Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant — you know, the one who's always...
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The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing.
In these three haunting and lyrical...
A sociopolitical misadventure from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Frank Dawley is a working-class escapee. After twelve years of spiritual nullification at a factory in Nottingham, five years...
A brain orbiting the earth in a capsule, its human body gone, its onetime body. A novel written from the point of view of the brain told in the 3rd person close up — too close for comfort. A brain that has been surgically divorced and lifted out...
Hailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "genius," William Gerhardie is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy...
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection — her first for adult readers in a decade —...
Shira is Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon’s final, epic novel. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1970, the Hebrew original was published a year later. With this newly revised English translation by Zeva Shapiro, including archival material never...
When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer...
"Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish." — LATimes
"A skilled storyteller working at the height of his powers." — TLS
"Like all the great storytellers of history,...
'The devil had his workshop in Belarus. That's where the deepest graves are. But no one knows about it.'
A young man grows up in a town with a sinister history. The concentration camp may have been liberated years ago, but its walls still cast...