Margellos World Republic of Letters - Böcker

A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists ¿ "A complex and illuminating portrait of a group of healers in China . . . [that] offers profound insights about what it means ...

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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers ¿ "In this dreamlike novel . . . amid increasingly bizarre scenarios, appearances give way to hidden, otherworldly lay...

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory ¿ "Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date." -Malcolm Forbes, The National ¿ The celebrated author Sinan Ant...

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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria ¿ "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, ...

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From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterly and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missin...

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An epic novel of twentieth-century Balkan life, from the decline of the Ottoman Empire through the bloodshed of the Bosnian War This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hu...

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"Elegant. Unpretentious. Approachable. . . . He is, all in all, quite an endearing Nobelist."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post ¿ "Modiano is a pure original."-Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian ¿ "A fine introduction to Modiano's later work."-The Economis...

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An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history ¿ "Földényi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly tra...

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The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of...

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A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English Finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation¿*¿Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Translation¿*¿Shortl...

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Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time ¿ "[A] superb translation."-Bill Marx, Arts Fuse ¿ One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his drama...

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A masterful collection by a literary giant of the past century, rendered by one of our most esteemed Italian translators "A fine sampling of Pirandello's world, convincingly translated by Jewiss, who negotiates the problems of bringing his vivid, ...

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A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine ¿ Chosen as one of "Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine" by the New York Times ¿ Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the "20 Best Books of 2021"...

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A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years ¿ "Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most important creators of European culture at work toda...

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The original English-language translation of Ó Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille, which Colm Tóibín has called the "greatest novel to be written in the Irish language" ¿ "An audacious novel rendered entirely in dialogue . . . [with] hilar...

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A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English ¿ A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick¿*¿A Library Journal choice for Best World Literature of 2023¿*¿A World Literature Today Notable Translation of...

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The most complete English-language collection of the prose of Tadeusz Borowski, the most challenging chronicler of Auschwitz, with a foreword by Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny ¿ "Borowski's sharp-edged descriptions of life in Nazi concentrat...

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A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored ¿ Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 195...

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The first European novel, exquisitely translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ¿ A timeless story of love, morality, and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas's Celestina is a classic of Spanish literature. Second only to DonQuixote in its cultural importance, Ro...

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The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek-a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria ¿ "The surface of [Jelinek's] prose cracks and bursts . . . fissured by phantasmagorical description, ...

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From the sensational Chinese author who has been called "a new world master," a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nation ¿ Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for internationa...

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The first complete English translation of D'Annunzio's haunting book-length prose poem ¿ Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertw...

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The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epoch Walpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright's homel...

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A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." ¿Földényi's extraordinary Melancho...

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The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English ¿ "There's no other writer in China like Can Xue . . . strange, surreal, and very compelling . . . [and] this novel is probably the best place to start."-Chad Post, Publish...

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A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novel...

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A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer¿Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied F...

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Michon's exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief ¿ This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the internationally acclaim...

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One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disci...

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An exploration of desire by the French master Pierre Michon ¿ "A haunting, imagistic book, somehow both lush and spare."-Martin Riker, Wall Street Journal ¿ This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries o...

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