This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and politics of its translation into Polish, trying to answer the following questions: What are the meaning and the limits of avantgardism?
Eigenwillig, brutal und wunderschön: eine raue Liebeserklärung an ein vergessenes EnglandAnfang 2001 bricht auf den Farmen im nordenglischen Lake District eine tödliche Seuche aus, die die Schafe aus den Tälern verschwinden lässt und den Himmel mit dem beißenden Rauch der brennenden Kadaver verdeckt.
The setting of this extraordinary novel is an old farmhouse in Portugal - a house far enough from the Atlantic not to hear the breaking waves during a storm but near enough for the walls to be corroded by the salt in the air.
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
Von den feuchten Hütten in Mumbai bis in toskanische Landvillen – »Goldschakal« ist ein schonungsloser Roman über die Ungleichheit der modernen Welt und wie sie auf die intimsten Beziehungen durchschlägt.
Stehlen und Stehlen lassen: Das nächste große Ding der MeisterklasseSeit zwei Monaten ist Katarina Bishop berühmt: als Anführerin der Diebesbande, die das sicherste Museum der Welt beraubt hat.
Pedro Almodóvar betritt die literarische Bühne: »Der letzte Traum«Befreiung und Liebe sind die Lebensthemen von Pedro Almodóvar, einem der wichtigsten Filmemacher der Gegenwart, der auch ein leidenschaftlicher Schriftsteller ist.
Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano's first three novels, about Paris under Nazi occupation, now in a single volume; the earliest--La Place de l'Etoile--in English for the first time.
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATIONFINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN TRANSLATIONWINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARDThis punk-like blend of Roberto BolaosThe Savage Detectivesand Samanta SchweblinsFever Dreamheralds an exciting new voice in international fiction.
'Good-hearted and brutal at the same time, The Milkman in the Night is a complex, unsettling mixture of bleakness and warmth' Sunday TimesRead this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed.
Meine Nachbarn und andere UnkrautvernichterAls Emma Quaadvliegh nach dem Tod ihres Mannes eine Parzelle in einem Kleingartenverein erbt, verliebt sie sich sofort in das gemütliche, etwas chaotische Gartenhaus.
Composed throughout Cervantes's writing life and mentioned in Don Quixote, his Exemplary Stories are among the first and finest Spanish short stories: ranging from traditional tales of love to incisive moral fables.
Considered one of Morocco's most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society.
Ein Stück Weltliteratur: »Dein Gesicht morgen« von Javier MaríasJaime Deza hat die Begabung, hinter den Gesichtern von Menschen ungeahnte Seiten zu erkennen, auch bei sich selbst.
Als die vierjährige Amanda entführt wird, beginnen Patrick Kenzie und Angela Gennaro ihre Suche in den einschlägigen Kreisen, was selbst die hartgesottenen Ermittler an ihre Grenzen bringt.
"e;Expertly told, the plot crackles with life"e; DAILY MAILTHE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO HAS FRESH OUTRAGE TO AVENGEAs Salander follows the scorched trail of her twin sister to Moscow, Blomkvist fears for her safety.
In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever livedLegendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place he has ever truly known peace.
Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.
This collection of ten short stories have been selected from Writing Still, Writing Now, Laughing Now and Women Writing Zimbabwe, and translated into Shona by two highly regarded Zimbabwean writers, Charles Mungoshi and Musaemura Zimunya.
"e;Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material"e; Avraham Burg, HaaretzWho is Adam Dannoun?
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE Imagine that many of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century were entirely unknown in the West, and only recently discovered in Russia itself.
Winner PEN Translates Award (UK)Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors' surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled to Spain following the death of his mother.
Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimaciesIn The Impostor, a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt.
One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth.
