Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gilda holst”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Obscene Madame D

    by Hilda Hilst ...
    Translated by Nathanaël, Rachel Gontijo Araujo ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice LespecterAn electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most significant and controversial writers, Hilda Hilst takes us into the disorder and beauty of a mind restlessly testing its own limits.Every month I ingested the body of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Letters from a Seducer

    by Hilda Hilst ...
    Translated by John Keene ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **A grand, perturbing erotic novel in which the wealthy, amoral Karl records his sexual life and search for meaning in letters with a surprising legacy“Maybe all women wonder what men would be like without their posturing, but it seems to me Hilst had more than an inkling...” – Dodie Bellamy**This epistolary novel tells the story of Karl, a wealthy, amoral and erudite man who records his daily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Essays on Hilda Hilst

    Between Brazil and World Literature

    Edited by Bruno Carvalho, Adam Morris ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • With My Dog Eyes

    A Novel

    by Hilda Hilst ...
    Translated by Adam Morris ...
    Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time.With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling—of sanity, of language . . .After experiencing a vision of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

    A Novel

    by Mizuki Tsujimura ...
    Translated by Yuki Tejima ...
    Series series A Lost Souls Novel
    Book Two of the Lost Souls SeriesThe much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death of an Ordinary Man

    by Sarah Perry ...
    WINNER OF THE NERO NON FICTION AWARD 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON FICTIONA spectacularly original memoir that’s at once an elegy for a beloved family member and a deeply moving meditation on what it means to be a mortal creature, from one of our greatest novelists.Death of an Ordinary Man opens on a charming, merry seaside ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Thousand Blues

    The heart-warming Korean sci-fi bestseller

    Translated by Chi-Young Kim ...
    by Cheon Seon-ran ...
    THE #1 KOREAN INSTANT BESTSELLER AND PRIZEWINNERDiscover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUN‘Engaging, touching, subtly disturbing’ K-Lit Review‘A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions’ Kim Bo-young‘A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without ... ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Clock House Murders

    by Yukito Ayatsuji ...
    Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...
    Series series The Bizarre House Mysteries
    **A deviously clever, locked room puzzle mystery from the celebrated Japanese author of The Decagon House Murders that’s perfect for fans of Uketsu’s Strange HousesBrilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of paranormal investigators, trapped in an abandoned house, as they are picked off one-by-one!**Rumor has it that the mysterious Clock House—a remote mansion built by notorious ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Exophony

    Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda ...
    An electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in EnglishSHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEA New Yorker Best Book of 2025I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not “imitation” per se. All of these ... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western worldWe’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Seesaw Monster

    A Novel

    by Kotaro Isaka ...
    From the international bestselling author of Bullet Train, two inventive espionage tales in one“Isaka’s style is tense, laden with dark humor expressed with a flat affect—just the right tone for a book that walks the fine line between comedy and violence.” —New York Times Book Review on Hotel Lucky SevenMiyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. It’s not just a case of them rubbing each ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hunger

    A Novel

    by Choi Jin-young ...
    Translated by Soje ...
    A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us.On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him home, disinfects each inch of skin—and sits down to begin.As he witnesses his ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook