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a r ch ip e l ag o b o ok s sp r ing 2 0 1 2 f r o n t l i s tElias Khoury /As Though She Were Sleeping 2

Karl Ove Knausgaard /My Struggle 4

Alber t Cohen /Book of My Mother 6

Eric Chevillard /Prehistoric Times 8

Miljenko Jergovic /Mama Leone 1 0Breyten Breytenbach / Catastrophes 1 2

Nichita Stanescu / Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems 1 4

Bohumil Hrabal /Harlequins Millions 16

r e c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d 18

b a c k l i s t 20

forthcoming 41

subscribing to archipelago books 43

h o w t o d o n a t e 44

donors 45

b o a r d o f d i r e c t o r s , a d v i s o r y b o a r d , & s t a f f 46

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As Though She Were Sleepingb

E Kuy

traslated from the Arabic bM yn B

Apri l 20126 x 7 376 pages

$27 trade clothisbn: 978-1-935744-02-3

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-34-4fction



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w w w . a r c h i p e l a g o b o o k s . o r g

An imposingly rich and rea listic novel, a genuine

masterworkThe New York Times Book Review or Gate of the Sun

Yalo speaks to our universal humanity, to our prooundlonging or a realization o sel and a connection to others

Robert Olen Butler

Milias response to her new husband Mansour and to the Middle East o 1947 is toclose her eyes and drit into parallel worlds where identities shit, where she canconverse with the dead and oresee the uture As the novel progresses, Miliasdreams become more navigable than the strange and obstinate reality in whichshe fnds hersel, and the two worlds grow ever more entangled This wondrous

tapestry o love, aith, history, and vision breaks new literary ground

E K u y , born in Beirut in 1948, is a novelist, essayist, playwright, andcritic He was awarded the Palestine Prize or Gate of the Sun, which was named aBest Book o the Year byLe Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, andThe San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book byThe New York Times and The KansasCity Star Khour ys Yalo (anL.A. Times Notable Book), White Masks,Little Mountain,

The Journey of Little Gandhi, and City Gates are also available in English

M a r i l y n B o o t h has received ellowships rom the NEH and the Mellon Founda-tion, a Fulbright Scholarship, and has been awarded the American Associationo Teachers o Arabic (AATA) and Arkansas University Press translation prizesShe has translated novels by Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Alia Mamdouh, Hoda Barakat,and the poetry o Adonis Booth is a proessor at the University o Edinburgh



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My StruggleBook Oneb

K vE Knu

traslated from the Norwegia b

n BE

April 20126 x 7 472 pages

$18 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-18-4

e-isbn: 978-1-935744-52-8fction



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A tremendous piece o literature Politiken (Denmark)

A rare achievement No one in his generation equalsKnausgaards combination o talent, style, observational

skills, and original thinkingDagens Nringsliv (Norway)

Knausgaard will have the same status as Henrik Ibsenand Knut Hamsun

Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark)

Almost ten years have passed since Karl Oves ather drank himsel to death He isnow embarking on a new novel while haunted by sel-doubt Knausgaard breaks hisown lie story down to its elementary particles, oten recreating memories in realtime, blending recollections o pain and amily moments with proound questionsin a devastating way Written as though his very lie were at stake, Knausgaardprobes into his past, dissecting str uggles (immense and small) with great candor

and vitality He strikes nerves Articulating human dilemmas, this Proustianmasterpiece opens a window into one o the most original minds writing today

K a r l o v E K n au s g a a r d was born in Norway in 1968 His debut novel Out of ThisWorld won the Norwegian Critics Prize and his A Time for Everything(Archipelago)was a fnalist or the Nordic Council Prize His six-volume autobiographical novel,My Struggle, has been published in more than fteen lang uages and has generated

a whirlwind o attention and praise, selling over 450,000 copies in Norway alone

d o n B a r t l E t t has translated dozens o books in various genres, including eightnovels and short story collections by Jo Nesb andIts Fine by Me by Per PettersonHe lives in Norolk

Winner o the 2009 Brage Prize, the Book o the Year Award in Morgenbladet,the P2 Listeners Prize, and the Norwegian Critics Prize



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May 20125 x 6 168 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-54-2biography & autobiography

Book of My Motherb

BE CEn

traslated from the Frech b

BE CEn



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Brilliant Straight out o French arce A miracle o

patience and suppleness A phantasmagoric display oa certain view o the world

London Review of Books

A gold-plated, cherry-on-top classic in France Characters [are] rendered with eye-popping, Rabelaisian

detail and touching vulgarity Its unspooling comedyo manners; its frst-ideal-then-smothering love aairall lead the reader to still-huger questions: how can welove humans, obsessed as they are with power? How can

we reconcile reason and aith?The Kenyon Review

A moving memorial to the authors mother and, in the words oParis-Match, oneo the most beautiul love stories ever written Shortly ater Albert Cohen letFrance or London to escape the Nazis, he received news o his mothers deathin Marseille Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grie in a series o movingpieces orLa France libre, which later grew intoBook of My Mother Achingly honest,

intimate, and moving, this memoir-in-glimpses is a tribute to al l mothers

B E C E n is the author o the celebrated novel-cycle that began withSolal(1930) and Mangeclous (1938) and ended with Belle du Seigneur (1968) and LesValereux (1969)Belle du Seigneurwas awarded the French Academys Grand Prixdu Roman He died in 1981

B E C E n was born in London in 1919 She met Albert Cohen there in 1943,where they both worked or the Intergovern mental Commit tee or Reugees, andwas his constant companion until his death in 1981



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Prehistoric Timesb

EC CEv

traslated from the Frech byn WE

March 20126 x 6 180 pages$16 trade paperback

isbn: 978-1-935744-16-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-30-6

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Praise orPalafox:

Oering the reader an experience that is as disturbingand absurdly unny as it is sublime

Rain Taxi

Eric Chevillard involves his reader in a powerul medita-tion on evil, oolishness, and inhumanity lurking in theheart o man

Jean-Maurice de Montremy

The narrator oPrehistoric Times might easily be taken or an inhabitant o Beckettsworld The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures,takes us into a rightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in themedium and digression gets straight to the point In an entirely original voice,Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the path wevebeen traveling, and where we might be goingor not

E r i C C h E v i l l a r d , winner o the 2003 Prix Wepler, the 1993 Prix Fnon, and thePrix Roger Caillois in 2006, is one o the most inventive authors writing in French

today His novels include On the Ceiling(Au plafond), The Crab Nebula (La nbuleuse ducrabe) (both Nebraska), andDemolishing Nizard (Dmolir Nisard) (Dalkey A rchive),translated by Jordan Stump; andPalafox (Archipelago), translated by Wyatt Mason

a l y s o n Wa t E r ss translations include Albert Cosserys A Splendid Conspiracyand The Colors of Infamy(both New Directions), Vassilis AlexakissForeign Words(Autumn Hill), Ren Bellettos Coda, andwith Donald Nicholson-SmithYas-

mina Khadras Cousin K(Nebraska) She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at YaleUniversity and N YU



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July 2012

6 x 7 220 pages$16 trade paperbackisbn: 978-1-935744-32-0

fction

Mama Leoneb

MjEnK jEvC

traslated from the roatia bE MEvC n v W M



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Jergovic is an enormously talented storytellerAleksandar Hemon

A masterul collection o linked stories that draws the reader into a boys episodic,prooundly personal recounting o his war-torn homeland and childhood Dazzling,rhapsodic, and above all compassionate, these linked stories, deeply rooted in placeand history, break down stereotypes and humanize a complex cultural conict

M j E n K j E v C , born in 1966, is a poet, novelist, and journalist He was

awarded the Ivan Goran Kovacic Award and the Mak Dizdar Award or WarsawObservatory and the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize or Sarajevo Marlboro(Archipelago), now in its third printing

s t E l a to M a E v iC studied literature at the University o East Anglia and trans-lated Miljenko JergovicsSarajevo Marlboro She currently works as an interpreterin The Hague or the UN International Criminal Tribunal or ormer Yugoslavia

d a v i d W i l l i a M s is the translator oKaraoke Culture (Open Letter) and a num bero other essays by Dubravka Ugreic, which have recently appeared or are orth-coming in The Paris Review,A Public Space, The Bafer, andSalmagundi He has livedin Auck land, Sydney, Munich, Belgrade, Novi Sad, and most recently, Berlin

By the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize-winningauthor oSarajevo Marlboro



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Catastrophesb

BEyEn BEyEnBC

trasformed from the Afrikaas b the athorwith origial drawigs b the athor

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August 20126 x 7 200 pages$18 trade paperback

isbn: 978-1-935744-17-7e-isbn: 978-1-935744-26-9

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The greatest Arikaner poet o his generation No one

elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and no onewielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regimeas its exiled poet Breyten Breytenbach

The New Yorker

As a writer, Breytenbach has the git o being able todescend eortlessly into the Arica o the poetic uncon-scious and return with the rhythm and the words, the

words in the rhythm, that give lieJ M Coetzee

This incandescent collection o lyrical and oten nightmarish visionsnow in En-glish or the frst timeis a east or the senses and mind At once raw, chiaroscuro,unearthly, and musical, these dreamscapes shed light on the human condition,history, isolation and connection, death and rebirth Warning: these bite-sizedpieces may detonate within

B E y E n B E y E n B C is a poet, painter, novelist, memoirist, essayist, andactivist Breytenbachs works includeAll One Horse,Mouroir,Intimate Stranger,Notes

from the Middle World,A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist,Return to Paradise,Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution,Lady One,Windcatcher, and Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish Hismany honors include the Alan Paton Award, the Hertzog Prize, the Max JacobPrize, and the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Award

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Wheel with a Single Spokeand Other Poems

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traslated from the Romaia b

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March 20126 x 7 200 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-42-9poetry



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Nichita Stanescu is the most important post-World War II

poet o Romania With him, through him, the logos o theRomanian language takes revenge on its poets

Stean Augustin Doinas

His poetry imagines a world without gravityimmaterial,diaphanousin which objects slip rom one orm intoanother, one shape into another like mysterious uids;

and at the same time one in which states o the soul aredense substances, in which eelings touch, hit, and injureeach other

Nicolae Manolescu

Winner o the Herder Prize, Nichita Stanescu is one o Romanias most celebratedpoets His world is one where angels and mysterious orces converse with theeveryday and ear thbound, where love and passion and a quest or truth are central,

where urgent questions ow His star tling images cut deep

n C n E C u was born in Ploiesti in 1933 and died in 1983 in BucharestOne o the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian poets, Stanescu received the

Herder Prize in 1975 His poetry, limpid in style, explores proound metaphysicalquestions In 1979 he was nominated or the Nobel Prize

s E a n C o t t E rs most recent translations rom the Romanian include LilianaUrsus Lightwall (Zephyr) and Nicolae Tzones Balkan Aphrodite (Editura Vinea)His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in Conjunctions, Two Lines,The Comparatist, Translation Review,22, andRomania literara He lived in Romania

as both a Fulbright-Hays scholar and a Peace Corps volunteer He is AssociateProessor o Literature and Literary Translation at the University o Texas

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Harlequins MillionsA Fairy Taleb

BuM B

Traslated from the zech bCEy KnEC

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August 20125 x 6 220 pages


e-isbn: 978-1-935744-44-3fction



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Praise orI Served the King of England:

A comic novel o great inventiveness Charming, wise,and sadand an unexpectedly good laugh

Philadelphia Inquirer

A joyul, picaresque story A n extraordinary and subtly

tragicomic novelThe New York Times

By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakias [sic] greatest living [sic]writer, comes a novel peopled with eccentric, unorgettable inhabitants o a

home or the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing countryWritten with a touch or the comica lly absurd and sprink led with dialogue thatcaptures the poignancy o the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind o anelderly woman coming to terms with the passing o time

B u M B (19141997) is widely regarded as one o the greatest writerso the 20th century His work has been translated into over 27 languages

s t a C E y K n E C h t lives in the Netherlands She is the translator o Marcel MringsThe Dream Room, The Great Longing, andIn Babylon; Anke de VriessBruises; and LieveJorissBack to the Congo She is the editor-in-chie o the literar y website The Ledge

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recently published

Poemscyprian norwidtranslated rom the Polish bydanuta borchardt$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-07-8e-isbn: 978-1-935744-53-5

A versatile and surprising poet with the ability to put

muddled and uzzy human articulation to higher use For

him the roundness o language is a solace

Times Literary Supplement

Mister Bluejacques poulintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-31-3

The writer hiding rom the world in his house on the beach

is as shy and charming and riendly as this light, generous,

rereshing novel Shelf Awareness

In Redmagdalena tullitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-01-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-41-2

The originality o Tullis writing is not lessened by repre-senting a amily tree that includes Michaux, Ka ka, Calvino,

and Saramago WS Merwin



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recently published

In the Presence of Absencemahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic bysinan antoon$16 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-01-6

In a unique hybrid o verse and prose, Mahmoud Darwish,

shadowed by mortality, created an autobiography o exile

and return, a lyric narrative whose every section is at once

a vivid aperu o lie unolding in historys shadows and apoem with a poems interna l logic Mari lyn Hacker

From the Observatoryjulio cortzartranslated rom the Spanish byann e mclean$18 trade paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-06-1

Idols invite respect, admiration, aection, and, o course,

great envy Cortzar inspired all o these eelings as very

ew writers can, but he inspired, above all, an emotion much

rarer: devotion He was, perhaps without trying, the Argen-

tine who made the world love him

Gabriel Garca Mrquez

Stone Upon Stonewies aw my sliwskitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$20 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-2-3

Like a more agrarian Beckett, a less gothic Faulkner, a slightly

warmer Laxness, Mysliwski master ully renders in John-stons gorgeous translation lie in a Polish armin g

villa ge Rich ly textured and wonder ully evocative

Undeniably original Publishers Weekly(starred review)



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Mandarinsstories byryu-nosuke akutagawatranslated rom the Japanese bycharles de wolf$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-0-9e-isbn : 978-1-935744-12-2

The ow o his language is the best eature o Akutagawasstyle Never stagnant, it moves along like a livin g thing Hischoice o words is intuitive, naturaland beautiul

Haru ki Mura kam i

Telegrams of the SoulSelected Prose ofpeter altenbergselected, translated, and with an aterword bypeter wortsman$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-8-7e-isbn: 978-0-9819557-7-3

Peter Altenberg is a genius o nullifcations, a singular ideal-ist who discovers the splendors o this world like cigarettebutts in the ashtrays o coeehouses Franz Ka ka

Tranquilityattil a bartistranslated rom the Hungarian byimre goldstein$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9800330-0-7e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-4-7Three Percent Best Translated Book of 2008 Award winner

Reading like the bastard child o Thomas Bernhard and El-

riede Jelinek, Tranquilityis political and personal sueringdistilled perectly and transormed into dark, viscid beauty

It is among the most haunted, most honest, and most human

novels I have ever read Brian Evenson



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The Twingerbrand bakker

translated rom the Dutch bydavid colmer$25 hardcover isbn: 978-0-9800330-2-1$16 paperback isbn: 978-1-935744-04-7e-isbn: 978-1-9819873-3-02010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner

An NPR pick for Best Foreig n Fiction of the Year

Gerbrand Bakkers writing is abulously clear, so clear that

each sentence leaves a rippling wake

The Los Angeles Times

My Kind of Girlbuddhadeva bosetranslated rom the Bengali byaru nava sinh a$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-05-4

Charming Riveting Rich and strange The designis amiliar, going back to the great European story-cycles o

Boccaccio and Chaucer, but sharpened by that extra edge o

sophistication Bose invariably managed to bring into his best

work A novel o ideas, a veritable history o emotions that

alludes to some o the most proound testimonies o love in

world literature The Telegraph

Mafeking Roadherman charles bosman$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-6-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-51-1

The pacing and perspective o Bosmans tales are unlikeanything else in English The closest comparison may

be Robert Frost poems or Bob Dylan songsPublishers Weekly

Bosman is disrespectul, subversive and lethal on the silly,savage ways o old South Arica Ive no doubt he would havebeen just as wicked about the new South Arica

Christopher Hope



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All One Horsebreyten breytenbachwith 27 orig inal watercolors by the author

$20 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9793330-7-1e-isbn : 978-1-935744-25-2

All One Horse is a cartography o exile, a primordialmythology, a surreal philosophy o history and an exe-gesis o the art o poetry There is weight to every pas-sage, political weight, human weight, natural weight Its as i Grard de Nerval had made it, immortally, into the

twenty-frst century, gone deep into apartheid-era SouthArica and reused to go mad Elizabeth Bachner

Intimate Strangera writing bookbreyten breytenbach$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9800330-9-0

e-isbn : 978-1-935744-27-6In this inspiring, insight ul, and heart-warming meditation,Breyten Breytenbach has given us a masterpiecea term I usewith all due caution As unpretentious as a comortable oldshir t, this is a book to be read and reread, to be cherished byanyone who values the enlighten ment ound in great poetryo all kinds Sam Hamill

Mouroirbreyten breytenbach$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9800330-7-6e-isbn : 978-1-935744-28-3

This is not a prisoners book It would be a crass injustice ounderestimation and simplifcation i it were presented andreceived that way It describes how the ordinary time-ocuso a mans perception can be extraordin arily rear ranged bya defnitive experience Prison irradiates th is book withdreadul enlightenments; the dark and hidden places o thecountry rom which the book arises are phosphorescent

wit h it Nadine Gordimer



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Voice Overa nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwishbreyten breytenbach$9 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9819557-5-9e-isbn : 978-1-935744-29-02010 Mahmoud Darw ish Award winner

Voice Overis a short but aecting sequence, with a slightlyexperimental eel to it, its author trying to come to grips

with the death o his riend and colleague through a variet yo approaches A beautiul little pocket-sized pamphlet-

volume, it is well-worthwhile The Complete Review

Lenzgeorg bchnertranslated rom the German byrichard sieburth$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-2-5 biling ual editione-isbn

: 978-0-9819557-8-0A totemic work o German literatu re

Times Literary Supplement

A brilliant and widely inuential prefguring o the modern-ist narrative imagination It is a work that ully breathesin the present Michael Palmer

Education by Stonejoo cabr al de me lo ne totranslated rom the Portuguese byrichard zenith$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-1-8 bilingual editione-isbn: 978-1-935744-55-9

Academy of American Poets 2005 Translation Award wi nner

Joo Cabral de Melo Neto is one o Brazil s most acclaimed

poets Avoiding ceremony and circumstance, his poems

ollow centuries-old paths

TheNew York Times Book Review



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Palafoxeric chevillar d

translated rom the French byw yatt mason

$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9728692-4-9e-isbn : 978-1-935744-11-5

The current American new abulism could learn a great deal

rom this very amusing book and its willingness to take real

narrative risks Palafox is a must or anyone interested

in anti-realist fction Rain Taxi

Wonderhugo claustranslated rom the Dutch bymichael henry heim$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9800330-1-42010 PEN Translation Prize w inner

Fine and ambitious A work o savage satire intensely

engaged with the moral and cultural li e o the authors

Belgium Packed with asides, allusions, and ferce juxta-

positions, a style created to evoke a world sliding into chaos

where contrast and contradictions are so grotesque that we

can on ly wonder The New York Review of Books

Autonauts of the CosmorouteA Ti meless Voya ge from Par is to Marseillejulio cort zar & carol dunloptranslated rom the Spanish byanne mclean

with drawings bystphane hbert$20 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9793330-0-2

An elegy perormed as the lightest o dances An adven-

ture stood on its absurd head [and] a mask o comedy

concealing the enigma o an archaic smile

The Los Angeles Times Book Review



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Diary of Andrs Favajulio cortzar

translated rom the Spanish byann e mclean

$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-6-3

This beautiul amalgam o marvelous instances tilts

against the airy blades o empty thought with a vengeance

Equal parts tender wit, elegant aside and acid observation,

Diary of Andrs Fava,which comes to us rom the desk o one

o the twentieth centurys greatest literary explorers, is 100

percent delight Laird Hunt

Of Song and Waterjoseph coulson$25 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9778576-6-1$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819557-0-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-20-7

The power o this beautiul novel stems as much rom

the rich and poignant music that emanates rom it, rom

its constant ebb and ow between past and present, as

rom the tide o memories that recount the pain ul drit o

one man Le Monde

The Vanishing Moonjoseph coulson$24 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-0-1$14 paperback , Harcour t isbn: 978-0-1560301-8-2e-isbn: 978-1-935744-21-4

The Vanishing Moon explores human railty with the sim-

plicity and directness o haiku [and] at times achievesthe quiet beauty o William Max wells fnest workgenerous,

episodic, elegiac but not sentimental Coulson seems to

want to bring Faul kner to Ohio The Nation



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Eline VereA Novel of the Haguelouis couperustranslated rom the Dutch byina rilke$17 papberback isbn: 978-0-9819557-4-2e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-6-1

Superb Couperus handles his many characters with

masterly ease and keeps his prose smooth, light, and ow-

ing Ina Ri lkes translation cannot be praised high ly enough

Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal

My Body and Iren creveltranslated rom the French byrobert bononno$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-9-4e-isbn:

978-1-935744-03-0He will be read more and more as the wind carries away

the ashes o the great names that preceded him

Ezra Pound

One o the most beautiul pillars o surrealism

Andr Breton

A River Dies of Thirstjourn alsmahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic bycatherine cobham$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9819557-1-1

There are two maps o Palestine that the politicians willnever manage to oreit: the one kept in the memories o

Palestinian reugees, and that which is d rawn by Mahmoud

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Journal of an Ordinary Griefmahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic byibrahim muhawi$16 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-4-7

Mahmoud Darwish is the Palestinain poet laureate His

verses chronicle the Palestinians ang uish at the loss o their

land His rhythms tattoo their angr y heartache Ibrahim

Muhawis limpid translation captures the longing, the ache

o exile The Economist

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?mahmoud darwishtranslated rom the Arabic byje ff rey sacks$18 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9763950-1-0

Darwish is the premier poetic voice o the Palestinian people lyrical, imagist ic, plaintive, haunting, always passionate,

and elegantand never anything less t han reewhat he

would dream or all his people Naomi Shih ab Nye

Yann Andra Steinermarguerite durastranslated rom the French bymark polizzotti$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-8-9e-isbn : 978-1-935744-22-1

Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable

perspectives o conession and objectivity, o lyrical poetr y

and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowlyin the readers mind until they detonate with all the orce o

used eeling and thought

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Plants Dont Drink Coffeeunai elorriagatranslated rom the Basque byamaia gabantxo$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-8-5e-isbn : 978-1-935744-13-9

In these stories there is a psychological process, a learning

curve, a painul jump toward crucial knowledge In Plants

Dont Drink Coffee that jump takes place toward the end, which

helps the story glide along joyously, aided by the novels

two main strengths: the innocent but brilliant, and almostshrewd language o the child narrator and the abundance

o secondary stories El Pas

The Waitress Was Newdominique fabr etranslated rom the French byjorda n st ump

$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9778576-9-2e-isbn : 978-1-935744-10-82009 PEN Translation Prize na list

The strong, intimate voice o this gentle, canny narrator

continues to stay with us long ater we reach the end oThe

Waitress Was Newwhat an engrossing, captivating tale, in

Jordan Stumps sensitive translation Lydia Dav is

The Serpent of Starsje an gionotranslated rom the French byjody gl adding$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9728692-8-7e-isbn : 978-0-935744-45-0

Giono has created his own private terrestrial domain, a

mythical domain It is a region over which the stars andplanets course with throbbing pulsations It is a land in which

things happen to men as ons ago they happened to the gods

Pan still walks the earth The soil is saturated with cosmic

juices Events transpire Miracles occur Henry Mi ller



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Bacacaywit old gombrow icztranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-9-4$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-7-2e-isbn : 978-1-935744-14-6

Gombrowicz is one o the most original and gited writers o

the twentieth centur y: he belongs at the very summit, at the

side o his kindred spirits, Kaka and Cline This collection

o his stories will serve as an admirable introduction to his

oeuvre The Washington Post Book World

Travel Picturesheinrich heinetranslated rom the German bypeter wortsman$17 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-3-3

e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-0-9

Heine possesses that divine malice without which I cannot

imagine perection And how he employs German! It will one

day be said that Heine and I have been by ar the frst artists o

the German language Friedrich Nietzsche

Funny, biting, but always tender inimitably pleasurable

Eric Banks

Fossil Skydavid hinton$17 map ormat i s b n : 978-0-9728692-7-0

Hinton has re-deined the boundaries o poetry in

print This is g reat brain candy Bookslut

Fossil Skydescribes a landscape: the south o France Its a

portrait we receive in rag mentsa tatter o sky here, o water

there, with images o bright sum mer felds blurring into ones

o rost Seven Days



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Hyperionfriedrich hlderlintranslated rom the German byross benjamin$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-2-6e-isbn: 978-0-9819557-9-7

Friedrich Hlderlin unquestionably belongs in the intense

company o Shelley, Kleist, Novalis, Lenz, and Bchner

[Hlderlins] is one o the great writers lives, ull o intensit y

and movement, work and projects, abrupt departures and

riendships Michael Homann

Sarajevo Marlboromilj enko jerg ov ictranslated rom the Croatian byste l a toma ev ic$15 paperback i s b n: 978-0-9728692-2-5

Like all great war books, Sarajevo Marlboro is not aboutwarits about lie Jergov ic is an enormously talented

storyteller, so the people under siege come through in al l

their poignant ullness Sarajevo Marlboro is a book or

the people who appreciate lie Alek sandar Hemon

Gate of the Sunelias k hourytranslated rom the Arabic byhumphrey davies$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9763950-2-7e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-8-5Picador paperback edition, isbn: 978-0-31242670-5

There has been powerul fction about Palestinians and by

Palestinians, but ew have held to the light the myths, tales

and rumors o both Israel and the Arabs with such discerningcompassion In Humphrey Daviess sparely poetic transla-

tion, Gate of the Sun is an imposingly rich and realistic novel,

a genuine masterwork The New York Times Book Review



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White Maskselias k hourytranslated rom the Arabic bymaia tabet$22 hardcover isbn: 978-0-9819873-2-3e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-9-2

Khour y is the sort o novelist whose name is inseparable rom

a city Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chand-

ler, and Istanbul Orhan Pamuk The beautiul, resilient

city o Beirut belongs to Khoury The Los Angeles Times

Yaloelias k hourytranslated rom the Arabic bypeter theroux$25 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9793330-4-0Picador paperback edition, isbn: 978-0-31242868-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-00-9

Elias K hourys Yalo is a novel that transcendsas only artcanthe deep divisiveness o ideology, both political and

religious That such a vision should, at this moment in

history, come to the American reading public rom a great

Arab novelist makes this an extraordinar ily important

publishing event Robert Olen Butler

Selected Prose ofheinrich von kleistselected, translated, and with an aterword bypeter wortsman$15 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819557-2-8e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-7-8

Exploiting to the ull the rigors o German sy ntax, he useslanguage to impose order and meaning on a prooundly

disordered world Catastrophes unold in a subclause

Idiosyncrasies o word order deer ull, terrible understand-

ing to the last possible moment The Wall Street Journal



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A Time for Everythingka rl ove knausgaardtranslated rom the Norwegian byja me s anderson$20 paperback ISBN : 978-0-9800330-8-3e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-5-4

A marvelous book The descriptions o orests, oods,streams, and felds are ravishing and create the eelingthat we are being transported, again and again, into someprimordial world The New York Review of Books

The Great Weaver from Kashmirhalldr l axnesstranslated rom the Icelandic byphilip roughton$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9793330-8-8e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-6-1

Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-centur y literature, a writero splendid originality, wit, and eeling Alice Munro

[Laxness is] a poet who writes to the edge o the pages, a

visionar y who allows us a plot It is not possible to be

unimpressed Daily Telegraph

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jantranslated rom the Chinese bydavid hinton$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9728692-3-2e-isbn : 978-1-935744-09-2

These are poems o great serenit y, great satisaction, great joy

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-Jancan be read in an evening,

revisited or a lietime Find time or it

The Kansas City Star



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Stroke by Strokehenri michauxtranslated rom the French byrichard sieburthwith illustrations by the author$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-5-8

Michaux travels via his languages: lines, words, colors,

silences, rhythms And he does not hesitate to break the back

o a word In order to arrive: where? At that nowhere that

is here, there, and every where Octavio Paz

Small Livespierre michontranslated rom the French by

jody gl adding & elizabeth deshays$15 paper back i s b n: 978-0-9728692-1-82009 French-American Foundation/Florence G ould Translation

Prize winner

Michons prose tends to slow down in order to oblige you to

hear its rhythms and also to see and touch and smell what

is happening beneath it Harpers

An astonishingly rich, mythic new direction in modern

French narrative Guy Davenport

Posthumous Papers of a Living Authorrobert musiltranslated rom the German bypeter wortsman$15 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-4-1e-isbn: 978-1-935744-48-1

Musils originality o mind and perectionism o tempera-

ment are evident throughout these pieces, which range

rom delicately enameled miniature portraits o the natu-

ral world to casual yet trenchant little essays and parables

on art, cultu re, kitsch, psychoanalysis, and even eminism

The Christian Science Monitor



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The Salt Smugglersgrard de nervaltranslated rom the French byrichard sieburth$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9800330-6-9e-isbn: 978-0-9819873-9-2

Every intelligent English-speaking reader must be grateul

to Richard Sieburth and Archipelago Books or rescuing

rom oblivion this gem o actua l fction, revealing a Nerval

poised somewhere between the subversive Diderot and the

vitriolic Voltaire The Salt Smugglers now has pride o placein my ideal library Al berto Manguel

The Novices of Saisnovalistranslated rom the German byralph manheimillustrated bypaul klee$18 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-5-6

There are two poets at work in the body o this mysterious

and transporting book, one using language, the other line

And what an intrig uing, epoch-spanning duet they orm

Donna Seaman,Speakeasy

Moscardinoenrico peatranslated rom the Italian byezra poundintroduction bymary de rachewiltz$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9749680-3-2e-isbn : 978-1-935744-46-7

When the phantasmagoria o Peas prose momentarily lits in

order to reveal almost Czanne-like notations o local land-

scape, we hear the old miglior fabbro turning out sentences as

splendid as any in Joyce Bookforum



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Mute Objects of Expressionfr ancis pongetranslated rom the French bylee fahnestock$17 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9763950-3-4e-isbn: 978-1-935744-49-8

Ponge, to be sure, oreits no resource o lang uage, natural

or unnatural He positively dines upon the etymological root,

seasoning it with antastic gaiety and invention

James Merri ll

Spring Tidesjacques pou lintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-4-7

Poulins language is simple, even aable, but he can alsosummon an austere and chillin g beauty An unexpected

sense o loss sneaks up on you at the end o the novel, like a

sudden deep pain, as i Poulin has been distracting you by

making shadows with one hand while the other did its subtle,

cutting work The New York Sun

Translation is a Love Affairjacques pou lintranslated rom the French bysheila fischman$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9819557-0-4

One o my avorite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin

Rawi HageWe all under the spel l o this heartwarm ing, human novel

penned by Jacques Poulin at the summit o his art

Mieux Vivre



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Auguste Rodinrainer maria rilketranslated rom the German bydaniel slagerintroduction bywil liam h. gassphotographs bymichael eastma n$30 cloth i s b n: 978-0-9728692-5-6e-isbn : 978-1-935744-23-8

Combining Daniel Slagers elegant translation rom the

German o Rilkes writings on Rodin with Michael Eastmans

photographs o Rodins sculptures, Auguste Rodin oers aresh look at an unlikely mentorship

The New York Times Book Review

Jobjoseph ro thtranslated rom the German byross benjamin

$17 paperback isbn: 978-0- 9826246-0-9e-isbn: 978-1-935744-35-1

Job is perect a novel as lyric poem Joan Acocella

A beautiully writ ten, and in the end upliting, parable or an

era o upheaval Job, opened to any page, oers something

o beauty The Quarterly Conversation

new poemstadeusz rzewicztranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-3-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-50-4

2007 National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award nalist

Rzewicz is a poet o chaos with a nostalg ia or order Around

him and in himsel he sees only broken ragments, a sense-

less rush Czesaw Miosz



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To Mervaselisabeth rynelltranslated rom the Swedish byv ictor ia hg gblom$15 paperback ISBN : 978-0-9819873-7-8e-isbn : 978-1-935744-24-5

Rynells lang uage can only be described as breathtakingly

beautiul Upsala Daily News

Elisabeth Rynell is one o Swedens most intense and, or

the lyrical clarity o her voice, most intensely appreciated

story tellers in prose and verse She never wastes wordsRika Lesser

A Dream in Polar Fogyuri rytkheutranslated rom the Russian byilona ya zhbin chavasse$24 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9749680-7-0$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-47-42005 Kiriyama Pacic Rim Prize Notable Book

Rarely has humanit ys relationship to nature been so beauti-

ully and vividly depicted It recalls, in both substance

and style, the best work o Jack London and Herman Melville,

and it is a novel in the grandest sense o the wordNeal Pollack

The Chukchi Bibleyuri rytkheutranslated rom the Russian byilona yazhbin chavasse

$16 paperback isbn: 978-0-9819873-1-6e-isbn: 978-1-935744-36-8

Breathtaking, wild, and imaginative

The Los Angeles Times



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Poems (19451971)miltos sachtouristranslated rom the Greek byk aren emmerich$16 paperback original i s b n: 978-0-9763950-6-5e-isbn : 978-1-935744-40-52006 National Book Critics Circle Poetry Award nalist

Miltos Sachtouris has created, through the development o a

style as spare and lucid as Baudelaires, a surrealist world o

ordinary horror, where the most bizarre owerings o intoler-

able anxiety unold with dreamlike clarity at your elbow as

you walk down the street John Corelis

Emblems of DesireSelections from the Dlie of Maurice Scvetranslated rom the French byrichard sieburth$15 paperback original i s b n : 978-0-9778576-5-4

Sieburth has ound a contemporary equivalent or Scves

extremely compact music and enabled it to breathe in English,

while still retaining the tension o the orig ina l

John Ash bery

A Mind at Peaceahmet hamdi tanpin artranslated rom the Turkish byerdag gknar$25 hardcover isbn: 9 78-0-979330-5-7$20 paperback isbn: 978-0-9826246-3-0e-isbn: 978-1-935744-19-1

The greatest novel ever written about Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk

A masterpiece A honeyed, searching, and melancholy

epic Publishers Weekly



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Dreams and Stonesmagdalena tullitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$20 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9728692-6-3e-isbn : 978-1-935744-37-5

Poweru l imagery caught in a sinewy, architectural, elegiac

prose An inner-outer dance o cityscape with the taut emo-

tion, terror & psyche o the hum an And rendered rom

Polish to English in an inspired translation by Bill Johnston

Anne Waldman

Flawmagdalena tullitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$14 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9793330-1-9e-isbn : 978-1-935744-38-2

InFlaw, Magdalena Tulli has ashioned a theater o realitythat Descartes devil might have dreamed up, a world o

sinister politics and slapstick metaphysics, crowded with

lonely hearts, reugees, and riot police The book is coolly

charming, unny, and heart breakin g Even the devil should

weep Edwin Frank

Moving Partsmagdalena tullitranslated rom the Polish bybill johnston$22 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9763950-0-3e-isbn : 978-1-935744-39-9

Tullis snapshot vignetteso trains covered with bright

zigzags o grafti, o a ur that gives o the oppressive

smell o mothballs, o a hobo who rakes cigarettes out

o his haircan be read as lapidary, Cubist poetry or a

word collage thats amorphously i resonantly evocative

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Three Generationsyom sang-seoptranslated rom the Korean byyu youngna n$16 paperback i s b n : 978-0-9778576-2-3e-isbn : 978-1-935744-41-2

The novel, flled with gossip and amily intrigues as scandal-

ous as any contemporary soap opera, reads deliciously li ke

a Dostoevsky novel orLes liaisons dangereuses meets Koreas

traditional middle class KoreAm

Georg LethamPhysician and Murdererernst weisstranslated rom the German byjoel ro tenbe rg$26 cloth i s b n : 978-0-9763950-2-7$17 papberback isbn: 978-0-9800330-3-8e-isbn: 978-0-9826246-5-4Three Percent Best Translated Book of 2011 nalist

Ernst Weiss is in act one o the ew writers who may justly

be compared to Franz Kaka This is easily one o the most

interesting books I have come across in years Strangely

real but also unorgettably ashioned Thomas Mann


forthcoming


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Selected Stories

by sait faik abasiyaniktranslated rom the Turkish bymaureen freely and alex dawe

Selected Tales from the Brothers Grimmtranslated rom the German bypeter wortsma n

Blindingby mircea c art arescutranslated rom the Romanian bysean cotter

Selected Poems of Hugo Claustranslated rom the Dutch bydavid colmer

Ripe to Burstby frank tiennetranslated rom the French byandr naff is-sahe ly

Selected Poems of Corsino Fortestranslated bydaniel hahn and sea n obrien(co-publisher: Island Position)

Ultravocalby frank tienne

The Bottom of the Jar

by abdellatif la bitranslated rom the French byandr naff is-sahe ly

Gerplaby halldr la xnesstranslated rom the Icelandic byphilip roughton

Against Heavenby dulce mar ia loynaztranslated rom the Spanish byja me s oconnor

The Elevenby pierr e michontranslated rom the French byjody gl adding and elizabeth deshays


forthcoming


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A Treatise on Shelling Beansby wiesaw mysliwskitranslated rom the polish bybill johnston

Bitter Lifeby josep platranslated rom the Spanish bypeter roland bush

Diary of Exile

by yannis ritsostranslated rom the Greek bykaren emmerich and edmund keeley

Private Lifeby josef maria de sagarratranslator to be announced

Firefly

by severo sarduytranslated rom the Spanish bymark fried

The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelicoby antonio tabucchitranslated rom the Italian bytim parks

The Expedition to the Baobab Treeby wilma stockenstrmtranslated rom the Arikaans byj. m. coetze e

Time Ages Rapidlyby antonio tabucchitranslator to be announced

The Woman of Porto Pimby antonio tabucchitranslated rom the Italian bytim parks

Selected Poems of Jos Angel Valentetranslated rom the Spanish bythomas christensen


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