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A Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel

by Meir Shalev, Evan Fallenberg

From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion. During the 1948 War of Independence--a time when pigeons are still used to deliver battlefield messages--a gifted young pigeon handler is mortally wounded. In the moments before his death, he dispatches one last pigeon. The bird... (more)

In Her Absence

by Antonio Mun?oz Molina

"Part mystery, part comedy of manners. . . . The Flaubert of Madame Bovary and the Henry James of The Turn of the Screw meet in the unresolved enigma of In Her Absence ." — Le Point During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into... (more)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)

by Brian Stone, W. S. Merwin, Marie Borroff, Selina Hastings, Mark Shannon, Michael Morpurgo, Helen Cooper, Jessie Laidlay Weston, Elisabeth Brewer, Keith Harrison, [Sir Gawain and The Green Knight], Brian (Trans.) Stone, J A [Ed] Burrows, Karen Wallace, T.H, M R [translated into modern English] (Illustrated by Galsworthy) Ridley, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, Marie Borroff, Sir Israel Re-Editor GOLLANCZ, W.R.J., ERNEST J.B. KIRTLAN, Brian (translator) Stone, JAMES R KREUZER, Jessie L.Weston, ed and intro Barron, Jr., Translator Banks

A New Year's feast at King Arthur's court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any one of Arthur's men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the challenge and decapitates the knight but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain... (more)

City of God: A Novel

by Paulo Lins

The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour de force from one of Brazil’s most notorious slums. Cidade de Deus: a place where the streets are awash with narcotics, where violence can erupt at any moment over drugs, money, and love—but also a place where the samba beat rocks till dawn, where the women are the most beautiful on earth, and... (more)

A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women

A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women

Contrary to what many in the West perceive, women are making a powerful contribution to the Iranian fiction scene. This collection captures the diverse voices of modern Iranian women, offering glimpses into their lives and into the labyrinths of Iranian society.

Light (Oberon Modern Plays S.)

by Torgny Lindgren

A man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit. The village is ravaged by sickness, and the survivors lose their sense of right and wrong. The opposing values of civilization and barbarity balance on a knife's edge. From the novel by Torgny Lindgren and adapted to the stage by Theatre de Complicite.

Farewell to My Concubine

by Lilian Lee, Andrea Lingenfelter, Bihua Li

Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.

The President

by Miguel Angel Asturias

Winner! Nobel Prize for Literature. Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) began this award-winning work while still a law student. It is a story of ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed Latin American country usually identified as Guatemala. The book has been acclaimed for portraying both a totalitarian government and its damaging... (more)

Here's to You, Jesusa!

by Elena Poniatowska

Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her native Oaxaca, abandoned by her husband and working menial jobs. So begins Jesusa's long history of encounters with... (more)

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside... (more)

The Galosh

by Mikhail Zoshchenko

In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoschenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the bewildered experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920’s and ‘30s, beset by an acute housing shortage, ubiquitous theft and corruption, and the impenetrable new ideological language of the Soviet state. Written in the... (more)

Runaway HorseMartin Walser

Runaway Horse

by Martin Walser

Text: English, German (translation)

Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. With few exceptions, these stories have appeared in English translation, although widely separated in time and often published in obscure journals. Here they are united in a coherent edition representing Brazil's modern, vibrant... (more)

Suite Francaise

by Irene Nemirovsky

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.... (more)

Dear DiegoElena Poniatowska

Dear Diego

by Elena Poniatowska

The common-law wife of the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera for a decade around World War I, Angelina Beloff bore him a son (who died in infancy) and sacrificed her own talent to his. Rivera eventually returned to Mexico without her, and this slip of a book is an epistolary cri de coeur based on actual letters she sent to him from Paris in 1921-22. Fleshed out by Poniatowska's imaginative re-creation of Beloff's... (more)

The Everlasting Rock (Three Continents Press)

The Everlasting Rock (Three Continents Press)

by P?u Tsung

This darkly romantic novel centres on Mei Puti, a 40-year-old, unmarried professor of literature, who suffers because her father is regarded as a dangerous member of the old elite. Suspicions about Puti's politics infect Fang Zhi, the doctor who is treating her for cancer, and who loves her.

An Anthology Of Basque Short Stories (Basque Literature Series)

An Anthology Of Basque Short Stories (Basque Literature Series)

by Mari Jose Olaziregi

A compilation of short stories from fourteen contemporary Basque writers, this work provides an introduction to modern Basque literature. It includes stories by Bernardo Atxaga, Lourdes Onederra, and Iban Zaldua, among others.

Fire in the Blood

by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith

Here is a missing piece of the remarkable posthumous legacy of Irène Némirovsky, author of the internationally acclaimed Suite Française. Written in 1941, the manuscript of Fire in the Blood was entrusted in pieces to family and a friend when the author was sent to her death at Auschwitz. The novel—only now assembled in its entirety—teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years... (more)

The Exception: A Novel

by Christian Jungersen

A bestseller throughout Europe, THE EXCEPTION is a gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia and obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Serbian torturer... (more)

The Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

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A Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel

by Meir Shalev, Evan Fallenberg

In Her Absence

by Antonio Mun?oz Molina

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)

City of God: A Novel

by Paulo Lins

A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women

Light (Oberon Modern Plays S.)

by Torgny Lindgren

Farewell to My Concubine

by Lilian Lee, Andrea Lingenfelter, Bihua Li

The President

by Miguel Angel Asturias

Here's to You, Jesusa!

by Elena Poniatowska

Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

The Galosh

by Mikhail Zoshchenko

Runaway Horse

by Martin Walser

Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

Suite Francaise

by Irene Nemirovsky

Dear Diego

by Elena Poniatowska

The Everlasting Rock (Three Continents Press)

by P?u Tsung

An Anthology Of Basque Short Stories (Basque Literature Series)

by Mari Jose Olaziregi

Fire in the Blood

by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith

The Exception: A Novel

by Christian Jungersen

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson