Dalkey Archive, Paperback

From the author of the classic novel 'At-Swim-Two-Birds' comes this ingenious tale which follows the mad and absurd ambitions of a scientist determ...

Jean Rolin's Savannah is an elegy of sorts to his close friend British fashion photographer, Kate Barry, retracing the trip they took together thro...

Reducere. Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of the immediate present serve mere...

Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, "Case Closed" is filled with all the expected elements ...

Reducere. Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very ho...

Reducere. Garden, Ashes, Paperback

Reducere. Joyce's Voices, Paperback

Reducere. A little thing happened to me. Which could just as easily have happened to you. You re on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and ...

Reducere. -- Paperback original.-- First U.S. edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76).-- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cut...

Beginning as a road novel reuniting Donovan and Tom Lee, old friends from their college days, Christine Montalbetti's novel quickly becomes a playf...

An inventor living at the beginning of the Enlightenment keeps journals reflecting on everything from his inventive lovemaking to his discovery of ...

Reducere. Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked with and outranked several of the best English language writers in England and America." - Review of Contemporary Fi...

Amanda Michalopoulou's God's Wife is a deceptive novel: it draws us close with promises of titillating confession and heart-warming intimacy only t...

Reducere. Jachym Topol is the most-translated Czech author of his generation, lauded for his imaginative storytelling and his inventive use of language. Meld...

The Squatters' Gift is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. Like Miron Bialoszewski, Paul Celan and...

Reducere. One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, i...

At a New Year's Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet,...

Turbid River was written just before Ch'ae Man-Sik was arrested in 1938 by the Japanese colonial government. Like the two novels that followed (Pea...

Reducere. "The Best of Myles" brings together the best of Flann O'Brien's newspaper column "Cruiskeen Lawn, " written over a nearly thirty-year period. Cover...

Reducere. The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the "Latin periphery of empire." A ...

Set in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real expe...

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Reducere. Between World Wars I and II, three expatriate Americans attempt to reconstruct a vision of the fractured Europe they've been forced to occupy; mean...

Reducere. Award NameBest Translated Book AwardAward categoryFiction?ric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstandi...

Reducere. Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist's quest; the hero'...

In her audacious debut To Feed the Stone, Bronka Nowicka offers writing that is both timeless and timely. Using the language of folk narrative, lik...

Anderson's debut novel introduces readers to a writer of lucid, hallucinatory prose worthy of comparison with Roberto Bolaño, Cormac McCarthy, and ...

Reducere. Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy s stunning first novel, "Fighting with Shadows, " returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set...

Reducere. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each reveali...

Reducere. Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad...

Four pairs of stories-four "double rooms"-sit side by side in the latest work of fiction by one of Spain's most compelling writers. Double Room is ...

Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions ...

From Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.Publisher: Dalkey...

Set in the aftermath of the "Carnation Revolution" of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes's Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of...

A bildungsroman in 21 songs and collages, 3 Minutes and 53 Seconds follows the life of an unnamed hero from 1984 to 2004 as he moves from boyhood t...

Reducere. An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents ...

Reducere. A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among...

An ambitious, digressive, and endlessly entertaining account of the thousand-year history of the George Millses, George Mills is the antithesis to ...

Reducere. Stasiuk's masterpiece--in line with the work of Danilo Kis and countryman Bruno Schulz--is finally made available in English in a stunning translat...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In Cut Up on Copacabana, three interlocking sets of texts by professional boxer and professor of French literature David Scott ("Travel Notes, " "B...

Reducere. A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were writt...

Reducere. A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen.The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle...

Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressAuthor(s): Flann O'BrienNumber of pages: 240Collection: Dalkey Archive EssentialsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entert...

Reducere. Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of...

Reducere. A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word ``pass...

Reducere. -- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tape...

In this miniature masterpiece, R bert G l--whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"--conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One l...

Set in Macedonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel Infidelity draws on myth and history to tell an unusual story of star-crossed...

With a twisted sense of humor and a heavy dose of fantasy, Katchadjian takes those things that are so common as to be ordinary--bad bosses, crazy s...

An invaluable resource for conducting successful solution-focused therapy. Drawing on nearly 30 years of clinical practice, Bannink compiles soluti...

Reducere. Martereau is narrated by a tubercular young man driven by a compulsion to discover what lies behind faades, especially in relation to the adults ar...

Reducere. "Barley Patch" takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction-or so he thinks-forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrog...

Reducere. The Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by Portuguese author Raul Brandao is a powerful tribute to the underclasses. Innovative thematically and stylistically,...

Reducere. "The Attic" is Danilo Ki's first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a you...

Reducere. DescriptionRina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to...

This collection of eight stories--cynical and sympathetic by turns--represents the author's attempt to document and understand the conflicts, resen...

Reducere. Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When l...

Reducere. DescriptionA bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris b...

Reducere. Set in an imaginary European city, "The Passion Artist" takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving ...

Reducere. In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the grea...

Reducere. In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore -- at its best, accompanied by gre...

Awarded the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012, The Last Librarian follows the journey of a writer who has decided, as a way of honoring the artists wh...

Reducere. The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and here bound b...

Available For The First Time In One Volume, The Very Best Of Mathews's Short Fiction; This expertly designed original paperback presents a comprehe...

Reducere. Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike n...

At the center of this novel is the story of a daughter looking after her mother, who's been admitted to a nursing home after a stroke landed her in...

Reducere. A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city's love story besides. It is a story that leads read...

Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressAuthor(s): Jacques RoubaudNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 1993Dimensions: 152 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperback ...