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a r c h i p e l a g o b o ok s fa l l 2 0 1 3 /s p r i n g 2 0 14 f r o n t l i s t

Karl Ove Knausgaard /My Struggle Book Three 2Mircea Cartarescu /Blinding 4Hugo Claus /Even Now 6Wiesaw Mysliwski /A Treatise on Shelling Beans 8Wilma Stockenstrm / The Expedition to the Baobab Tree 10Bohumil Hrabal /Harlequins Millions 1 2

Aim Csaire /Return to My Native Land 14Marina Tsvetaeva /Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems 1 6

r e c e n t l y p u b l i s he d 18

b a c k l i s t 3 3

f o r t h c o m i n g 58

subscribing to a rchipela go books 60

h o w t o d o n a t e 61

d i s t r i b u t i o n a n d i n d i v i d u a l o r d e r s 61

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My Struggle: Book Threeb

K arl Ove Knausga ard fom h Now b

dOn Bartlet t

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August 20146 x 7 300 pages

$27 trade clothisbn: 978-1-935744-86-3

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The most signifcant literary enterprise o our timeThe Guardian

A gripping novel This childhood portrayal drits owith a lightness and sensitivity that not many will associ-ate with him There is no doubt that the series is worthollowing all the way Dagens Nringsliv (Norway)

On the heels o Book One and Two o the internationally celebrated seriesMy Struggle,Book Three fnds us in the sensuous realm o Karl Oves childhood A amily oourmother, ather and two boysmove to the South Coast o Norway to a newhouse on a newly developed site It is the early 1970s and the amilys trajectory,

upwardly mobile: the uture seems limitless In painstaking, sometimes sel-lacerating detail, Knausgaard paints a world amiliar to anyone who can recallthe intensity and novelty o childhood experience, one in which children andadults lead parallel lives that never meet Perhaps the most Proustian in the series,Book Three gives us Knausgaards vivid, technicolor recollections o childhood,his emerging sel-understanding, and the multilayered nature o times passing,

memory, and existenceK a r l O v e K n a u s ga a r d was born in Norway in 1968 His debut novel Out of ThisWorld won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and hisA Time for Everything(Archi-pelago) was a fnalist or the Nordic Council Prize For My Struggle, Knausgaardreceived the Brage Award in 2009 (or Book One), the 2010 Book o the Year Prizein Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners Prize It is also a fnalist or The Believer

Fiction PrizeMy Struggle has been translated into more than fteen languagesKnausgaard lives in Sweden with his w ie and three children

d O n B a r t l e t t has translated dozens o books o various genres, including eightnovels and short story collections by Jo Nesb andIts Fine by Me by Per PettersonHe lives in Norolk, England

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October 20136 x 7

464 pages

$22 u.s/can $26 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-84-9

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-85-6fction

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Blindingb

Mircea c a rta rescu

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sean cOtter


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www.arch ipe lagobooks .o rg

Cartarescus phantasmagorical world is similar to Dalsdreamscapes Kirkus Reviews

Gripping, impassioned, unexpectedthe qualities thatthe best in literature possesses

Los Angeles Times Book Review

I George Lucas were a poet, this is how he would write

New York Sun

Part visceral dream-memoir, part fctive journey through a hallucinatory Bucha-rest, Mircea Cartarescus Blinding was one o the most widely heralded literarysensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller rom the day o its releaseRiddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering but-

teries,Blindingtakes us on a mystical trip into the protagonists childhood, hismemories o hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory o his amily, a travelingcircus, Secret police, zombie armies, American fghter pilots, the undergroundjazz scene o New Orleans, and the installation o the communist regime Thiskaleidoscopic world is both eerily amiliar and prooundly new Readers oBlind-ingwill emerge rom this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transormed

M i r c e a c a r ta r e s c u, poet, novelist, and essayist, was born in 1956 in Bucha-rest As a young member o the Blue-jeans Generation in the 1970s, his workwas strongly inuenced by A merican writing in opposition to the ofcial Com-munist ideology and by Romanian Onirism The appearance o his novelNostalgia(New Directions) made him a young literary star in Romania He currently livesin Bucharest

s e a n c O t t e rs translations rom the Romanian include Nichita Stanescus Wheelwith a Single Spoke and Other Poems (recipient o the 2012 Best Translated BookAward or Poetr y), Liliana Ursus Lightwall and Nichita Danilovs SecondhandSouls His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in Conjunctions, TwoLines, and Translation Review He is Associate Proessor o Literature and Literar yTranslation at the University o Texas at Dallas, Center or Translation Studies


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Even NowPom b

HugO claus

fom h Dh bdavid cOlMer

November 20136 x 7

256 pages

$20 u.s./can $24 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-88-7

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-89-4poetry

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Claus rages against the decay o the physical sel whiledesire remains untamed From the beginning, his poetry

has been marked by an uncommon mix o intelligence andpassion, given expression in a medium over which he hassuch light-fngered control that art becomes invisible

J M Coetzee

Beautiully translated rom the Dutch by David Colmer, the IMPAC Award-winningtranslator o Gerbrand Bakkers The Twin, Hugo Clauss poems are remarkable ortheir dexterity, intensity o eeling, and acute intelligence From the richly associa-tive and reerential Oostakker Poems to the emotional and erotic outpouring othe mad dog stanzas in Morning, You, rom his interpretations o Shakespearessonnets to a modern adaptation o a Sanskrit masterpiece, this volume reveals the

breadth and depth o Clauss stunning output Perhaps Belgiums leading fgureo postwar Dutch literature, Claus has long been associated with the avant-garde:these poems challenge conventional bourgeois mores, religious bigotry, andauthoritarianism with v isceral passion

The prose, poetry, and paintings oH u g O c l a u s (1929-2008) were as inuentialas they were groundbreaking His novels include The Sorrow of Belgium, his magnumopus o postwar Europe, as well as Desire, The Swordsh,Mild Destruction,Rumors,and The Duck Hunt His corpus o poetry is immense and stunningly diverse Inaddition to receiving every major Dutch-language literary prize, Claus receivedthe 2002 Leipzig Book Award or European Understanding or his body o work

d a v i d c O l M e r is a writer and translator He translates Dutch literature in a

wide range o genres including literary fction, nonfction, childrens books, andpoetry He is a our-time winner o the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize, andreceived the 2009 Biennial NSW Premier and PEN Translation Prize His transla-tion o Gerbrand Bakkers The Twin (Archipelago) was awarded the InternationalIMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and he receivedalong with Gerbrand BakkertheIndependent Foreign Fiction Prize or Bakkers novel The Detour


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A Treatise on Shelling Beansb

Wies aW MysliWsKi

fom h Poh bBill JOHnstOn

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Like a more agrarian Beckett, a less gothic Faulkner, aslightly warmer Laxness Richly textured and wonder-ully evocative Undeniably original

Publishers Weekly, starred

Our hero and narrator is the ageing caretaker o cottages at a summer resort A

mysterious visitor inspires him to share the story o his long lie: we witness ahappy childhood cut short by the war, his hiding rom the Nazis buried in a heapo potatoes, his plodding attempts to play the saxophone, the brutal murder o hisamily, loves lost but remembered, and ootloose travels abroad Told in the man-ner o riends and neighbors swapping stories over the mundane task o shellingbeansin the grand oral tradition o Mysliwskis celebratedStone Upon Stoneeachanecdote, lived experience, and memory accrues cross-stitched layers o meaning

By turns hilarious and poignant,A Treatise on Shelling Beans is an epic recountingo a lie that, while universal, is anything but ordinary

W i e s aW M y sl i W s K i is the only writer to have twice received the Nike Prize,Polands most prestigious literar y award: in 1997 or his novelHorizon and againin 2007 orA Treatise on Shelling Beans He worked as an editor at the Peoples Pub-lishing Cooperative and at the magazinesRegionyand Sycyna In addition to the

Nike Prize, Mysliwski has received the Stanisaw Pietak Prize, the Arts Ministr yPrize, the State Prize, the Reymont Prize, the Alred Jurzykowski Foundation

Award, and the Golden Sceptre Award

B i l l J O H n s t O n is the Chair o the Comparative Literature Department at IndianaUniversity His translations include Witold Gombrowiczs Bacacay; MagdalenaTullisDreams and Stones,Moving Parts,Flaw, andIn Red; Jerzy PilchsHis Current

Woman and The Mighty Angel; Stean eromskis The Faithful River; andFado andDukla by Andrzej Stasiuk In 1999 he received a National Endowment or theAr ts Poetry Fellowship or Translation In 2008 he won the inaugura l Found inTranslation Award or Tadeusz Rozewiczs new poems, and in 2012 he was awardedthe PEN Translation Prize and Three Percents Best Translated Book Award orMysliwskisStone Upon Stone

Winner o the 2007 Nike Prize


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The Expedition to the Baobab Treeb

WilMa stOcKenstrM

fom h Afk b

J. M. cOetzee

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February 20145 x 7

220 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-93-1fction

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An astonishing achievementThe Star(South Arica)

A tr uly remarkable contribution, both or the lyricalquality o its prose and or its boldly imaginative theme

World Literature Today

In J M Coetzee's stunning translation: a powerully symbolic story in the voiceo a slave that explores the depths o imagination, isolation, ear, and love A slave

woman is the only survivor o a ailed expedition into the depths o SouthernArica She shelters in the hollow trunk o a baobab tree where she relives herearlier existence in a state o increasing isolation We are the sole witnesses toher moving history: her capture as a young child, her lie in a harbor city on the

eastern coast as servant to various masters, her journey with her last owner andprotector, and her lie in the baobab tree

W i l M a s t O c K e n s t r M is one o the most important authors writing in ArikaansShe has published 5 novels, 7 collections o poems, and one play She receivedthe Hertzog Prize or Poetry in 1977 and again in 1992 She was awarded Italy'sGrinzane Cavour Prize in 1988 or The Expedition to the Baobab Tree She has alsohad a successul career as an actress on stage and in flm She lives in Cape Town

J. M. c Oe t z e es works includeDisgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians,Life & Times ofMichael K, Foe,Slow Man,In the Heart of the Country,Elizabeth Costello, and The Child-hood of Jesus He has been awarded many prizes, including the Booker Prize (1983,1999) In 2003, he received the Nobel Prize or Literature Coetzee lives in Australia

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Harlequins Millionsb

BOHuMil Hr aB al

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April 20146 x 7

260 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-44-3fction

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the whole world hurts My credo was always delight,bliss, longing Bohumil Hrabal

Hrabal is a most sophisticated novelist, with a gustinghumor and a hushed tenderness o detail

Julian Barnes

By the writer who Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakias greatest, a beautiul novelpeopled with eccentric, unorgettable inhabitants o a home or the elderly whoreminisce about their lives and their changing country Poised on the thresholdbetween joy and melancholy, this novel allows us into the mind o a woman comingto terms with the passing o time

B O Hu M i l H r a B a l (1914-1997) is one o the most beloved writers o the 20thcentur y His novels includeI Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains, Too

Loud a Solitude,Dancing Lessons for the Advanced of Age, and The Death of Mr. Baltis-berger(all translated into English by Michael Henry Heim) Hrabals writings werebanned ater the Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968

s t a c e y K n e c H t lives in the Netherlands She is the translator o Marcel MringsThe Dream Room, The Great Longing, and In Babylon; Anke de Vriess Bruises; andLieve JorissBack to the Congo She is the ounder o the literary website The Ledge

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July 20146 x 6 220 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-95-5poetry

Return to My Native Landb

aiM csaire

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JOHn Berger and anne BOstOcK


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Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument o thistime Andr Breton

One o the most powerul French poets o the centuryNew York Times Book Review

A work o immense cultura l sig nifcance and beauty, this long poem became ananthem or the Arican diaspora and the birth o the Negritude movement Withunusual juxtapositions o object and metaphor, a bouquet o lang uage-play, anddeeply resonant rhythms, Csaire considered this work a break into the orbid-den, at once a cry o rebellion and a celebration o black identity

Poet and politiciana i M c s a i r e (1913-2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, Mar-

tinique and attended high school and college in France During World War II,he returned to Martinique and served as mayor o Fort-de-France and FrancesNational Assembly In 1946, he helped Martinique shed its colonial status andbecome an overseas department o France His best known works include Dis-course on Colonialism, the essay Negro I Am, Negro I Will Remain, and Returnto My Native Land

JOH n B e r ge r is an art critic, poet, novelist, and visual ar tist His many booksinclude To the Wedding;Here is Where We Meet;Bentos Sketchbook;Pig Earth;And our

Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos; and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G Amonghis celebrated studies o art and photography are Ways of SeeingandAbout LookingHis translations include Mural by Mahmoud Darwish, co-translated by RemaHammami

a n n a B O s t O c Khas translated the work o Gyrgy Lukcs, Valentin Kataev, BertoltBrecht, Le Corbusier, and Wilhelm Reich, among others


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Moscow in the Plag ue Yearom b

Marina tsv etaeva

fom h R bcHristOpHer WH yte

Aug ust 20146 x 7

180 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-97-9poetry

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A poet o geniusVladimir Nabokov

Unique, proound, passionate, inspiring Asks ques-tions we didnt know existed until she oered them to us,and answers to some o poetrys most enduring mysteries

CK Williams

Representing some o Tsvetaevas most remarkable work, this collection o poems,written during the the years o the Moscow amine and the Russian Revolutiono 1917, is suused with biting irony and vibrant imagery Frequently invokingimages o resistance, Tsvetaeva approaches emale resilience with sustainedstrength and an inectious sense o humor For a woman, she observes, God

is the equivalent o an aging husband Deeply admired by Rainer Maria Rilkeand Vladimir Nabokov, Tsvetaeva is widely considered one o the most importantpoets o twentieth-century Russia This is the frst time many o these poems haveappeared in English

M a r i n a t s v e t a e v a (1892-1941) was a Russian poet and memoirist The RussianRevolution prompted Tsvetaevas husband to join the White Army, and she and heryoung children were trapped in Moscow and thrown into extreme poverty or fveyears In 1941 her husband was shot on the charge o espionage, her daughter wassent to a labor camp, and Tsvetaeva hersel was sent to Yelabuga, where she oundhersel once more desperately looking or work until her suicide later that year

c H r i s t O p He r W H y t e is a multiling ual writer and translator He has published

two collections o original poetry in Gaelic; our novels in English, includingTheCloud Machinery, which won a Scottish Ar ts Council Book Award; and translationsrom the Hungarian, Gaelic, and Russian Whyte will be translating a collectiono Tsvetaevas poetry or Carcanet

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My Struggle: Book TwoA Man in Love

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K arl Ove Knausga ard fom h Now b

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May 20136 x 7 573 pages

$26 trade clothisbn: 978-1-935744-82-5

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Beautiully rendered and, at times, painully observant,his book does a superlative job o fnding that inner core

o human existence I his frst volume was his struggleto cope with death, this is his str uggle to cope with lieWall Street Journal

Knausgaard strips away the literary tricks, burststhrough language, explodes artifce Honest and wise

rare properties in contemporary writing Book Two searsthe reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist andnot just a tetchy complainer He wants to create great art,and he wants to fght the conormity and homogeneity omodern bourgeois existence

James Wood, The New Yorker

K a r l O v e K n a u s ga a r d was born in Norway in 1968 His debut novel Out of ThisWorld won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and hisA Time for Everything(Archi-pelago) was a fnalist or the Nordic Council Prize For My Struggle, Knausgaard

received the Brage Award in 2009 (or Book One), the 2010 Book o the Year Prizein Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners Prize It is also a fnalist or The BelieverFiction PrizeMy Struggle has been translated into more than fteen languagesKnausgaard lives in Sweden with his w ie and three children

d O n B a r t l e t t has translated dozens o books o various genres, including eight

novels and short story collections by Jo Nesb andIts Fine by Me by Per PettersonHe lives in Norolk, England

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Selected Tales of theBrothers Grimm

fom h Gm b

peter WOrtsManwh o b omo

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April 20136 x 7 238 pages

$24 u.s./can $24 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-76-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-77-1

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The Grimm tales still invoke nature, more than God, aslies driving orce, and nature is not kind

Joan Acocella, The New Yorker

Among the ew indispensable, common-property booksupon which Western culture can be ounded it shouldbe, frst and oremost, an educational must or adults

WH Auden

Franktiennes work can speak to the most intellectualperson in the society as well as the most humble A verygenerous kind o genius Edwidge Danticat

J a K OB K a r l gr i M M was born on January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany His brother,W i l H e l M K a r l g r i M M , was born on February 24, 1786 Court librarians, lin-guists, scholars, translators, and writers, the Brothers Grimm collected storiestold by peasants and villagers and published them in written orm, orming theoundation o the most popular childrens stories today

Recipient o the 2012 Gold Grand Prize or Best Travel Story o the Year in the SolasAwards Competition, p e t e r W O r t sM a n is the author oA Modern Way to Die: SmallStories and Microtales, the plays The Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words, therecent memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, and the orthcoming novelCold Earth Wanderers His translations rom the German include Robert Musils

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Heinrich Heines Travel Pictures, Peter Alten-

bergs Telegrams of the Soul, and Tales of the German Imagination: From The BrothersGrimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, published by Penguin Classics

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Landscape with Yellow Birds om b

JOs ngel va lente

fom h Sh btHOMa s cHristensen

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May 20135 x 7 333 pages

$18 u.s/can $18 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-80-1e-isbn: 978-1-935744-81-8

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The primary heir o Machado, Jimnez, Garca Lorca, andCernudaJos ngel Valente has taken a long time to reachEnglish, but Thomas Christensens crystalline translationhas made it worth the wait Eliot Weinberger

One o the most important poets o postwar literatureValentes work answers to a single commitment: with

the word El Pas

This is a poet obsessed by love, love in all its joy and pas-sion, love in its darkness, its pain, and its desperation This collection is not only an important contribution toSpanish-language poetry in translation, it is a passionate

joy to read Lawrence Frith,NY Journal of Books

JO s n ge l va l e n t e (1929-2000) produced more than twenty volumes o poetryand many important essays He lived in Switzerland rom 1958 to 1982, and some ohis work was not allowed to be published in Francos Spain Valente expressed thatpoetry is a revelation o an aspect o reality to which there is no means o access other

than through poetic knowledge He was awarded the Premio Prncipe de Asturiasde las Letras in 1988, the Premio de la Fundacin Pablo Iglesias in 1984, the PremioReina Soa de Poesa Iberoamericana in 1993, the Premio de la Crtica in 1960and 1990, and the Premio Nacional de Literatura posthumously in 2000 Upon hisdeath in 2000, The Independent called him Spains greatest contemporary poet

t H O M a s c H r i s t e n s e n is the author o1616: Intimations of Modernity,New World/New Words: Translating Latin American Literature, and with his wie Carol Chris-tensen, The U.S.Mexican War He has translated works by Carlos Fuentes, AlejoCarpentier, and Julio Cortzar His translation o Louis-Ferdinand ClinesBalletsWithout Music, Without Dancers, Without Anythingwas a fnalist or the PEN CenterUSA West Literar y Award in translation He is director o publications at the Asian

Ar t Museum o San Francisco

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Recipient (posthumously) o the 2001 Premio Nacional de Poesia

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The Woman of Porto Pimb

antOniO taBuccHi

fom h I btiM parK s

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There is in Tabucchis stories the touch o the true magi-cian, who astonishes us by never trying too hard or his

subtle, elusive and remarkable eectsThe San Francisco Examiner

Tabucchi urnishes and populates the spectral places hevisits so detly that he compels us to accept dream andmemory without question, as we accept our own world

His sense o humor oten catches us by surpriseRobert Gray,Shelf Awareness

Ruminative, elegiac and mordantly unny, Mr Tabucchisprose conjures a state between waking and dreaming

The New York Times

a n t On iO t a B uc c H i was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon in 2012 A mastero short fction, he won the Prix Mdicis Etranger orIndian Nocturne, the ItalianPEN Prize orRequiem: A Hallucination, the Aristeion European Literature Prize orPereira Declares, and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French

Government Together with his wie, Maria Jos de Lancastre, Tabucchi translatedmuch o the work o Fernando Pessoa into Italian Tabucchis works include The

Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico (Archipelago),Little Misunderstandings of No Impor-tance,Letter from Casablanca, and The Edge of the Horizon (all rom New Directions)

t i M p a r K s teaches literary translation at IULM University in Milan He is a lit-erary critic and the author oAn Italian Education, The Server,Dreams of Rivers andSeas, and Teach Us to Sit Still Twice winner o the John Florio Prize or translation,Parks has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso,Niccol Machiavelli, Fleur Jaeggy, and Antonio Tabucchi

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Fireflyb

severO sa rdu y

fom h Sh bMa rK Fried

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Sarduy rendered the epiphany o the body luminous, wherethe pleasure o the void meets the urious fre o the world

The Washington PostSarduy is the master o wordscapes that dip, shake andexplore New York Times Book Review

Funny, kitschy, irreverent among the most compel-

ling products o contemporary Latin American fction, asfnished and original as Hopscotch or One Hundred Yearsof Solitude Maitreya is rich in political and historicalsuggestions Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

Severo Sarduy has everything so brilliant, so unny,

and so bewilderingly apt in his borrowings, his deriva-tions, as well as in his inventions, his fndings, he leavesone breathless, like a shot o rum Richard Howard

s e v e r O s a r d u y (1937-1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and literarycritic, considered one o the best prose artists o the twentieth century In 1972,

he was awarded the Prix Mdicis or his novel Cobra He pursued a variety o inter-ests: in addition to publishing six highly acclaimed novels, he published several

volumes o poetry, essays, and plays He also painted, hosted a radio program, and,as editor atEditions du Seuil, introduced contemporary Latin American fction toEuropean readers He was a leading intellectual in the Cuban Revolution

M a r K F r i e d is the translator oEduardo Galeanos Mirrors: Stories of Almost Every-one, Voices of Time: A Life in Stories,Soccer in Sun and Shadow, We Say No: Chronicles1963-1991, and Walking Words He is also the translator o the historical collectionEchoes of the Mexican-American Warand works by Emilia Ferreiro (Past and Presentof the Verb to Read and to Write: Essays on Literacy), Jos Ignacio Lpez Vigil, OscarUgarteche, and Raael Barajas Durn

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The Bottom of the Jarb

aBdell atiF l a Bi

fom h h bandr naFFis-saHely

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A master o his artLe Nouvel Observateur

A valuable book: inventive and philosophically amusing,it assures us that despite dark times, human virtue stillshines in Maghreb with a clarity that is unquestionablybrightest in the old city o Fez

JMG Le Clzio, winner o the Nobel Prize

Created with gentleness and with ury, with words thatthrill the soul, that cry out with the urge to live, with hopeand with suering Jeune Afrique

An authentic and beautiul bildungsroman in which lie

and political struggle take place in one space in a sublimeway Quotidien National

a B de l l a t i F l a B i , poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and political activist,was born in Fez, Morocco in 1942 He was also the ounder oSoufes, an importantliterary review that was banned in Morocco in 1972 Labi received the Prix Robert

Ganzo or poetry in 2008, the Prix Goncourt or Poetry or his collected work in2009, and the Acadmie ranaises Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 2011

a n dr n a F F i s -s a H e l ys translations include Labis The Rule of Barbarism(Pirogue Poets Series), and The Barbary Figs and The Funerals by Rachid Boujedra(Arabia Books) His translation o mile ZolasLargent is orthcoming rom Pen-guin Classics He lives in London

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The Elevenb

pierre MicHOn

fom h h bJOdy gl addingand eliza BetH desHays

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Genius, completely dazzling and ull o dread, dark andbrilliant, as i radiating with a black light Tlrama

It will bring you to your knees Le Nouvel Observateur

One o the best-kept secrets o modern French prosePublishers Weekly

An astonishingly rich, mythic new direction in modernFrench narrative Guy Davenport

ReadingSmall Lives, I elt prooundly that Michon wascarrying on the mark o a true writer: one who speaks inhis own voice while conveying with all its immediacy andesh-and-blood possibility o what it means to be human

Richard Kalich, The Review of Contemporary Fiction

p i e r r e M i c H O n, born in Cards, France in 1945, is one o Frances oremostcontemporary writers In 2002, Michon won the prestigious Prix Dcembre orhis short novelsAbbs and Corps du roi, the Prix Louis Guilloux orLa grande beaune(The Origin of the World, Mercury House), and the Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1996

or his body o workJOd y gl a ddi n g is a poet and translator Her most recent collection o poetryisRooms and Their Airs (Milk weed, 2009) She has translated over twenty booksrom French She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College o Fine Artsand lives in Vermont

e l i z a B e t H de s H a y s is a teacher and a translator She is the author o a study onbilingual education,LEnfant Bilingue (Robert Laont) Her translation o JulienGracqsLa Prequile is published by Green Integer She lives in Provence

Gladding and Deshays were awarded the French-American Foundation/FlorenceGould Translation Prize in 2008 or their rendering o Michons Vies Miniscules(Small Lives)

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Diaries of Exileyannis ritsos

translated rom the Greek byk aren emmerich andedmund keeley$15 u.s./can $15isbn: 978-1-935744-58-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-59-7

This is what poetry can do: preserve the moments that wouldotherwise be orgotten, and in so doing, recreate the world

David Ulin, LA Times

The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelicoantonio tabucchitranslated rom the Italian bytim parks$15 u.s./can $15isbn: 978-1-935744-56-6

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-57-3[Tabucchis] prose creates a deep, near-proound and some-times heart-wrenching nostalgia and constantly evokes thepain o recognizing the speed o lies passing Wonderullythought-provoking and beautiul

Alan Cheuse,NPRs All Things Considered

Mama Leonemiljenko jergovictranslated rom the Croatian bydavid willi ams$16 u.s./can $16 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-32-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-71-9

Miljenko Jergovicis a superb stylist He manages to conveyvivid and emotionally rich pictures o everyday lie with eventhe slightest o rhetorical ourishes David Williams hasdone a superb job o translating these stories They are boundto amuse and entertain Bojan Tunguz

Mandarins


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Stories byryu-nosuke ak utagawatranslated rom the Japanese bychar les de wolf

$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-0-9e-isbn: 978-1-935744-12-2

The ow o his language is the best eature o Akutagawasstyle Never stagn ant, it moves along like a livin g thing Hischoice o words is intuitive, naturaland beautiul

Haruki Murakami

Telegrams of the SoulSelected Prose ofpeter altenbergselected, translated, and with an aterword bypeter wortsma n$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-8-7e-isbn: 978-0-9819557-7-3

Peter Altenberg is a genius o nullifcations, a sing ular ideal-ist who discovers the splendors o this world like cigarettebutts in the ashtrays o coeehouses Franz Kaka

Tranquilityattil a bartistranslated rom the Hungarian byimre goldstein$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-0-7e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-4-7Three Percent Best Translated Book of 2008 Award winner

Reading like the bastard child o Thomas Bernhard andElriede Jelinek, Tranquilityis political and personal su-

ering distilled perectly and transormed into dark, viscidbeauty It is among the most haunted, most honest, and mosthuman novels I have ever read Brian Evenson

The Twin


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gerbrand bakkertranslated rom the Dutch bydavid colmer$25 hardcover isbn: 978-0-9800330-2-1

$16 paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-04-7e-isbn: 978-1-9819873-3-02010 International IMPAC Dublin Literar y Award winnerAn NPR pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year

Gerbrand Bakkers writing is abulously clear, so clear thateach sentence leaves a rippling wake

The Los Angeles Times

My Kind of Girlbuddhadeva bosetranslated rom the Bengali byaru nava sinha$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-05-4

Charming Riveting Rich and strange A novel oideas, a veritable history o emotions that alludes to some othe most proound testimonies o love in world literature

The Telegraph

Mafeking Roadherman charles bosman$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-6-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-51-1

The pacing and perspective o Bosmans tales are unlikeanyth ing else in English The closest comparison may beRobert Frost poems or Bob Dylan songs

Publishers WeeklyBosman is disrespectul, subversive and lethal on the silly,savage ways o old South Arica Ive no doubt he would havebeen just as wicked about the new South Arica

Christopher Hope

All One Horse


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breyten breytenbachwit h 27 orig inal watercolors by the author$20 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9793330-7-1

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-25-2All One Horse is a cartography o exile, a primordialmythology, a surreal philosophy o history and an exe-gesis o the art o poetry There is weight to every pas-sage, political weight, human weight, natural weight Its as i Grard de Nerval had made it, immortally, into thetwenty-frst century, gone deep into apartheid-era South

Arica and reused to go mad Bookslut

Intimate StrangerA writing bookbreyten breytenbach$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-9-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-27-6

In this inspiring, insightul, and heart-warming meditation,Breyten Breytenbach has given us a masterpiecea term I use

with all due caution As unpretentious as a comortable oldshir t, this is a book to be read and reread, to be cherished byanyone who values the enlightenment ound in great poetryo all kinds Sam Hamill

Mouroirbreyten breytenbach$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-7-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-28-3

This is not a prisoners book It would be a crass injustice o

underestimation and simplifcation i it were presented andreceived that way It describes how the ordinar y time-ocuso a mans perception can be extraordinari ly rearranged bya defnitive experience Prison irradiates this book withdreadul enlightenments; the dark and hidden places o thecountry rom which the book arises are phosphorescent

with it Nadine Gordimer

Voice Over


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a nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwishbreyten breytenbach$9 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9819557-5-9

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-29-02010 Mahmoud Darwish Award win ner

Voice Overis a short but aecting sequence, with a slightlyexperimental eel to it, its author trying to come to gripswith the death o his riend and colleague through a variet yo approaches A beautiul little pocket-sized pamphlet-

volume, it is well-worthwhi le The Complete Review

Lenzgeorg bchnertranslated rom the German byrichard sieburth$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-2-5 bilingu al editione-isbn: 978-0-9819557-8-0

A totemic work o German literatureTimes Literary Supplement

A brilliant and widely inuential prefguring o the modern-ist narrative imagination It is a work that ully breathesin the present Michael Palmer

Education by Stonejoo cabr al de me lo netotranslated rom the Portuguese byrichard zenith$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-1-8 bilin gu al editione-isbn: 978-1-935744-55-9

Academy of American Poets 2005 Translation Award win ner

Joo Cabral de Melo Neto is one o Brazils most acclaimedpoets Avoiding ceremony and circumstance, his poemsollow centuries-old paths

TheNew York Times Book Review

Palafox


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eric chevilla rdtranslated rom the French byw yatt mason$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9728692-4-9

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-11-5

The current American new abulism could learn a great dealrom this very amusing book and its willingness to take realnarrative risks Palafox is a must or anyone interested inanti-realist fction Rain Taxi

Prehistoric Timeseric chevilla rdtranslated rom the French byaly son water s$16 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-16-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-30-6

Chevillards book is a very proound contemplation on thenature o posterity The Quarterly Conversation

Wonderhugo claustranslated rom the Dutch bymichael henry heim$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-1-42010 PEN Translation Prize winner

Fine and ambitious A work o savage satire intensely

engaged with the moral and cultural lie o the authors Bel-gium Packed with asides, allusions, and ferce juxtaposi-tions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos wherecontrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we can onlywonder The New York Review of Books

Book of My MotherA lbert Cohen


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A lbert Cohentranslated rom the French bybella cohen$15 trade paperback

isbn: 978-1-935744-33-7e-isbn: 978-1-935744-54-2

Brilliant Straight out o French arce A miracle o

patience and suppleness A phantasmagoric display o acertain view o the world London Review of Books

Autonauts of the CosmorouteA Timeless Voyage from Par is to Marseillejulio cortzar & carol dunloptranslated rom the Spanish byanne mcleanwith draw ings bystphane hbert$20 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9793330-0-2

An elegy perormed as the lightest o dances An adventurestood on its absurd head a mask o comedy concealing

the enigma o an archaic smileThe Los Angeles Times Book Review

From the Observatoryjulio cortzartranslated rom the Spanish byanne mclean$18 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-06-1

Idols invite respect, admiration, aection, and, o course,great envy Cortzar inspired all o these eelings as very

ew writers can, but he inspired, above all, an emotion muchrarer: devotion He was, perhaps without trying, the Argen-tine who made the world love him

Gabriel Garca Mrquez

Diary of Andrs Favajulio cortzar


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julio cortzartranslated rom the Spanish byanne mclean$14 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9749680-6-3

This beautiul amalgam o marvelous instances tilts

against the airy blades o empty thought with a vengeanceEqual parts tender wit, elegant aside and acid observation,Diary of Andrs Fava,which comes to us rom the desk o oneo the twentieth centurys greatest literar y explorers, is 100percent delight Laird Hunt

Of Song and Waterjoseph cou lson$25 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9778576-6-1$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819557-0-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-20-7

The power o this beautiul novel stems as much rom

the rich and poignant music that emanates rom it, rom

its constant ebb and ow between past and present, as

rom the tide o memories that recount the painul drit oone man Le Monde

The Vanishing Moonjoseph cou lson$24 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9728692-0-1$14 paperback , Harcourt isbn: 978-0-1560301-8-2e-isbn: 978-1-935744-21-4A Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Selection

The Vanishing Moon explores human railt y with the sim-plicity and directness o haiku [and] at times achievesthe quiet beauty o William Max wells fnest workgenerous,episodic, elegiac but not sentimental Coulson seems towant to bring Faulkner to Ohio The Nation

Eline VereA Novel of the Hague


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A Novel of the Haguelouis couperustranslated rom the Dutch byina rilke$17 papberback isbn: 978-0-9819557-4-2e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-6-1

Superb Couperus handles his many characters with mas-terly ease and keeps his prose smooth, light, and owing

Ina Rilkes translation cannot be praised highly enoughMichael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal

My Body and Iren creveltranslated rom the French byrobert bononno$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-9-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-03-0

He will be read more and more as the wind carries awaythe ashes o the great names that preceded him

Ezra Pound

One o the most beautiul pillars o surrealismAndr Breton

A River Dies of Thirstjourn alsmahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic bycatherine cobham$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9819557-1-1

e-isbn : 978-1-935744-67-2

There are two maps o Palestine that the politicians will nevermanage to oreit: the one kept in the memories o Palestinianreugees, and that which is drawn by Mahmoud Darwishspoetry Anton Shammas

In the Presence of Absencemahmoud darwish


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mahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic bysinan antoon$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-01-6

e-isbn : 978-1-935744-65-8

In a unique hybrid o verse and prose, Mahmoud Darwish,shadowed by mortality, created an autobiography o exile

and return, a lyric narrative whose every section is at oncea vivid aperu o lie unolding in historys shadows and a

poem with a poems internal logic Marilyn Hacker

Journal of an Ordinary Griefmahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic byibrahim muhawi$16 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-4-7e-isbn : 978-1-935744-69-6

Mahmoud Darw ish is the Palestinain poet laureate His

verses chronicle the Palestinians anguish at the loss o theirland His rhythms tattoo their angry heartache IbrahimMuhawis limpid translation captures the longing, the acheo exile The Economist

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?mahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic byjef frey sacks$18 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9763950-1-0e-isbn : 978-1-935744-68-9

Darwish is the premier poetic voice o the Palestinian people lyrical, imagistic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate,and elegantand never anything less than reewhat he

would dream or all his people Naomi Shihab Nye

Yann A ndra Steinermarguerite dura s


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translated rom the French bymark polizzotti$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-8-9

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-22-1

Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable

perspectives o conession and objectivity, o lyrical poetryand nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowlyin the readers mind until they detonate with all the orce oused eeling and thought

The New York Times Book Review

Plants Dont Drink Coffeeunai elorriagatranslated rom the Basque byamaia gabantxo$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-8-5e-isbn: 978-1-935744-13-9

In these stories there is a psychological process, a learningcurve, a painul jump toward crucial knowledge InPlants

Dont Drink Coffee that jump takes place toward the end, whichhelps the story glide along joyously, aided by the novels

two main strengths: the innocent but brilliant, and almostshrewd lan guage o the child nar rator and the abundance osecondary stories El Pas

The Waitress Was Newdominique fabretranslated rom the French byjorda n st ump$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-9-2

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-10-82009 PEN Translation Prize nalist

The strong, intimate voice o this gentle, canny narrator

continues to stay with us long ater we reach the end o TheWaitress Was Newwhat an engrossing, captivating tale, in

Jordan Stumps sensitive translation Lydia Davis

The Serpent of Starsjean giono


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translated rom the French byjody gl adding$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9728692-8-7

e-isbn: 978-0-935744-45-0

Giono has created his own private terrestrial domain, a

mythical domain It is a land in which things happen tomen as ons ago they happened to the gods Pan still walksthe earth The soil is saturated with cosmic juices Events

transpire Miracles occur Henry Miller

Bacacaywitold gombrow icztranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-9-4$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-7-2e-isbn: 978-1-935744-14-6

Gombrowicz is one o the most original and gited writers othe twentieth century: he belongs at the very summit, at theside o his kindred spirits, Kaka and Cline This collectiono his stories will serve as an admirable introduction to hisoeuvre The Washington Post Book World

Travel Picturesheinrich heinetranslated rom the German bypeter wortsma n$17 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-3-3e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-0-9

Heine possesses that divine malice without which I cannotimagine perection And how he employs German! It willone day be said that Heine and I have been by ar the frst artistso the German language Friedrich Nietzsche

Funny, biting, but always tender inimitably pleasurableEric Banks

Fossil Skydavid hinton


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$17 map ormat i s b n : 978-0-9728692-7-0

Hinton has re-deined the boundaries o poetry inprint This is great brain candy Bookslut

Fossil Skydescribes a landscape: the south o France Its aportrait we receive in rag mentsa tatter o sky here, o waterthere, with images o bright summer felds blurring into oneso rost Seven Days

Hyperionfriedrich hlderlintranslated rom the German byross benjamin$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-2-6e-isbn: 978-0-9819557-9-7

Friedrich Hlderlin unquestionably belongs in the intensecompany o Shelley, Kleist, Novalis, Lenz, and Bchner [Hlderlins] is one o the great writers lives, ull o inten-sity and movement, work and projects, abrupt departuresand riendships Michael Homann

Sarajevo Marlboromilj enko jergov ictranslated rom the Croatian bystel a toma ev ic$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9728692-2-5e-isbn : 978-1-935744-73-3

Like all great war books, Sarajevo Marlboro is not aboutwarits about lie Jergovic is an enormously talented

story teller, so the people under siege come through in alltheir poignant u llness Sarajevo Marlboro is a book orthe people who appreciate lie Aleksandar Hemon

As Though She Were Sleepingelias khoury


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translated rom the Arabic bymarilyn booth$27 trade cloth

isbn: 978-1-935744-02-3e-isbn: 978-1-935744-34-4

An enchanting hymn to the Middle East, inused with the

richness and beauty o classical poetryThe Guardian

Gate of the Sunelias khourytranslated rom the Arabic byhumphrey davies$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9763950-2-7e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-8-5Picador paperback edition, isbn: 978-0-31242670-5

There has been powerul fction about Palestinians and byPalestinians, but ew have held to the light the myths, talesand rumors o both Israel and the Arabs with such discerningcompassion In Humphrey Daviess sparely poetic transla-tion, Gate of the Sun is an imposingly rich and realistic novel,a genuine masterwork The New York Times Book Review

White Maskselias khourytranslated rom the Arabic bymaia tabet$22 hardcover isbn: 978-0-9819873-2-3e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-9-2

Khoury is the sort o novelist whose name is inseparable roma city Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chand-

ler, and Istanbul Orhan Pamuk T he beautiul, resilient

city o Beirut belongs to Khoury The Los Angeles Times

Yaloelias khoury

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translated rom the Arabic bypeter theroux$25 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9793330-4-0

Picador paperback edition, isbn: 978-0-31242868-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-00-9

Elias K hourys Yalo is a novel that transcendsas only artcanthe deep divisiveness o ideology, both political andreligious That such a vision should, at this moment inhistory, come to the American reading public rom a great

Arab novelist ma kes th is an ex traord inarily impor tantpublishing event Robert Olen Butler

Selected Prose ofheinrich von kleistselected, translated, and with an aterword by

peter wortsman$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819557-2-8e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-7-8

Exploiting to the ull the rigors o German syntax, he useslang uage to impose order and meaning on a prooundly

disordered world Catastrophes unold in a subclause

Idiosyncrasies o word order deer ull, terrible understand-ing to the last possible moment The Wall Street Journal

A Time for Ever ythingka rl ove knausgaardtranslated rom the Norwegian byja me s anderson

$20 paperback isbn: 978-0-9800330-8-3e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-5-4

A m ar velous book The descr iptions o orests, oods,

streams, and felds are ravishing and create the eelingthat we are being transported, again and again, into someprimordial world The New York Review of Books

My Struggleka rl ove knausgaardt l t d th N i b


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translated rom the Norwegian bydon bartlet t$18 trade paperback

isbn: 978-1-935744-18-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-52-8

Between Proust and the woods Like granite, precise and

orceul More real than reality La Repubblica (Italy)

The Great Weaver from Kashmirhalldr laxnesstranslated rom the Icelandic byphilip roughton$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9793330-8-8e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-6-1

Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-centur y literature, a writero splendid originality, wit, and eeling Alice Munro

[Laxness is] a poet who writes to the edge o the pages, a

visionary who allows us a plot It is not possible to be

unimpressed Daily Telegraph

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jantranslated rom the Chinese bydavid hinton$14 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9728692-3-2e-isbn: 978-1-935744-09-2

These are poems o great serenity, great satisaction, great joy

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jan can be read in an evening,revisited or a lietime Find time or itThe Kansas City Star

Stroke by Strokehenri michauxtranslated rom the French by richard sieburth


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translated rom the French byrichard sieburthwit h illustrations by the author

$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-5-8Michaux travels via his languages: lines, words, colors,silences, rhythms And he does not hesitate to break the backo a word In order to arrive: where? At that nowhere that ishere, there, and everywhere Octavio Paz

Small Livespierr e michontranslated rom the French byjody gl adding & elizabeth deshays$15 paper back i s b n : 978-0-9728692-1-8e-isbn : 978-1-935744-70-22009 French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Translation

Prize winner

In the ow o Michons meditations and narratives, the

visonary becomes the act ual, and the actual becomes the

visionary Leonard Michaels

An astonishingly rich, my thic new direction in modern

French narrative Guy Davenport

Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorrobert musiltranslated rom the German bypeter wortsman$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-4-1e-isbn: 978-1-935744-48-1

Musils originality o mind and perectionism o tempera-ment are evident throughout these pieces, which range

rom delicately enameled miniature portraits o the natu-ral world to casual yet trenchant little essays and parableson art, culture, kitsch, psychoanalysis, and even eminism

The Christian Science Monitor

Stone Upon Stonewie s aw my sliwskitranslated rom the Polish by bill johnston


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translated rom the Polish bybill johnston$20 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-2-3

2012 Best Translated Book Award Winner

Like a more agrarian Beckett, a less gothic Faulkner, a slightlywarmer La xness, Mysliwski master ully renders in John-

stons gorgeous translation lie in a Polish armingvillage Richly textured and wonderully evocative Undeniably original Publishers Weekly(starred review)

The Salt Smugglersgra rd de nervaltranslated rom the French byrichard sieburth$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-6-9e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-9-2

Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateulto Richard Sieburth and Archipelago Books or rescuing

rom oblivion this gem o actual fction, revealing a Nervalpoised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and thevitriolic Voltaire The Salt Smugglers now has pride o placein my ideal library Alberto Manguel

Poemscyprian norwidtranslated rom the Polish bydanuta borchardt$16 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-07-8e-isbn: 978-1-935744-53-5

Poignant ows onto the page with a melodic rush conveyedin Borchardts nuanced rhymes and assonances o thepage leaps surprise ater surprise The Arts Fuse

The Novices of Saisnovalistranslated rom the German by ra lph manheim


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translated rom the German byra lph manheimillustrated bypaul klee

$18 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9749680-5-6

There are two poets at work in the body o this mysteriousand transporting book, one using language, the other lineAnd what an intrig uing, epoch-spanning duet they orm

Donna Seaman,Speakeasy

Moscardinoenrico peatranslated rom the Italian byezra poundintroduction bymary de r achewiltz$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-3-2e-isbn: 978-1-935744-46-7

When the phantasmagoria o Peas prose momentarily litsin order to reveal almost Czanne-like notations o local

landscape, we hear the old miglior fabbro turning out sentencesas splendid as any in Joyce Bookforum

Mute Objects of Expressionfr ancis pongetranslated rom the French bylee fahnestock$17 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-3-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-49-8

Ponge, to be sure, oreits no resource o language, natural orunnatural He positively dines upon the etymological root,seasoning it with antastic gaiety and invention

James Merrill

Mister Bluejacqu es pou lintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman


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t a s ated o t e e c by sheila fischman$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-31-3

The writer hiding rom the world in his house on the beachis as shy and charming and riendly as this light, generous,rereshing novel Shelf Awareness

Spring Tidesjacqu es pou lintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman$14 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9778576-4-7

Poulins language is simple, even aable, but he can also

summon an austere and chilling beauty An unexpectedsense o loss sneaks up on you at the end o the novel, like asudden deep pain, as i Poulin has been distracting you bymaking shadows with one hand while the other did its subtle,cutting work The New York Sun

Translation is a Love Affairjacqu es pou lintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman$14 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9819557-0-4

One o my avorite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin

Rawi HageWe all under the spell o this heartwarming, human novelpenned by Jacques Poulin at the summit o his art

Mieux Vivre

Auguste Rodinrainer maria rilketranslated rom the German bydaniel slager


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yintroduction bywil liam h. gass

photographs bymichael eastma n$30 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-5-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-23-8

Combining Daniel Slagers elegant translation rom the

German o Rilkes writings on Rodin with Michael Eastmansphotographs o Rodins sculptures, Auguste Rodin oers a

resh look at an unlikely mentorshipThe New York Times Book Review

Jobjoseph ro thtranslated rom the German byross benjamin

$17 paperback isbn: 978-0- 9826246-0-9e-isbn: 978-1-935744-35-1

Job is perect A novel as lyric poem Joan Acocella

A beautiully written, and in the end upliting, parable or anera o upheaval Job, opened to any page, oers somethingo beauty The Quarterly Conversation

new poemstadeusz rzewicztranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-3-0

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-50-42007 National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award nalist

Rzewicz is a poet o chaos with a nostalgia or order Aroundhim and in himsel he sees only broken ragments, a sense-less rush Czesaw Miosz

To Mervaselisabeth rynelltranslated rom the Swedish byvictor ia hg gblom


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$15 paperback isbn : 978-0-9819873-7-8

e-isbn : 978-1-935744-24-5Rynells language can only be described as breathtakinglybeautiul Upsala Daily News

Elisabeth Rynell is one o Swedens most intense and, or

the lyrical clarity o her voice, most intensely appreciated

story tellers in prose and verse She never wastes wordsRika Lesser

A Dream in Polar Fogyuri rytkheutranslated rom the Russian byilona ya zhbin chavasse

$24 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9749680-7-0$14 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9778576-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-47-42005 Kiriyama Pacic Rim Prize Notable Book

Rarely has humanitys relationship to nature been so beauti-ully and vividly depicted It recalls, in both substance

and style, the best work o Jack London and Herman Melville,

and it is a novel in the grandest sense o the wordNeal Pollack

The Chukchi Bibleyuri rytkheutranslated rom the Russian byilona yazhbin chavasse$16 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819873-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-36-8

Breathtaking, wild, and imaginativeThe Los Angeles Times

Poems (19451971)miltos sachtouristranslated rom the Greek bykaren emmerich


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$16 paperback original i s b n : 978-0-9763950-6-5

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-40-52006 National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award nalist

Miltos Sachtouris has created, through the development o astyle as spare and lucid as Baudelaires, a surrealist world oordinar y horror, where the most bizarre owerings o intol-erable anxiety unold with dreamlike clarity at your elbow as

you walk down the street John Corelis

Emblems of DesireSelections from the Dlie of Maurice Scvetranslated rom the French byrichard sieburth$15 paperback original i s b n : 978-0-9778576-5-4

Sieburth has ound a contemporary equivalent or Scves

extremely compact music and enabled it to breathe in Eng-lish, while still retaining the tension o the original

John Ashbery

Wheel with a Single Spokeand Other Poemsnichita sta nescutranslated rom the Romanian bySean Cotter$18 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-15-3e-isbn: 978-1-935744-42-9

For those sadly most o us unacquainted with this brilliantpost-World War II Romanian poets prolifc accomplishment,this selection should prove a revelation Michael Palmer

A Mind at Peaceahmet hamdi tanpinartranslated rom the Turkish byerdag gknar


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$25 hardcover isbn: 978-0-979330-5-7

$20 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-3-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-19-1

The greatest novel ever written about IstanbulOrhan Pamuk

A masterpiece A honeyed, searching, and melancholy

epic Publishers Weekly

Dreams and Stonesmagdalena tull itranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$20 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-6-3e-isbn: 978-1-935744-37-5

Powerul imagery caught in a sinewy, architectural, elegiacprose An inner-outer dance o cityscape with the taut emo-tion, terror & psyche o the human A nd rendered romPolish to English in an inspired translation by Bill Johnston Anne Waldman

Flawmagdalena tull itranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-1-9e-isbn: 978-1-935744-38-2

InFlaw, Magdalena Tulli has ashioned a theater o realitythat Descartes devil might have dreamed up, a world o

sinister politics and slapstick metaphysics, crowded with

lonely hearts, reugees, and riot police The book is coollycharming, unny, and heartbreaking Even the devil shouldweep Edwin Frank

In Redmagdalena tul litranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$ 6 d b k 8 3 6


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$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-01-6

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-41-22012 Best Translated Book Award nalist

There is much to treasure Tulli plays with the line betweenunexpected and quirk y very well you cant help but wantto return again and again NPR

Moving Partsmagdalena tul litranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$22 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9763950-0-3e-isbn: 978-1-935744-39-9

Tulli s snapshot vignetteso trains covered with bright

zigzags o grafti, o a ur that gives o the oppressive

smell o mothballs, o a hobo who rakes cigarettes out

o his haircan be read as lapidary, Cubist poetry or a

word collage thats amorphously i resona ntly evocative

Kirkus Reviews

Three Generationsyom sang-seoptranslated rom the Korean byyu youngnan$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-2-3e-isbn: 978-1-935744-41-2

The novel, flled with gossip and amily intrig ues as scandal-

ous as any contemporary soap opera, reads deliciously likea Dostoevsky novel orLes liaisons dangereuses meets Koreastraditional middle class KoreAm

Georg LethamPhysician and Murdererernst weisst l t d th G b


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translated rom the German byjoel roten berg

$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9763950-2-7$17 papberback isbn: 978-0-9800330-3-8e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-5-4Best Translated Book Award nalist, 2011

Ernst Weiss is in act one o the ew writers who may justlybe compared to Franz Ka ka This is easily one o the mostinteresting books I have come across in years Strangely

real but also unorgettably ashioned Thomas Mann

forthcoming

Selected Storiesby sait faik abasyank


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by sait faik abasyank

translated rom the Turkish bymaureen freelyand alex daweSelected Stories by Antonio di Benedetto

Catastrophesby breyten breytenbachTransormed rom the Arikaans by the author

Selected Poems of Corsino Fortestranslated rom the Portuguese bydaniel hahn and sean obrien(co-publisher: Island Position)

Ready to Burstby fr anktiennetranslated rom the French byk aiam a l. glover

Ultravocalby fr anktienne

Inshallah Madonna Inshallahby miljenko jergovic

Translated rom the Croatian bydavid w illiams

Sinalcolby elias k houryTranslated rom the Arabic byhumphrey davies

Of Championsby halldr la xnesstranslated rom the Icelandic byphilip r oughton

forthcoming

Against Heavenby dulce mar a loynaz


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translated rom the Spanish byjame s oconnorOur Lady of the Nileby scholastique muk asongaTranslated rom the French bymelanie mauthner

Horizon

by wies aw mysliwskitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston

Bitter Lifeby josep platranslated rom the Catalan bypeter roland bush

Private Lifeby josep mari a de sagarr atranslated rom the Catalan bymary ann newman

Time Ages in a Hurryby antonio tabucchitranslated rom the Italian bymartha cooleyandantonio rom ani

Tristano Dies: a lifeby antonio tabucchitranslated rom the Italian byelizabeth h arris

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