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  • Es ist, wie's ist

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Klaus Hoffer ...
    Bereits in ihrem ersten Buch beweist Lydia Davis ihre große Meisterschaft in der kleinen Form. Sie betrachtet auf ihre trocken-humorige und so intelligente Art das, was zwischen uns und in uns selbst vorgehen kann. Auch noch so kleine Feinheiten und Details des Lebens entdeckt Davis und schenkt ihnen besondere Bedeutung. Eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichsten Lebenssituationen und menschlichen ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Among the Bieresch

    by Klaus Hoffer ...
    Series series The German List
    Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire—a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and according to the tradition required by his people—the Bieresch—Hans must assume his uncle’s place for one year. In a series of interactions with the village’s tragicomic characters and their contradictory stories and scriptures, the reluctant Hans must face a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    by Olga Tokarczuk ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx**In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Weird

    A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

    Edited by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer ...
    From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Rosy Crucifixion

    Sexus, Plexus, Nexus

    by Henry Miller ...
    Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, ... Read more

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  • Monday Starts on Saturday

    by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky ...
    Translated by Andrew Bromfield ...
    Series Book 139 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, where research into magic is serious business.And where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind? ... Read more

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  • For Two Thousand Years

    by Mihail Sebastian ...
    Translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now ... Read more

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  • The Lily Hand

    And Other Stories

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Sixteen unforgettable stories from a "beguiling writer" and the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael ( The Daily Telegraph ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorExpanding her horizons far beyond the boundaries of crime fiction, Ellis Peters offers a broad range of short stories in this collection. Two friends, cruelly torn apart when their country is violently ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories

    Edited by Joost Zwagerman ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures***'*We were kids - but good kids. If <e... ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of a Corpse

    by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky ...
    Translated by Joanne Turnbull ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalWinner of the 2014 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2014 Read Russia PrizeThe stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial ... Read more

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  • The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

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    by Andreï Makine ...
    The summer of ’47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Forêt, roughly an hour from Paris, the peaceful radiance of the day is interrupted by the discovery that, along a nearby riverbank, the body of a man has washed up, a gaping wound in his skull. Beside him rests a beautiful, nearly bare-breasted woman, her dress soaked and in tatters. An accident or foul play? A crime of passion? Soon there are ... Read more

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  • A Cup of Rage

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    by Raduan Nassar ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
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