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Nirvana Is Here
When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit.
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The Obama Inheritance
Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning African-American crime novelist Gary Phillips
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The Last Quarter of the Moon
In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country’s history.“A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have w...
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This Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse
THIS WAY TO THE END TIMES: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse, gathers 21 compelling, gripping stories of the not-too-distant demise of the earth as we know it. And what a collection. From little-known, brilliant tales by sci-fi legends Jules Vernes and Olaf Stapledon, to intense short works by sci-...
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The Face of the Waters
“This is hard sci-fi done right.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review). “One of the enduring classics of science fiction.” —George R.R. MartinDeep in the future, natives of the planet Hydros, an ocean planet whose inhabitants live on artificial floating islands, force the entire human population o...
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The Running Flame
Fang Fang’s explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gende...
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Beasts Head for Home
In the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human be...
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Year of the Horseshoe Bat
Hall Gardner's thrilling sequel to Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors.
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Grass For My Pillow
First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who do...
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Chief Lightning Bolt
Here is a contemporary Mi’kmaq legend of the life of a great man, who becomes chief, the embodiment of Mi’kmaq values of humility, courage, honour, service and sacrifice of personal gain for the sake of others. He lived a long and storied life, hundreds of years ago, before the arrival of the Eur...
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Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
Korean writer Ch’oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. This book presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation.
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Turn Us Again
Called to his dying father’s bedside, Gabriel Golden’s life is turned upside down after receiving his mother’s journal. The journal chronicles his mother’s life in post-war Britain, her genteel upbringing and her eventual marriage to Gabriel’s father, a complicated man raised in an aggressive, Je...
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Grey Eyes
Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature!In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. W...
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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppres...
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Depends on How You Tell It
What would you do if one day, without any warning, your child disappeared as if the earth had swallowed it?There’s one moment, and then, in the next moment–gone. This book tells the story that Ronnie’s mother, Anna, had to go through. Was Ronnie kidnapped? Did she run away? Did the worst thing po...
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The Divine Mimesis
In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal.
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The Man Who Couldn't Die
In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an instant classic of post-So...
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The Chess Master
The Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonist, Wang Yisheng, undergoes a gradual transformation from "chess fool" to "chess master" — from an alienated young man obsessed with the material needs of life to a spiritually enlightened transmitte...
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The Red Wind Howls
A remarkable novel by one of Tibet’s foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao’s regime.
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The Life Written by Himself
Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.
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The Front
The story of a nameless figure who refers to himself only as a “man-tree.”
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A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift’s 1729 pamphlet is at once a denunciation of the mistreatment of Ireland’s poor and a daringly inventive comic rhapsody.
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Kiku's Prayer
Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconc...
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Faraway
In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin’s Faraway, a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his comatose father home. Lo offers a deft portrayal of the rift between China and Taiwan through an intimate view of a father-son relationship that bridges...
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The Fly
An outstanding literary portrayal of the shadow cast by the First World War.
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The Daughter Who Walked Away
Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons’ annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to do...
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The Broken Seals
When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the river...
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The Reincarnated Giant
A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This anthology showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China in fifteen short stories and novel excerpts. The Reincarnated Giant is an essential read for anyone interested in the future ...
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I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the ofte...
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Victoria
Victoria is an incisive study of the coercive power of economic and social forces that is also renowned for its innovative and psychologically probing narrative techniques.
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Sugar Kids
A coming-of-age novel set in the iconic nineties rave scene.
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Jude and Diana
Strong-willed and unyielding, Jude resisted the cruel bonds of slavery in Nova Scotia where she hoped to find freedom and, instead, found her place in history.
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Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a
Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłįà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious i...
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Where the Jasmine Blooms
Two Palestinian cousins with very different lives meet in Lebanon and discover their family’s political secrets amid the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
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Taipei People
With an intensity of vision comparable to James Joyce’s Dubliners, it follows the individual struggles of the people of Taipei.
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Light and Dark
Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no pr...
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In Black and White
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder that comes to intrude on his life. In Black and White is a masterful yet little-known novel from a great ...
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Siegebreakers
Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy,...
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The Taliban in Texas
Joey Torino has quit his dangerous life. But when a message from his past arrives, he must face a ruthless enemy hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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Lanzelet
Lanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature. This Middle High German romance is a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven ...
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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander Radishchev’s account of a fictional journey blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and economic injustices and thei...
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A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard
Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict authority and...
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Dust and Other Stories
Yi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied North. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in his er...
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Memoir of Forgetting the Capital
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the most renowned and popular modern Japanese authors and a major literary figure. Though he is best known for his postwar novels, such as The Key (1956) and Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962), and prolific screenplays, Tanizaki began his writing career in 19...
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An I-Novel
Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. This formally daring novel radically broke with Japanese literary tradition and offers a luminous meditation on how a person becomes a writer.
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Samak the Ayyar
The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by Englis...
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The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan
The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intr...
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Thyme Travellers
Thyme Travellers brings together fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction, the first collection of its kind in Canada.
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Remains of Life
In 1930, the Japanese colonial regime brought a Taiwanese tribe to the brink of genocide. Wu He investigates the atrocity in this milestone of Chinese experimental literature. Shifting among observation, philosophical musings, and fantastical leaps of imagination, Remains of Life is a powerful li...
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Elephant Herd
Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing. It is an atmospheric account of a Malaysian Chinese young man’s journey upriver deep into the Sarawak rainforest of northwest Borneo in search of his uncle, the leader of a Communist...
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Memory Is Our Home
Memory Is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet Russia and Uzbekistan. It is translated by her daughter, interweaving her own recollecti...
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Rebellion’s Daughter
In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a rebellion against the elite-ruled government.
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Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors. A Novel.
While teaching English in China during the protests prior to Tiananmen Square, Mylex H. Galvin records his experience in his anti-Marco Polo” journal.
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The Dyer's Daughter
This collection includes some of Xiao Hong's most famous short stories, such as "On the Oxcart," "Spring in a Small Town," "The Family Outsider," "Flight from Danger," "Vague Expectations," "The Bridge," and "Hands."
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Our Distance Became Water
Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.
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Sentimental Tales
Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. An original perspective on Soviet life and uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is consi...
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Do Not Resuscitate
Maurice Saatchi writes an unsparing depiction of a celestial trial in which his application to pass through the Gates of Heaven is heard before a jury featuring luminaries like Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Chairman Mao, and Margaret Thatcher.
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Wake The Stone Man
Set in a small northern town, under the mythical shadow of the Sleeping Giant, Wake the Stone Man follows the complicated friendship of two girls coming of age in the 1960s. Molly meets Nakina, who is Ojibwe and a survivor of the residential school system, in high school, and they form a strong f...
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The Rover
Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.
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The Book of Mistaken Journeys
These eleven stories address exile, migration, and the search for an alternative future.
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Atacama
Firmly rooted in true historical developments and covering themes related to class, gender, trauma and survival, Atacama is the story of two fictional characters of disparate backgrounds but connected by a profound understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments and by their unwavering commit...
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Floating Clouds
In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break...
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Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories
This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two o...
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The Communist of Montmartre
Michael Kleeberg's historical farce about the Paris communist Party.
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In the Name of Desire
In the Name of Desire, first published in Portuguese in the 1980s, is one of the most important Brazilian gay novels.
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Sachiko
In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians we...
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The Country of the Blind
In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?
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Stravaging “Strange”
This book presents three tales that encapsulate Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias. It also includes excerpts from his notebooks—aphoristic glimpses of his worldview, moods, humor, and writing methods—and reminiscences of Krzhizhanov...
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Trees Without Wind
Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle w...
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North and South
First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.
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Desolación
Our commemorative bilingual edition of Desolación celebrates the centennary of the first poetry anthology by the 1945 Nobel laureate.
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Firekeeper
A healing journey through fire and water.
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Insatiable Machine
Wave goodbye to the American dream.Just a heartbeat into the future, America is being dragged to its knees by social unrest and economic inequality. The furious pace of technological advancement has made medicine capable of near-miracles but has also enabled the widespread displacement of workers...
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Grist
Shortlisted for the 2015 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction“This is the story of how you were loved,” Penelope MacLaughlin whispers to her granddaughter.Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. Nonetheless she remains determined to make th...
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Marginalia On Casanova
Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on eros, memory, disguise, vanity, and the metaphysics of seduction.
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