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Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniel Kharms

SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the …

Thomas Mann by Thomas Mann, Damion Searls

Agostino by Alberto Moravia (New York Review of Books Classics)

Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up …

Silver Spoon by Kansuke Naka, Hiroaki Sato

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the …

Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon

The setting sun by Osamu Dazai

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set …

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set …

Red Roofs and Other Stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers, Paul McCarthy (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, #79)

The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes …

Lotus Sutra by Gene Reeves

Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors

This is a collection resplendent with longing. In these compact pages, people meet without actually connecting, travellers set off but …

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette, ʻAdanīyah Shiblī

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the …

Naked Year by Boris Pilnyak, Alexander R. Tulloch

Bomber by Len Deighton