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Written by Nilita Vachani
“Superb tale-spinning—a beam of light in contemporary Indian fiction.”— Mira Nair, director of The Namesake
“When Nanaji was shown Naneeji’s photograph, he looked at it for a long time. He had said ‘no’ so often that it was surprising when he looked up and said ‘yes’ just like that. They were…
The King of Corsica
Written by Michael Kleeberg, Translated by David Dollenmayer
A modern classic where history, philosophy, and eroticism collide in the grand tradition of the 18th-century novel.
The son of an impoverished Westphalian aristocrat, Theodor von Neuhoff is both seductive and opportunistic. Sent to Versailles to be a page to Princess Palatine, he distinguishes himself as a brilliant and…
Biology of Freedom
Written by François Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, Translated by Susan Fairfield
This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis.
Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter…
The Lost Years
Written by Charles Enderlin, Translated by Suzanne Verderber
"Enderlin meticulously chronicles the political and diplomatic impasses...revealing the history of this former film noir through interviews with the men who were its lead actors." --Le Monde
From Ariel Sharon’s ascent to power in February 2001 to the Israel-Lebanon conflict in July 2006, the Middle East has seen the most…
Life Laid Bare
Written by Jean Hatzfeld, Translated by Linda Coverdale
"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk—it is part of being a moral adult."
—Susan Sontag
In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of…
Farewell, Shanghai
Written by Angel Wagenstein, Translated by Elizabeth Frank, Deliana Simeonova
Selected as a runner-up in the 2007 National Jewish Book Award category for fiction.
The unforgettable novel of nearly forgotten refugees who fled Nazi Germany and discovered the glamour and excess of Shanghai.
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer…
The Unforeseen
Written by Christian Oster, Translated by Adriana Hunter
Written with his typical witty and delicate touch, Christian Oster's new novel pokes fun at the postmodern male's overrated sensitivity.
Oster’s stories are simple—at least if we mean stories that can be summarized in a few words. In the case of The Unforeseen, such a summary would begin like…
Mercy
Written by Lara Santoro
A transcendent and powerful first novel about two women seeking justice and hope in Africa.
With a swift, compressed narrative style and compassionate vision that recalls the works of Graham Greene, Lara Santoro offers an indelible portrait of Africa in the throes of an epidemic that will ultimately…
Unconfessed
Written by Yvette Christiansë
PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST
A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa.
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary…
From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory
Written by Philippe Van Haute, Tomas Geyskens
Two leading psychoanalysts resolve the conflict between attachment theory and trauma theory.
In From Death Instinct to Attachment Theory, Tomas Geyskens and Philippe Van Haute address a theoretical conflict at the heart of contemporary psychoanalysis. Analytic theory, especially the work of Melanie Klein, asserts the developmental primacy of infantile Hilflosigkeit…
