“The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects...this is an extraordinary novel, and completely original.”—The Independent

“The most original and promising Norwegian writer of his generation.” —A...

One of Germany's most illustrious poets, Heinrich Heine is also celebrated for his idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heine's lyrical, humorous, and revealing vision in these four accounts of his voyages in Italy and Germany raises Travel Pictures into the transcendent realm of great journey...

“There are two maps of Palestine that the politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry.”—Anton Shammas

This remarkable collection of Mahmoud Darwish’s poems an...

"These exuberant stories, so startlingly fresh, so vigorous, and so wildly inventive, are a delight"-Alastair Reid

"Gombrowicz is one of the most original and gifted writers of the twentieth century: he belongs at the very summit, at the side of his kindred spirits, Kafka and Céline....

"A tiny fragment of life, simply told and yet touching in the extreme."-French Book News

Pierre, a lifelong Parisian waiter, watches people come and go, sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn't look outside too much; he prefers to let the world come to him. When th...

Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. Poetically drawing on the effects of cultural upheaval on the individual, Ahmet Ha...

“I read Unai Elorriaga’s latest novel almost without stopping to breathe. Breathlessly, yes, but not quickly, because Elorriaga’s books are not the kind you read in two or three hours and put back on the shelf. It is a very good novel. Incredibly good.”—Gorka Bereziartua

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“The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. . . . No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”—The New Yorker

“In this inspiring, insightful, and heart-warming meditation, Breyten Breytenbach has...

“Yet this is not a prisoner’s book. It would be a crass injustice of underestimation and simplification if it is presented and received that way. It describes how the ordinary time-focus of a man’s perceptions can been extraordinarily rearranged by a definitive experience. . . . Prison irra...

In Mute Objects of Expression, Francis Ponge proclaims his goal: to accept the challenge that things--objects-offer to language. These objects and scenes are perceived with unique Pongean art and humor in this volume centering on the unoccupied southern Loire countryside, where his family ...

"Tranquility is a moving, emotionally complex, subtle, shocking novel..."--Los Angeles Times

Tranquility, the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and ...

"It will be a tragedy for the creative process if we parents, both black and white, deny our children the opportunity to read [Herman Charles] Bosman."-Johnny Masilela

"Bosman knows what to tell us and when, and most importantly he knows what not to tell us. To this he adds a subtle and sim...

"It is impossible to stop our ears against the excruciating power of what Breytenbach has to say."Nadine Gordimer

"Obviously the greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. . . . No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and no one wielded it so devastatingly against the aparthe...

“If ever a writer...sought to define himself painstakingly to himself, to grasp and bring light to the murky shadings, the deepest laws and most elusive impressions of the human soul, it was Gérard de Nerval.”—Marcel Proust

“Every intelligent Eng...