New York: New York Review of Books, 2015. Joshua Cohen (intro), James Naughton (tr.). Paperback. The Little Town Where Time Stood Still contains two linked narratives by the incomparable Bohumil Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera has described as “Czechoslovakia’s greatest writer.” “Cutting It Short” is set before World War II in..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
New York: New York Review Comics, 2018. Gébé (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. A new translation from the French by Edward Gauvin Amid the blasted rubble of a once-perfect suburb, a hazmat-suited postman delivers the mail, aloud. He shouts his letters down a vent to the bunker-bound family below..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2011. Ursula K. Le Guin (intro). Paperback. Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2013. Eric Hanson (cover art). Third Printing. Paperback. Introduction by William Gibson. In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2002. Katy Homans (cover design). Fourth Printing. Paperback. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2011. Garth Williams (illustrations). Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. David McPhail (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Anatole has a knack for seeking and finding adventure, often with Plumpet, his orange cat, who is accustomed to ghost trains, amnesiac soldiers, flying horses, and wallpaper portals, just a few of the enchantments encountered along..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. Ari Larissa Heinrich (tr.). Third Printing. Paperback. When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2018. Marion Freeman Wakeman (illustrations). Reprint. Paperback. Whether you are five or one hundred and five, chances are you’ve never met a lobster as learned and charming as Mr. Lobster—and he’d be the very first to tell you so. Mr. Lobster has evaded..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2007. Jamey Gambrell (tr.). Paperback. Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job—transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe—and..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2010. Robert Chandler (ed.), Elizabeth Chandler (tr.) Robert Chandler (tr.), and Olga Mukovnikova (tr.). Paperback. The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2004. Eighth Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Susan Sontag, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins..... More
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