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  • Exiled Shadow

    by Norman Manea ...
    Translated by Carla Baricz ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea“Exiled Shadow belongs among the great, intricate, and uncompromising works of contemporary literature.”—Jan Knoffeke, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Still Alive

    A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered

    by Ruth Kluger ...
    Series series The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series
    A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times).**Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she ... Read more

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  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Czipott, Peter ...
    Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihaly misses the train to Rome they were due ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • For Two Thousand Years

    by Mihail Sebastian ...
    Translated by Philip Ó Ceallaigh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him.Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Diaries of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies ... Read more

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  • The Confusions of Young Törless

    by Robert Musil, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Impossible Exile

    Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

    by George Prochnik ...
    An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan ZweigBy the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Kafka

    The Torment of Man

    by René Marill-Albérès, Pierre de Boisdeffre ...
    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    This is a study of Kafka's tragic vision of life, his profoundly disturbing awareness of man's utter loneliness in a pitiless universe, and his artistry in effecting a strange intimate fusion between symbolism and realism—between anguished poetic narration and the terrifying reality of an absurd and ambiguous environment. The book discusses the historical setting, the literary currents, and the ... Read more

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  • The Five

    A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa

    by Vladimir Jabotinsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    "The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime, in the sense that we were all in our youthful twenties. And both of these springtimes, as well ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Nonrequired Reading

    Prose Pieces

    by Wislawa Szymborska ...
    "She's accessible and deeply human and a joy—though it is a dark kind of joy—to read... She is a poet to live with." – Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book WorldWislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska, winner of the Nobel Prize for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Destruction Was My Beatrice

    Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century

    by Jed Rasula ...
    In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâché into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • East of Time

    by Jacob Rosenberg ...
    A rendezvous of history and imagination, of realities and dreams, hopes and disenchantments. The setting is Lodz, Poland, in the years of the author's childhood, when he witnessed the cataclysmic events of the 1930s, imprisoned between walls of ghettos, and finally silenced in Auschwitz. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD