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Last Words on EarthAuthor: Javier SerenaPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Sep 21, 2021Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948830329ISBN-13: 9781948830324

From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not Reading From the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are...

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his...

Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book AwardIn Mother River, Can Xue, one of China's most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river...

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins.Author: Katixa AgirrePublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Jul 12, 2022Number of...

The World Cup, La Grande Bouffe, and the post office drive this journey through Reykjavik and the narrator's mind.Author: Bragi Ólafsson, Lytton SmithPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Aug 14,...

Night School: A Reader for GrownupsAuthor: Zs?fia B?nPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: January 15, 2019Number of Pages: 270 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194095388XISBN-13:...

Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the...

Winner of the Spanish National Fiction PrizeSummer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the...

The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we don't act immediately.Author: Andri Sn?r MagnasonPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Dec 13, 2022Number of Pages: 290...

Once Upon Argentina tells the sentimental and political story of a family that comes from everywhere, and of a country's wandering, migratory culture In the beginning it was Jacobo, born in tsarist...

"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary."-- Music & LiteratureThe most...

Regal Lemon TreeAuthor: Juan José SaerPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Oct 27, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948830272ISBN-13: 9781948830270

Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a...

"Hats off to one of the most inventive writers of French literature. . . . Hubert Haddad concocts a colorful novel, funny and inventive, as clever as the Fox sisters themselves."--Jean-Fran?ois...

Journalist Wojciech Tochman addresses the abandoned and lonely in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, where the memory of terror persists.Author: Wojciech TochmanPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Nov...

Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer's conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel - and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates - the narrator of Salki starts recounting...

In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it. The thirty chapters of Sensitive Anatomy form a celebration of the body in its...

Haunting, paranoid story of a gay insomniac forced to make very uncomfortable choices to stay alive during the Argentine dictatorship.Author: Guillermo Saccomanno, Andrea LabingerPublisher: Open...

Finalist for the Prix Goncourt, Mathias Enard's coming-of-age novel takes place against the Arab Spring and Spain's financial collapse.Author: Mathias ??ardPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Nov...

Thank You For Not ReadingAuthor: Dubravka UgresicPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948830450ISBN-13:...

The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orp?? Conquistador and Founder of New CataloniaAuthor: Max Besora, Mara Faye LethemPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date:...

The Age of SkinAuthor: Dubravka UgresicPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: November 17, 2020Number of Pages: 220 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1948830221ISBN-13: 9781948830225

In this spaghetti western, a mysterious man arrives in a corrupt town seeking revenge for his sister and upends everything.Author: Rein Raud, Adam CullenPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Sep...

Edgy debut collection steeped in social criticism about mental illness, childhood violence, financial problems, and working in a brothel.Author: Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Susanna NiedPublisher: Open...

A seductive novel of an illicit love affair and one of those summers that changes everyone's life forever.Author: Madame Nielsen, Gaye KynochPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Feb 13, 2018Number...

A clueless bank clerk confused about basically everything "accidentally" tortures a couple guinea pigs.Author: Ludv?? Vacul??Publisher: Open LetterPublication Date: May 17, 2011Number of Pages: 192...

A world-spanning intellectual thriller in the vein of SebaldAuthor: Sergio Chejfec, Heather ClearyPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Sep 24, 2019Number of Pages: 157 pagesLanguage:...

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.Author: Rodrigo Fres??Publisher: Open LetterPublication Date: May 16, 2017Number of Pages:...

A poignant tale of a recently widowed new mother and her effort to rediscover herself through a writing retreat.Author: Muriel VillanuevaPublisher: Open LetterPublication Date: Sep 20, 2022Number of...