Translation

A Confession (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

By Leo Tolstoy

$12.00

ISBN: 9780141042558

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Published: Penguin Books - October 27th, 2009

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Best known for his popular novels like Anna Karenina and War and Peace, later in life, Tolstoy experienced a profound existential and spiritual crisis causing him to renounce his fame and many of his past writings. Confession is his existential autobiography composed as Leo Tolstoy grappled with life's meaning.

Matt

Eve Out of Her Ruins (Paperback)

By Ananda Devi, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator), J. M. G. Le Clézio (Introduction by)

$14.95

ISBN: 9781941920404

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Published: Deep Vellum Publishing - September 13th, 2016

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Set in a poor section of Port-Louis, Mauritius, this prize-winning novel is a poetic and intense exploration of young lives thrown away by society. Told in four different voices and haunted by the specter of Rimbaud, Devi explores, the violence, identity, and dreams of young people living discarded lives. For fans of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Jean Genet.

Josh

Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs (Paperback)

By Lina Wolff, Frank Perry (Translator)

$15.95

ISBN: 9781908276643

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Published: And Other Stories - January 12th, 2016

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With rich images and a wicked sense of humor, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs is a crooked grin of a book that embodies those strange fleeting thoughts that occasionally course through an insomniac's mind late at night. A sharp, dark, feminist exploration of identity, place, and art with the atmosphere, pace, and impact of a hot summer afternoon stroll through a minefield.

Josh

 

The Story of My Teeth (Paperback)

By Valeria Luiselli, Christina Macsweeney (Translator)

$16.95

ISBN: 9781566894098

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Published: Coffee House Press - September 15th, 2015

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Written in collaboration with the workers at a Mexican juice factory, featuring a delightfully delusional auctioneer, bending styles, playing with references, and challenging the idea of translation, The Story of My Teeth is unlike anything you’ve ever read. With this brilliant, weird, zany second novel, Luiselli has solidified her place as one of the most interesting and imaginative minds putting words on paper today.

JOSH

 

The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse (Paperback)

By Red Pine (Translator), Stonehouse

$17.00

ISBN: 9781556594557

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Published: Copper Canyon Press - May 27th, 2014

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For enthusiasts of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and other medieval Chinese poets (in translation), Stonehouse speaks to the same aesthetic and has great power within the simplicity. A great discovery, thanks to Red Pine.

Gary

Signs Preceding the End of the World (Paperback)

By Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator)

$13.95

ISBN: 9781908276421

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Published: And Other Stories (P408) - March 1st, 2015

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If you start highlighting what stuns you about Yuri Herrara’s debut novel in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, every page will be mottled with fluorescent lines. Herrera writes in prose that feels like you are standing on both sides of the uncanny valley while something beautiful happens below and above you, creating a delectable unease, cut through with the simple joy of precise and surprising images. Herrara will draw the obvious comparisons to Roberto Bolano, but Signs Preceding the End of World should also find a should also find a home next to Jesse Ball and Italo Calvino.

 

Josh