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  • The Piano Teacher

    A Novel

    by Elfriede Jelinek ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian author: a "brilliant, uncompromising" novel that "gets behind the cream-puff prettiness of Vienna" ( Publishers Weekly).In The Piano Teacher, Elfride Jelinek creates a shocking portrait of a talented, capable woman fashioned by society into a ticking bomb. Set in 1980s Vienna, it describes a culture rotting under the weight of its oppressive, outmoded ideals—a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Crazy Century

    by Ivan Klíma ...
    Translated by Craig Cravens ...
    An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author " of enormous power and originality" explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review).In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Intimacy

    by Ivan Klíma ...
    Translated by A. G. Brain ...
    "A compelling [novel] . . . charged with quiet yet urgent wisdom" that explores love, adultery, and faith—by the acclaimed Czech author of Love and Garbage ( The Boston Globe).Pastor Daniel Vedra cares for his family and his congregation, from ministers to prisoners. He is a sought-after commentator in the rapidly changing society of the Czech Republic. But when a beautiful stranger comes to hear ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Game Must Go On

    Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII

    by John Klima ...
    A sweeping study of American baseball during World War II, from the players who enlisted to their replacements and the overall effects on the game.On December 7, 1941, as the battleships in Pearl Harbor smoldered, one of the most powerful athletes in America, Detroit Tigers MVP Hank Greenberg, made a tumultuous decision—to leave the baseball field for the field of war.His decision left baseball's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light

    by Ivan Klíma ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A Czech filmmaker survives Communism with dreams of artistic freedom in this "darkly powerful novel" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Pavel Fukova was once a promising, award-winning documentary filmmaker. But when his homeland is overtaken by a Communist regime, he is forced to survive by working as a cameraman for the state-run television station. Now middle ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children of the Dead

    by Elfriede Jelinek ...
    Translated by Gitta Honegger ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    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, gallows humor, multilingual puns, and scouring sarcasm. . . . Jelinek’s novel is finally . . . a furious accumulation of lost moments and possible outcomes, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Dead Janitors Club

    Pathetically True Tales of a Crime Scene Cleanup King

    by Jeff Klima ...
    It had been well over a month since I had seen or heard from Dirk, and it was showing in my bank account…I was tempted to start searching for another job. I still had faith, though, that somehow, someway, I was meant for this line of work…"Hello?" I mumbled, not recognizing the number on the caller ID."Jeff, it's Dirk," said the voice. I waited curiously, wondering who the hell Dirk was. "We've ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch

    A Grotesque Romanetto

    by Ladislav Klíma ...
    Philosopher, novelist, essayist, madman, no Czech writer has had a greater impact on underground culture than Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928). Mentor to artists as diverse as Bohumil Hrabal and the Plastic People of the Universe, Klíma's approach to philosophy was similar to that of the sages of ancient India: philosophy should not be limited to speaking or writing about it, it should be lived. ... Read more

    $15.85 CAD

  • L.A. Rotten

    A Tom Tanner Mystery

    by Jeff Klima ...
    Series Book 1 - Tom Tanner
    For fans of Dexter, Jeff Klima’s debut thriller is a chillingly suspenseful novel set in a world of violence and chaos—where one man finds himself right at home.As an expert crime-scene cleaner, Tom Tanner charges big money to carve out bullets, mop up fluids, disinfect walls, and dispose of whatever’s left of whomever was unlucky enough to require his services. For a handsome young ex-con ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • All the Rage

    Elfriede Jelinek’s Aesthetics of Passionate Subversion

    Edited by Barbara Kosta, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in Central European Culture
    All the Rage introduces Jelinek’s work and its critical relevance for understanding contemporary western society while gaining insight into the vibrancy of her aesthetics. Jelinek’s experimental reconceptualization of theater and literature and her critical interventions into public discourses that support, promote and endure social injustices are central to this volume. Themes of right-wing ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Greed

    A Novel

    by Elfriede Jelinek ...
    Translated by Martin Chalmers ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author ....Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl’s body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. Inher signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • Glitter & Mayhem

    by John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Apex Magazine ...
    A party in a science fiction anthology? Apex Books has that!Step behind the velvet rope of these fabulous science fiction and fantasy stories of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery.Dance through nightclubs, roller derby with cryptids and aliens, be seduced by otherworldly creatures, and ingest cocktails that will alter your existence forever ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD