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The Quest for Christa T.
$19.00 Add to cartWhen The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers
- Author: Wolf, Christa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0374515344
- Language: English
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Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. W
- Author: Wolf, Christa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374519048
- Language: English
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Girl on the Fridge
$19.00 Add to cartA birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad–such are the denizens of Etgar Keret’s
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531056
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 5
$29.00 Read moreThe fifth installment in the multi-volume, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with t- Series: My Struggle #5
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374534187
- Language: English
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Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
$19.00 Add to cartTwo volumes of Colette’s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.
Perhaps Colette’s best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0374527857
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of This World
$17.00 Add to cartA masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti
A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under th- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537380
- Language: English
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Dear Cyborgs
$16.00 Add to cartOne of Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine’s Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selections.
Wondrous . . . [A] sense of- Author: Lim, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537119
- Language: English
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Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
$25.00 Add to cartStories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole)
Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories–originally published from 1985 to 201- Author: Murnane, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0374126003
- Language: English
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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.
In the Land of the Cyclops- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374265607
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book Four
$24.00 Add to cartThe fourth installment in the beloved, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing villa- Series: My Struggle #4
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0374534179
- Language: English
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The Fixer
$19.00 Add to cartThe Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud’s best-known and most acclaimed novel — one that makes- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: May 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529388
- Language: English
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A Walk on the Wild Side
$19.00 Add to cartWith its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side has found a plac
- Author: Algren, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525323
- Language: English
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Sylvia
$15.00 Add to cartFirst acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fa
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0374271070
- Language: English
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Enemies, a Love Story
$21.99 Add to cartAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374515220
- Language: English
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Orientation and Other Stories
$15.00 Add to cartBreakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break–daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed–by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face en
- Author: Orozco, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478716
- Language: English
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Time of the Hero
$28.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: December 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0374520216
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
$34.99 Add to cartThese Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Stafford, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529930
- Language: English
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The Dead Father
$16.00 Add to cartThe Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself–even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterio
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Barthelme, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529256
- Language: English
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At the Bottom of the River
$13.00 Add to cartJamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527342
- Language: English
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Auto-Da-Fé
$23.00 Add to cartAuto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti’s only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.
It is the story of- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0374518793
- Language: English
