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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Adam (INT) Michael Henry (TRN); Thirlwell Bohumil; Heim Hrabal
Category: Activity | Series: New York Review Books Classics
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal; Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
"Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion ...Show more
Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
Exploding with unfolding pages and multiple directions, Kapow! is a new book by British writer Adam Thirlwell. Set in the thick of the Arab Spring, it is guided by the high-speed monologue of an unnamed narrator - over-doped, over-caffeinated, overweight - trying to make sense of this history in real ti ...Show more
Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
This yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they're coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they're having their first whisky sours - that's what's happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. He has had ...Show more
Miss Herbert by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece's governess, translated the novel into Englis ...Show more
Multiples: 12 stories in 18 languages by 61 authors by Adam Thirlwell (Editor)
Category: Anthologies
An ingenious international literary relay race in which stories pass from hand to hand, from language to language, changing all the while, with surprising, thought-provoking, and frequently funny results. Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an u ...Show more
Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández; Margaret Schwartz (Introduction by, Translator); Adam Thirlwell (Preface by)
Category: Classics
"I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio, imperfect previous versions. To not imitate this canon would have ...Show more
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
One of the most talked about first novels of 2003, an extraordinary tour de force by a miraculously gifted young author. Winner of a Betty Trask Award Politics is not about politics. It is a comedy about everything else. Politics explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette. What should the sl ...Show more
The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
The more I knew of Haffner,' writes Adam Thirlwell in The Escape, 'the more real he became, this was true. And, simultaneously, Haffner disappeared.' In a forgotten spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, Haffner is seeking a cure, more women, and a villa that belonged to his lat ...Show more
The Escape by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
Haffner is charming, morally suspect, sexually omnivorous, vain. He is British and Jewish and a widower. But when was Haffner ever really married? Or Jewish? When was he ever attached? There are so many stories of Haffner: but this, the most secret, is the greatest of them all. In a spa town snug in the ...Show more