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Sleep of Memory by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive undersid ...Show more
Snapshots by Claudio Magris; Anne Milano Appel
Category: Biography | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A collection of brief, but intimate meditations on life and culture ranging from controversial matters to private moments The internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief "snapshots" reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. Some pie ...Show more
Such Fine Boys by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a seri ...Show more
Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
From beloved storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, a masterful and gripping crime novel set in picturesque Nice on the French Riviera Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper sto ...Show more
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of ...Show more
Tales of Tangier - The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri by Mohamed Choukri; Jonas Elbousty (Translator); Roger Allen (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first time Mohamed Choukri's vivid stories invite the reader to wander the streets of Tangier, the ancient coastal crossroads between Europe and Africa, and to meet it ...Show more
The Black Envelope by Norman Manea
Category: Fiction | Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of ...Show more
The Book of Beginnings by Francois Jullien
Category: Politics | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A capstone work from a renowned philosopher who explores how Western cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way of thinking How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his o ...Show more
The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon; Jonathan Wright (Translator)
Category: History | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
Widely praised in the Arab world, Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows an Iraqi academic, Nameer, who meets an antiquarian bookseller, Wadood, in a Baghdad market. Nameer becomes captivated by Wadood's obsession with cataloging everything that the 2003 invasion of their country des ...Show more
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Acclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for its vivid portrait of Iraq, this heartbreaking novel confronts the war-torn nation's horrifying recent history Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing in ...Show more
The Dirty Dust: CRE na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Mairtin O Cadhain s irresistible and infamous novel "The Dirty Dust" is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley s vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain s o ...Show more
The Dirty Dust: Cre Na Cille by Mairtin O Cadhain
Category: Fiction | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Mairtin O Cadhain's irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley's vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain's ori ...Show more