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  • Breathing into Marble

    by Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė $12.31
    Fiction from Noir Press
    Translated from Lithuanian

    Breathing into Marble is a dark and poetic story of love, family, deception and death.

    Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature

  • Calligraphy Lesson

    by Mikhail Shishkin $14.95
    Fiction from Deep Vellum Publishing
    Translated from Russian

    Calligraphy Lesson is the first English-language collection of short stories by Mikhail Shishkin, the most acclaimed contemporary author in Russia. Spanning his entire writing career, from his first published story, “Calligraphy Lesson,” which heralded an entirely new voice in post-Soviet Russian literature and won him Russia’s prestigious Debut Prize in 1993, to “Nabokov’s Inkblot,” written in 2013 for dramatic adaptation by a theater in Zurich. Shishkin is a master prose writer, a completely unique stylist, and heir to the greatest Russian writers, such as Tolstoy, Bunin, and Pasternak.

  • Captivity

    by György Spiró $14.99$29.99
    Fiction from Restless Books
    Translated from Hungarian

    A literary sensation, György Spiró’s Captivity is both a highly sophisticated historical novel and a gripping page-turner. Set in the tumultuous first century A.D., between the year of Christ’s death and the outbreak of the Jewish War, Captivity recounts the adventures of the feeble-bodied, bookish Uri, a young Roman Jew.

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  • Daniel’s Beetles

    by Tony Bianchi $11.30
    Fiction from Seren Books
    Translated from Welsh

    Daniel’s Beetles is the author’s translation of his prizewinning novel, Pryfeta. Daniel is six. One afternoon, while playing with insects in the garden, he sees his father fall to his death. Is he upset? It’s difficult to say, because Daniel would prefer to attend to his beetles. Forty years later, he remembers nothing of the event. But two failed relationships and his elderly mother’s confusion  bring Daniel face-to-face with his demons. Then he meets Cerys and Dr Bruno and discovers a bold new way of regaining control over the past.

  • Demian

    by Hermann Hesse $12.49
    Fiction from Peter Owen Publishers
    Translated from German

    Published shortly after the First World War and before Siddharta and Steppenwolf, Demian marks a significant turning point in Hesse’s literary career. It is the first time Hermann Hesse used the novel overtly as a means to explore ideas of the self, the meaning and purpose of existence, as well as his own ideas and interpretations of theosophy and Eastern Philosophy. As such it is ranked among the finest of his works.

  • Divan of Ghalib

    by Nachoem Wijnberg $18.00
    Poetry from White Pine Press
    Translated from Dutch

    Wijnberg creates an astounding edifice filled with mirror-rooms and concealed doors; the entrance may not be easy to find but inside there are treasures of the utmost importance. The further you go, the more you find. The result is one of astonishing richness as he takes on the original Divan of Ghalib and renders it his own much as Robert Bly absorbed the lessons of Ghalib and created his own Ghazals.

  • Europe in Sepia

    by Dubravka Ugresic $13.95
    Essays from Open Letter Books
    Translated from Croatian

    Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it’s the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic’s writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her “the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had.”

  • Everything Happens as It Does

    by Albena Stambolova $12.95
    Fiction from Open Letter Books
    Translated from Bulgarian

    Albena Stambolova’s idiosyncratic debut novel, Everything Happens as It Does, builds from the idea that, as the title suggests, everything happens exactly the way it must. In this case, the seven characters of the novel—from Boris, a young boy who is only at peace when he’s around bees, to Philip and Maria and their twins—each play a specific role in the lives of the others, binding them all together into a strange, yet logical, knot.

  • Fardwor, Russia! A Fantastical Tale of Life Under Putin

    by Oleg Kashin $14.99
    Fiction from Restless Books
    Translated from Russian

    The forces of science, human error, and power run amok collide in a wildly inventive, funny, and razor-sharp political satire about Putin’s Russia, from one of the country’s most fearless journalists.

  • Farming Dreams

    by Knud Sørensen $10.00
    Poetry from Spuyten Duyvil
    Translated from Danish

    Celebrates the farmer’s way of life and illuminates the decline of small farming. Very first translation of one of Denmark’s foremost rural authors. Sørensen was the recent recipient of the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy.

  • Fifty Love Poems

    by Montserrat Abelló $12.64
    Poetry from Francis Boutle Publishers
    Translated from Catalan

    Fifty Love Poems is a collection of fifty poems about love in its various guises, ranging from erotic love and tenderness for missing loved ones to the passion for life and writing. The poems have been selected from the many books the writer has published during a literary career spanning almost fifty years. This publication is an essential starting point for anyone wishing to gain a sense of Abelló’s complete range of work.

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