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  • Whoever Steals This Book (light novel)

    by Nowaki Fukamidori, Naffy ...
    Translated by Michael Blaskowsky ...
    Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather—the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn’t share her family’s passion for literature.  But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the various stories—and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Whoever Steals This Book (light novel)

    by Nowaki Fukamidori, Naffy ...
    Narrated by Caitlin Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather—the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn’t share her family’s passion for literature.  But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the various stories—and the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Beyond the Barbed Wire

    Selected Poems

    by Abdellatif Laabi ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020Winner of an English PEN AwardIntroduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher SchaeferBeyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laâbi's poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Petrolio

    by Pier Paolo Pasolini ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Heart of a Stranger

    An Anthology of Exile Literature

    Edited by Andre Naffis-Sahely ...
    A fascinatingly diverse anthology of the literature of exile, from the myths of Ancient Egypt to contemporary poetryExile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys through six continents, with over a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sundays of Jean Dézert

    by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of urban solitude and alienation that outlines the mediocrity of bureaucratic existence.Jean Dézert is an office worker employed by the ministry, who rounds out his regimented life with snippets of Eastern ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Bottom of the Jar

    by Abdellatif Laabi ...
    Translated by Andre Naffis-Sahely ...
    The Bottom of the Jar is the journey of a boy finding his footing in the heart of Fez during the 1950s, as Morocco began freeing itself from the grip of the French colonial occupation. The narrator vividly recalls his first encounters with the ebullient city, family dramas, and the joys and turbulence of his childhood. He recalls a renegade, hashish-loving uncle, who at nightfall transforms into a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mick Imlah

    Selected Prose

    Edited by Robert Selby, André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Series Book 41 - Peter Lang Ltd.
    As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon, and – as his interest in his Scottish background grew – elucidating those fallen from favour, such as ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Money

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • If Venice Dies

    by Salvatore Settis ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Hofmann

    An Extended Passport Application

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ranging from his original poetry to translations of Kafka, Brecht, Hans Fallada, and Joseph Roth, among others. In the first book-length study of this iconic figure, poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely surveys Hofmann’s life and work ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • High Desert

    by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast’s wildfire epidemic, Naffis-Sahely’s reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the region’s hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD