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  • The Silent Woman

    by Monika Zgustova ...
    This "exhilarating novel" of love, longing, and exile "captures the passion of a century in turmoil" (Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning).From the "outstanding" Czech writer Monika Zgustova, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth-century woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil (Vaclav Havel).Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic ... Read more

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  • Nocturnals

    by Diane Ackerman, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Brian Evenson, Peter Gizzi, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea, Dinaw Mengestu, Rick Moody, Karen Russell, Joanna Scott, David Shields, Peter Straub, Fred Moten, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series Book 72 - Conjunctions
    This spring 2019 edition of Bard College's literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs.Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own stories, the stellar works collected here—including entries by Sallie Tisdale, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol ... Read more

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  • Exiled Shadow

    by Norman Manea ...
    Translated by Carla Baricz ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea“Exiled Shadow belongs among the great, intricate, and uncompromising works of contemporary literature.”—Jan Knoffeke, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter

    by Matei Calinescu ...
    Translated by Breon Mitchell, Adriana Calinescu ...
    A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics OriginalUgly, unkempt, a haunter of low dives who begs for a living and lives on the street, Zacharias Lichter exists for all that in a state of unlikely rapture. After being engulfed by a divine flame as a teenager, Zacharias has devoted his days to doing nothing at all—apart, that is, from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Captives

    by Norman Manea ...
    Translated by Jean Harris ...
    A stunning novel set in postwar Romania about language, identity, and loss.Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections–narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices–Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Hooligan's Return

    A Memoir

    by Norman Manea ...
    Translated by Angela Jianu ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lair

    by Norman Manea, Oana Sanziana Marian ...
    Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

    by Norman Manea ...
    Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the exiled writer.Among pieces on the cultural-political landscape of Eastern Europe and on the North America of today, there are astute critiques of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Black Envelope

    by Norman Manea, Patrick Camiller ...
    A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor."Reading 'The Black Envelope,' one might think of the poisonous ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lair

    by Norman Manea, Oana Sanziana Marian ...
    Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the grip of totalitarian regimes. No stranger to exile, he mines its complexities and disorientations in this extraordinarily compelling novel, The Lair. Exile in the motherland and away from it is the shared plight of his protagonists. Nowhere at home, they move through their lives in a continuous, ever-elusive quest for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Lost in Translation

    A Life in a New Language

    by Eva Hoffman ...
    Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age ... Read more

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  • Speak, Memory

    An Autobiography Revisited

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —The New York TimesSpeak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of ... Read more

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