Straus and Giroux
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Break of Day
$17.00 Add to cartColette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the C te d’Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel’s theme–the renunci… [more below]
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0374528322
- Language: English
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King Jesus
$28.99 Add to cartKing Jesus, long out of print, is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned his superb narrative powers, his painstaking scholarship, his wit and
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0374516642
- Language: English
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Assorted Fire Events
$16.00 Add to cartUpon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, … [more below]
- Author: Means, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478872
- Language: English
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Heretics
$36.99 Add to cart“Padura’s Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious.” –Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban- Series: Mario Conde Investigates #8
- Author: Padura, Leonardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537399
- Language: English
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House of Mist
$19.99 Add to cartHouse of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof lando
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Bombal, Maria Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531366
- Language: English
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
$19.99 Add to cartIs a book the same book–or a reader the same reader–the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.
The editor of Reread- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530548
- Language: English
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Rites of Passage
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1980 Booker Prize
William Golding’s To the Ends of the Earth trilogy is now a BBC/PBS Masterpiece miniseries staring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris and Sam Neill. Sailing to Austra- Series: To the Ends of the Earth #1
- Author: Golding, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 1980
- ISBN10: 0374526400
- Language: English
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The Slave
$18.00 Add to cartFour years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master’s daughter. Even after
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 311
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374506809
- Language: English
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Nimrod Flipout
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer–“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author o
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0374222436
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 6
$40.00 Read moreThe final sixth installment in the long-awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The full scope and achievement of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental work is evide- Series: My Struggle #6
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0374534195
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 2
$27.00 Add to cart“[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” –James Wood, The New Yorker
In the second ins- Series: My Struggle #2
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534152
- Language: English
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after- Author: Glück, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537461
- Language: English
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The Blue Fox
$17.00 Add to cartNamed one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire
Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize–the Nordic world’s highest literary honor– Sj’s
The Blue Fox is part mystery, part f- Author: Sjón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0374114455
- Language: English
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The Death of Bunny Munro
$21.99 Add to cartSet adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently i
- Author: Cave, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0865479402
- Language: English
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Breathturn into Timestead
$48.99 Add to cart2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry
Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374608032
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book 3
$22.00 Read moreThe third volume –the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States–in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.
A family of four–mother, father, and two b- Series: My Struggle #3
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534160
- Language: English
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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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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
