Absurdist
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Event Factory
$16.95 Add to cart“More Kafka than Kafka, Renee Gladman’s achievement ranks alongside many of Borges’ in its creation of a fantastical landscape with deep psychological impact.” –Jeff VanderMeer
A “linguist-traveler- Author: Gladman, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0984469303
- Language: English
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The Beginners
$16.95 Add to cartAnna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarr… [more below]
- Author: Serre, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230317
- Language: English
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Search History
$16.95 Add to cartSearch History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire.
Frank Exit is
- Author: Lim, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896177
- Language: English
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That Time of Year
$14.95 Add to cartTourist season is over, and the rain won’t stop falling. It’s time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways in the countryside and return to norma… [more below]
- Author: Ndiaye, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 194964149X
- Language: English
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Universal Love
$16.00 Add to cartA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World.
Universal Love- Author: Weinstein, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1250144361
- Language: English
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My Manservant and Me
$15.95 Add to cartA madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written f… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621521
- Language: English
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Homo Zapiens
$24.00 Add to cartThe collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job… [more below]
- Author: Pelevin, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001813
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Read moreThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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The Penny Mansions
$19.95 Read moreWith the Spanish flu pandemic on the rise, a former gold rush town– once the largest city in the Pacific Northwest– is threatened with extinction via eminent domain should their population fall belo… [more below]
- Author: Mayfield, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646034007
- Language: English
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Three Men in a Boat
$14.99 Read moreThe classic and timeless humorous story, Three Men in a Boat, begins with the eponymous three men sitting around discussing the different needs in their lives. Our heroes come to the conclusion that
- Author: Jerome, Jerome K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9354407021
- Language: English
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The Threat
$17.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429706
- Language: English
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Will and Testament
$19.95 Read moreLonglisted for the National Book Award
Four siblings, two summer houses, one terrible secret–the “prickly, persuasive” bestseller from one of Norway’s most celebrated novelists, perfect for readers- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 178873310X
- Language: English
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In Case of Emergency
$16.95 Add to cartIn this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.
What do you do when the world is falling apart and you’re in with
- Author: Mohebali, Mahsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1952177863
- Language: English
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Broken Glass
$16.95 Read moreAn irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgott… [more below]
- Author: Mabanckou, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1593763077
- Language: English
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The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
$17.00 Add to cart“If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s.”
–Richard Ford
The Interrogative Mood is a wild
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Powell, Padgett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0061859435
- Language: English
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Danny the Ambulance
$16.00 Add to cartA man walks into a bar and over the course of the night realizes everyone there is named Danny…. Jared Joseph’s DANNY THE AMBULANCE is a mind-bending novel told with masterful wit. ‘Have you ever se
- Author: Joseph, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987839874
- Language: English
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Comemadre
$16.95 Add to cartLiterary Latin American FLATLINERS: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.
- Author: Larraquy, Roque
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1566895154
- Language: English
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Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
$16.95 Add to cart“What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian’s Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces, debatin
- Author: Haber, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1566896363
- Language: English
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Spadework for a Palace
$17.95 Add to cartSpadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled b… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Krasznahorkai, L?szl?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811228401
- Language: English
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Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author
$17.99 Add to cartEarly short stories by Thomas Pynchon, introduced by the author and praised as “an exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers” by the New Republic.
Thomas Pynchon’s literary career was- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30, 1985
- ISBN10: 0316724432
- Language: English
