Verba Mundi

  • A Void

    $19.95
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation

    A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User’s Manual.

    A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, ch

    [more below]

    • Author: Perec, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1567928226
    • Language: English
  • The Flowers of Evil: The Award-Winning Translation

    $16.95
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    The celebrated, National Book Award-winning, translation of Baudelaire’s masterpiece. “It is the English edition to acquire.”–Washington Post

    Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, Richard Howar

    [more below]

    • Author: Baudelaire, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1567928277
    • Language: English
  • Life a User’s Manual

    $24.95
    Paperback
    Add to cart

    “One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov.”–Boston Globe

    Structured around

    [more below]

    • Author: Perec, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 661
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1567928285
    • Language: English
  • Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep

    $18.95
    Paperback
    Read more

    Two thematically-related novellas by Georges Perec in one volume. In each, Perec probes our obsession with society’s trappings-the seductive mass of things that masquerade as stability and meaning.

    I

    [more below]

    • Series: Verba Mundi (Paperback)
    • Author: Perec, Georges
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: July 16 2010
    • ISBN10: 1567921574
    • Language: English
  • The Roots of Heaven

    $18.95
    Paperback
    Read more

    The Roots of Heaven takes as its subject the deliberate and relentless hunting and killing of elephants for their ivory. Morel, a former dentist whose survival in a Nazi concentration camp he attribut

    [more below]

    • Author: Gary, Romain
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 438
    • Publish Date: November 25 2018
    • ISBN10: 1567926266
    • Language: English
Shopping Cart