NYRB Classics

No Room at the Morgue (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Jean-Patrick ManchettePublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 11, 2020Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the...

The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional...

Stoner author John Williams's first novel is a searing look at a man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams?s first novel is a...

On Being Blue is a book about everything blue?sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things?and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary...

Now in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an enroaching fascistic force. Set in a world of its own, Ernst...

A collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages. Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan?s most beloved...

Peach Blossom Paradise (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Ge FeiPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 392 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Get lost in northern Greece with one of the greatest travel writers of the 20th century as he travels to monasteries, among shepherds, and throughout the hills, mountains, and rugged coastline of...

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to...

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated ?its own kind of moral laws,? spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was...

Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry...

Now available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust?s In Search of Lost Time. Swann's Way, the first of the seven volumes that constitute...

In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium?a magical drug administered by a spike...

A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar. The Bible is full...

Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece. In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick (?Paddy?)...

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner?s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that...

The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of...

An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of...

The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Edward GoreyPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 28, 2001Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a...

Complete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco's Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age, complete with encounters with Franz Kafka, Albert...

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction To Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Masanobu FukuokaPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 02, 2009Number of Pages: 200...

The first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II. Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second...

The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics)Author: John Alec BakerPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 31, 2004Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics)Author: ColettePublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: September 30, 2000Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish...

A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a...

A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title...