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10 best books like The Strange Case of Rachel K (Rachel Kushner): Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, Aab e Gum / آب گم, Adventures of Sindbad, Textermination: A Novel, The Ghosts of Birds, If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents: A Memoir, Yosl Rakover Talks to God, There Are Jews in My House, The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico
AuthorJavier Marías
ISBN0811218589
A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local kingpin demands to be told what the Americans are saying, Elvis himself...
Aab e Gum / آب گم
AuthorMushtaq Ahmad Yousufi
"اس مجموعے کے بیشتر کردار ماضی پرست، ماضی زدہ اور مردم گزیدہ ہیں۔ ان کا اصل مرض ناسٹلجیا ہے۔ جب انسان کو ماضی، حال سے زیادہ پرکشش نظر آنے لگے اور مستقبل نظر آنا...
Adventures of Sindbad
AuthorGyula Krúdy
ISBN9639116122
In these marvellously written tales, Sindbad, a voyager in the realms of memory and imagination, travels through the centuries in pursuit of an ideal of love that is directed as much at the feminine essence as at his individual lovers. Whether the women he seduces and loves are projections of his desire,...
Textermination: A Novel
AuthorChristine Brooke-Rose
ISBN0811212165
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...
The Ghosts of Birds
AuthorEliot Weinberger
ISBN0811226182
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...
If This Be Treason: Translation and its Dyscontents: A Memoir
AuthorGregory Rabassa
ISBN0811216659
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005.


Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the the most widely read and respected...
Yosl Rakover Talks to God
AuthorZvi Kolitz
ISBN0375708405
There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own and has often been thought to be a direct testament from...
There Are Jews in My House
AuthorLara Vapnyar
ISBN1400033896
There Are Jews in My House is one of the most striking debuts of recent years. Tracing the lives and aspirations of Russians living in Moscow and Brooklyn, these poignant, sad and funny stories create a luminous new literary world.

In the title story, set during the Second World War, Galina,...
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
AuthorOsama Alomar
ISBN0811226077
Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind’s creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate...
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
AuthorDelmore Schwartz
ISBN0811206807
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I was introduced to Delmore Schwartz's writing from two different perspectives in the mid-70's.

It might come as little surprise that these introductions had to do with passions that persist to this day: music, literature and politics.

Firstly, I...
Vite congetturali
AuthorFleur Jaeggy
ISBN8845923789
This superbly concentrated book of creative nonfiction should not be knocked back like a shot, but rather sipped slowly like a good grappa. It consists of three hyper-brief biographies of writers: De Quincey, Keats, and Marcel Schwob. The lives herein are, as the original title has it, ‘congetturali’,...
Tyrant Memory
AuthorHoracio Castellanos Moya
ISBN0811219178
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...
Kassel no invita a la lógica
AuthorEnrique Vila-Matas
Una extraña llamada interrumpe la rutina de un escritor. La enigmática voz femenina al otro lado de la línea le dice que los McGuffin quieren invitarlo a cenar para desvelarle la solución al misterio del universo. Pronto descubrirá que se trata de una convocatoria para participar en la Documenta...
A Bernadette Mayer Reader
AuthorBernadette Mayer
ISBN0811212033
“What a clear, insistent health there is here––as if the so-called world were seriously the point, which it is, and we could actually live in it, which we do. Truly this is the best How To book I've read in years. Bernadette Mayer makes a various world of real people in real times and places, a fact...
Letters to His Neighbor
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN0811224112
Marcel Proust’s genius for illuminating pain is on spectacular display in this recently discovered trove of his correspondence, Letters to His Neighbor. Already suffering from noise within his cork-lined walls, his poor soul was not ready for the fresh hell when his neighbor Dr. Williams married...
Debths
AuthorSusan Howe
ISBN0811226859
A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, and early American writings; and in it she also addresses memory’s threads and galaxies,...
Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0395710936
This autobiography, now in paperback, offers a wonderfully vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Muriel Spark's writing, such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Here, readers will find high comedy, betrayal, rigorous intelligence, the odd twist of faith, and mysterious grace--all...
Black Cloud
AuthorJuliet Escoria
The stories in Juliet Escoria’s brilliant and elegantly crafted debut introduce us to a series of narrators who tell us about bad situations and surviving them in lucid, darkly humorous prose. Surface straightforwardness belies the complex web of conflict just under these stories’ smooth exterior....
One More Year
AuthorSana Krasikov
ISBN0385524390
Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young writer could possibly know. Sana Krasikov is one of those writers. Her first published story appeared in the New Yorker, her second in The Atlantic Monthly’s...
Il filo dell'orizzonte
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
ISBN8807811464
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Literaryness Made Easy: "The Edge of the Horizon" by Antonio Tabucchi, Tim Parks (Translator)


Of course it's the old "can you teach talent" argument, isn't it? That's the meaty question, the puzzler of substantial...
The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
AuthorCésar Aira
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long–The Musical Brain & Other Stories comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with...
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