Billy and Girl

Author	Felipe Alfau
ISBN	1564782042

Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. Chromos is the American immigration novel...

Author	Eun-Jin Jang
ISBN	1564789608

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque novel. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather...

Author	Dubravka Ugrešić
ISBN	1564782980

In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses — literally to everyone — that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't...

Author	Gilbert Sorrentino
ISBN	1564780872

Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to write a "new wave murder mystery," his frustrating emotional and sexual life wreaks havoc on his work-in-progress. As a result, his narrative (the very...

Author	Nicholas Mosley
ISBN	1564782425

-- A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which...

Author	Luis Rafael Sánchez
ISBN	8437618630

Al ritmo de la guaracha y repleta de humor boricua, esta novela presenta una visión caleidoscópica de San Juan, creando un mosaico de personajes unidos, o separados, por un tapón descomunal.

Una mujer pobre espera por su amante, que resulta ser un senador, padre un niño rico malcriado...

Author	Christine Brooke-Rose
ISBN	1564780503

A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty, and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" (The Observer) upon its original publication...

Author	Zoran Živković
ISBN	1564784126

From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there's only one other person...

Author	Jon Fosse
ISBN	1564784517

karen's book club says:



** edit to include excerpt because it is hard to explain how painful this book is without making you guys feel it, too. **

no. this book is not for me. but i learned the value of maybe not just buying every book with a nice cover, or put out by dalkey, or that...

Author	Rikki Ducornet
ISBN	1564781739

Made speechless by her eccentric father, the beautiful Etheria is traded for a piece of precious jade. Memory, her sister, tells her story, that of a childhood enlivened by Lewis Carroll and an orangutan named Dr. Johnson and envenomed by the pernicious courtship of Radulph Tubbs, Queen Victoria's...

Author	Ann Quin
ISBN	1564783189

As innovative and abrasive as the very best of William Burroughs, Ann Quin's Tripticks offers a scattered account of the narrator's flight across a surreal American landscape, pursued by his "No. 1 X-wife" and her new lover. This masterpiece of pre-punk aesthetics critiques the hypocrisy and consumerism...

Author	Andrzej Stasiuk
ISBN	1564786870

At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is “write a book about light.” The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes....

Author	Stig Sæterbakken
ISBN	1564788628

Dentist Karl Meyer s worst nightmare comes true when his son, Ole-Jakob, takes his own life. This tragedy is the springboard for a complex novel posing essential questions about human experience: What does sorrow do to a person? How can one live with the pain of unbearable loss? How far can a man be driven...

Author	Janice Galloway
ISBN	1564780821

From the beginning this novel's tension weaves warp and woof between hilarity and hell. Two women friends travel through France, encountering backroad-European misogynist crudities and the awkward experiences of being female, over thirty, with your teeth almost literally at your closest friend's...

Author	Aleksandar Hemon
ISBN	1564786005

The launch of Dalkey’s Best European Fiction series was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in international media such as Time magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, and the Guardian; glowing reviews and interviews in print...

Author	Momus
ISBN	1564785610

Imagine a universe where every joke you’ve ever heard is solid, real, and occasionally dangerous—and all happening, one after the other, to the same small group of people. Detailing a series of filthy and ludicrous episodes in the life of a single family, saddled with a super-eccentric, sexually...

Author

Lasha Bugadze

„ლიტერატურული ექსპრესი“ — მწერალ ლაშა ბუღაძის ექსპერიმენტული მატარებელია, რომელიც ევროპის სხვადასხვა...

Author	Emilio Lascano Tegui
ISBN	1564786048

The first English translation of the self-proclaimed “Viscount” Emilio Lascano Tegui—a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right—On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established...

Author	Vedrana Rudan
ISBN	9536748495

Tonka je pedesetogodišnja Riječanka. Ima odraslu ćerku i muža koga namerava da ostavi zbog mladog advokata. Tonka prepričava okolnosti koje su dovele do njene preljube, i osvrće se na ceo svoj život. Naročito na godine srpsko-hrvatskog rata.
Tonka je glavna junakinja prve knjige Vedrane...

Author

Drago Jančar

A diary recounting four decades’ worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river–the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their owners’ identities and fates. Shifting...

Author	Dumitru Țepeneag
ISBN	1564784215

Clutching a bouquet of flowers, hurrying to catch his bus, and arguing with the driver once he's on, a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman. This sequence of events occurs and recurs in remarkably different variations in Vain Art of the Fugue.


In one version, the bus driver...