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Published by Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 1935744909ISBN 13: 9781935744900
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BX6 - An advance reading copy paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners and light shelf wear. Translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston. 7.5"x6", 374 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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Published by Archipelago Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2022
Seller: Lee Booksellers, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Uncorrected Proof. ARC/Advanced Reading Copy. Translated from French to English. A perfect, new book. No owner's or library markings. See our photos.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0972869204ISBN 13: 9780972869201
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (2004), 330pp, slight edgewear to dj.
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Published by Archipelago Books, United States, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1953861326ISBN 13: 9781953861320
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 0979333040ISBN 13: 9780979333040
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 317 pp., Translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 0977857689ISBN 13: 9780977857685
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
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softcover. Condition: Nearly fine copy. 1st edition. 8vo, 200 pp., Translated from the Basque by Amaia Gabantxo., Trivial rubbing to wrappers, else fine.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861563ISBN 13: 9781953861566
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Ponti, Claude (illustrator). Paperback. In My Valley, Claude Ponti leads us on a journey through an enchanted world inhabited by "Touims" (tiny, adorable, monkey-like creatures), secret tree dwellings, flying buildings, and sad giants. Clever language and beautifully detailed maps of imaginary landscapes will delight children and adults alike. Ponti himself has said, "My stories are like fairytales, always situated in the marvellous, speaking to the interior life and emotions of children. That way each child can get what they want out of the images- the characters and dreams are their own." "Originally published as Ma vallaee by L'Ecole des loisirs, 1998 Paris"--Copyright page. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861571ISBN 13: 9781953861573
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Ponti, Claude (illustrator). Paperback. AN "UGLY DUCKLING" TALE THAT KIRKUS REVIEWS CALLS A "WONDERFULLY STRANGE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY" FROM ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORSWhen he is born, Hiznobyuti is not exactly handsome. In fact, his parents and siblings say, "He's no beauty!" They say it so often, Hiznobyuti assumes it is his name. Wherever he goes, only embarrassment and shame await him. Hiznobyuti hides himself away, working on his inventions, until one day he receives a message from the stars. After a fight with his family, Hiznobyuti decides to run away. On a beautiful adventure by himself, he learns the secrets of the universe- how to communicate with trees and birds, how to wake up the sun, and how to see himself for who he truly is - a hero! When he returns from his journey, Hiznobyuti family rejoices and apologizes for not understanding how beautiful and important he was to them all along. From one of France's most celebrated children's writers comes a tender and playful portrait of what it means to be unique--the story of an "ugly duckling" who leaves his family to journey through a fantastical world. Full color.x 10. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, NY, 2004
ISBN 10: 097639507XISBN 13: 9780976395072
Seller: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good. 275 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Paperback with French flaps. Remainder mark on bottom fore-edge. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0979333008ISBN 13: 9780979333002
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Paperback. Stéphane Hébert (illustrator). pp. 354. 8vo. Contains black and white photographs and illustrations. Light shelfwear, predominantly to edges; very good+.
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Published by Archipelago Books, United States, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0914671030ISBN 13: 9780914671039
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Archipelago Books, United States, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 0914671855ISBN 13: 9780914671855
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mello, Roger (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 0914671669ISBN 13: 9780914671664
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Duezakin, Akin (illustrator). Hardcover. A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape. Soon we realize he is on a journey of thoughts and dreams, asking questions about loss, myth, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being. Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions merge with the beautiful illustrations of Akin D zakin into a tale of friendship, love, and grief - and about daring to think about life as you live it. A book of philosophical question for children by Sophie's World author Jostein Gaardner, accompanied by dreamy illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Soft Cover. Condition: New. First Edition Thus. Translated from the French by Bill Johnston. One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2024
ISBN 10: 1953861865ISBN 13: 9781953861863
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth-body artwork of Ana MendietaThe Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma and its horrific relevance in todays Colombia, where mass killings continue. Told from the voices Pablo, Ester, and the Brush itself, Hernandez-Pachons poem is an astounding response to a traumatic event in recent Colombian history: the massacre in the village of El Salado between February 16 and 21, 2000. Paramilitary forces tortured and killed sixty people, interspersing their devastating violence with music in the town square.Pablo Rodriguez steps thirteen paces out into the night and buries a wooden box. Its contents: a chain, a medallion, a few overexposed photographs, and finally, a deed. He burrows into the ground without knowing quite why, but with the certainty of a heavy change pressing through the air, of fear settling like a cat in his throat. Meanwhile, his wife Ester a sharpshooter and keeper of all village secrets slips into her fifth dream of the night. As Ester tosses and Pablo pats his fresh mound of earth, another character emerges in Eliana Hernandez-Pachons vivid and prophetic triptych.The Brush is a tangled grove, a thicket of vines, an orchid pummeled with rain. It is also an extraordinary depiction of ecological resistance, of the natural world that both endures human cruelty and lives on in spite of it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861504ISBN 13: 9781953861504
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ** SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS 1 OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR **** INCLUDED ON THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **At The New York Times Book Review, I think it's fair to say we were dazzled by the way the author creates . . . a miniature masterpiece of narrative tension and compression Emily Eakin, "The Book Review" podcastIn this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasonsPerfect for fans of Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle and The Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesEastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two unlikely souls entwined in a quest for freedom with a striking sense of tenderness, sharply contrasting the brutality of the surrounding world. Racing toward Vladivostok, we meet the young Aliocha, packed onto a Trans-Siberian train with other Russian conscripts. Soon after boarding, he decides to desert and over a midnight smoke in a dark corridor of the train, he encounters an older French woman, Helene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust.A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently askthrough a pantomime and basic Russian that Helene must decipherfor her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to Helenes first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and Helene his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with. "In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 0981987311ISBN 13: 9780981987316
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu's own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters- Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu's own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky - and to places deep within ourselves-introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people. Set against the arctic coast, these-tales speak of love, conflict, the forces of nature, everyday magic, and the human condition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 0974968013ISBN 13: 9780974968018
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Clean and tight. No creases along the spine. Very little shelfwear. Inscribed To.with a message and signed by the translator, Richard Zenith. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed. Poetry.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2004
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 330 pp.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1935744011ISBN 13: 9781935744016
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award"What Sinan Antoon has done withIn the Presence of Absenceis a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoyment and sublimity."-Saadi Yousef"There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit- the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees, and that which is drawn by Darwish's poetry."-Anton ShammasOne of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization.In stunning language, Darwish's self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people.Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell. From the incomparable, award-winning Mahmoud Darwish: a stunning book of prose poetry that recalls the Palestine of his youth. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861644ISBN 13: 9781953861641
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A radical feminist text, January was the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivor's perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo.In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat.Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells.Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there.She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret.With a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and ignored a thousand times over. Nefer closes her eyes. We careen to her and we see."Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes." - Lily Meyer, The New York Review of Books"Elegant and forceful - I couldn't put it down." - Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas - now in English for the very first timeWith echoes of Edith Wharton's Summer, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women's bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century ArgentinaPerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux's Happening, and Claudia Pineiro's Elena KnowsA radical feminist text, January was the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivor's perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo.In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat.Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells.Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there.She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret.With a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and ignored a thousand times over. Nefer closes her eyes. We careen to her and we see. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2024
ISBN 10: 1953861849ISBN 13: 9781953861849
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette. Olga RavnAn incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves from within the limits of the psychiatric systemPerfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen and devotees of Sylvia PlathIn honest, crackling investigations of the psychiatric system and the young people trying to find their way, Grabols soaring debut offers a critique of institutionalization and an urgent recalibrating of the language and conceptions of care.Im not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me, says Fine Grabols nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. A chair that greets you, or shiny tiles of floor that follow a peculiar grammar of their own. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot sleep, and practices her daily routines with the urgency of survival peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice all an acutely calibrated exploration into having a home.Structured as a series of intimate vignettes like those of Olga Ravn, What Kingdom thrums with the swirling voices of this shared home. Hector blares Michael Jackson from the recreation room and recalls a past in Peru when his psychoses were treated with exorcism. The town would shake the devil out of his small, teenage body before he was relocated to Denmark. Or Marie, who has lived in the temporary unit since she was eighteen, has no idea that her mother lives just four floors below in a permanent care unit.Echoing the aching writings of Janet Frame on electroconvulsive therapy, or Linda Bostroem Knausgards mythical meditations on silence and mental health, Fine Grabol renders a delicate and deep uncoupling from the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0972869220ISBN 13: 9780972869225
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A remarkable and bracing collection of "classic anti-war writing" (Richard Flanagan) from Croatian writer Miljenko Jergovic, whose piercing prose recalls Kurt Vonnegut and Aleksander HemonMiljenko Jergovic's remarkable debut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro, earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. In "melancholy, dreamlike" prose, the stories in Sarajevo Marlboro "recall Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, but Jergovic's book is the strongest of the three" (Maud Newton). Croatian by birth, Jergovic spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. These stories are distinctly of the material world, and they are shaped by Jergovic's deeply personal vision, subterranean humor, and a razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city's young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs - the minute details of their interior lives in the foreground, the killing zone in the background. These slices of life of war-ridden Sarajevo are full of humanity--they stretch the spirit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2021
ISBN 10: 1953861040ISBN 13: 9781953861047
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest.Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861482ISBN 13: 9781953861481
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A sensitive portrait of one boy's travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a "genius" of "nuanced interior moments" (Los Angeles Times)Fabre's ability to act as a "discreet megaphone of the man in the crowd" (Elle Magazine) will take you by surprise and leave an immutable mark on your heart.Edgar loves nothing more than listening to the birds in the trees, the squeaking of moles in nearby chalk quarries, the conversations trickling out of the carpeted offices surrounding his favorite park in the suburbs of Paris. He also listens to the hushed conversations of passersby, strangers who whisper that he is "not all there." But what constitutes the supposedly insufficient character of Edgar's interior life?Dominique Fabre gives himself over to Edgar's way of seeing, his sensitivity, his innocence and wisdom, his longings and perceptions, his tentative interpolations into the social fabric of 1960s France, and in each passage we find a stirring answer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861547ISBN 13: 9781953861542
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorrow" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing.Whether biting into a bitter turnip or savoring a summer evening in June, Philip Delerm's literary snapshots transport us to simple, often overlooked sensations and pleasures, and, pausing, expand a moment or emotion outwards in concentric circles.Vividly translated by Jody Gladding, these evocative vignettes invite us to linger, to "savor the few moments of silence"--as if each bite of a ripe watermelon, each exhaled breath on a bitterly cold day, each cloudy evening on the beach, were our last.A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windowsA still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorrow" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing.Whether biting into a bitter turnip or savoring a summer evening in June, Philip Delerm's literary snapshots transport us to simple, often overlooked sensations and pleasures, and, pausing, expand a moment or emotion outwards in concentric circles.Vividly translated by Jody Gladding, these evocative vignettes invite us to linger, to "savor the few moments of silence"--as if each bite of a ripe watermelon, each exhaled breath on a bitterly cold day, each cloudy evening on the beach, were our last. "A number one best seller in France, Second Star is a series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, or washing your windows"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1953861520ISBN 13: 9781953861528
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Reminiscent of Kurasawa's film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unravelingKatzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from the shadows. He wanders away in concentric circles, as if along a spider web, and wakes in a sweaty torment. Nakamatsu sleepwalks his way toward sublime disintegration.Katzuo is at sea after being forced out of his job as a literature professor without warning. He retreats into fl nerie, musing with imaginary interlocuters, roaming the streets, and reciting the poems of Martin Adan. Slowly, to the "steady beat of his reptilian feet," Nakamatsu begins to arrange his muted ceremony of farewell. He conjures his smiling wife Keiko and wonders how he lost his Japanese community with her death. With a certain electric lunacy, he spruces himself up with a pinstripe tie, tortoiseshell glasses, and wooden cane, taking on the costume of a man he knew as a child, hoping to grasp that man's tenacious Japanese identity.Like a logic puzzle, Enlightenment calibrates Augusto Higa Oshiro's own entangled identity. From this dark and deadly estrangement, a piercing question emerges- "Why did our hides, our Japanese eyes, our bodily humors, provoke suspicion and rejection?" Translation of: La iluminaciaon de Katzuo Nakamatsu. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 0982624603ISBN 13: 9780982624609
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. benign omnipotence. Only a miracle can now restore his faith. A beautiful re-imagining of the Book of Job. One man's faith is tested, lost, and restored. A gem. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2024
ISBN 10: 1953861725ISBN 13: 9781953861726
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. R zycki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany.Tomasz R zycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot- fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits "this is the story of my confusion," and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. "This lunacy needs a full investigation," he jibes.He wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a "flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script.While the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human loveFrank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love - detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story"A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed."-Polish Book InstituteR zycki collects moments of illumination - a cat dashing out of a window and "feral sun" streaking in, a body planting itself in the ground like rhubarb and flowering. He collects and collects, opens a crack, and clutches a shrapnel of epiphany.Tomasz R zycki's To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a secret hero. At first, he suspects some hidden mechanism afoot- fruit tutors him in the ways of color, he drifts out to sea to study the grammar of tides, or he gazes at the sun as it thrums away like a timepiece. In one poem, he admits "this is the story of my confusion," and in the next the Lieutenant is back on the trail. "This lunacy needs a full investigation," he jibes.He wants to get to the bottom of it all, but he's often bewitched by letters and the trickery of language. Diacritics on Polish words form a "flock of sooty flecks, clinging to letters" and Lieutenant Anielewicz studies the tails, accents, and strokes that twist this script.While the Lieutenant can't write a coherent code to solve life's mysteries or to fill the absence of a country rent by war, his search for patterns throughout art, philosophy, and literature lead not to despair but to an affirmation of the importance of human love Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Archipelago Books, New York, 2005
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: As NEW. First edition. 5 1/2 by 6 inches, in wraps. 71 pp.