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Osamu Dazai

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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But ...

Louis-ferdinand C�line

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and ...

Christopher Isherwood

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A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction ...

Roberto Bola�o

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As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This ...

C�sar Aira

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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape ...

Raymond Queneau

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On a crowded bus at midday, Raymond Queneau observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. Later, in another ...

L�szl� Krasznahorkai

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A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War , Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in ...

L�szl� Krasznahorkai

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SeioboNa Japanese goddessNhas a peach tree in her garden that blossoms once every 3,000 years: its fruit brings immortality. Over several scenes of ordinary life around the ...

W. G. Sebald

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A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, author W.G. Sebald's home for more than 20 years, THE RINGS OF SATURN explores Britain's pastoral and imperial ...

Julio Cort�zar

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"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, ...

Yoko Tawada

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker , who ...

Miroslav Krleza

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Victor Pelevin

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OMON RA is a brilliant satiric novel by Victor Pelevin, the leading Russian novelist of the post-glasnost era and winner of the Little Russian Booker Prize. Omon is a boy chosen to ...

John Gardner

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In The Sunlight Dialogues , John Gardner's vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New ...

Muriel Spark

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From the renowned author of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE comes a tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. In ...