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In this case, the seven characters of the novel—from Boris, a young boy who is only at peace when he’s around bees, to Philip and Maria and their twins—each play a specific role in the lives of the others, binding them all together into a strange, yet logical, knot. As characters are picked up, explored, and then swept aside, the novel’s beguiling structure becomes apparent, forcing the reader to pay attention to the patterns created by this accumulation of events and relationships. This is not a novel of reaching moral high ground; this is not a book about resolving relationships; this is a story whose mysteries are mysteries for a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with a precise, succinct tone that calls to mind Camus’s \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEverything Happens as It Does\u003c\/em\u003e is a captivating and detail-driven novel that explores how depth will never be as immediately accessible as superficiality, and how everything will run its course in the precise manner it was always meant to. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/everything-happens-as-it-does-excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Olga Nikolova\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Albena Stambolova is the author of three novels: \u003cem\u003eEverything Happens as It Does\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHop-Hop the Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAn Adventure, to Pass the Time\u003c\/em\u003e. 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It doesn’t take them long to figure out they’re connected to each other by more than their need to travel—specifically through Boril’s daughter, whose actions damaged each of the characters in this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-winner of the Contemporary Bulgarian Writers Contest, \u003cem\u003eA Short Tale of Shame\u003c\/em\u003e marks the arrival of a new talent in Bulgarian literature with a novel about the need to come to terms with the shame and guilt we all harbor. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/a-short-tale-of-shame-excerpt\" title=\"A Short Tale of Shame - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e Angel Igov is a Bulgarian writer, literary critic, and translator. 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Orwell would approve.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it’s the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic’s writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her “the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had.” In \u003cem\u003eEurope in Sepia\u003c\/em\u003e, Ugresic, ever the flâneur, wanders from the Midwest to Zuccotti Park, the Irish Aran Islands to Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim, from the tristesse of Dutch housing estates to the riots of south London, charting everything from the listlessness of Central Europe to the ennui of the Low Countries. One finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of postindustrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInfused with compassion and melancholic doubt, \u003cem\u003eEurope in Sepia\u003c\/em\u003e centers on the disappearance of the future, the anxiety that no new utopian visions have emerged from the ruins of communism; that ours is a time of irreducible nostalgia, our surrender to pastism complete. Punctuated by the levity of Ugresic’s raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/europe-in-sepia-excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Croatian by David Williams\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDubravka Ugresic is the author of several works of fiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ministry of Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, and several essay collections, \u003cem\u003eNobody's Home\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaraoke Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. 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With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that’s all her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhether it’s commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with unmatched honesty and panache. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKaraoke Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is full of candid, personal, and opinionated accounts of topics ranging from the baffling worldwide-pop-culture phenomena to the detriments of conformist nationalism. 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These stories of escape, war, and violence intermingle with the interpreter’s own reading: a his­tory of an ancient Persian war; letters sent to his son “Nebuchadnezzasaurus,” ruler of a distant, imaginary childhood empire; and the diaries of a Russian singer who lived through Russia’s wars and revolutions in the early part of the twentieth century, and eventually saw the Soviet Union’s dissolution. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMikhail Shishkin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an instant classic of Russian literature. It bravely takes on the eternal questions—of truth and fiction, of time and timeless­ness, of love and war, of Death and the Word—and is a movingly luminescent expression of the pain of life and its uncountable joys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMikhail Shishkin has worked as a school teacher and a journalist. In 1995, he moved to Switzerland, where he worked as a Russian and German translator for asylum seekers. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. 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The winner of a Translation Fellowship from the NEA (1998 and 2006) and the Heldt Translation Prize (2002 and 2011), Schwartz has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova, Yuri Olesha, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Gelasimov, among others, including Leo Tolstoy's \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Most of the critics agree that 2005 will go down in the history of Russian literature as the year when \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the new novel by Mikhail Shishkin, was published.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003eL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eiteraturnaya Rossia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaidenhair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a kind of book they give the Nobel prize for. The novel is majestic.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNezavisimaya Gazeta\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mikhail Shishkin","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":386455180,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Maidenhair_front_BTBA.jpg?v=1382814432"},{"product_id":"the-dark","title":"The Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eOctober 15, 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 143 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-43-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Early in Sergio Chejfec’s \u003cem\u003eThe Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.' This phrase describes the experience of reading Chejfec’s novel. . . . These moments, when Chejfec combines exquisite prose with the human yearning for truth and beauty, keep us reading, weighing the novel’s contradictions, sifting through the narrator’s abstract reflections in search of his life’s meaning.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpening with the presently shut-in narrator reminiscing about a past relationship with Delia, a young factory worker,\u003cem\u003eThe Dark\u003c\/em\u003e employs Chejfec’s signature style with an emphasis on the geography and motion of the mind, to recount the time the narrator spent with this multifaceted, yet somewhat absent, woman. On their daily walks he becomes privy to the ways in which the working class functions; he studies and analyzes its structure and mindset, finding it incredibly organized, self-explanatory, and even beautiful. He repeatedly attempts to apply his “book” knowledge to explain what he sees and wants to understand of Delia’s existence, and though the difference between their social classes is initially a source of great intrigue—if not obsession—he must eventually learn that there comes a point where the boundary between observer and participant can dissolve with disarming speed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a voice that favors erudite distance, yet simultaneously demands intimate attention, \u003cem\u003eThe Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is the most captivating example of Sergio Chejfec’s unique narrative approach, and a resonant novel that calls into question the necessity, risks, and fallout behind the desire and attempt to know another person. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-dark-excerpt\" title=\"The Dark - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSergio Chejfec, originally from Argentina, has published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Among his grants and prizes, he has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in 2007 and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2000. His books have been translated into French, German, and Portuguese. He teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at NYU, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Two Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his first novel to be translated into English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Heather Cleary is a translator of fiction, criticism, and poetry, whose work has appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes, including \u003cem\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Coffin Factory\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRevealing Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e. She was awarded a Translation Fund Grant from the PEN America Center for her work on Oliverio Girondo's \u003cem\u003ePersuasión de los días\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Rosenthal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, \u003cem\u003eDeath in Spring \u003c\/em\u003eis one of Mercè Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town—burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood—through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate. 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What struck me most was his everyday language. Even when his subjects rely on metaphor, his words are plain, and so turn mysterious.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Federico Fellini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiulio Mozzi’s first book, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 1993 Premio Mondello), astonished the Italian literary world for its commanding vision and the beauty of its prose. In the eight stories of this collection, we see a steady reworking of the idea of the world as a fallen Eden. Here, in Mozzi’s garden, quasi-allegorical characters seek knowledge of something beyond their shaken realities: they have all lost something and react by escaping, retreating from reality into a world, as Mozzi says, that is “fantastic, mystical, absurd.” A purse-snatcher mails his victim’s letters back to her, including a letter of his own. An apprentice longs to be a real person, a worker, in an anonymous business where Kafkaesque machines cut nondescript pieces from an unnamed raw material. A man finds, in his endless activity of picking up broken glass in his garden, a metaphor for gathering the pieces of his soul. Intensely imagistic, mystical, mysterious, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e is a complicated, unsentimental—yet also heartfelt—exploration of spirituality, love, and the act of creation by a master of the short-story form. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/this-is-the-garden-excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGiulio Mozzi has published twenty-six books—as fiction writer, poet, and editor. He is primarily known for his story collections, especially \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Is the Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the Premio Mondello. “The Apprentice” (included in this collection) appears in an anthology of the top Italian stories of the twentieth century. He has even created an imaginary artist, Carlo Dalcielo, whose work has appeared in public exhibitions and books, like Dalkey Archive Press’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest European Fiction 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elizabeth Harris's translations have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is also the translator of Mario Rigoni Stern's \u003cem\u003eGiacomo's Seasons \u003c\/em\u003e(Autumn Hill) and Antonio Tabucchi's \u003cem\u003eTristano Is Dying\u003c\/em\u003e (Archipelago). She teaches creative writing at the University of North Dakota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Gorgeously rooted in the best modernist tradition of writers like Italo Calvino and Antonio Tabucchi, Giulio Mozzi is among the most fiercely literary authors emerging from Italian literature today. These stories, which in so many different ways are about writing itself, are like rivers cutting through the northern Italian countryside—lush, limpid, exotic. Elizabeth Harris's translation beautifully renders the noble grit of Mozzi's distinctive voice.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Minna Proctor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Giulio Mozzi","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":386504342,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/This_Is_the_Garden.jpg?v=1382820417"},{"product_id":"the-pets","title":"The Pets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eNovember 10, 2015 (pb)\u003cbr\u003eOctober 15, 2008 (hc, out of print)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 157 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-29-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"Dark, scary, and unbelievably funny.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The best short novel I’ve read this year. . . .Small, dark, and hard to put down, The Pets may be a classic in the literature of small enclosed spaces.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBack in Reykjavik after a vacation in London, Emil Halldorsson is waiting for a call from a beautiful girl, Greta, that he met on the plane ride home, and he’s just put on a pot of coffee when an unexpected visitor knocks on the door. Peeking through a window, Emil spies an erstwhile friend—Havard Knutsson, his one-time roommate and current resident of a Swedish mental institution—on his doorstep, and he panics, taking refuge under his bed and hoping the frightful nuisance will simply go away. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHavard won’t be so easily put off, however, and he breaks into Emil’s apartment and decides to wait for his return—Emil couldn’t have gone far; the pot of coffee is still warming on the stove. While Emil hides under his bed, increasingly unable to show himself with each passing moment, Havard discovers the booze, and he ends up hosting a bizarre party for Emil's friends, and Greta. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn alternately dark and hilarious story of cowardice, comeuppance, and assumed identity, the breezy and straightforward style of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e belies its narrative depth, and disguises a complexity that grows with every page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Janice Balfour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBragi Ólafsson is the author of several books of poetry and short stories, and four novels, including \u003cem\u003eTime Off\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize in 1999 (as was \u003cem\u003eThe Pets\u003c\/em\u003e), and \u003cem\u003eParty Games\u003c\/em\u003e, for which Bragi received the DV Cultural Prize in 2004. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/the-ambassador\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ambassador\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, available from Open Letter, was a finalist for the 2008 Nordic Literature Prize and received the Icelandic Bookseller’s Award as best novel of the year. Bragi is one of the founders of the publishing company Smekkleysa (Bad Taste), and has translated Paul Auster’s \u003cem\u003eCity of Glass\u003c\/em\u003e into Icelandic. He is also a former bass player with The Sugarcubes, the internationally successful pop group that featured Björk as the lead vocalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Dark, strange, elusive, compelling, and oddly charming.”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bragi Ólafsson","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":388269866,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":388269868,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Pets-front.jpg?v=1436298689"},{"product_id":"the-book-of-happenstance","title":"The Book of Happenstance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJune 14, 2011\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 254 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-33-7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"This is an extraordinary story from an extraordinary writer. . . . If you haven’t experienced the mind of Ingrid Winterbach yet, she is a writer who clings to your soul.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePretoria News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA middle-aged lexicographer, Helena Verbloem, travels alone to Durban to assist in the creation of a dictionary of Afrikaans words that have fallen out of use. Shortly after her arrival, her apartment is burglarized, and her collection of precious shells, shells that she had been collecting for a lifetime, is stolen. Meeting with indifference from the local police, she decides to investigate the crime on her own, with the help of her new friend from the Museum of Natural History, Sof. While investigating the crime, Helena reflects on the life she’s lived—her ex-husband, her daughter, her lovers, her childhood—and begins to fall in love with her married boss, Theo Verway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn alternately sublime and satirical meditation on love, loss, and obsession, Ingrid Winterbach's \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Happenstance\u003c\/i\u003e is an emotionally affecting masterpiece from one of South Africa’s most exciting authors. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-book-of-happenstance-excerpt\" title=\"The Book of Happenstance - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Afrikaans by \u003cspan class=\"translator_name\"\u003eDirk \u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"translator_name\"\u003eIngrid Winterbach\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIngrid Winterbach is an artist and novelist whose work has won South Africa’s M-Net Prize, Old Mutual Literary Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, and the W.A. 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Captured on suspicion of desertion and treason—during a trek across an unchanging desert of bushes, rocks, and ant hills to help transport a fellow-soldier, who has suffered debilitating shell-shock, to his mother—they are forced to await the judgment of a General Bergh, unsure whether they are to be conscripted into Bergh’s commando, allowed to continue their mission, or executed for treason. As the weeks pass, and the men’s despair at ever returning to their families reaches its peak, they are sent on a bizarre mission...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA South African \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Ingrid Winterbach’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Hell with Cronjé\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a poetic exploration of friendship and camaraderie, an eerie reflection of the futility of war, and a thought-provoking re-examination of the founding moments of the South African nation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Afrikaans by Elsa Silke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIngrid Winterbach is an artist and novelist whose work has won South Africa’s M-Net Prize, Old Mutual Literary Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, and the W.A. 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When a small group of paratroopers kill everyone who lives there with her, and then turn on each other, Billie is forced to learn to live with the violent, innocent, and troubled Rafael, who decides to abandon the soldier’s life and become a farmer, no matter what it takes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lyrical and continually surprising take on the absurdity of war and the mysteries of childhood,\u003cem\u003eChildren in Reindeer Woods\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving modern fable. \u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/children-in-reindeer-woods-excerpt\" title=\"Children in Reindeer Woods - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e by Lytton Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKristín Ómarsdóttir has published books of poetry, short stories, and novels, and written plays for the theatre in her native Iceland. 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Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the two-dimensional information of the map onto the impassable roads and dead-ends of the three-dimensional city, once he finds the park the narrator begins to see his own thoughts, reflections, and memories mirrored in the landscape of the park and its inhabitants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eChejfec's \u003ci\u003eMy Two Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, an extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, is at once descriptively inventive and preternaturally familiar, a novel that challenges the limitations of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eMargaret B. 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These stories capture Rodoreda’s full range of expression, from quiet literary realism to fragmentary impressionism to dark symbolism. Few writers have captured so clearly, or explored so deeply, the lives of women who are stuck somewhere between senseless modernity and suffocating tradition—Rodoreda’s “women are notable for their almost pathological lack of volition, but also for their acute sensitivity, a nearly painful awareness of beauty” (Natasha Wimmer).\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMercè Rodoreda (1908–1983) is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda began writing the novels and short stories—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwenty-two Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times of the Doves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCamellia Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGarden by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—that would eventually make her internationally famous, while at the same time earning a living as a seamstress. In the mid-1960s she returned to Catalonia, where she continued to write. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath in Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her final novel, is also available from Open Letter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMartha Tennent is an English-language translator who works primarily from Catalan and Spanish. She was born in the United States, but has lived most of her life in Barcelona. She received a fellowship from the NEA for her translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Storie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003es of Mercè Rodoreda\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEpiphany\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePEN America\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mercè Rodoreda","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":404575485,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":404575489,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/stories_highres.jpg?v=1384460804"},{"product_id":"nobodys-home","title":"Nobody's Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eSeptember 15, 2008\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eessays | hc | 297 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-00-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Every day and age has its rules. Currently, good behavior dictates that we be politically correct, evade conflicts, espouse tolerance, and make no hasty judgments. To be judgmental is viewed as one of the most reprehensible human traits. People are likely to think today that an optimist is a good person, while a pessimist is the lowest of the low. Picking your nose in public is more forgivable then being pessimistic. [. . .] We live in a time that urges us to behave as if we are in paradise. Yet the world we live in is no paradise. This book breaks the rules of good behavior, because it bickers.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThis series of thought-provoking and incisive essays from Dubravka Ugresic explores the full spectrum of human existence. From life in exile to life in prison, from bottled-water drinking tourists with massive backpacks to the Eurovision song contest, Ugresic's unfailingly sharp critical eye never fails to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight by routine, or uncover the tragic, and the comic, in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Croatian by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eEllen Elias-Bursac\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDubravka Ugresic is the author of several works of fiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Unconditional Surrender\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ministry of Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, and several essay collections, including \u003cem\u003eE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003europe in Sepia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKaraoke Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Each section opens with a loving quotation from the Russian satirists Ilf and Petrov, and Ugresic writes with something of their impish genius.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dubravka Ugresic","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":404618077,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/nobody_highres.jpg?v=1384463073"},{"product_id":"the-guinea-pigs","title":"The Guinea Pigs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eMay 17, 2011\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 167 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-34-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"One of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe. This brilliant book must be read.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA clerk at the State Bank begins to notice that something strange is going on— bank employees are stuffing their pockets with money every day, only to have it taken every evening by the security guards who search the employees and confiscate the cash. But, there’s a discrepancy between what is being confiscated and what is being returned to the bank, and our hero is beginning to fear that a secret circulation is developing, one that could undermine the whole economy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMeanwhile, the clerk and his family begin to keep guinea pigs, and at night, when everyone is asleep, our hero begins to conduct experiments with the pets, teaching them tricks, testing their intelligence and endurance, and using some rather questionable methods to encourage the animals to befriend him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLudvík Vaculík’s \u003ci\u003eThe Guinea Pigs\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Vaculík owes much to Kafka, his fellow countryman, but he had direct experience of the oppressive absurdity that lived in Kafka’s imagination, which here is expressed with an ironic and knowingly innocent Czech smile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Czech by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eKača Poláčková\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLudvík Vaculík was born in 1926 in Brumov, Czechoslovakia. 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From 1973–1989, he ran a samizdat publishing house, Padlock Editions, which printed and distributed over 400 banned titles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The extraordinary adventures of a petty bank clerk, of his guinea pigs, his family, and his weird superiors are all shrouded in an eerie conviviality which chills the reader.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Antonin J. 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Taking place over three decades, High Tide functions as a sort of psychological mystery, with the full scope of Ieva’s personal situation—and the relationship between the three main characters—only becoming clear at the end of the novel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eOne of Latvia’s most notable young writers, Ābele is a fresh voice in European fiction—her prose is direct, evocative, and exceptionally beautiful. The combination of strikingly lush descriptive writing with the precision with which she depicts the minds of her characters elevates this novel from a simple story of a love triangle into a fascinating, philosophical, haunting book. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/high-tide-excerpt\" title=\"High Tide - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Latvian by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eKaija Straumanis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInga Ābele (born 1972) is a Latvian novelist, poet, and playwright. Her novel High Tide received the 2008 Latvian Literature Award, and the 2009 Baltic Assembly Award in Literature. Her works have been translated into Swedish, English, French, and Russian, among others, and have appeared in such anthologies as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew European Poets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest European Fiction 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShort Stories without Borders: Young Writers for a New Europe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her most recent book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnts and Bumblebees\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a collection of short stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kaija Straumanis is a graduate of the MA program in Literary Translation Studies at the University of Rochester, and is the editorial director of Open Letter Books. She has translated works by Inga Ābele, Inga Žolude, Jānis Joņevs, and Zigmunds Skujiņš, among others. She received the 2015 AATSEEL Book Award for Best Translation into English (Creative Literature) for her work on \u003cem\u003eHigh Tide\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Ābele has the rare ability to find that existential abyss that lies beneath the superficial surface of daily existence.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuntis Berelis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inga Ābele","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":404671865,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":404671869,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/High_Tide.jpg?v=1384465124"},{"product_id":"lamour","title":"L'Amour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJuly 16, 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 112 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-79-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Duras’s language and writing shine like crystals.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA man—the traveler—arrives in the seaside town of S. Thala with the intent to abandon his present, and instead finds himself abruptly reintroduced to his past. Through his subsequent interactions with “her,” the woman to whom he was briefly engaged as a young man over twenty years ago, and “him,” the man who walks and keeps watch over “her,” the traveler is soon drawn back in and acclimated to the strange timelessness and company that is S. Thala. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in a stark and cinematic narrative style, this sequel to Duras’s 1964 novel\u003cem\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/em\u003e is a curious, yet haunting representation of the human memory: what we choose to recall, what we choose to forget, and how reliable we ultimately decide ourselves to be. \u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/l-amour-excerpt\" title=\"L'Amour - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the French by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eKazim Ali \u0026amp; Libby Murphy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#666666\" style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eIntroduction by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eKazim Ali\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarguerite Duras was born in Giadinh, Vietnam (then Indochina) to French parents. During her lifetime she wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ravishing of Lol Stein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sea Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHiroshima, Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and was associated with the nouveau roman (or new novel) French literary movement. Duras is probably most well known for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an autobiographical work that received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992. She died in Paris in 1996 at the age of 81.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eKazim Ali is a poet, essayist, and novelist, and has published a translation of \u003cem\u003eWater's Footfall\u003c\/em\u003e by Sohrab Sepehri in addition to co-translating Duras's \u003cem\u003eL'Amour\u003c\/em\u003e. He teaches at Oberlin College and the University of Southern Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLibby Murphy teaches at Oberlin College. She has published articles on print culture and the First World War, and on the reception of Charlie Chaplin's films in wartime and postwar France.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A spectacular success. . . . Duras is at the height of her powers.”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Edmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought.”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":405605149,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Lamour-front.jpg?v=1384533819"},{"product_id":"the-sailor-from-gibraltar","title":"The Sailor from Gibraltar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eDecember 15, 2008\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 318 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-04-7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"A haunting tale of strange and random passion.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDisaffected, bored with his career at the French Colonial Ministry (where he has copied out birth and death certificates for eight years), and disgusted by a mistress whose vapid optimism arouses his most violent misogyny, the narrator of The Sailor from Gibraltar finds himself at the point of complete breakdown while vacationing in Florence. After leaving his mistress and the Ministry behind forever, he joins the crew of The Gibraltar, a yacht captained by Anna, a beautiful American in perpetual search of her sometime lover, a young man known only as the \"Sailor from Gibraltar.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFirst published in 1952, this early novel of Duras's—which was made into a film in 1967—shows those preoccupations which have so deeply concerned her in her later novels and film scripts: loneliness, boredom, the inevitability and intangibility of love. The lambent poetry of the book, and the limning of a woman's mind, her love and sense of the inevitability of that love are singularly Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the French by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#444444\" style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Bray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06; line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#666666\" style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarguerite Duras was born in Giadinh, Vietnam (then Indochina) to French parents. 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A very attractive book.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Saturday Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"[Duras's] sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader's mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and thought.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":405794969,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/sailor_highres.jpg?v=1384542901"},{"product_id":"the-museum-of-eternas-novel","title":"The Museum of Eterna's Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eFebruary 16, 2010\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 240 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-06-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\"I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio, imperfect previous versions. To not imitate this canon would have represented incredible negligence.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Jorge Luis Borges\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the very definition of a novel written ahead of its time. Macedonio (known to everyone by his unusual first name) worked on this novel in the 1930s and early '40s, during the heyday of Argentine literary culture, and around the same time that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt Swim-Two-Birds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published, a novel that has quite a bit in common with Macedonio's masterpiece. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn many ways, \u003cem\u003eMuseum\u003c\/em\u003e is an \"anti-novel.\" It opens with more than fifty prologues—including ones addressed \"To My Authorial Persona,\" \"To the Critics,\" and \"To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don’t Know What the Novel Is About\"—that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart \"skip-around readers\" (by writing a book that’s defies linearity!). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second half of the book is the novel itself, a novel about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called \"la novella\" . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hilarious and often quite moving book, \u003cem\u003eThe Museum of Eterna's Novel \u003c\/em\u003eredefined the limits of the genre, and has had a lasting impact on Latin American literature. Authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Ricardo Piglia have all fallen under its charm and high-concepts, and, at long last, English-speaking readers can experience the book that helped build the reputation of Borges's mentor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Adam Thirlwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMacedonio Fernández is considered one of the greatest Argentine writers of the twentieth century. 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Ruskov writes like an angel.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Alex Miller, author of \u003cem\u003eJourney to the Stone Country\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milen Ruskov","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":406344737,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":406344745,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/thrown_highres.jpg?v=1384579270"},{"product_id":"two-or-three-years-later","title":"Two or Three Years Later","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJune 18, 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003estories | pb | 142 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-70-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Ror Wolf’s miniature stories about everyday catastrophes undermine traditional storytelling. . . . 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Or, as the narrator puts it, ‘odiodsamato,’ which translates roughly as ‘frienemies.’”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Gary Shteyngart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI\u003c\/span\u003en Amanda Michalopoulou’s \u003ci\u003eWhy I Killed My Best Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, a young girl named Maria is lifted from her beloved Africa and relocated to her native Greece. She struggles with the transition, hating everything about Athens: the food, the air, the school, her classmates, the language. Just as she resigns herself to misery, Anna arrives. Though Anna’s refined, Parisian upbringing is the exact opposite of Maria’s, the two girls instantly bond over their common foreignness, becoming inseperable in their relationship as each other’s best friend, but also as each other’s fiercest competition—be it in relation to boys, talents, future aspirations, or political beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Maria and Anna’s grade school days in ’70s, post-dictatorship Greece, to their adult lives in the present, Michalopoulou charts the ups, downs, and fallings-out of the powerful self-destructive bond only true best friends can have. Simply and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eWhy I Killed My Best Friend\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that ultimately compares and explores friendship as a political system of totalitarianism and democracy. (\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/why-i-killed-my-best-friend-excerpt\" title=\"Why I Killed My Best Friend - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmanda Michalopoulou is the author of six novels, three short story collections, and a successful series of children’s books. One of Greece’s leading contemporary writers, Michalopoulou has won the country’s highest literary awards, including the Revmata Prize, the Diavazo Award, and the Prize of Athens Academy. Her story collection, \u003cem\u003eI’d Like\u003c\/em\u003e, was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“What typifies Michalopoulou’s novels is their artful structure, the stories within stories . . . an intense, introspective, sometimes obsessive, female protagonist . . . and an unreliable narrative that is constantly being undercut, reworked, tilted at a different angle.”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Vivienne Nilan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amanda Michalopoulou","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":496945989,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561016647724,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Why_I_Killed-front.jpg?v=1390412841"},{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-my-mother","title":"The Last Days of My Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eAugust 20, 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 225 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-73-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“A darkly humorous work, but also very sad—a mortal struggle, where the joy of life grapples with the fear of death, and often there is no way of knowing which of the two is on top. The final chapter is, in one word, thrilling. Sölvi has established himself among the most noteworthy of Icelandic writers. Conclusion: Five Stars. A brilliantly written book; funny, melancholy, and very beautiful.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eFréttabladid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-seven years old, freshly broken up with his girlfriend, unemployed and vaguely depressed, Hermann has problems of his own. Now, his mother, who is rambunctious, rapier-tongued, frequently intoxicated and, until now impervious to change, has cancer. The doctor’s prognosis sounds pretty final, but after a bit of online research, Hermann decides to accompany his mother to an unconventional treatment center in the Netherlands. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eMother and son set out on their trip to Amsterdam, embarking on a schnapps-and-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003epint-fuelled picaresque that is by turns wickedly funny, tragic, and profound. Although the mother’s final destination is never really in doubt, the trip presents the duo with a chance to reevaluate life—beginning, middle, and end. Although the trip is lively and entertaining, it will also put severe strain on the bond between mother and son, not to mention their mutual capacity for alcohol.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-last-days-of-my-mother-excerpt\" title=\"The Last Days of My Mother - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Helga Soffía Einarsdóttir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSölvi Björn Sigurðsson is the author of three books of poetry, as well as three novels. Most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Icelandic Water Book\u003c\/em\u003e was published in the fall of 2013. A translator of classical poetry, he has also received distinguished nominations for his translation of Rimbaud’s \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eHis Diabolical Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e, a modern take on \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e, has been translated into Finnish, Swedish, and Danish. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A pure pleasure. Sölvi has proven without a doubt that he’s our most promising writer.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003cem\u003eViðskiptablaðið\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eBusiness Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sölvi Björn Sigurðsson","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":496958381,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561097060396,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Last_Days_cvr_final.jpg?v=1393435024"},{"product_id":"the-elusive-moth","title":"The Elusive Moth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJuly 22, 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 198 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-77-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“In her latest novel, Ingrid Winterbach is at her best: complex, funny, smart, mischievous, and without equal.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBeeld\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn hopes of winning her father’s approval, Karolina Ferreira, an entomologist, goes to a small Free State town to research the survival strategies of a rare moth species. Tormented by memories of her family and plagued by erotic dreams, Karolina spends her nights playing snooker, drinking whisky, and dancing herself into a state of euphoria with the mysterious Kolyn. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eAs political, spiritual, and sexual tensions in the small town rise, a murder will take \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eplace, lovers will meet in the cemetery, and friendships will fall apart—all building to an eruption of violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eOriginally published in Afrikaans in 1994, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Elusive Moth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e won Ingrid Winterbach the prestigious M-Net Book Prize and the Old Mutual Literary Prize. Finally available to American readers, this novel reinforces Winterbach’s reputation as one of South Africa’s greatest contemporary writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-elusive-moth-excerpt\" title=\"The Elusive Moth - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the Afrikaans by Iris Gouws and the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIngrid Winterbach is an artist and novelist whose work has won South Africa’s M-Net Prize, Old Mutual Literary Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for Creative Writing, and the W.A. Hofmeyr Prize. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Hell with Cronjé\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e won the 2004 Hertzog Prize, an honor she shares with the novelists Breyten Breytenbach and Etienne Leroux.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This text is, in all meanings of the word, sublime.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eDie Burger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An exquisite book, an essential voice.\"\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e—Antjie Krog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingrid Winterbach","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":497024149,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Elusive_Moth_cvr.jpg?v=1390416641"},{"product_id":"street-of-thieves","title":"Street of Thieves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eNovember 11, 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 265 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-01-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“A tremendous accomplishment. . . . Énard’s \u003cem\u003eZone\u003c\/em\u003e is, in short, one of the best books of the year”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLakhdar’s transformations—from a boy into a man, from a devout Muslim into a sinner—take place against some of the most important events of the past few years: the violence and exciting eruption of the Arab Spring and the devastating collapse of Europe’s economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf all of that isn’t enough, Lakhdar reunites with a childhood friend—one who is planning an assassination, a murder Lakhdar opposes. A finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt, \u003cem\u003eStreet of Thieves\u003c\/em\u003e solidifies Énard’s place as one of France’s most ambitious and keyed-in contemporary novelists. This book may even suprpass Énard’s earlier work, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/zone\" title=\"Zone by athias Enard\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eZone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which Christophe Claro boldly declared to be “the novel of the decade, if not of the century.” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/street-of-thieves-excerpt\" title=\"Street of Thieves - Excerpt\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the French by \u003cspan color=\"#444444\"\u003eCharlotte Mandell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. 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A shocking novel that galvanized the Jewish diaspora, \u003cem\u003eHitler, First Person\u003c\/em\u003e was Aaron Gotthilf’s attempt to understand—and explain—what it would have been like to be Hitler. As if that wasn’t disturbing enough, while writing this controversial novel, Gotthilf stayed in Elinor’s parent’s house and sexually assaulted her “slow” sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the time leading up to Gotthilf’s visit, Elinor will relive the reprehensible events of that time so long ago, over and over, compulsively, while building up the courage—and plan—to avenge her sister in the most conclusive way possible: by murdering Gotthilf, her own personal Hilter. Along the way, Gail Hareven uses an obsessive, circular writing style to raise questions about Elinor’s own mental state. Is it possible that Elinor is following in her uncle’s writerly footpaths, using a first-person narrative to manipulate the reader into forgiving a horrific crime? \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/lies-first-person-excerpt\" title=\"Lies, First Person - Excerpt\"\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGail Hareven is the author of eleven novels, including \u003cem\u003eThe Confessions of Noa Weber\u003c\/em\u003e, which won both the Sapir Prize for Literature and the Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dalya Bilu is the translator of A. 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Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Witty and compelling, [it] will leave American readers . . . pining for more.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Jessa Crispin, NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gail Hareven","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":882335313,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561188712492,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Lies_First_Person-front_web.jpg?v=1408634104"},{"product_id":"in-praise-of-poetry","title":"In Praise of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eDecember 16, 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003epoetry | pb | 237 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-02-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Olga Sedakova is one of the most respected and internationally renowned poets in Russia today.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Slava Yastremski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt an early age, Olga Sedakova began writing poetry and, by the 1970s, had joined up with other members of Russia’s underground “second culture” to create a vibrant literary movement—one that was at odds with the political powers that be. This conflict prevented Sedakova’s books from being published in the U.S.S.R. Instead, they were labeled as being too “esoteric,” “religious,” and “bookish.” Until 1990, the only way her collections were available in Russian were in samizdat, hand-written copies, which circulated from reader to reader, building her reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, the situation changed dramatically, and now Sedakova has published twenty-seven volumes of verse, prose, translations, and scholarly research—although none, until now, have appeared in English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique introduction to her oeuvre, bringing together a memoir-essay written about her work, and two poetic works: “Tristan and Isolde,” which is one of her most mysterious long poems, and “Old Songs,” a sequence of deceptively simple poems that mix folk and Biblical wisdom. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/in-praise-of-poetry-excerpt\" title=\"In Praise of Poetry - Excerpt\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Russian and Edited by \u003cspan color=\"#444444\"\u003eCaroline Clark, Ksenia Golubovich \u0026amp; Stephanie Sandler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOlga Sedakova wrote prolifically during the 1970s, one of the “post-Brodsky” poets. Her complex, allusive style of poetry—generally labeled as neo-modernist or meta-realism—didn’t fit the prescribed official aesthetics, so it wasn’t available until the late 1980s. She currently teaches in the department of world culture at Moscow State University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators: \u003c\/strong\u003eCaroline Clark is a British poet and essayist. She holds degrees from the Universities of Sussex and Exeter. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKsenia Gulobovich is a Russian writer, philologist, editor, and translator living in Moscow. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephanie Sandler teaches Russian literature in the Slavic department at Harvard University. 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Incredibly moving—such as with the story of his grandfather accidentally being left behind at a mill—and extraordinarily funny—see the section on the awfulness of the question “how are you?”—\u003cem\u003ePhysics\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that you can inhabit, tracing connections, following the narrator down various “side passages,” getting pleasantly lost in the various stories and empathizing with the sorrowful, misunderstood Minotaur at the center of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the work of Dave Eggers, Tom McCarthy, and Dubravka Ugresic, \u003cem\u003eThe Physics of Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e draws you in with its unique structure, humanitarian concerns, and stunning storytelling.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-physics-of-sorrow-excerpt\" title=\"Physics of Sorrow - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rode\u003cspan color=\"#444444\"\u003el\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Georgi Gospodinov was born in 1968 and is one of the most translated contemporary Bulgarian writers. 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She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today, and received an NEA Fellowship for her translation of Gospodinov's \u003cem\u003eThe Physics of Sorrow.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Georgi Gospodinov wants to blow your mind. . . . The formal playfulness suggests Kundera with A.D.D. and potty jokes.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Georgi Gospodinov","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1102380052,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Physics_of_Sorrow-Front.jpg?v=1421174425"},{"product_id":"the-one-before","title":"The One Before","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJune 9, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 134 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-934824-78-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Saer, sometimes cited as the most important Argentine writer of the post-Borges generation, exhibits an elastic yet controlled style that parallels the interwoven, unpredictable world of his characters.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe One Before\u003c\/em\u003e is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short pieces—called “Arguments”—and two longer stories—”Half-Erased” and “The One Before”—all of which revolve around the ideas of exile and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany of the characters who populate Juan José Saer’s other novels appear here, including Tomatis, Ángel Leto, and Washington Noriega (who appear in \u003cem\u003eLa Grande\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eScars\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Sixty-Five Years of Washington\u003c\/em\u003e, all of which are available from Open Letter). Saer’s typical themes are on display in this collection as well, as is his idiosyncratic blend of philosophical ruminations and precise storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the story of the two characters who decide to bury a message in a bottle that simply says “MESSAGE,” to Pigeon Garay’s attempt to avoid the rising tides and escape Argentina for Europe, \u003cem\u003eThe One Before\u003c\/em\u003e evocatively introduces readers to Saer’s world and gives the already indoctrinated new material about their favorite characters.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-one-before-excerpt\" title=\"The One Before - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Roanne Kantor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJuan José Saer was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. 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Her translations from Spanish have appeared in \u003cem\u003eLittle Star \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, \u003cem\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePalabras Errantes: Latin American Literature in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Ricardo Piglia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Juan José Saer","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":1102531624,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561210372140,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/One_Before.jpg?v=1421181415"},{"product_id":"rock-paper-scissors","title":"Rock, Paper, Scissors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eAugust 11, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 341 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-16-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“The emotions unleashed in this tale . . . are painfully universal. Yet you know exactly where in the universe you are. This is the hallmark of great short stories, from Chekhov’s portraits of discontented Russians to Joyce’s struggling Dubliners.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaja Marie Aidt’s long-awaited first novel is a breathtaking page-turner and complex portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into one of violence and jealousy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e opens shortly after the death of Thomas and Jenny’s criminal father. While trying to fix a toaster that he left behind, Thomas discovers a secret, setting into motion a series of events leading to the dissolution of his life, and plunging him into a dark, shadowy underworld of violence and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gripping story written with a poet’s sensibility and attention to language, \u003cem\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e showcases all of Aidt’s gifts and will greatly expand the readership for one of Denmark’s most decorated and beloved writers.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/rock-paper-scissors-excerpt\" title=\"Rock, Paper, Scissors - EXCERPT\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Danish by K. E. Semme\u003cspan color=\"#444444\"\u003el\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNaja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of ten collections of poetry and three short story collections, including \u003cem\u003eBaboon\u003c\/em\u003e (Two Lines Press), which received the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize and the Danish Critics Prize for Literature. Her books have been translated into nine languages. \u003cem\u003eRock, Paper, Scissors\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eK. E. Semmel is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eOntario Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAufgabe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrooklyn Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBitter Oleander\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. His translations include books by Karin Fossum, Erik Valeur, and Simon Fruelund.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“The dynamics Aidt reveals to us, and which drives her linguistic expression (abrupt, breathless sentences mirroring rather than penetrating the consciousness of her characters) consists on the one hand in the sheer manic nature of late-modern existence (surface haste, stressful energy, frenzied consumption), and on the other in an—if I may be so bold—authentic sexual energy full of release potential.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Lilian Munk Rösing, speech in honor of Aidt receiving the Danish Critics’ Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Naja Marie Aidt","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":1102673608,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561232523308,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Rock_Paper_Scissors.jpg?v=1421187949"},{"product_id":"the-things-we-don-t-do","title":"The Things We Don’t Do","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eSeptember 15, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003estories | pb | 190 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-18-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature. . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.”  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Roberto Bolaño\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Andrés Neuman is destined to be one of the essential writers of our time.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Teju Cole\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003ePlayful, philosophizing, and gloriously unpredictable, Andrés Neuman’s short stories consider love, lechery, history, mortality, family secrets, therapy, Borges, mysterious underwear, translators, and storytelling itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere a relationship turns on a line drawn in the sand; an analyst treats a patient who believes he’s the real analyst; a discovery in a secondhand shop takes on a cruel significance; a man decides to go to work naked one day. In these small scenes and brief moments, Neuman confounds our expectations with dazzling sleight of hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a variety of forms and styles, Neuman opens up the possibilities for fiction, calling to mind other greats of Latin American letters, such as Cortázar, Bolaño, and Bioy Casares. Intellectually stimulating and told with a voice that is wry, questioning, sometimes mordantly funny, yet always generously humane, \u003cem\u003eThe Things We Don’t Do\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Neuman’s place as one of the most dynamic authors writing today.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-things-we-dont-do-excerpt\" title=\"The Things We Don't Do - EXCERPT - Andres Neuman\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the the Spanish by Nick Caistor \u0026amp; Lorenza Garcia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrés Neuman (1977) was born in Buenos Aires, where he spent his childhood. The son of Argentinian émigré musicians, he grew up and lives in Spain. He was included in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e’s “Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists” issue and is the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poetry collections. Two of his novels—\u003cem\u003eTraveler of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTalking to Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e—have been translated into English. \u003cem\u003eTraveler of the Century\u003c\/em\u003e won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, was longlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. \u003cem\u003eTalking to Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e was selected as number one among the top twenty books in 2014 by \u003cem\u003eTypographical Era\u003c\/em\u003e, and was longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. His works have been translated into twenty languages\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nick Caistor is a prolific British translator and journalist. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLorenza Garcia has lived for extended periods in Spain, France, and Iceland. Since 2007, she has translated over a dozen works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Neuman is one of the rare writers who can distill the most complex human emotions with apparent effortlessness. . . . Andrés Neuman has transcended the boundaries of geography, time, and language to become one of the most significant writers of the early twenty-first century.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Andrés Neuman","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":3518564997,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561296846892,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Things_We_Dont_Do-front_frame.jpg?v=1435865448"},{"product_id":"rochester-knockings-a-novel-of-the-fox-sisters","title":"Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eOctober 13, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 309 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-20-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003ePalestine\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Hats off to one of the most inventive writers of French literature. . . . Hubert Haddad concocts a colorful novel, funny and inventive, as clever as the Fox sisters themselves.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Jean-François Delapré, Saint Christophe Bookstore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fox Sisters grew up outside of Rochester, NY, in a house with a reputation for being haunted, due to a series of strange “knockings” that plagued its inhabitants. Fed up with the sounds, the youngest of the sisters (aged twelve) challenged their ghost and ended up communicating with a spirit who had been murdered in the house and buried in the cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Fox Sisters became instantly famous for talking to the dead, launching the Spiritualist Movement. After taking Rochester by storm, they moved to New York where they were the most famous mediums of the time, performing séances for hundreds of people—until it all fell apart. Yet, even today, the Fox Sisters are still considered to be the founders of one of the most popular religious movements in recent centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich in historical detail, \u003cem\u003eRochester Knockings\u003c\/em\u003e novelizes the rise and fall of these most infamous of mediums, and sheds a unique light on the impressionability and fragility of nineteenth-century America\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/rochester-knockings-excerpt\" title=\"Rochester Knockings - EXCERPT\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the French by Jennifer Grotz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Hubert Haddad was born in Tunisia and is the author of dozens of works, including the novels \u003cem\u003ePalestine\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie), \u003cem\u003eLe Peintre d’éventail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCorps désirable,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMā\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLa Condition magique\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de la Société des Gens de Lettres).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eJennifer Grotz is a poet and translator from the French and Polish, as well as the editor of Open Letter's poetry series. She is a professor of English, creative writing, and translation at the University of Rochester, and is also director of the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hubert Haddad","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":3519008773,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561312051244,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Rochester_Knockings-front.jpg?v=1435868385"},{"product_id":"war-so-much-war","title":"War, So Much War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eNovember 10, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 185 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-22-9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels.”  \u003cbr\u003e—Gabriel García Marquez\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn’t widely worshipped. . . . She’s on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous writer.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Mercè Rodoreda published during her lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe first meet its young protagonist, Adrià Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numerous adventures and peculiar characters who offer him a surrealistic view of an impoverished, war-ravaged society and shape his perception of his place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike Rodoreda’s \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/merce-rodoreda\/products\/death-in-spring\" title=\"Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath in Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, nature and death play a fundamental role in this phantasmagoric narrative that seems to be a meditation on moral degradation and the often inescapable presence of evil.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/war-so-much-war-excerpt\" title=\"War, So Much War - EXCERPT\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño \u0026amp; Martha Tennent\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983) is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda began writing the novels and short stories—\u003cem\u003eTwenty-Two Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Time of the Doves\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCamellia Street\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGarden by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e—that would eventually make her internationally famous, while at the same time earning a living as a seamstress. In the mid-1960s she returned to Catalonia, where she continued to write. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/merce-rodoreda\/products\/death-in-spring\" title=\"Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath in Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/merce-rodoreda\/products\/the-selected-stories-of-merce-rodoreda\" title=\"The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e are also available from Open Letter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators: \u003c\/strong\u003eMaruxa Relaño is a journalist and English-language translator working from Spanish and Catalan. She was a translator for the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/em\u003eand wrote for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNewsday\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHoy Newspaper\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Her recent co-translations include the novels \u003cem\u003eA Man of His Word\u003c\/em\u003e by Imma Monsó and \u003cem\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/em\u003e by Blai Bonet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartha Tennent is an English-language translator who works primarily from Catalan and Spanish. She was born in the United States, but has lived most of her life in Barcelona. She received a fellowship from the NEA for her translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Storie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003es of Mercè Rodoreda\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEpiphany\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePEN America\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability.”  \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mercè Rodoreda has been a favorite of mine ever since college. . . . \u003cem\u003eWar, So Much War\u003c\/em\u003e helps to expand our understanding of a world-class writer’s fiction, with, hopefully more to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Jeff VanderMeer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mercè Rodoreda","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":3577140549,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561321488428,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/War_So_Much_War-front.jpg?v=1436284360"},{"product_id":"party-headquarters","title":"Party Headquarters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eFebruary 9, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 123 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-26-7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Party Headquarters interprets a deeply personal story where the private, the intimate, is publicly exposed.”  \u003cbr\u003e—Maria Popova, \u003cem\u003ePolitics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, \u003cem\u003eParty Headquarters\u003c\/em\u003e takes place in the ’80s and ’90s, during Bulgaria’s transition from communist rule to democracy. The book—which is a love story, a parody, and a thriller about a political hoax—opens with the main character visiting his father-in-law, an old communist party boss who is dying, and being tasked with delivering a suitcase filled with one-and-a-half million euros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s one of Bulgaria’s most popular myths: As the communist party fell apart, officials squirreled away bags of the country’s wealth, and these bags are still circulating, waiting to be delivered to conspirators. But this is just the beginning of the corruption and inequality . . . While immersing himself in pornography and prostitution, our hero reflects back on his life and the emblematic events that took place—the anticommunist protests, the arson attack on the Communist Party Headquarters, and, most crucially, the Chernobyl disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and tragic, \u003cem\u003eParty Headquarters\u003c\/em\u003e is an engrossing testament to the struggles after the fall of the Soviet Union, many of which continue to resonate today.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/party-headquarters-excerpt\" title=\"Party Headquarters - EXCERPT\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Georgi Tenev, before penning the Vick Prize-winning novel \u003cem\u003eParty Headquarters\u003c\/em\u003e, had already published four books, founded the Triumviratus Art Group, hosted \u003cem\u003eThe Library\u003c\/em\u003e television program about books, and written plays that have been performed in Germany, France, and Russia. He is also a screenwriter for film and TV.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eAngela Rodel earned an MA in linguistics from UCLA and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study and learn Bulgarian. In 2010, she won a PEN Translation Fund Grant for Georgi Tenev's short story collection. She is one of the most prolific translators of Bulgarian literature working today, and received an NEA Fellowship for her translation of Gospodinov's \u003cem\u003eThe Physics of Sorrow.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Black irony, the use of lexicon format, the documentary reminders—all this makes Party Headquarters one of the most influential books of recent times.”\u003cbr\u003e—Amelia Licheva, \u003cem\u003eCapital Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Georgi Tenev","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":3577366725,"sku":"","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561354977324,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Party_Headquarters.jpg?v=1436287553"},{"product_id":"the-clouds","title":"The Clouds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eMay 10, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 160 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-34-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters’ attempts to write their own narratives within its excess.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn present-day Paris, Pinchón Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript—which might be fictional, or could be a memoir—by Doctor Real, a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading five mental patients on a trip to a recently constructed asylum. This ragtag team, which includes a delusional narcissist and a nymphomaniac nun who tricks the other patients into sleeping with her, ploughs full steam ahead on a tragicomic trip that ends in disaster and fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFascinating as a faux historical novel and written in Saer’s typically gorgeous, Proustian style, \u003cem\u003eThe Clouds\u003c\/em\u003e can be read as a metaphor for exile—a major theme for Saer and Argentine writers in general—or as an examination of madness. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/the-clouds-excerpt\" title=\"The Clouds - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Hilary Vaughn Dobel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJuan José Saer was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including \u003cem\u003eScars\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLa Grande\u003c\/em\u003e), Saer was awarded Spain’s prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for \u003cem\u003eThe Event\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eHilary Vaughn Dobel has an MFA in poetry and translation from Columbia University. She is the author of two manuscripts and, in addition to Juan José Saer, has translated work by Carlos Pintado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Ricardo Piglia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Juan José Saer","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":11175337093,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561369395244,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Clouds-front-frame.jpg?v=1455913066"},{"product_id":"abahn-sabana-david","title":"Abahn Sabana David","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eJune 14, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 108 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-36-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Duras’s language and writing shine like crystals.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable for the first time in English, \u003cem\u003eAbahn Sabana David\u003c\/em\u003e is a late-career masterpiece from one of France’s top writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLate one evening, David and Sabana, communists, arrive at a country house where they meet Abahn, the man they’ve been sent to guard and ultimately kill for his perceived transgressions. A fourth man arrives (also named Abahn), and throughout the night these four characters discuss understanding, capitalism, violence, revolution, and dogs. A gun in the house disquiets the scene. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuspenseful and thought-provoking, Duras’s novel is evocative of Samuel Beckett as it explores human existence and suffering in the confusing contemporary world. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/abahn-sabana-david-excerpt\" title=\"Abahn Sabana David - excerpt\"\u003eRead an Excerpt\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eTranslated from the French by \u003cspan color=\"#666666\"\u003eKazim Ali\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarguerite Duras was born in Giadinh, Vietnam (then Indochina) to French parents. 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Few get as close to the human mind as Klougart.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eVG\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanish Women Writers Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe English-language debut from one of Denmark’s most exciting, celebrated young writers, \u003cem\u003eOne of Us Is Sleeping\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting novel about loss in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she returns home to visit her mother who is dying of cancer, the narrator recounts a brief, intense love affair, as well as the grief and disillusionment that follow its end. The book’s striking imagery and magnificent prose underpin its principal theme: the jarring contrast between the recollection of stability—your parents, your childhood home, your love—and the continual endings that we experience throughout our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA true-to-life, deeply poetic novel that works in the same vein as Anne Carson, \u003cem\u003eOne of Us Is Sleeping\u003c\/em\u003e has won Klougart countless accolades and award nominations—including the Readers’ Book Award—securing her place as a major new voice in world literature.\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/one-of-us-is-sleeping-excerpt\" title=\"One of Us Is Sleeping - EXCERPT\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Danish by Martin Aitken\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJosefine Klougart has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. She is the first Danish author ever to have two of her first three books nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and has been compared to Joan Didion, Anne Carson, and Virginia Woolf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eMartin Aitken has translated dozens of books from the Danish, including works by Dorthe Nors, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Peter Høeg, and Kim Leine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Call them prose poems, call them flash fictions, call them lyric shorts—these pieces shine beyond categorization.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Review Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Josefine Klougart","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":11175937029,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561406160940,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/One_of_Us_Is_Sleeping-Front.jpg?v=1455914510"},{"product_id":"gesell-dome","title":"Gesell Dome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eAugust 9, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 616 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-38-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eEuropa Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated with support from the PEN\/Heim Translation Fund Grant \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003eTrue Detective\u003c\/em\u003e through the lenses of William Faulkner and John Dos Passos, \u003cem\u003eGesell Dome\u003c\/em\u003e is a mosaic of misery, a page-turner that will keep you enthralled until its shocking conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis incisive, unflinching exposé of the inequities of contemporary life weaves its way through dozens of sordid storylines and characters, including an elementary school abuse scandal, a dark Nazi past, corrupt politicians, and shady real-estate moguls. An exquisitely crafted novel by Argentina’s foremost noir writer, \u003cem\u003eGesell Dome\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the seedy underbelly of a popular resort town tensely awaiting the return of tourist season.  \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/gesell-dome-excerpt\" title=\"Gesell Dome - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor. He is the winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura and a two-time Dashiell Hammett Prize recipient for \u003cem\u003e77\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGesell Dome\u003c\/em\u003e. He also received Seix Barral’s Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for \u003cem\u003eEl oficinista\u003c\/em\u003e, and his book \u003cem\u003eUn maestro\u003c\/em\u003e won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator:\u003c\/strong\u003e Andrea G. Labinger has transalted over a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana María Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories unnerve us while building to the unexpected and explosive finale.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Guillermo Saccomanno","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":11177037573,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Gesell_Dome_cvr.jpg?v=1455917129"},{"product_id":"chronicle-of-the-murdered-house","title":"Chronicle of the Murdered House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eDecember 13, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 592 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-50-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“A real revolution in Brazilian Literature.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—Benjamin Moser\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, \u003cem\u003eChronicle of the Murdered House\u003c\/em\u003e is finally available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patri­archal family that blames its ruin on the youngest son Valdo’s marriage to Nina—a vibrant, unpredictable, and incendiary young woman whose very existence seems to depend on the destruction of the household. This family’s downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSalacious, literary, and introspective, Cardoso’s masterpiece marked a turning away from the social realism fashionable in 1930s Brazilian literature and had a huge impact on the writing of Cardoso’s life-long friend and greatest admirer—Clarice Lispector.  \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/chronicle-of-the-murdered-house-excerpt\" title=\"Chronicle of the Murdered House - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa \u0026amp; Robin Patterson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a Biographical Note by Benjamin Moser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) is one of the leading Brazilian writers of the period between 1930 and 1960. As well as authoring dozens of novels and short stories, he was also active as a playwright, poet, journalist, filmmaker, and painter. Within the history of Brazilian literature, his oeuvre pioneered subjective scrutiny of the modern self, bringing to the fore the personal dramas and dilemmas that underlie perceptions of collective existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Lúcio Cardoso","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":19049776709,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561492897836,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Chronicle_of_the_Murdered_House-front.jpg?v=1468862441"},{"product_id":"a-greater-music","title":"A Greater Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eOctober 11, 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 128 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-46-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow—to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear the beginning of \u003cem\u003eA Greater Music\u003c\/em\u003e, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she’s been house-sitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories that move between the hazily defined present and the period three years ago when she first lived in Berlin. Throughout, the narrator’s relationship with Joachim, a rough-and-ready metalworker, is contrasted with her friendship with M, an ultra-refined music-loving German teacher who was once her lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel of memories and wandering, \u003cem\u003eA Greater Music\u003c\/em\u003e blends riffs on music, language, and literature with a gut-punch of an emotional ending, establishing Bae Suah as one of the most exciting novelists working today. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/a-greater-music-excerpt\" title=\"A Greater Music - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Korean by Deborah Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Bae Suah, one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary Korean authors, has published more than a dozen works and won several prestigious awards. She has also translated several books from the German, including works by W. G. Sebald, Franz Kafka, and Jenny Erpenbeck. Her first book to appear in English, \u003cem\u003eNowhere to be Found\u003c\/em\u003e, was longlisted for a PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003eDeborah Smith has translated two other books by Bae Suah (\u003cem\u003eRecitation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Greater Music\u003c\/em\u003e), and won the Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Han Kang's \u003cem\u003eThe Vegetarian\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the founder of Tilted Axis Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e“With concise, evocative prose, Bae merges the mundane with the strange in a way that leaves the reader fulfilled yet bewildered, pondering how exactly the author managed to pull this all off.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKorean Literature Now\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bae Suah","offers":[{"title":"pb","offer_id":19050845253,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (epub)","offer_id":13561454624812,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/5792\/products\/Greater_Music-front_frame.jpg?v=1468864212"},{"product_id":"frontier","title":"Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003eMarch 14, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003enovel | pb | 470 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e5.5\" x 8.5\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e978-1-940953-54-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“There’s a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Robert Coover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrontier\u003c\/em\u003e opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue’s latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life—barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA layered, multifaceted masterpiece from the 2015 winner of the Best Translated Book Award, \u003cem\u003eFrontier\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies John Darnielle’s statement that Can Xue’s books read “as if dreams had invaded the physical world.” \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/pages\/frontier-excerpt\" title=\"Frontier - Excerpt\" style=\"line-height: 1.4;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Read an Excerpt)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant \u0026amp; Chen Zeping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #b45f06;\"\u003e•\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #444444;\"\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCan Xue is a pseudonym meaning \"dirty snow, leftover snow.\" She learned English on her own and has written books on Borges, Shakespeare, and Dante. 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