End of Sleep, an anthology selected from the past decade of Israeli poet Tal Nitzan's work, one of Hebrew poetry's most powerful and acclaimed contemporary voices is finally given her English-language due. Reaching beyond lyricism for ...

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In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a utopia of &...

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While best remembered for her revolutionary work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime was a remarkable travel narrative, Letters Written in...

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The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky-director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky's Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American lite...

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"e;A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet E...

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Dissident Cuban writer, photographer, and pioneering blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo presents a collection of surreal, irony-laden photos and texts from his native city. His "e;diary of dystopia"e;-an unexpected fusion of images and words-...

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"e;Finally, we have the chance to read a landmark work from one of Cuba's greatest science fiction writers.... If you like intensely psychological sci-fi that deftly piles on the suspense, this novel's for you.... The boundaries between dream ...

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La culminación esperada de la trilogÿa histórica que comenzó con A Legend of the Future y The Year 200 de Agustÿn de Rojas, ?uno de los más grandes escritores de ciencia ficción de Cuba? - SF Signal. Ganador del prestigioso Premio David de ...

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With At the End of Sleep, an anthology selected from the past decade of Israeli poet Tal Nitzan's work, one of Hebrew poetry's most powerful and acclaimed contemporary voices is finally given her English-language due. Reaching beyond lyricism for ...

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Israeli novelist and activist Shulamith Hareven's masterpiece, Thirst: The Desert Trilogy, contains three of her greatest works: The Miracle Hater, Prophet, and After Childhood. In these beautifully written novellas, Hareven recasts the biblical j...

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"e;A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist's own mixed heritage and mixed feelings....A true citizen of the world....With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his-and every-face are unseen scars."...

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"e;Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her ruminations ripple out from personal and familial memories to wise and honest meditations on families and a...

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After the death of her husband, Akbar Ahmad, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life. But the calm rhythm of her days-gardening, cooking, spending time with her neighbors and family in Karachi-is upset by the appearance of Salamat...

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"e;There could scarcely be a more opportune moment for the appearance in English of the late Cuban science fiction master Agustin de Rojas's epic novel The Year 200.... De Rojas's lucid fictional world intersects with many of our contemporary ...

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"e;In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon ... Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both o...

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