New Directions Publishing Corporation
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The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
$9.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of ci… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 17 1974
- ISBN10: 0811205568
- Language: English
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No Longer Human
$14.95 Add to cartMine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narr
- Series: New Directions Book.
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 1973
- ISBN10: 0811204812
- Language: English
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Pigeons on the Grass
$15.95 Read morePigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble
- Author: Koeppen, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229181
- Language: English
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
$15.95 Add to cartIn the marvelous third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” (The Washington Post) septology, Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day…. [more below]
- Author: Balle, Solvej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0811238393
- Language: English
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The Life of Tu Fu
$13.95 Add to cartFor over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays–translated into over thirty languages–as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spa… [more below]
- Author: Weinberger, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238059
- Language: English
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On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)
$15.95 Add to cartThe first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies
- Author: Balle, Solvej
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237273
- Language: English
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Death in Rome
$17.95 Add to cartDeath in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family–a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator–reunited by chance in the
- Author: Koeppen, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240029
- Language: English
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The Hothouse
$17.95 Add to cartThe Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after World War II. Following his self-impose
- Author: Koeppen, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240002
- Language: English
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Twenty Minutes of Silence
$15.95 Read moreIn an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man–a husband, father, and employer–has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during… [more below]
- Author: Bessette, Hélène
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240363
- Language: English
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On Booze
$10.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0811219267
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Jos? Emilio Pacheco
$18.95 Read moreJos? Emilio Pacheco’s Selected Poems is a major bilingual retrospective of the poetry of one of Mexico’s foremost writers. Born in 1939, Pacheco achieved recognition early, and while still in his twen… [more below]
- Author: Pacheco, José Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240193
- Language: English
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Enough about Angels: The Nobel Lecture
$9.95 Add to cartAddressed to a rapt audience in Stockholm two days before being awarded his Nobel Prize, L?szl? Krasznahorkai’s moving lecture asks: “Human being–astonishing creature–who are you?” In a message abou… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 081124105X
- Language: English
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Dooneen
$20.95 Read moreBartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that–there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no chu… [more below]
- Author: Ridgway, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240452
- Language: English
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Good-Bye
$17.95 Read moreHere to slake the unquenchable thirst of Dazai’s legions of loyal fans are eleven works of short fiction and vignettes, most of which have never before appeared in English.
Beginning with “Memories” (w
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240495
- Language: English
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Five
$23.95 Read moreFive , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together–each an astonishing work–Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical B
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0811232360
- Language: English
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The Fifth Year
$14.95 Read moreThe Fifth Year follows a five-year-old girl, Marili, through each season of a single year on her grandparents’ farm in the mountains of Austria. Her grand-mother is a quiet, melancholic woman; her gra… [more below]
- Author: Haushofer, Marlen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239985
- Language: English
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Businessmen as Lovers
$16.95 Add to cartMimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture
- Author: Tonks, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 081124024X
- Language: English
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The Complete Works of Ricardo Reis
$19.95 Add to cartHere is the fourth in a series of volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s celebrated “heteronyms.” Fernando Pessoa did not simply write under pseudonyms–he created a coterie of imagined authors, each with a ful… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0811237893
- Language: English
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Chasing Homer
$16.95 Add to cartIn this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed–careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240908
- Language: English
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City of Rats
$15.95 Add to cartLife isn’t easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rak?, he’s got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an–as spring blo
- Author: Copi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0811238377
- Language: English
