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A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Named a New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Winner of the Anne Frank Prize
These...
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Farewell to Matyora
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal,...
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The Return of Philip Latinowicz
Philip Latinowicz is a successful but disillusioned painter who returns to his hometown after an absence of twenty-three years. He hopes that...
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Women in a River Landscape
In BÖll's last novel, politicians, bankers, and public relations men of the new postwar Germany cruise through the social murk seeking...
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Ballad of Descent
Martin and Tomas leave Prague on Christmas Day for "that other country." Although their destination is the mountains, their departure has...
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Booker Winners and Others-II (Vol.10 of the GLAS Series)
True to our commitment to acquaint publishers and readers with the winners of the Booker Russian Novel Prize, we offer excerpts from the short-listed...
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publisher, Pierre has since...
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Absent without Leave
In these two novellas, Nobel laureate Heinrich BÖll uses strikingly different narrative techniques to portray World War II's impact on the...
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Time, Forward!
A classic of Soviet realism, Time, Forward! captures the enthusiasm and optimism of the first Five-Year Plan in its portrayal of the construction of...
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The Safety Net
Fritz Tolm has risen to the top of a vast cartel of banking, industrial, and media interests--the most visible and powerful position in all of...
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The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz is one of Germany's foremost writers, ranking in popularity as well as critical esteem with GÜnter Grass and Heinrich BÖll. In...
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Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia
This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected...
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an...
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The Book of Hrabal
Named a New York Times Notable Book of 1994
An elaborate, elegant homage to the great Czech storyteller Bohumil Hrabal (author of Closely Watched...
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4 Dada Suicides
Writings by Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché. With Introductions and biographical essays on each author.
This book,...
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to...
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Det åndelige bryllups smykke
Med Jan van Ruusbroec (1294-1381) står man overfor et stort religiøst-mystisk forfatterskap som ikke bare er høydepunktet i den nederlanske...
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Children of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust is a landmark of Holocaust literature and among the finest works produced since World War II. These profoundly moving...
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Pretender to the Throne
This hilarious novel following the continuing adventures of Ivan Chonkin, a simple peasant who has been arrested as a traitor after spending World...
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The Stories of Heinrich Boll
This volume collects sixty-three short stories and novellas written by Heinrich BÖll between 1947 and 1985. In brings together selections from...
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