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Mathias Enard,
Perfecting the Shot

In an unnamed city completely torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, controls his breath, stays serenely calm, and li…

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Jenny Erpenbeck,
Things That Disappear

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation , Kairos , and Go, Went, Gone . Things that Disappear is an exciting col…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Bo…

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Emilio Fraia,
Sevastopol

Three subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, each burrowing into a turning point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Ever…

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Forrest Gander
Dune Lines

What is an ethical life? An erotic life? A life underpinned by awe? By grief? What is it to recognize oneself as comprised of others, human and not? What hasn't this poet lavished his "gorgeous atten…

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Forrest Gander
The Trace

The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-centur…

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Henry Green
Concluding

Concluding -set in a single summer day-has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl's boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewh…

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Haley
Real Illusions

Russell Haley has been dubbed 'probably / The best Yorkshire surrealist writing in New Zealand.' The joke teasingly anticipates the tales in Real Illusions . These fictions range across specific locations…

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Hanshan,
Cold Mountain Zen

The Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan ("cold mountain") and his friend Shide ("foundling") are among the most iconic figures in the history of Zen Buddhism. Variously described as Buddhists, m…

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Ariana Harwicz,
Unfit

Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France p…

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Helle Helle,
Hafni Says

Hafni says: I don't want to be me. I want to change who I am. I don't know how to change who I am.Hafni has come to the end of her marriage. From a rest stop she phones the novel's narrator-a main charact…

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Helle Helle,
They

Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they -the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark-now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser …

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Susan Howe
Penitential Cries

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/VOELKER AWARD FOR POETRYWhat labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it.In four parts, Susan Howe's new book opens…

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Bohumil Hrabal,
Gentle Barbarian

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladimír Boudník, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupat…

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James Irby, Jorge Luis Borges,
Labyrinths

Since it was first published by New Directions in 1962, Labyrinths has transformed and enriched our collective imaginations, introduced new possibilities for literature, and astonished generation after ge…

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Elfriede Jelinek,
Screeds

In Screeds , the adamantine, acerbic wit that won Jelinek the Nobel Prize is on full display. On the Royal Road , written three weeks after Trump's first election, is "a screed of outrage at the poli…

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Mieko Kanai,
Platonic Love

A cat who looks like Orson Welles and is the grim reaper. A murder in a secret society of chivalric knights in a high school. An utterly disturbing tale involving rabbits and fathers. These short stories …

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
Death in Rome

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer and a government administrator-reunited by chance in the decaying…

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
The Hothouse

The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his self-imp…

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László Krasznahorkai,
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Havi…

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