Reducere. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called "the secret story, " "the one we'll never know." Bent on re...
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Reducere. Set in the seaside town of Z, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink is told in short, suspenseful chapters by three male narrators, and revolves aro...
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Reducere. Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a dist...
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Reducere. Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times a...
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Reducere. As his anti-translator Liz Werner explains in her Introduction, Parra's scientific training infuses his work. "Viewed through the lens of antimatte...
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Reducere. DescriptionNew Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.First publish...
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Reducere. The Rose Tattoo is larger than life--a fable, a Greek tragedy, a comedy, a melodrama--it is a love letter from Tennessee Williams to anyone who has...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sam MunsonBoris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been inv...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Helen DeWittDescribed as the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time by Salon.com, and a wickedly smart satire t...
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Reducere. Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marias: the characters come bearing ...
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Reducere. On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man a...
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Reducere. Only one of these plays The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether...
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Reducere. Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consis...
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Reducere. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas d...
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Reducere. An unwed mother arranges for her children to meet their father, who is a stranger to them. A woman confronts the "other woman" in her lover's life....
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Reducere. Possibility of Being is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1857-l926). The ti...
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Reducere. The eleven short stories in this prize-winning collection pivot on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is ...
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Reducere. In England and America Dylan Thomas made his art and personality widely known through public readings, radio broadcasts and recordings. Many of the...
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Reducere. The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic to...
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Reducere. Orpheus Descending is a love story, a plea for spiritual and artistic freedom, as well as a portrait of racism and intolerance. When charismatic dr...
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Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2007) - Literary Award - (Poetry in Translation)Contributor(s): Author: Wang WeiAuthor: David HintonWang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often...
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Reducere. Never before published in English, the stories in Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult were written mostly in the 1950s and present ...
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Reducere. Where Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of soli...
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Reducere. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories writte...
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Reducere. The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm h...
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Reducere. H. D.'s (Hilda Doolittle, 1884-1961) late poems of search and longing represent the mature achievement of a poet who has come increasingly to be re...
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Reducere. The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, Eagle or Sun? (Aguila o Sol?) exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing...
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Reducere. "At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery, " begins the stor...
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Reducere. Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American r...
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Reducere. The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cro...
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Reducere. The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann's "sleek translation does a wonderful job" and The New York Times concurred: "Anything by Kafka is worth r...
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Reducere. Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during th...
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Reducere. The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse, " as the narrator muses on former...
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Reducere. Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle "Entering the Madness of Others" and offers an epigraph: "Reality is no obstacle." Indeed. This high-octa...
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Reducere. Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents indelibly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and pe...
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Reducere. In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to ...
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Reducere. Pulitzer PrizeForrest Gander s Core Samples from the World is a magnificent compendium of poetry, photography, and essay (a form of Japanese haibun...
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Reducere. In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment...
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Reducere. First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. I...
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Reducere. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel liter...
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Reducere. When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, Ah Cheng fever spread across the country. Never befor...
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Reducere. Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind's creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are a...
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Reducere. A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work h...
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Reducere. The Flower Show and The Toth Family, two novellas in one volume by Istv n rk ny (1912-79), introduce to an English-speaking audience a Hungarian wr...
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Reducere. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, l...
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Reducere. Sylvia Legris's Garden Physic is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world's most cherished pastimes: Gardening! "At the center of ...
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Reducere. For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (a...
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Reducere. "The Instruction Manual, " the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupa...
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Reducere. Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conver...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jose Emilio PachecoSeven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence be...
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Reducere. At her most moving and meditative, impressive and musical, Denise Levertov addresses in her poetry collection, Evening Train, the nature of faith a...
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Reducere. Literary AwardInger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets, is perhaps best known for her groundbreak...
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Reducere. Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most ...
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