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A moody and beautiful reflection on relationships, and how our idea of the world too often fails to match reality, All My Friends delivers five stories that probe the boundaries between individuals to mediate on how well we really know anybody, in...

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The Prix Goncourtwinning author of the scandalous The Kindly Ones returns with four new novellas that offer startlingly fresh depictions of age-old obsessions: sex and love, desiring and gazing, and the memories that take a lifetime to process. In...

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Chinese literature published in the United States has tended to focus on politics think the Cultural Revolution and dissidents but there's a whole other world of writing out there. It's punk, dealing with the harsh realities lived by the millions ...

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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidts stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes the...

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It seems there is no genre of writing Marie NDiaye will not make her own. Asked to write a memoir, she turned in this paranoid fantasia of rising floodwaters, walking corpses, eerie depictions of her very own parents, and the incessant reappearanc...

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Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literatures best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.The book opens with The Game...

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Doppelgngers, a murderers guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romancesthese are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Ger...

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The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh recession, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash. As the town attends the funeral, a banker named Ernest heads to the tree where they died, trying...

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When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when hes abruptly taken to a new home a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All thats required of him is ...

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Zlata and Srebra are 12-year-old twins conjoined at the head. It is 1984 and they live in Skopje, which will one day be the capital of Macedonia but is currently a part of Yugoslavia. A Spare Life tells the story of their childhood, from their onl...

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Just who is the narrator of Joo Gilberto Nolls dark and mysterious Atlantic Hotel? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver hes...

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Marie NDiaye has long been celebrated for her unrivaled ability to make us see just how little we understand about ourselves. My Heart Hemmed In is her most powerful statement on the hidden selves that we rarely glimpse-and are often shocked by.Th...

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A provocative new novel from the author ranked among Granta's "e;Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists"e;Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyche s most obscure alleyways, Elvira Navarro here ...

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What falsehoods do we believe as children? And what happens when we realize they are lies-possibly heinous ones? In Old Rendering Plant Wolfgang Hilbig turns his febrile, hypnotic prose to the intersection of identity, language, and history's dark...

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A "e;Book You Should Read This April"e; at Literary Hub"e;Masatsugu Ono s Lion Cross Point pulls off a number of narrative elements that I admire in fiction. . . . A moving and (literally) haunting novel."e; Tobias Carroll, Literar...

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Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named "e;the garbagemen."e; As Waller becomes fascinated with the...

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"e;Kim Sagwa is South Korea's young, brilliant, fearless writer."e; - Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War She doesn t know what to do, and that amounts to a state of torture. Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school...

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What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author focusing his labyrinthine, mercurial mind on...

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