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A General Theory of Oblivion

By: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: December 2015

Seller ID: 428862

ISBN: 0914671316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers.
A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted, wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.
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If You Kept a Record of Sins

By: Bajani, Andrea

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Archipelago: March 2021

Seller ID: 477493

ISBN: 1939810965

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twin

By: Bakker, Gerbrand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 428441

ISBN: 1935744046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the country...
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Return to My Native Land

By: Cesaire, Aime

Price: $6.00

Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 474981

ISBN: 1935744941

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, C saire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.

More praise:

"The greatest living poet in the French language."--American Book Review

"Martinique poet Aime Cesaire is one of the few pure surrealists alive today. By this I mean that his work has ne...
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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles

By: Cortazar, Julio,Dunlop, Carol

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: November 2007

Seller ID: 428866

ISBN: 0979333008

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cort zar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper van, and embarked on an exploration of the uncharted territory of the Paris-Marseilles freeway. It was a route they d covered before, usually in about ten hours, but his time they loaded up with supplies and prepared for an ardous voyage of thirty-three days without leaving the autoroute. Along the way they would uncover the hidden side of the freeway and record The trip's vital minutiae with ligh...
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An Untouched House

By: Hermans, Willem Frederik

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: October 2018

Seller ID: 469081

ISBN: 193981006X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

A mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand house his own in the chaos of a war-torn countryside, only to find himself involved with occupying forces and enraged locals.
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Harlequin's Millions: A Novel

By: Hrabal, Bohumil

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Archipelago: May 2014

Seller ID: 474807

ISBN: 0981955738

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind of an elderly woman coming to terms with the passing of time.

Praise for Too Loud a Solitude

"Short, sharp and eccentric. Sophisticated, thought-provoking and pithy." -- View More...

Newcomers: Book Two

By: Kovacic, Lojze

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: January 2020

Seller ID: 428171

ISBN: 193981040X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naivet . Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and ho...
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Distant Light

By: Moresco, Antonio

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Archipelago: March 2016

Seller ID: 419505

ISBN: 0914671421

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A man lives in total solitude in an abandoned mountain village. But each night, at the same hour, a mysterious distant light appears on the far side of the valley and disturbs his isolation. What is it? Someone in another deserted village? A forgotten street lamp? An alien being? Finally the man is driven to discover its source. He finds a young boy who also lives alone, in a house in the middle of the forest. But who really is this child? The answer at the secret heart of this novel is both uncanny and profoundly touching. Antonio Moresco's "Little Prince" is a moving meditation on life and t...
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Our Lady of the Nile

By: Mukasonga, Scholastique

Price: $7.50

Publisher: August 2014

Seller ID: 428864

ISBN: 0914671030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school, in the interminable rainy season. Friendships, desires, hatred, political fights, incitation to racial violence, persecu...
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Allegria

By: Ungaretti, Giuseppe

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Archipelago: October 2020

Seller ID: 476678

ISBN: 1939810647

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Pr
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