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  • A Cat At the End of the World

    by Robert Perišic ...
    Translated by Vesna Maric ...
    A runaway slave, a wandering spirit, and an Egyptian cat intertwine in this lyrical exploration of power, freedom, and the building of civilizations.In Robert Perišić's A Cat At the End of the World, a nameless slave escapes ancient Syracuse, finding an unlikely companion in Miu, an Egyptian cat. Their journey intersects with the Scatterwind, a spirit adrift through time, witnessing the rise and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zagreb Noir

    by Darko Macan, Josip Novakovich, Ivan Vidić, Ružica Gašperov, Mima Simić, Robert Perisic, Pero Kvesić, Nada Gašić, Zoran Pilić, Andrea Žigić-Dolenec, Darko Milošić, Nora Verde, Ivan Sršen, Neven Ušumović ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "A must-read book by Croatian authors available in English. A collection of crime stories set across Zagreb, each one by a different Croatian writer."--Time Out (Croatia)"Zagreb, Croatia--its culture and its touchstones--will be terra incognita for many U.S. readers...Notable is Nora Verde's 'She-Warrior,' in which a young woman's carefully planned anarchist activities are smacked down by a triple ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Horror and Huge Expenses

    by Robert Perišic ...
    Translated by Will Firth ...
    Outside of Croatia, Robert Perišic is best known for his novels, but short stories are what first garnered him recognition, and eventually led him to be considered one of Croatia's most important contemporary voices. Horror and Huge Expenses is a career-spanning collection of stories that demonstrate why Perišic's wryly incisive prose, able to hit so many registers, resonates with readers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No-Signal Area

    A Novel

    by Robert Perisic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac ...
    Oleg and Nikola—hustlers, entrepreneurs, ambassadors of capitalism—have come to the town of N to build an obsolete turbine, never mind why. Enlisting the help of former engineer Sobotka, they reopen the old turbine factory, preaching the gospel of “self-organization” and bringing new life to the depressed post-communist town. But as the project spins out of control, Oleg and Nikola find themselves ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Our Man in Iraq

    by Robert Perišić ...
    A local journalist sends a distant relative to report on the war in Iraq, while he stays at home to sort out his love life and his professional career - all to varying degrees of success. As time goes on, things begin to unravel and he ends up having to fake his missing cousin's reports while struggling to hold on to his actress girlfriend. Our Man in Iraq is a take on the Iraqi conflict from the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No-Signal Area

    by Robert Perisic ...
    Witty and ambitious, No-Signal Area is a sprawling novel, smart and just cynical enough to frame and give an edge to the abiding nostalgia that is its real subject. A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing centre can dispense to a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Our Man in Iraq

    by Robert Perisic ...
    Translated by Will Firth ...
    The first of Robert Perisic’s novels to be translated into English, Our Man in Iraq gets to the heart of life made and remade by war and serves as an unforgettable introduction to a vibrant voice from Croatia that's filled with characteristic humor and insight.2003: As Croatia lurches from socialism into globalized capitalism, Toni, a cocky journalist in Zagreb, struggles to balance his fragile ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    No-Signal Area

    A Novel

    by Robert Perisic ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    Witty and ambitious, No-Signal Area is a sprawling novel, smart and just cynical enough to frame and give an edge to the abiding nostalgia that is its real subject. A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Vanessa Barbara, Ilana Casoy ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
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  • New Haven Noir

    by Amy Bloom ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "In an Ivy League town, Bloom turns Yale's motto— Lux et Veritas—on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven." — Kirkus ReviewsThe image of a charming college town serves New Haven well, but its natives know that the city has been built on a rich—and violent—history that still seeps out from between the cracks in the sidewalks and the halls of learning.Now, *New York ... Read more

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  • Stockholm Noir

    by Nathan Larson, Carl-Michael Edenborg, Unni Drougge, Inger Edelfeldt, Åke Edwardson, Torbjörn Elensky, Inger Frimansson, Carl Johan De Geer, Martin Holmén0, Malte Persson1, Anna-Karin Selberg2, Johan Theorin3, Lina Wolff4 ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
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    by Salar Abdoh ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
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