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Notes of a Crocodile
Av Qiu Miaojin
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of …
One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
Av Masanobu Fukuoka, Larry Korn
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
134 kr
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Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative …
Once and Forever
The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
Häftad, 2018
181 kr
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A collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages. Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, …
Kaputt
Av Curzio Malaparte, Dan Hofstadter
Häftad, 2005
170 kr
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Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when …
Memoirs Of Montparnasse
Av John Glassco
Häftad, 2007
198 kr
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Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father …
Savage War of Peace
Algeria 1954-1962
Häftad, 2006
194 kr
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers …
Compulsory Games
Av Robert Aickman, Victoria Nelson
Häftad, 2018
187 kr
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The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird. Robert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through …
Born Under Saturn
The Character and Conduct of Artists
Av Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower
Häftad, 2006
138 kr
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A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.” Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf …
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
Av Thomas Sir Browne, Stephen Greenblatt
Häftad, 2012
203 kr
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Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. …
Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Av Paul Hazard
Häftad, 2013
258 kr
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Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to …
Book of Ebenezer Le Page,The
Av G.B. Edwards
Häftad, 2007
182 kr
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Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France …
Unknown Masterpiece
Häftad, 2000
203 kr
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A New York Review Books Original One of Honoré de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as …
Woman Running in the Mountains
Häftad, 2022
215 kr
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Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby …
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Av Simone Weil
Häftad, 2014
113 kr
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An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In “On the Abolition of All Political Parties” she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance …
Singularity
Av Dino Buzzati
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century Italian literature, a modest university professor becomes involved in a remote and enigmatic project in the middle of the Cold War. At the beginning of Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity , Ermanno Ismani, …
My Dog Tulip
Movie tie-in edition
Häftad, 2010
134 kr
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Heartwarming and profound, this account of one writer’s relationship with his beloved German Shepherd is “one of the bonafide dog-lit classics” ( New Yorker ) The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into …
Ice Trilogy
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
325 kr
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A New York Review Books Original In 1908, deep in Siberia, it fell to earth. THEIR ICE. A young man on a scientific expedition found it. It spoke to his heart, and his heart named him Bro. Bro felt the Ice. Bro knew its purpose. To bring together the 23,000 blond, blue-eyed Brothers and Sisters of …
Way of Life, Like Any Other
Häftad, 2001
126 kr
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The hero of Darcy O'Brien's A Way of Life, Like Any Other is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother was a goddess of the silver screen. The family enjoyed the high life on their estate, Casa Fiesta. But his parents' careers have …
Godlike
Häftad, 2026
181 kr
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An outrageous spectacle of love between two untamed poets, a 27-year old man and a teenage boy, written by one of America’s original punks and finest writers. Based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York, Godlike …
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Häftad, 2007
215 kr
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In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy …
I Used to Be Charming
The Rest of Eve Babitz
Häftad, 2019
220 kr
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Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve’s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in 1974. The books that followed, among them Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage , have seduced …
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
And Other Stories
Häftad, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
151 kr
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First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are …
Last Words from Montmartre
Av Qiu Miaojin
Häftad, 2014
203 kr
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An NYRB Classics Original When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre . Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a …
On Being Blue
A Philosophical Inquiry
Häftad, 2014
129 kr
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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional …
Great Granny Webster
Häftad, 2002
266 kr
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this “masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait” ( Literary Hub ). This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the …
Boredom
Häftad, 2004
210 kr
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The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom , the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously …
Store of the Worlds
The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Av Robert Sheckley, Alex Abramovich
Häftad, 2012
215 kr
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An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth …
Bomarzo
Häftad, 2025
319 kr
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“[ Bomarzo ] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.” —Roberto Bolaño A lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian …
Glass Bees
Av Ernst Junger
Häftad, 2000
212 kr
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In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global …
Contempt
Häftad, 2004
215 kr
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Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking …
