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Works by Edouard Leve
Booksplease Price: $16.16"Originally published in French as Oeuvres by P.O.L diteur, Paris, 2002."About the AuthorEdouard Leve was born on January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Leve... -
Serpent Nicholas Mosley 9781564782441
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada--the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in A. D. 73. He doubts that a film both honest... -
Postscripts by John Barth
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay-" jeux d'esprits," as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to... -
Mad Diary of Malcom Malarky by Mark Axelrod
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a small-town English professor.The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey is a kind of post-modern May-December black comedy about the 60ish, cancer-stricken... -
Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades Nicholas Mosley 9781564783608
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over... -
More Than You Know by Melissa Malouf
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628970449Author Melissa MaloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint -
The Strangers by Jon Bilbao
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75A Spanish-gothic version of a Patricia Highsmith novel Jon and Katharina spend the winter in Jon's childhood home on the Cantabrian coast, lonely and bored, ambivalent about their precarious... -
The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and... -
Hotel Crystal Olivier Rolin 9781564784926
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55At some Parisian lost-and-found, a mysterious manuscript scribbled onto stray bits of hotel stationary and postcards and stuffed into an abandoned briefcase comes into the hands of an "editor," who... -
The Master of Insomnia by Boris A. Novak
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, "The Master of Insomnia" is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak's verse... -
Dust by Adrian Bravi
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Dust tells the story of a librarian terrified by the decay of the world around him. With the help of his wife, the librarian wages a futile war against the dust that coats his surroundings until one... -
Addendum to a Photo Album by Vladislav Otroshenko
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"Addendum to a Photo Album" is the saga of the births, deaths, and disappearances within the eccentric Mandrykin family. Following patriarch Malach, a Cossack captain, his wife Annushka, and his many... -
Approaching Disappearance by Anne McConnell
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.62Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary... -
The Whole of Life by Jurg Laederach
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35""I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.""--J?rg Laederach. With tongue resolutely in cheek, saxophonist, critic, poet, and... -
Isle of the Dead by Gerhard Meier
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A cornerstone of Swiss modernism, at last available in English translation from one of the great German translators of our time.About the AuthorGerhard Meier was born in 1917. Spending six months in... -
The Explosion of the Radiator Hose: A Novel by Jean Rolin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the... -
Locos: A Comedy of Gestures by Felipe Alfau
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15The interconnected stones that form Felipe Alfau's novel LOCOS take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their... -
Knowledge of Hell by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Booksplease Price: $17.12Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage,... -
Iranian Writers Uncensored: Freedom, Democracy and the Word in Contemporary Iran Shiva Rahbaran 9781564786883
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95These interviews with poets and writers still living and working in Iran demonstrate their belief that literature's value is in opening spaces of awareness in the minds of the reader.About the... -
Hidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie... -
Theatre of Incest by Alain Arias
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564784810Author Alain AriasFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire over the course of the First World War, "Farewell" is a novel of one particular family living in one particular house during these... -
Man + Table Nicholas Wadley 9781564787637
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15Following his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table. Tracing origins in... -
Atavisms by Raymond Bock
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"Atavisms" is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the... -
Poundemonium Julian Rios 9781564781383
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Just as Ezra Pound wrote an "Homage to Sextus Propertius" to pay tribute to an important influence, Juli?n R?os offers in his novel an "Homage to Ezra Pound" (as the original Spanish edition is... -
Invitation to a Voyage by Francois Emmanuel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In this collection of thematically related stories, celebrated Belgian author Fran?ois Emmanuel shows his indebtedness to the great poetic iconoclasts of the French language--not least Charles... -
La Batarde by Violette LeDuc
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $14.40An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own... -
Tar and Feathers Dorothy Nelson 9781564783738
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Dorothy Nelson's first book to be published in the United States focuses on a demented, dysfunctional Irish family. The Crawford family is dominated by Da (Joe), a manic-depressive thief and liar who... -
Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form Neil Murphy 9781564785626
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $20.00Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary and observation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, this collection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins'... -
The Literature Express by Lasha Bughadze
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.18A bevy of mediocre writers are invited to a seminar aboard a specially chartered train, and this novel tracks their progress across Europe: bitter, bickering, and self-absorbed. Aboard this... -
Chimera by John Barth
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $14.02A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and... -
Monogamy: Its Songs and Poems by Robert Von Hallberg
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.15Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a... -
Small Pieces Micheline Aharonian Marcom 9781628974508
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $15.97Small Pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom's short stories-miniatures as Marcom calls them-with Karimi's... -
Writing The Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy by Keith Hopper
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $33.66Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late... -
Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian 9781564782991
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.22Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat... -
Killing the Serpent by Boris Akunin 9781628973204
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $18.07To Kill a Serpent in the Shell dramatizes the final year of Tsarevna Sofia's regency, interrogating Russia's history while subtly confronting the Russia of today. The play, both a riddle and a... -
See That My Grave is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemon Jefferson by Alan Govenar 9781646053124
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $20.81A new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and... -
True Story: A Trilogy by Dan O'Brien 9781628975130
RRP: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.75True Story: A Trilogy gathers together three documentary plays by award-winning playwright and poet Dan O'Brien concerning trauma, both political and personal. The Body of an American speaks to a... -
Is This What Other Women Feel Too? by June Akers Sefse 9780916583927
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916583927Author June Akers SefseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint
The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9781564782151
Booksplease Price: $16.28The Best of Myles brings together the best of Flann O'Brien's newspaper column "Cruiskeen Lawn," written over a nearly thirty-year period. Covering such subjects as plumbers, the justice system, and...