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  • I Made a Promise I Could Not Keep

    Speculative Essays

    by David Homel ...
    Books and their writers can get into some pretty murky territory when they set out into the world. Some writers, who might be completely reasonable people in the rest of their lives, turn into liars and sneak-thieves when it comes to telling their tales. They might even make promises they know they can't keep. They're not necessarily setting traps or practising to deceive. Something seems like a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Case of David Zimmerman

    by Lucas Harari, Arthur Harari ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA captivating graphic novel from the Harari brothers: Lucas, the author-illustrator of the graphic novel Swimming in Darkness, and Arthur, the Oscar-winning co-writer of the Palme d'Or–winning film Anatomy of a FallIn Paris, David Zimmerman, a photographer in his thirties, seems perpetually adrift in life, consigned to a career photographing weddings and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Traveling Circus

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay ...
    Series Book 4 - Travels with My Family
    Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia, a country Charlie has never even heard of. An incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and conflict.Even for a seasoned traveler like Charlie, Croatia is a very different experience. To travel in a country where the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lunging into the Underbrush

    A Life Lived Backward

    by David Homel ...
    In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define his life for years to come.Today, planning to stay in the game as long as possible, he has a few ideas about how to do just that. By confronting body ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How Did I Get Here?

    A Writer's Education

    by David Homel ...
    Award-winning author mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in mediations on his youth, his education, and the influences that led to his writing career. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Body Music

    by Julie Maroh ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    Julie Maroh's first book, Blue Is the Warmest Color, was a graphic novel phenomenon; it was a New York Times bestseller and the controversial film adaptation by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Maroh's latest book, Body Music, marks her return to the kind of soft, warm palette and impressionistic sensibility that made her debut book so ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels with My Family

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay ...
    Series Book 1 - Travels with My Family
    Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue.Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition — by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dissident Club

    Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile

    by Taha Siddiqui, Hubert Maury ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    An urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts to kidnap himIn Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He flees the country on the first plane to France with questions left unanswered: What ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 40 Men and 12 Rifles

    Indochina 1954

    by Marcelino Truong ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    By the author of Such a Lovely Little War and Saigon Calling, a stirring graphic novel about love, beauty, and war in 1950s Indochina.**40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina in the year leading up to 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a fifty-five-day battle, which lead to the end of the first Indochina war opposing both French ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

    by Dany LaFerrière ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    Brilliant and tense, Dany Laferrière's first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in Canada in 1985. With ribald humor and a working-class intellectualism on par with Charles Bukowski's or Henry Miller's, Laferrière's narrator wanders the streets and slums of Montreal, has sex with white women, and writes a book to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Travels with My Family Bundle

    by Marie-Louise Gay, David Homel ...
    Series series Travels with My Family
    Travels with My FamilyFamily vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition — by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taximan

    Stories and Anecdotes from the Back Seat

    by Stanley Péan ...
    Translated by David Homel ...
    In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and of a perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Veteran translator David Homel, who introduced readers of English to Dany Laferrière with the publication of How to Make Love to a Negro without Really Trying, now brings us the other major voice of Haitian Montreal: ... Read more

    $8.99 USD