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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (Loa #395)

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary form A diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, represen…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

"Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel both epic and intimate as it chronicles the lives and fates of three generations of a German- Jewish family. Beginning from 1878--the year after the narrative of Bu…

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Mathias Enard,
The Deserters

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, …

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Cléante D Valcin,
Cruel Destiny and the White Negress

Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by J…

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Emmelie Prophète,
Cécé

“The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written.” —Dany Laferrière An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti C…

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Inger Christensen,
Natalja's Stories

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual appro…

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Aoko Matsuda,
The Woman Dies

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny su…

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Diane C McPhail
Follow the Stars Home

"A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who - 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow - braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississi…

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Andrea Bajani,
The Book of Homes

"From prizewinning Italian author Andrea Bajani: the secrets of a man and his country as seen through the eyes of the homes that have guarded his secrets. The Book of Homes is the story of a man and his f…

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Harald Voetmann,
Visions and Temptations

Spurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surround…

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William Delisle Hay,
The Doom of the Great City; Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942

This first critical edition of William Delisle Hay's novel introduces readers to the earliest tale of urban apocalypse and environmental devastation through a curated collection of historical excerpts and…

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Ruthvika Rao
The Fertile Earth

"An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India. Vijaya and Sree are the daughters of the Deshmu…

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Mai Ishizawa,
The Place of Shells

In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Göttingen is working on a PhD about the iconography …

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Yoko Tawada,
Archipelago of the Sun

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to…

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Barbara Pym
The Sweet Dove Died

"Leonora Eyre, an attractive and elegant, but essentially selfish, middle-aged woman, becomes friendly with antique dealer Humphrey Boyce and his nephew James. Both men are attracted to Leonora, but Leono…

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Olena Stiazhkina,
Ukraine, War, Love

In Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia's 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city w…

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Ruthvika Rao
The Fertile Earth

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political lands…

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Cléante D Valcin,
Cruel Destiny and the White Negress

Cruel Destiny (Cruelle Destinée) and The White Negress (La Blanche Négresse) are the first and second novels published by a Haitian woman, Cléante Valcin. Translated to English now for the first time by J…

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Ágota Kristóf,
I Don't Care

Here, in English at last, is a collection of Ágota Kristóf's short-sometimes very short-stories, which she selected herself, translated by the peerless Chris Andrews. Written immediately before her master…

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Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz,
Berlin Shuffle

A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners on the skids as their nation begins to spin out of control. Berlin in the early 1920s was the largest city in Europe, a cult…

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