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  • My Beautiful Bus

    by Jacques Jouet ...
    Translated by Eric Lamb ...
    Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, My Beautiful Bus is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel. Based on an actual bus trip across France taken by Oulipo-member Jacques Jouet in the late '80s, his fictional reconstruction of the experience twenty years later focuses not so much on the scenery as on the possibilities offered an author by the eponymous ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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  • Whatever

    by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Dictionary of Animal Languages

    by Heidi Sopinka ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeLonglisted for the 2019 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeA novel of love, longing, and art set in interwar Paris, The Dictionary of Animal Languages will appeal to readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Disappeared.**Ivory Frame is a renowned artist. Now in her nineties, the famously reclusive painter remains devoted to her work ... Read more

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  • The Return

    by Dany LaFerrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    At the age of twenty-three, the narrator hurriedly packed his bags and left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier's regime had just killed a journalist colleague. But thirty-three years later, after his father's death, he decides to return him to Baradères, the village where he was born.How does one return from exile? In ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Horoscopes for the Dead

    Poems

    by Billy Collins ...
    **WINNER—BEST POETRY—GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDSNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEASTNATIONAL BESTSELLER**Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union, Collins’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Wisdom of Donkeys

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    In this enchanting book, Andrew Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a friend’s donkey, through the crumbling ruins and spectacular vistas of southern France’s Haute-Auvergne. Along the way the understated nobility of Gribouille, his humble donkey companion, allows him to confront himself as well as to consider the larger mysteries of life. As Merrifield contemplates literature, ... Read more

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  • Writing

    by Marguerite Duras ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Writing, one of Marguerite Duras’s last works, is a meditation on the process of writing and on her need for solitude in order to do it. In the five short pieces collected in this volume, she explores experiences that had an emotional impact on her and that inspired her to write. These vary from the death of a pilot in World War II, to the death of a fly, to an art exhibition. Two of the pieces ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • View With A Grain Of Sand

    Selected Poems

    by Wislawa Szymborska ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The World Doesn't End

    A Poetry Collection

    by Charles Simic ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry“One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” —Los Angles Times Book ReviewYou never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II.He puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Best European Fiction 2011

    by Colum McCann ...
    Series series Best European Fiction
    The launch of Dalkey's Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print and online magazines such as the Believer, Bookslut, Paste, and the Huffington Post; radio interviews wi... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viviane

    A Novel

    by Julia Deck ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    Winner of the inaugural French Voices Award: "[A] masterfully conceived debut, a relentless tale, intricately and irresistibly told" ( La Quinzaine Littéraire).Only once in a great while does a new novel come along that takes a literary scene by storm, demonstrating real innovation in the craft of storytelling. Julia Deck provides this force in Viviane—the first debut novel in a generation to be ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus