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The final novel in a trilogy of books about the Norwegian television celebrity Jonas Wergeland, The Discoverer finds Jonas released from prison, having completed his sentence for the death of his wife. He has taken a job as a secretary aboard the Voyager, a ship which is exploring the far reaches of the Sognefjord--the longest fjord in the world. On the ship, Jonas works for a team of young people--including his daughter, Kristin--who are enga...

Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's final novel is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals-almost like Franco's Spain.

Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or...

Accused of a terrible crime, Rupert constructs an elegant argument that--at least in his mind--exonerates him. His imagined defense is by turns shockingly honest and incredibly funny, pulling the reader (and potential jury) in two different directions. Rupert's rants--about insults, about how to pick up women, about men who wear sweaters--are incredibly entertaining and compelling, yet, at the same time, the reader knows--both from his strange...

Saers The Sixty-Five Years of Washington is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.

Sturla Jn Jnsson, the fifty-something building superintendent and sometimes poet, has been invited to a poetry festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, and his latest poetry collection, published on the eve of his trip to Vilnius, is about to cause some controversy in his home countrySturla is publicly accused of having stolen the poems from his long-dead cousin, Jnas.

Lodgings is the first representative selection of Sosnowskis work available in English. Spanning his entire career, from the publication of Life in Korea in 1992 to his newest poems, this is a book whose approach to language, literature, and the representation of experience is simultaneously resonant and strangea cocktail party where lowlifes and sophisticates hobnob with French theorists and British glam rockers, unsettling us with the hard a...

Collected here are thirty-one of Merc Rodoredas most moving and challenging stories, presented in chronological order of their publication from three of Rodoredas most beloved short story collections.

Final novel from one of Europ'e greatest women writers.

First complete translation of cult novel about Soviet con man.

Anthology of essays, fiction, poems related to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Two scientists, Reitz Steyn and Ben Maritz, find themselves in a transit camp for those temporarily and permanently unfit for battle during the Boer War. Captured on suspicion of desertion and treasonduring a trek across an unchanging desert of bushes, rocks, and ant hills to help transport a fellow-soldier, who has suffered debilitating shell-shock, to his motherthey are forced to await the judgment of a General Bergh, unsure whether they are...

For the first time in his life, Heribert Juli is unable to paint. On the eve of an important gallery exhibition, for which hes created nothing, hes bored with life: he falls asleep while making love with his mistress, wanders from bar to bar, drinking whatever comes to his attention first, and meets the evidence of his wife Helenas infidelity with complete indifference. Humbert Herrera, an up-and-coming artist who cant stop creating, picks up ...

Originally published as Klausen by Suhrkamp Verlag, Franfurt am Main."--T.p. verso.