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Country of Toó
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 • One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, …
World at My Back
Av Thomas Melle
Häftad, 2023
170 kr
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"Books written out of great emotional distress are ... rarely great literature. Thomas Melle's [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false note."—Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)Longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose • A …
Transparent City
Av Ondjaki
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD A VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018 A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARS A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018 A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018In a crumbling apartment …
Utopian Generation
Av Pepetela
Häftad, 2025
206 kr
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A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation. Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must …
Party Wall
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Giller PrizeSelected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in …
Black Bread
Häftad, 2016
156 kr
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In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as a subversive, and his mother working long hours in a factory, eleven-year-old Andreu is sent to live …
Black Bread
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as a subversive, and his mother working long hours in a factory, eleven-year-old Andreu is sent to live …
If You Hear Me
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Governor General's Award in TranslationA World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2020Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. …
Dead Heat
Häftad, 2020
168 kr
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In a nameless Hungarian town, teenagers on a competitive swim team occupy their after-training hours with hard drinking and fast cars, hash cigarettes and marathons of Grand Theft Auto, the meaningless sex and late-night exploits of a world defined by self-gratification and all its attendant …
Against Amazon
and Other Essays
Häftad, 2020
184 kr
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A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOKGood bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges … A pleasing labyrinth where you can’t get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse yourself in the books you …
You Will Love What You Have Killed
Häftad, 2020
172 kr
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Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, …
Music Game
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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Winner of the 2023 French-American Translation Prize for FictionNot far away from here is a lake. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there’s a hole in the fence. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. That’s what I will do today. I will go through the …
Sea Loves Me
Selected Stories
Av Mia Couto
Häftad, 2021
197 kr
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An NPR Best Book of 2021New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, …
Hollow Beast
Häftad, 2024
206 kr
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Winner of the 2025 French-American Translation Prize in Fiction • Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation • Finalist for the 2025 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation • A Globe and Mail Most Anticipated Spring TitleDon Quixote meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit in this …
Future
Häftad, 2024
205 kr
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Winner of Canada Reads 2024 • Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • One of Kirkus Reviews' Fall 2023 Big Books By …
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
Häftad, 2025
181 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation • Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation Prize • Finalist for the 2026 French American Foundation Translation Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of …
I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. …
For As Far as the Eye Can See
Häftad, 2013
184 kr
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In the 144 poems of For as Far as the Eye Can See, Robert Melancon re-imagines the sonnet as a "rectangle of twelve lines," and poetry as "a monument as fragile as the grass." Impressionistic, seasonal, allusive, in language sharp and clean, this form-driven collection is both a book of hours and a …
Pensativities
Selected Essays
Av Mia Couto
Häftad, 2015
193 kr
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BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMOES PRIZE "One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."--Philip Graham, The Millions "Subtle and elegant."--The Wall Street Journal "At once deadpan and …
Montréal Before Spring
Häftad, 2015
184 kr
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Telephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy's notebook against the dawn; paint flakes from houses drifting down like dust; the hulking shadow of a desk that emerges, stock-still as a cow, in the moment of waking. Join poet Robert Melancon for a quiet celebration of his city, its inhabitants, and …
Party Wall
Häftad, 2016
156 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize Selected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016 Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in …
Red, Yellow, Green
Häftad, 2017
159 kr
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In Montreal, Alfredo struggles with his memories of being ordered to commit an atrocity by the Bolivian army. Despising his nation as an oppressive sham, he falls for a woman who has no nation—a Kurdish freedom fighter trying to blast an independent Kurdistan into existence. As the net of intrigue …
Oscar
Häftad, 2018
146 kr
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Brad succumbs to the white plague, Oscar too spends his days fighting disease, confined to a hospital. Playing the organ at night for a mysterious sickly girl, he discovers his own talent, although years after recovery, he finds himself desperate, poor, and depressed—until the devil, otherwise …
Dishwasher
Häftad, 2019
181 kr
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WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS • A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK • A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 • As heard on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due …
Mostarghia
Av Maya Ombasic
Häftad, 2019
158 kr
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AN OPENCANADA SUMMER READ 2019In the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies Mostar, a medieval town on the banks of the emerald Neretva, which flows from the “valley of sugared trees” through sunny hills to reach the Adriatic Sea. This idyllic locale is the scene of Maya Ombasic’s childhood—until …
Kahn & Engelmann
A Novel
Av Hans Eichner
Häftad, 2009
204 kr
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A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves, business ventures and failings, and their eventual tragic destruction. Narrated by Peter …
Black Alley
Häftad, 2010
193 kr
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In the Cote-des-Neiges region of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities. Two recent arrivals, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from Haiti, must choose as adults whether to be united by childhood friendship, or …
Accident
Häftad, 2011
181 kr
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In the tradition of Sandor Marai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The 2000 publication of his Journal …
Love Poems
Häftad, 2011
181 kr
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"Love is the finest," writes Jaime Sabines, "the most shuddering, / the most unendurable, silence." Available for the first time as a complete selection in English, Love Poems presents Jaime Sabines' powerful erotic verse in an exceptional translation by Irish Canadian poet Colin Carberry. Jaime …
End of the Story
Häftad, 2012
184 kr
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"Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges ...her fiction chronicles the small tragedies that take place within the vast tragedy of our history. A universal and indispensable writer." - Alberto Manguel When Diana Glass witnesses Leonora's …
