House of the Fortunate Buddhas

House of the Fortunate Buddhas
Author: João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564785890

A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.

Literary Translation

Literary Translation
Author: Clifford E. Landers
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853595196

In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them.

In Search of the Grail

In Search of the Grail
Author: Svetislav Basara
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972483

In Search of the Grail continues Svetislav Basara?s ?Cyclist Conspiracy,? a fantastical exploration of civilizational decline told through an array of strange and esoteric documents. Readers are introduced to a secret history of the twentieth century, shown that behind the well-known wars and political revolutions of the period numerous secret organizations vied for supremacy through the control of books, knowledge, and dreams. With appearances by Sigmund Freud, Salvador Dali, the Marquis de Sade, Karl Marx, and Josef Stalin, among many others, Basara?s novel presents a singularly playful, imaginative portrait of modernity and of the human condition

Day in the Life

Day in the Life
Author: Senji Kuroi
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564789713

A Day in the Life contains twelve portraits of the vivid and curious realities experienced by a man in his sixties. These stories focus on the tiny paradoxes and everyday ridiculousness we each witness and of which we often take no note. Ranging from a visit to an exhibition of blurry photographs each taken with an exposure time of only a single second, to the story of a man stalked through the streets by a stranger for no greater a crime than making eye contact, A Day in the Life demonstrates why Senji Kuroi is considered one of the leading figures of contemporary Japanese literature.

Nietzsche on His Balcony

Nietzsche on His Balcony
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972025

On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family, commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.

Currency of Paper

Currency of Paper
Author: Alex Kovacs
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564789810

Maximilian Sacheverell Hollingsworth is a counterfeiter, sculptor, filmmaker, sound artist, mystic, and terminal recluse, and over the course of fifty years, making use of a vast stockpile of illegitimate currency, he funds a great range of secret, large-scale art projects throughout London—from explorations of the far reaches of the imagination to more civic-minded schemes of an equally radical nature. At once a strikingly original satire of the ways in which art and currency conspire to favor certain voices and forms over others, and a story of surreal anti-capitalist machinations reminiscent of the works of B. S. Johnson and Georges Perec, The Currency of Paper announces the arrival of a great new voice in contemporary fiction.

La Belle Roumaine

La Belle Roumaine
Author: Dumitru Tsepeneag
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972661

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel follows Ana as she seduces café owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different version of her life story. To some, she’s a former nurse, to others, a former spy. To some she’s French and to others, Romanian. As each new layer of fabrication is added, the mystery of Ana and of what she’s running from grow apace.

A Brief History of Yes

A Brief History of Yes
Author: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564789764

Micheline Marcom describes her newest novel, A Brief History of Yes—her first since 2008's scathing and erotic The Mirror in the Well—as a "literary fado," referring to a style of Portuguese music that, akin to the American blues, is often melancholic and soulful, and encapsulates the feeling of what the Portuguese call saudade—meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irrepreably lost. A Brief History of Yes tells the story of the break-up between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American man: it is a collage-like, fragmentary novel whose form captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American letters has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.

Telltale: 11 Stories

Telltale: 11 Stories
Author: Gwee Li Sui
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564789403

This landmark anthology of short fiction presents six electrifying voices from Singapore: Alfian bin Sa’at, Wena Poon, Jeffrey Lim, Tan Mei Ching, Claire Tham, and Dave Chua. The tales they tell are graphic, gritty, and evocative, examining the lives of an array of complex characters, tormented by dilemmas that nonetheless go on to shape and direct them. Masterfully sequenced by editor Gwee Li Sui, and chosen for their perspectives on contemporary Singapore as much as for their own intrinsic merits as fiction, Telltale is a collection shedding new light on a budding literature of international merit.

Trilogy

Trilogy
Author: Jon Fosse
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2016-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972041

Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.