Days Without Smoking
Verdú, Vicente
Pages: 178



Italy (Tranchida)

Ethics for Shipwrecked People
Marina, José Antonio
Pages: 248



Portugal (Caminho)
Italy (Baldini & Castoldi)
France (Desclée de Brouwer)
Brazil (E. Guarda-chuva)

The Borges Factor
Pauls, Alan
Pages: 160


This book is not a detective novel or a story of spies. It is an essay about reading. An instruction manual for readers to understand the work of Jorge Luís Borges. Som...

France (Christian Bourgois)

Bones in the Desert
González Rodríguez, Sergio
Pages: 344


The place: Ciudad Juárez, in the Chihuahua state, on the border bet-ween Mexico and the United States. The story: the true tale of a wave of brutal crimes. This report...

Italy (Adelphi)
France (Passage du Nord/Ouest)

The Love Parade
Pitol, Sergio
Pages: 256



Germany (Wagenbach)
The Netherlands (Cossee)
Greece (Kastaniotis)
Brazil (Siciliano)
Korea (Park Youl)

Exemplary suicides
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Pages: 176



France (Christian Bourgois)
Germany (Suhrkamp)
Italy (Nottetempo)
The Netherlands (Nijgh van Ditmar)
Sweden (AEgis)
Serbia & Montenegro (Alexandria Press)
Brazil (Cosac & Naify)
Portugal (Campo das Letras)

Where the Women Are
Pombo, Álvaro
Pages: 288


In this magnificent novel, Pombo describes the splendour and decline of a family group which apparently believed it-self to be perfect. The narrator, the eldest daughter of th...

France (Christian Bourgois)
The Netherlands (Menken, Kasander & Wigman)
Italy (Einaudi)
Greece (Patakis)
Portugal (Editorial Noticias)
Norway (Aschehough)
Poland (Pax)
Serbia & Montenegro (Laguna)
Romania (Nemira)
Russia (Inostranka)

Telephone Calls
Bolaño, Roberto
Pages: 208


Telephone Calls brings together fourteen tales of very different content but all of them following the same leading thread: the literary recreation of daily situations. They d...

Italy (Sellerio)
France (Christian Bourgois)
Germany (Carl Hanser and DTV)
UK (The Harvill Press)
USA (New Directions)
Serbia & Montenegro (Svetovi)
Greece (Agra)

The Clear Sky
Pombo, Álvaro
Pages: 328


El cielo raso is a well nurtured novel with a variety of anecdotes that seem to feed the respective narrative courses of the two characters lives: two cousins, who embody diff...

France (Christian Bourgois)

Montano's Malady
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Pages: 320


He signs his name as Rosario Girondo, he writes a personal diary - a shy dictionary of his life - and is so consumed by literature, that he decides to transform himself in the...

France (Christian Bourgois & 10/18)
Switzerland (Nagel & Kimche)
Italy (Feltrinelli)
Portugal (Teorema)
Greece (Kastaniotis)
UK (The Harvill Press)
USA (New Directions)
The Netherlands (De Bezige Bij)
Brazil (Cosac & Naify)
Slovakia (Belimex)
Bulgaria (Stigmati)

Paris Never Ends
Vila-Matas, Enrique
Pages: 240


A sardonic recollection of the author’s days as a literary apprentice in 1970s Paris. Brilliantly fusing, autobiography, fiction and essay, the author relates his experi...

France (Christian Bourgois and 10/18)
Switzerland (Nagel & Kimche)
Italy (Feltrinelli)
Brazil (Cosac & Naify)
Portugal (Teorema)
Romania (Rao)
Poland (Muza)
Greece (Kastaniotis)
Lithuania (Alma Littera)
USA (New Directions)

2666
Bolaño, Roberto
Pages: 1128


The figure of Von Archimboldi, an enigmatic German writer, is the secret thread that sews one to each other of the five "parts" that compose 2666, without doubt, Rob...

USA (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
UK (Picador)
Italy (Adelphi)
Germany (Hanser)
The Netherlands (Meulenhoff)
France (Christian Bourgois)
Brazil (Companhia das Letras)
Russia (Ripol)