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“anne serre”

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  • A Leopard-Skin Hat

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    A quintessential early novel about an intense friendship, by the winner of the 2020 Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship between “the Narrator” and his close ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Fool and Other Moral Tales

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre—author of the celebrated Governesses—come three delicious, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales.Fairy-tale atmospheres and complex narratives are a hallmark of the fiction of Anne Serre, represented here by three radically heterodox novellas. The Fool “may have stepped out of a tarot pack: I came across this little figure rather late in life. Not being ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Governesses

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novellaIn a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Governesses

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this warped erotic fairy tale of a novella introduces UK readers to the marvellous Anne Serre. In a large country house, shut off from the world within a gated garden, three young women responsible for the education of a group of little boys are hanging paper lanterns for a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Fool and Other Moral Tales

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is arguably the smartest trick of all.' From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales, in which kernels of trauma, loss, loneliness and obsession are glimpsed through the glittering gauze of fiction. The Fool may have stepped out of a tarot pack - to walk a mountain trail or worm his way into a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Beginners

    by Anne Serre ...
    Translated by Mark Hutchinson ...
    Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftnessAnna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Times of Crisis

    What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent our Lives and Future

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon ...
    For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII.Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, "To destroy, kill, exploit is worthless. In the long run, it means destroying ourselves." At a ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

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    Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.”A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE</str... ... Read more

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  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird

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