Product Description: When Michael Henry Heim—one of the most respected translators of his generation—passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus, and Anton Chekov...read more

The author combines ghostly literary figures, legendary kingdoms, autobiography, and a bullet lost in Mexico to create a puzzle that explores the memories of art and reality.

Product Description: In Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia, acclaimed author José Manuel Prieto has masterfully crafted a kaleidoscopic portrait of post-Communist Russia. Strikingly poetic and cleverly humorous, it's the story of two misfits caught between old world traditions and the lure of contemporary Western influences as they set off on an adventure to immerse themselves in the beauty of the world...read more

Product Description: 'As You Were Saying' pairs some of America's best writers with their French contemporaries, to show the importance of considering - and responding to - the world beyond one's borders.

Alternating between his daytime persona as a dutiful, bureaucratic employee and his nighttime existence as his beautiful wife's impassioned lover, Mario patiently indulges his wife's avant-garde tastes in spite of his own preferences, until a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on their marriage. Original.

Once a worker for an idealistic aid group, a disillusioned Moises Froissard now spends his life seeking the world's most beautiful men, women, and children from among the illegal immigrants, refugees, and dispossessed for Club Olympus, an exclusive international sex club, in a compelling novel about the international sex trade. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Traces the six-month period spent by the author in 1970 Cuba, a time during which she worked as a dance instructor, came to understand the idealism of the Castro-adoring locals, and formed the belief system that was to set the tone for her career as an award-winning journalist. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

A memoir by the wife of Antoine de Saint-ExupTry chronicles their passionate relationship, from their first meeting in Buenos Aires in 1930 to his untimely death while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France in 1944, in a remarkable account of the tumultuous romance that inspired The Little Prince. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Presents a collection of short stories, which revolve around music, including 'The New House,' 'The Crocodile,' and 'Around the Time of Clemente Colling.' (view table of contents)

The recently discovered memoir of the wife of the Antoine de Saint-ExupTry chronicles their passionate relationship, from their first meeting in Buenos Aires in 1930 to his untimely death while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France in 1944, in a remarkable account of the tumultuous romance that inspired The Little Prince. 40,000 first printing.

Journeying to Montana to rescue his cousin Lucy from an evil cattle baron, Sam Slater returns to a state where he is wanted for murder and encounters another deadly foe determined to kill him. Original.

In the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1930s, poverty, illiteracy, and rage contribute to an uprising among the descendants of the Mayan Indians

A dual volume displays the work of the environmental artist, left-wing activist, and poet, who combines Andean vernacular with other languages to weave playful verse, along with a book of critical essays about her work. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Like author Linda Lê, the young woman who narrates this novel is from Vietnam and is a writer, a “dirty foreigner writing in French.” The narrator has distanced herself not only from Vietnamese society but also from her family...read more

In the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1930s, poverty, illiteracy, and rage contribute to an uprising among the descendants of the Mayan Indians

Product Description: Like author Linda Lê, the young woman who narrates this novel is from Vietnam and is a writer, a “dirty foreigner writing in French.” The narrator has distanced herself not only from Vietnamese society but also from her family...read more

A retired Argentine naval officer candidly discusses his personal participation in the harsh treatment of Argentine dissidents, detailing the military's systematic campaign of torture and murder, the role of the Church, and his own feelings about his behavior. (view table of contents)

'Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art of the 20th century. Second part of book deals with artifacts as American art and addresses reception of ancient tectonics in the 20th century. Emphasizes intense relationship that some members of the New York School (particularly Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb) had during 1940s with the aboriginal arts of the North American part of the hemisphere and thus the affinities between their work and the work of the older Torres Garcâia in Montevideo, at the other end of the continent'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: Blaise Cendrars was the pseudonym of Frederic-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), a Swiss-born poet and novelist. A contemporary of Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and a friend of Chagall and Modigliani, he must be reckoned with as a prophetic voice...read more