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  • Autobiographies of an Angel

    A Novel

    by Gabor Schein ...
    Translated by Ottilie Mulzet ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary’s Jewish community and the nation’s deep complicity in the HolocaustBorn in 1723 in a small German town, Johann Klarfeld is thirteen when his father dies. He is taken in by a kind Italian painter to live with him and his daughter in The Hague. But the daughter, beautiful and blind, has a secret.Two centuries later, Berta Jósza is born during ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Marion Wiesel ...
    A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive ... Read more

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  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

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  • A Prisoner and Yet

    by Corrie ten Boom ...
    Miss ten Boom shows how the power and grace of God are sufficient to surmount even dark days in a concentration camp. Miracles become the norm. ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of Primo Levi

    by Primo Levi ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and Library JournalA Holiday Gift Guide Selection in the San Francisco Chronicle and NewsdayA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionThe Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, ... ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Odessa Stories

    by Isaac Babel ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A collection of “electric, heroically wrought” Russian short stories of violence, crime, and sex set in Ukraine—for fans of hard-boiled fiction by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett (John Updike)Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel—a Jewish man, writing in Russian and born in Odessa—uncover its tough underbelly around the time of the Russian Revolution. Gangsters, ... Read more

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  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    by Gregor von Rezzori ...
    The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • In Memory of Memory

    by Maria Stepanova ...
    Translated by Sasha Dugdale ...
    An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writersShortlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeWinner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation AwardWith the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of ... Read more

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  • The Iron Tracks

    A novel

    by Aharon Appelfeld ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHow does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind?Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, The Iron Tracks is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive today."Ever since he was released from a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Burning of the World

    A Memoir of 1914

    by Bela Zombory-Moldovan ...
    Translated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan ...
    A Hungarian artist’s haunting WWI memoir of the Eastern Front, executed with a painter’s eye for color, detail, and heartbreaking symbolism“[A] compact self-portrait against a background of carnage and disillusionment.” —The New York TimesThe budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found ... Read more

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