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Ground Sea: Photography and the Right to Be Reborn Hilde Van Gelder 9789462702653
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £41.19Imagine a world in which each individual has a fundamental right to be reborn. This idle dream haunts Hilde Van Gelder's associative travelogue that takes Allan Sekula's sequence Deep Six / Passer au... -
The Maias by Jose Maria De Eca De Queiros 9780811216494
Booksplease Price: £21.01Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will... -
Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernandez 9780811217538
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto Hernandez, "a writer like no other," Italo Calvino declared, "like no European or Latin American. He is an 'irregular,' who eludes... -
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity by Jessica A. Folkart 9781611485813
Booksplease Price: £45.75Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality-identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but... -
Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity by Jessica A. Folkart 9781611485790
Booksplease Price: £103.11Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity investigates the predominant perception of liminality-identity situated at a threshold, neither one thing nor another, but... -
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781631495328
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.49"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of... -
The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain by Bécquer Seguín 9780674260108
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £32.12“The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spain’s most eminent writers, it demonstrates, too, the... -
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9780871404961
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.83A progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. This majestic translation combines all... -
The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa 9780811229883
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Alvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied... -
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas 9781908276865
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked... -
The Land at the End of the World: A Novel by Antonio Lobo Antunes
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.35In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the twentieth century's most original literary voices offers "kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist... -
Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003 by Nathan E. Richardson 9781611483963
Booksplease Price: £117.41Does fiction do more than just represent space? Can our experiences with fictional storytelling be in themselves spatial? In Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and... -
Adam and Eve in Paradise by E�a de Queir�s 9780811239141
RRP: £9.50Booksplease Price: £8.59Gloriously translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eca de Queirosis not the rosy prelapsarian tale of your childhood Bible: yellow-eyed Adam is a slope-browed Neanderthal all... -
Rewriting Franco's Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory by Samuel O'Donoghue 9781611488630
Booksplease Price: £85.65Rewriting Franco's Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction... -
World by Ana Luísa Amaral 9780811234832
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.75World-Ana Luisa Amaral's second collection with New Directions-offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread... -
The Art of Being a Tiger: Poems by Ana Luisa Amaral by Ana Luisa Amaral 9781911226420
Booksplease Price: £31.16Ana Luisa Amaral is considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese poets of her day, and although her poetry has been translated into many other languages, this is the first major collection of her... -
The Illustrious House of Ramires by José Maria de Eça de Queirós 9780811226028
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.47The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eca de Queiros aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny... -
Dom Casmurro: A Novel Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781324095149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new... -
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual edition by Fernando Pessoa 9780811227803
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.08Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese... -
Dom Casmurro: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781324090700
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.59Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to... -
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of... -
Dream of Reason by Rosa Chacel 9780803263642
Booksplease Price: £40.93A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, Dream of Reason (La sinrazon) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and literary innovator whose work stands alongside that of... -
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9780393241648
RRP: £41.50Booksplease Price: £36.77Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In... -
Quincas Borba Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis 9781324096702
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.13Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America's greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly innovative narrative techniques and uncanny talent for... -
What's in a Name by Ana Luisa Amaral 9780811228329
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska and... -
The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel by Margaret Jull Costa
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.09With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial past. Considered one of Europe's most influential... -
Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The TimesA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt... -
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer by John C. Turnbull 9780803210783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions,... -
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.64The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when... -
The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas 9781566894463
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends--an expat, a... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier 9781526634795
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.12A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa 9780811226936
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.28The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781803510040
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781847086914
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.72'Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I could... -
The Last Pomegranate Tree Bachtyar Ali 9781738555284
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen. So begins The Last Pomegranate Tree, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781566892742
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.13Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when...