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  • Lost Paradise

    A Novel

    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
    From "one of the greatest modern novelists" comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt).In Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys.A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Passenger: Berlin

    by The Passenger, Cees Nooteboom, Peter Schneider, Annett Gröschner ...
    Series series The Passenger
    The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that's "like a literary vacation" ( Publishers Weekly).In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sidewalks

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Grantland Book of the YearVol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason DiamondBook Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses"Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an important voice in Latin American letters. Her vision and language are precise, and the power of her intellect is in evidence on every page."-Daniel Alarcón"I'm completely captivated by t... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roads to Berlin

    Translated by Laura Watkinson ...
    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification.Nooteboom's writings on politics, people, architecture and culture are as digressive as they ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • All Souls' Day

    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Translated by Susan Massotty ...
    "An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film that will show the world through his eyes.With his circle of friends - a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 533 Days

    by Cees Nooteboom, Simone Sassen ...
    Translated by Laura Watkinson ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects upon the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardeningThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, “the island of the wind.” It is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Untouched House

    by Willem Frederik Hermans, Cees Nooteboom ...
    Translated by David Colmer ...
    “Profoundly unsettling . . . haunt[s] the mind for long afterwards.” —The Sunday Times“The kind of book that stays with you forever.” —The Guardian“Hugely entertaining." —The ScotsmanA Sunday Times Book of the Year: A brooding meditation on violence set during World War II—from a classic Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut<... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Foxes Come at Night

    Translated by Ina Rilke ...
    by Cees Nooteboom ...
    Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Even Now

    Poems by Hugo Claus

    by Hugo Claus ...
    Translated by David Colmer ...
    Beautifully translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, the IMPAC Award-winning translator of Gerbrand Bakker’s The Twin, Hugo Claus’s poems are remarkable for their dexterity, intensity of feeling, and acute intelligence. From the richly associative and referential “Oostakker Poems” to the emotional and erotic outpouring of the “mad dog stanzas” in “Morning, You,” from his interpretations of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Faces in the Crowd

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    From the author of Lost Children Archive: “Masterful…a novel in which people die many times just to wake up right where they left off.”―The Paris Review In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • All That Is

    by James Salter ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • An NPR "Great Reads" Book • Here is PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter's dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of love and ambition.“Shimmering. . . . Intoxicating. . . . Few can match Salter’s depictions of life’s physical pleasures, the sheer sensual delight of being in this world.”—San Francisco Chronicle**All That Is explores ... Read more

    $4.99 USD