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Some of Grabinski's best stories, including a watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks, and a phantom train that always turns up unannounced.

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The first English translation of this classic of Catalan literature.

A new English translation of Portugal's first mystery/detective novel.

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A new translation of a major new work by one of Europe's greatest 19th century novelists.

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Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile a body has been found in the millrace of his village and it is assumed that Pascal has killed himself. Seizing what looks like a chance to create a new life, he travels to Rome under an assumed name and struggles to invent a different identity which he can inhabit. He fails, re...

A novel from the great Danish/Faroese author, translated by W. Glyn Jones. One of 7 novels Dedalus aim to translate into English.

An accidental meeting between two old acquaintances turns into a long evening of bitter, drunken humiliations for both. In her second novel, Deambrosis (Milagrosa, 2002), a French author of Greek and Spanish descent, offers a brief, almost parable-like tale that's bent on exposing the arrogance that accompanies success and the neuroses that pollute a life full of failures. Dorita and Carmen knew each other in high school, but when they acciden...

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Erotic novella which was published to critical acclaim in France in 2003. Symbolic story about lobsters and humans aboard the "Titanic".

Spanning 100 years of Italian history, seen through the lives of a peasant family, this truly unique book from Italy suffuses contemporary events throughout the book and the hardship and misery of earlier periods are also seen against the backdrop of modern prosperity, resulting in an utterly compelling and memorable read. More than 400, 000 copies have already been sold in Italy.

Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, this new novel sweeps the reader into a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. Translated by Oliver Ready.

By the author of "New Finnish Grammar" who is the winner of two literary prizes in Italy - the Premio Campiello and Premio Stresa. Published together with Marani's 'Europanto' collection "Las Adventures des Inspector Cabillot". Follows Ivan, who is a Vostyach, an imaginary ethnic group of whose language he is the remaining speaker. He is struck dumb after witnessing his father's murder.

The first book in Europanto to be published in the UK: a language which should be understandable to English readers. Inspector Calibot, the first Europanto detective, tackles various European concerns. These stories take a light-hearted look at the EU and its problems in a language created to give Europeans a common tongue. Written by a senior linguist for the European Union, who completely made the Europanto language up.

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Combines the past and present in a novel full of twists and turns, bizarre settings, eccentric characters and grotesque situations which will delight its readers.

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