Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2007) - Literary Award - (Poetry in Translation)Contributor(s): Author: Wang WeiAuthor: David HintonWang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Eleven short, deeply spiritual stories ranging from autobiographical serendipities to solemn, empathetic parables. The title story is set during th...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Descri...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, children's
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 ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. DescriptionPoet, monk, spiritual advisor, and social critic, Thomas Merton is a unique--and uniquely beloved--figure of the twentieth century, and ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs
Reducere. DescriptionInfluenced by Beckett, Genet, and Pinter, among others, Williams worked hard to expand the boundaries of the lyric realism he was best k...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. DescriptionBeing a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written sh...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: special features
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...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, thriller
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...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items
Reducere. Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a profe...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, children's
Reducere. Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical, narrative scholars and ...
ohio state university press, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. An Absurd Vice, the critical biography of Cesare Pavese by his friend and fellow-writer Davide Lajolo, has been celebrated in Italy since its publi...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. A devastating revelation of violence, exploitation, and corrupt politics, Coming to Jakarta derives its title from the role played by the CIA, bank...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, horror & supernatural fiction
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...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have e...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: special features
Reducere. Concluding--set in a single summer day--has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl's...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. A "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Ga...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma o...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conver...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. As his anti-translator Liz Werner explains in her Introduction, Parra's scientific training infuses his work. "Viewed through the lens of antimatte...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. DescriptionWith the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Lui sa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics, linguistics
Reducere. Alexander Kluge turns 75 in autumn 2007, and to celebrate he will be the Special Guest of Honor at the 75th Venice Film Festival, showing his films...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: special features
Reducere. it is the masterwork by Danish poet Inger Christensen ("a true singer of the syllables, " said C. D. Wright), often cited as a Nobel contender and ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
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...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: special features
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Siegfried LenzSiggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on ...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas d...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, biography
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sam MunsonBoris Leonidovich, a North American professor who specializes in the history of prison architecture, has been inv...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge: Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life; Kiguchi, haunted by...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. Praised by great writers from Flannery O'Conner to Jonathan Lethem, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' is an American classic. A newspaper reporter assigned to wr...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher IsherwoodOn a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly com...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, historical fiction
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...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound's life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius), Cantos LII-LXI d...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, lifestyle
Reducere. The Assistant is his breathtaking 1908 novel, translated by award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Joseph, hired to become an inventor's new ass...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transfo...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary
Reducere. DescriptionNew Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest.First publish...
new directions publishing corporation, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary