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Set in Macedonia at the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel Infidelity draws on myth and history to tell an unusual story of star-crossed lovers.When his proposal to Luna is rejected by her parents, the intrepid Sunny goes to America to earn enough money to win her hand. However, only days after he sets sail, Sunny finds himself drawn to another woman, a passenger aboard the ship taking him to the New World. In a simple, fairytale-like style, told from multiple perspectives, Trajkoski tells an immersive story of inner conflict, heartbreak, and loss.

Fragma is the debut collection of short fiction by award-winning Slovenian writer Mojca Kumerdej. Kumerdej's writing is witty, lucid, darkly funny-a style that leads us to sympathize with, even as we loathe, characters who are obsessed with their luxury cars and jealous of their own daughters. Her stories of sadism, masochism, codependence, and violence in multiple forms introduce us to an utterly unique voice, valuable for what it tells us about contemporary Slovenia, but even more for what it can tell us about ourselves.

Sehnsucht: the yearning for faraway people or places. When Jonathan graduates from university with a degree in literature his father hands him two gifts: an alarm clock and the chance to work in the family business. But Jonathan has different plans. Leaving behind his eccentric family and stifling German hometown, he embarks on a hitchhiking adventure through Australia in search of Alice, an exchange student he knew back in school who left mysteriously one night without explanation.This stunning and rich debut novel is a story about coming of age and coming to terms with the past. Searching for Alice explores the lure of the open road and the joys of traversing geographic borders, language barriers, and cultural boundaries.

A disquieting, haunting work, The Endless Rose begins when a one-legged woman¿s manuscript is accepted by a small publishing house consisting of two friends. Stunned and excited by her writing, they invite her to visit them in the south of Spain.The hypnotic, gut-wrenching events that follow¿revolving around a brutal murder mentioned in the book¿s first pages¿are plunged into an atmosphere of dreams, violence, and bizarre coincidence.Maleno has managed to distill a mash of Michel Houellebecq (who figures as a character here), Roberto Bolaño (The Endless Rose takes its title from a fictional novel mentioned in the Chilean¿s posthumous masterpiece), and Enrique Vila-Matas (whose technique of textured allusion Maleno has mastered) into a strange brew that is all his own.

* Nabokov, Joyce, and John Barth can be counted among Boylan's forebears

* A book of hallucinatory narratives-à la Cortázar or Bioy Casares-about subjects as various as slave rebellions and flying worms made of ash attacking human civilization

An advisor to Italian publishing houses, a translator of Freud and Jung, a friend of Montale and Calvino, Roberto Bazlen was nothing if not a literary man, but kept his writings to himself.Here, translated into English for the first time, the reader will discover Bazlen's private oeuvre: an unfinished novel, The Sea Captain, which bears comparison with the fiction of Kafka and Beckett; a selection of entries from his notebooks dealing with topics as various as whether or not there is an "animal Jahweh" and the aesthetic limitations of the cinema; a trio of essays on his native city of Trieste; and a sampling of his editorial letters. Notes Without a Text is an introduction to the work of one of the unknown masters of twentieth-century European literature.

Max roams parks associated with his successive loves, returning always to Kensington Gardens, until in the novel's final sentence of nearly 600 words, its soaring and flowing rhythm not unlike a string quartet's haunting concluding movement, he embraces all of London.

*A novel about the toxic relationships between mothers and their children by a writer famous for her vigorous sentence-making and her vitriol.

* Featuring previously unpublished fiction by Ádám Bodor, Alberto Olmos, Lars Petter Sveen, and Haro Kraak, among others. * This year's edition features writers whose work is both cutting-edge and entertaining. The editor has compiled this anthology so that it that can be read for pleasure-as long as you like your pleasure with a good dose of stylistic complexity and emotional pain.

In this collection of eighteen stories, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan writes with the playfulness and intelligence of such masters of the short form as Borges, Poe, and Barthelme. He examines the aesthetics of murder, the reigning fascination of the macabre in popular culture, and the tenuous line that separates art from life. One narrator traces the Möbius strip that encloses the assassination of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare¿s play Julius Caesar, and the murder of Lincoln by a famous actor in a theater. Another undergoes plastic surgery to accelerate the process of his being possessed by the ghost of the Italian composer Gesualdo. A detective ponders the interest he takes in investigating murders. Fulham-McQuillan wears his learning lightly and writes with the tact of a born storyteller.

*an experimental novel about social media, environmental disaster, and the meaning of art by a major Australian poet

Comic and tragic, po-faced and hysterical, Contemporary Macedonian Fiction allows us to discover some of the most exciting young writers at work today.

*This is a book that's whimsical and funny and also very much engaged with the political ramifications of language, how we use language to wound in the same way we use it to play

*a novel that incorporates not only a fictionalized history of Delbanco's own extraordinary family history but also re-imagines the turbulent history of emigrant German Jews in the twentieth century

In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál¿whom Joshua Cohen has called ¿a phenomenon¿¿conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and philosophy, Agnomia takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from Lower Manhattan to the Little Quarter of Prague, but most of all it takes the reader on a tour of the writer¿s mind. Meditations on tautology, sexuality, and art culminate in an attentive evocation of a concert given by the composer and saxophonist John Zorn. For readers of Thomas Bernhard, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Agnomia is a book to relish.

In the second volume of Eimar O'Duffy's Cuanduine trilogy (the first, King Goshawk and the Birds, was reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2017), we meet the "man on the street," Aloysius O'Kennedy, an erstwhile grocer's assistant who has been transported against his will to the city of Bulnid on the planet Rathe

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. A hymn to the city of Sofia, a series of whimsical character portraits, a literary mural of Bulgaria, this is the first collection of stories from author Kalin Terziyski to be published in English.

A hard but tender chronicle of flawed characters, bad choices, and contemporary Dublin life.

Amongst Those Left is a long-overdue study of experimental literature in Britain from the beginning of the twentieth century through the 1980s.

This volume is Power's record of the two men's encounters and conversations, a rare glimpse of the private Joyce-to Power's great surprise, not a brash bohemian, but a steadily working, sharp-tongued, elusive man.

In this debut novel by the Polish writer Piotr Pazinski, a young man takes a train to a small town outside of Warsaw to visit a boarding house populated by the last generation of Polish Holocaust survivors.

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. This collection of sixteen stories takes us on an eccentric tour of contemporary existence, in prose rich with Nabokovian detail and barroom humor

Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the dreams of infinite other books--past and future--that every individual codex volume inspires. Whether he is describing his encounters with Gribski (whose strange hidden library in Bucharest he is to see but once) or itemizing the various books whose existence he has dreamed (including "a collection of children's paeans to Ceausescu bound in the same volume as a slim commentary on Pound's Canto XIV"), Blyth shows himself to be a card catalogue unto himself. In the tradition of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Alberto Manguel, this book is bound to please.

"A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle in a small town where rumors of war are rumbling. But the film shoot is plagued by accidents. The actors and crew don't understand the script. They argue over its meaning and perhaps come to identify with its subject matter a little too closely. Soon enough reality, such as it is, begins to crumble. Roman de Gare is a dreamlike and ominous novel by a great European writer--and the first novel he composed in French."--

Man + Book is Nicholas Wadley's wordless story of humorous and ironic encounters with books.

In the hospital, being treated for cervical cancer, Mia meditates on her life, her ex-girlfriend, and the state of her sanity. This heartbreaking autobiographical novel dramatizes the brutality of disease and its effects on both mind and body.

In Ishmael Reed's Conjugating Hindi, stories, histories and myths of different cultures are mixed and sampled. Modern issues like gentrification addressed. It is the closest that a fiction writer has gotten to the hip-hop form on the page.Once again, Ishmael Reed has pioneered a new form. One that crosses all borders.

In Cut Up on Copacabana, three interlocking sets of texts by professional boxer and professor of French literature David Scott ("Travel Notes," "Boxing Rings," and "Schoolboy Rites of Passage") explore such singular moments.

The Lives of Women deals with the savagery of respectability, betrayal, and the desperation that ensues when a sixteen-year-old girl gets pregnant and feels she has no one to help her, apart from her friends.