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Marie NDiaye
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about…
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Claire Baglin
A marvelous debut from the hugely talented young French writer Claire Baglin, this tender and painful portrait of working-class life finds shards of poetry inside the twin hardships of poverty…
Rebecca Gisler
"At a time when she'd rather be making her own way in the world, an unnamed young woman finds herself instead moving to a small town at the seaside to…
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In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. Prone to drinking, hoarding and gorging, not to mention the occasional excursion down into the plumbing, he shares his…
The spellbinding new novel by the Goncourt-winning, International Booker-shortlisted author of Three Strong Women
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Jordan Stump
Focuses on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the influential French novelists of the twentieth century. This work examines four issues in Queneau’s novels - the nature of writing…
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Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and the book itself , ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and difference between the two. In The Other Book…
Raymond Queneau
The first English translation of essays from one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing avant-garde writers Compiled from two volumes of Raymond Queneau’s essays (B\u00e2tons, chiffres et lettres and Le…
Marie Ndiaye
A moody and beautiful reflection on relationships, and how our idea of the world too often fails to match reality, All My Friends delivers five stories that probe the boundaries…
Christian Oster
Always accessible, but never facile, Christian Oster is a writer searching for love and equilibrium in the world. Although hardly the most daring theme, Oster-through deadpan humor, fastidious and thoughtful…
Presents a humorous and ironic look at the serious subject of growing up. Gavarine, the gentle but immature protagonist, is ambitious only in the search for love. When he loses…
Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano, the author of more than twenty books, is one of France’s most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love…
Marie NDiaye is a master of creating menacing, off-kilter worlds that speak to the truth of human experience. –Aysegul Savas, author of White on White
There is something very wrong…
"Originally published as: Autoportrait en vert A2005 Mercure de France"--Title page verso.
Scholastique Mukasonga
It was while we were weeding the sorghum field thatMama taught me most of her memories of the Rwandathat used to be. Alas! I’ve forgotten so many of thesecrets Stefania…
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"From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood"--
Eric Chevillard
Tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Meline, and soon he and…
Marie Redonnet
Offers three tales that feature a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which…
Antoine Volodine
Depicts a post-cataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home…
Offers three tales that features a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which…
When Deputy Willy Bost arrives in the mysterious border town of San Rosa, he does not know why he has been sent there or what he will find. What he…
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women comes the elegant, hypnotic story of a woman’s quest to the front of the kitchen–and the extraordinary journey she takes along…
Pierre Siniac,Jordan Stump
The unbuttoned, unkempt, unlikely fiction of Pierre Siniac is a slap in the face of the traditional crime novel, and The Collaborators is his best and most hilarious book…
Originally published in French as Demolir Nisard.
Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye’s brilliant subversion of the memoir. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River…
Jean Ricardou
Supplying his readers with everything they need to know to navigate the notoriously complex world of literary theory, Ricardou uses his own irreverent interpretation of deconstructive theory to ask questions…
The classic Grimms’ fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you’ve never read it before
A powerful and disturbing novel by the author of Three Strong Women and The Cheffe
Scholastique Mukasonga,Jordan Stump
An intense and personal collection of stories about grief and survival, spanning pre- and post- genocide Rwanda.
Imagine being born into a world where everything about you-the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth-designates you as an undesirable, an inferior…
A nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege, and social amnesia, the latest from the world-renowned, Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist unveils a small community characterized by absurd kindness, labyrinthine bureaucracy, strange customs…
Before children’s stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From the late seventeenth century through the Revolution…
Honore De Balzac,Jordan Stump
Two very intelligent, very idealistic young women leave the convent school wherethey became the fastest of friends to return to their families and embark on theirnew lives. For Renee de…
Lutz Bassmann,Antoine Volodine
From one of the most original French writers of our day comes a mysterious, prismatic, and profoundly sad reflection on humanity in its darker moments. In a collection of fictions…
Comprise fifty-two chapters that provide insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab, his absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, and his never having…
Jules Verne
What is the mystery about this island Jules Verne wrote about? How are the men stranded on it able to survive? In this early science fiction thriller, the heroes use…
Honore de Balzac
Follows Godefroid, a thirty-year-old failure, who seeks refuge at the unusual lodging house of a tragic noblewomen, where he encounters an assortment of men, all scarred by the tumult that…
