S. S. Proleterka

Author	Anna Maria Ortese
ISBN	0914232959

In this magical novel a Milanese count stumbles upon a desolate community of lost noblemen on an uncharted island off the coast of Portugal. When he discovers, to his utter amazement, that their ill-treated servant is in fact a maiden iguana, and then proceeds to fall in love with her, the story of Aleardo,...

Author	Juan Benet
ISBN	8423311414

Hacia los montes salvajes de Región escapó, al acabar la guerra, un grupo de combatientes entre los cuales se encuentra el hijastro del doctor Daniel Sebastián. Pasan los años, el doctor se ocupa, en la ruinosa residencia que regenta, de cuidar a un muchacho enloquecido por la ausencia de su madre....

Author	Edna O'Brien
ISBN	0618126899

Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful,...

Author	Christine Brooke-Rose
ISBN	0811212165

In her latest novel, Textermination, the eminent British novelist/critic Christine Brooke-Rose pulls a wide array of characters out of the great works of literature and drops them into the middle of the San Francisco Hilton. Emma Bovary, Emma Woodhouse, Captain Ahab, Odysseus, Huck Finn... all...

Author	Rikki Ducornet
ISBN	0385720432

As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother–whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth–moves...

Author	Ingeborg Bachmann
ISBN	0810112043

There are things in the world that just suck and there is nothing you can do about them. I'm not talking about 'important' things like awful governments and assholes ruining the world or any of that kind of stuff, but rather things that should exist but never will. For example some of mine are that there...

Author	Eliot Weinberger
ISBN	0811226182

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into “a vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey...

Author	Barbara Sleigh
ISBN	0140304940

A long-awaited reissue of the much-loved sequel to Carbonel, King of the Cats. In this second story, published over forty years ago, Carbonel has been summoned to appear before the Great Cat but before he goes he has to find someone to look after his two royal kittens. And so he tracks down his young friends...

Author	Teresa de la Parra
ISBN	8400068998

It appears that the University of Pittsburgh Press edition of this book is the only way to get it in English translation - looks like it's available in hardcover or paperback, mostly reasonably priced - so I'm happy to say that this version, with its critical and historical essays about both De la Parra...

Author	Tove Jansson
ISBN	0394499077

I've always wondered why more books weren't written about the elderly, yet so many books are written about the young. Maybe we can all look back on youth, but we don't know much about being old. Maybe we only want to write about being old when we're old, and when we get to be old, we're too tired to write about...

Author	Robert Walser
ISBN	0811218805

Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high, came to light only after the author’s...

Author

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Il volume raccoglie i racconti di Friedrich Durrenmatt scritti fra il 1942 e il 1985. Esemplare per la sua narrativa è "La panne", del 1956, dove la vicenda assume i toni cangianti del leggero, del comico, dell'angosciante, del tragico e coinvolge il lettore nello stesso modo in cui cattura il protagonista....

Author	Antonio Tabucchi
ISBN	0811215466

From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" (TLS).


In It's Getting Later All the Time, an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in...

Author	Curzio Malaparte
ISBN	8845927296

La fama di Malaparte è legata soprattutto a Kaputt (1944) e a La pelle (1949): ma pochi conoscevano finora questo libro segreto, che potrebbe costituire il terzo pannello del grande affresco sulla decadenza dell'Europa. Germinato nel 1946 dal cantiere della Pelle, divenuto romanzo autonomo, ceduto...

Author	Susan Howe
ISBN	0811215385

In The Midnight's amply illustrated five sections, three of poetry and two of prose, we find—swirling around the poet's mother—ghosts, family photographs, whispers, interjections, bed hangings, unfinished lace, the fly-leaves of old books, The Master of Ballantrae, the Yeats brothers,...

Author	Inger Christensen
ISBN	0811216578

Set in modern Europe, the novel is about five women and two men. One of the men is a writer, the other is the main character of this novel. All of the women are pregnant by the main character. The questions then arise: who is the narrator? Has someone been killed? Is someone crazy? And, whose book is this anyway?...

Author

Dulce Maria Cardoso

É uma noite de temporal. A noite do acidente. Há uma gota de água suspensa num estilhaço de vidro que teima em não cair. Há um instante que se eterniza.

Reflectida na gota, Violeta mergulha nessa eternidade e recorda o que pode ter sido o último dia da sua vida, e nesse dia, toda a vida, e nessa...

Author	Horacio Castellanos Moya
ISBN	0811219178

Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted...

Author	George Steiner
ISBN	0811217043

Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to “the common reader.” He possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the...

Author	Álvaro Enrigue
ISBN	8433968858

El periodista de La pluma de Dumbo, convencido de que algún día sería un gran escritor, escucha un comentario cáustico de su hijo sobre la gran novela que nunca llega.

En Inodoro, un electricista se queda dormido en la casa vacía donde está trabajando, y al despertar, una chica de voz seductora...