Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend

Author	Yuri Herrera
ISBN	1908276428

Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...

Author	Muriel Spark
ISBN	0811212467

Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "The English Lady-Tiger"), who has made the fatal mistake of believing in her public image. This error and her embittered husband, and unsuccessful actor,...

Author	Guy de Maupassant
ISBN	2253013455

"Fermé pour cause de première communion" : un tel avis, sur la porte d'une maison close, n'est pas chose courante, et les habitués de la maison Tellier, de Fécamp, n'en reviennent pas. Pendant ce temps, Madame et ses cinq pensionnaires vont retrouver à la campagne, le temps d'une fête, leurs émois...

Author	Andrés Neuman
ISBN	0374119392

Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an intense debate—on identity and what it is that defines us—from which...

Author	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN	0811224929

The Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work—before, during, and after WWII—in the pampered, elegant household of the famous...