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Manuel Abreu Adorno - In this, his quintessential first book comprised of...
Manuel Abreu Adorno, And the Hippies Came. Trans. by Rafael Franco Steeves. 7Vientos, 2012.Written by Manuel Abreu Adorno and originally published in 1978, And the Hippies Came / Llegaron los hippies...
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Rey Andújar - During your travels you will experience the excitement and...
Rey Andújar, Saturnalia / Saturnario. Trans. by Kolin Jordan. 7Vientos Press, 2013.7V strives to connect with you as friends who enjoy alternative ways of thinking and perceiving daily life. Rey...
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Tacita Dean - Just as lines can connect up different points, the artist...
Tacita Dean, Selected Writings 1992-2011, Steidl, 2012.Seven Books Grey is an updated, expanded version of Tacita Dean’s Seven Books (2003), and is an exploration of Dean’s oeuvre as it straddles film,...
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Kirsty Gunn has taken the essential elements of the Highland bagpipe...
Kirsty Gunn, The Big Music, Faber and Faber, 2012.www.kirsty-gunn.com/The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a...
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Paul Emond’s characters tirelessly disgorge their stories, which they invent...
Paul Emond, The Dance of a Sham. Trans. by Marlon Jones. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014. The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener, spellbound by his friend...
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Kjell Askildsen - This is an Askildsen character: injured enough to be stuck...
Kjell Askildsen, Selected Stories. Trans. by Sean Kinsella. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.A Great Deserted LandscapeElisabeth A man and a woman in an isolated house, surrounded by nothing, or nearly...
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Maria Soudaïeva has invented here a verbal guerrilla interweaving names,...
Maria Soudaïeva, Slogans, Ed. de l'Olivier, 2004. Maria Soudaïeva has invented here a verbal guerrilla interweaving names, foreign words, numbers and locations, playing on imperatives and ellipsis,...
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Alan Burns - The narrative is enveloped in ambiguity--the setting is vague...
Alan Burns, Babel. Marion Boyars, 1967.Babel is a completely original treatment of our contemporary confusion of tongues, characterised by extreme contrasts of mood and style with startling, often...
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Ramón Gómez de la Serna - a central figure in the European and Latin American...
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Eight Novellas. trans. by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz and Robert L. Saitz. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2005.read it at Google...
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Arménio Vieira - The author explains in a note that he wanted to give the...
Arménio Vieira, No Inferno.Arménio Vieira (b. 1941) was born in Praia and is a Cape Verdean journalist, poet and novelist. He belongs to a generation of Cape Verdean writers who rose to maturity during...
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João Guimarães Rosa - One of the two towering figures of post-War Brazilian...
João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas / The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Trans. by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onís. Knopf, 1963. [1956.]excerptDon’t let the cats fool you, João Guimarães...
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Naja Marie Aidt - 15 short stories about modern life and all of its...
Naja Marie Aidt, Baboon, Trans. by Denise Newman, Two Lines Press, 2014.www.najamarieaidt.com/engbavian.phpBeginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the...
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Spain's Great Untranslated - Exploring scenes ranging from the devastating...
Spain's Great Untranslated. Ed. by Javier Aparicio, Aurelio Major, and Mercedes Monmany. Words without Borders, 2013. Spain's Great Untranslated presents twelve contemporary Spanish masters whose...
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Clarissa Sligh - an artist’s book created to interrupt the authority of old...
Clarissa Sligh, Reading Dick & Jane with Me. 1989. clarissasligh.com/select.htmlReading Dick & Jane with Me (1989), is an artist’s book created to interrupt the authority of old elementary...
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Stig Sæterbakken - I believe disharmony and asymmetry correspond to a...
Stig Sæterbakken, Through the Night, Trans. by Seán Kinsella. 2013.Virginia Woolf once compared reading Tolstoy to being set atop a mountain with a telescope. Reading Stig Sæterbakken, the Norwegian...
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Srikanth Reddy probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of...
Srikanth Reddy, Voyager. University of California Press, 2011.Srikanth Reddy’s second book of poetry probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name...
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John Toomey - something of a sprawling segue into Dublin as it’s then to be...
John Toomey, Huddleston Road. Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.www.johntoomeybooks.com excerpt In circumstances all too familiar for many of us, Vic meets and falls in love with Lali, only to discover that...
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Mario Bellatin - one of the most engaging, mysterious, disturbing, and...
Mario Bellatin, Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction. Trans. by David Shook. Phoneme Books, 2013.Read excerpts at Two Lines Onlineand World Literature Today, Mario Bellatin, the leading experimental...
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Sergio González Rodríguez - In Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized...
Sergio González Rodríguez, The Femicide Machine. Trans. by Michael Parker-Stainback. Semiotext(e), 2012.read it at Google BooksIn Ciudad Juarez, a territorial power normalized barbarism. This anomalous...
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Caryl Pagel - Abandoned Eyelet, Absenting Fact, Absolute New Bus Stop....
Caryl Pagel, Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death, Factory Hollow Press, 2012.excerpt: "Jacket" @ Verse Dailyexcerpts: two poems @ notnostrumsexcerpts: eight poems @ Octopus MagazineCaryl...
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