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  • The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    The award-winning author of Black Moses is at his satiric best in this novel the catalogs the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war.Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dukla

    by Andrzej Stasiuk ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Polish Literature
    At several points in the haunting Dukla, Andrzej Stasiuk claims that what he is trying to do is "write a book about light." The result is a beautiful, lyrical series of evocations of a very specific locale at different times of the year, in different kinds of weather, and with different human landscapes. Dukla, in fact, is a real place: a small resort town not far from where Stasiuk now lives. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Fear on the Mountain

    by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    A haunting, allegorical Swiss masterpiece centered around a posse of villagers as they brave dark elements to ascend a mountain, thicketed with loreTeeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic story transports readers to the Swiss mountainside, bringing to mind the writing of Thomas Mann while offering character studies as vivid and bracing as Eudora Welty’s.Feed is running low in a rural ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Needle's Eye

    by Wieslaw Mysliwski ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memoryIn a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip and fall down a flight of stairs. From this singular event arises a cascade of memories, regrets, and longings: the buried sensations of a whole lifetime, condensed and released. We hear of life during ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • a grammar of the world

    by Jeanne Benameur ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    A slim, emotionally and thematically rich book of poetry, a grammar of the world is Jeanne Benameur's second book published in English by Les Fugitives, offering a more personal look into the author's own history and writing practice. For Benameur, the Egyptian goddess Isis is a sister who advances with her along the seashore. Like her, poetry responds to life's call where the blue of the sky ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Navigating the Complexities of Post-Academic Life

    Ageing, Identity and Professional Transition

    Edited by Joanne Yoo, Hilary Yerbury, Nina Burridge, Bill Johnston, Sheila Webber ...
    This thoughtful exploration examines the complex and multifaceted transition of retirement from academia, addressing fundamental questions of when and how to retire, and what retirement looks like. The work challenges assumptions about ageing while acknowledging the profound sense of loss that often accompanies the end of an academic career.Through engaging autoethnographies, this book reveals ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Pan Tadeusz

    The Last Foray in Lithuania

    by Adam Mickiewicz ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    The national epic of Poland and touchstone of modern European literature, now in a fresh translation by award-winning translator Bill Johnston.A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Child Who

    by Jeanne Benameur ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    In an anonymous French village a child loves to wander a forest where his mother may have disappeared. His father is speechless with anger; his grandmother is concealing her own story. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Casablanca Story

    by In Koli Jean Bofane ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Global African Voices
    One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges.In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ennemonde

    by Jean Giono ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely livedEnnemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde’s astounding story of undetected crimes, Jean Giono immerses us in the perverse and often lurid lifeways of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stone Upon Stone

    by Wieslaw Mysliwski ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    A masterpiece of postwar Polish literature, Stone Upon Stone is Wies?aw My?liwski¢s grand epic in The rural tradition — a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Self-Portrait with Woman

    A Novel

    by Andrzej Szczypiorski ...
    Translated by Bill Johnston ...
    Series series Andrze Szczypiorski
    Kamil, a Warsaw sociologist, is summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral history project about the collapse of Eastern European communism and resolves to tell his own story through a gallery of portraits of the many women he has loved. These reminiscences emerge against the broader canvas of circumstances and events that have shaped the past sixty years of Poland’s turbulent, tragic history. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD