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)