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Mavis Gallant
This new selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes…
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
Originally published: London: John Murray, 1950.
Elizabeth Hardwick
This first collection of Hardwick’s short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life.
Alberto Moravia
Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and…
Carlo Emilio Gadda
The modernist masterpiece of Italian literature and the most metaphysical of all metaphysical detective stories investigates a brutal murder and the ultimate impossibility of ever establishing the truth.
Gyula Krudy
What you have loved remains yours. Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries…
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Albert Cossery
Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not…
Felix Feneon
Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Feneon’s vignettes of the darker side of life-adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide-in early-20th-century France.
Peter Handke
2019 Nobel Literature Laureate Peter Handke’s novel Short Letter, Long Farewell Korean edition. This reprint of Handke’s 1972 novel is a combination of an adult coming of age book and…
Vasily Grossman
Everything Flows is the last novel by Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, Life and Fate.
Gregor Von Rezzori
A classic early novel from the author of The Snows of Yesteryear and Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, now available in the first ever complete English translation.
