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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. Paperback. This collection of poems by Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali finds that contemporary history has forced him to return to his homeland, not with the ease of a tourist, but as a witness to the savagery visited upon Kashmir since the 1990 uprisings..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003. Trade Paperback. "An incomparable work, an unmatched achievement."—Anthony Hecht In this stunningly inventive collection—a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in poetry—Ali excavates the devastation wrought upon his childhood home, Kashmir, and reveals a more personal devastation: his mother's death..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2017. Jonathan Wright (tr.). Seventh Printing. Paperback. "Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times “Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment “Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2007. First Printing. Trade Paperback. The autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg, and for Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two apparently unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. Mysterious assaults on..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First printing. Hardcover. A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2018. Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.), New Pushkin Press Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. "I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins" Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014 In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death..... More
London: Corgi Books, 1974. Paperback. More
London: Picador, 1995. Nicola Ackland-Snow (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Serpent's Tail, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. First published as Verre Casse, translated by Helen Stevenson. Alain Mabanckou’s riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed..... More
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Paperback. More
London: Picador, 2017. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Paperback. This edition is part of The Scribner Library; number 7 in the series (SL 7); exact publication year unclear [book indicates 1948 as copyright year] but most likely between 1950 and 1960. More
New York: Scribner, 2003. Jonathan Bush (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. “The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —The New Republic “A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and..... More
London: Star Books, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. A portrait of individual and communal struggles to maintain authenticity and revolutionary fervor in 1960s England from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The final installment of the William Posters Trilogy revolves around the plights and foibles of the Handley family commune, which set..... More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1967. Nicholas Thirkell (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. From Kirkus, Aug. 9, 1968: This is a continuation of The Death of William Posters (1965) in what will ultimately be a trilogy extending Mr. Sillitoe's angry view of darkness visible on the..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. David Pearson (cover design). Paperback. Introduction by Tony Judt Translated by Robin Buss 'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a...... More
London: Vintage Books, 2003. H.T. Willetts (tr.). Twentieth Printing. Paperback. With a foreword by Alexis Klimoff. THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Ralph Parker (tr.). Paperback. Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison (asso. eds.). Enlarged Edition. Paperback. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough..... More
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005. Iain McIntosh (illustrations). First UK Edition. Second Printing. Hardcover. 44 SCOTLAND STREET – Book 1 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious..... More
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2003. Iain McIntosh. First Edition. Reprint. Softcover. A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment. More
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Persea Books, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. More
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