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  • Man Without Illness

    Translated by Sam Garrett ...
    A taut, disquieting novel from one of the Netherlands’ most fearless and acclaimed writers.In Man Without Illness, Arnon Grunberg strips down the idea of Western idealism and cultural neutrality through the story of Samarendra Ambani—Sam—a successful Swiss architect who believes, with quiet conviction, that buildings can make life better. Healthy in body, precise in thought, and untouched by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Good Men

    Translated by Sam Garnett ...
    Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider’s struggle to do the right thing.Arnon Grunberg’s fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his best to be a good father, husband, lover and colleague, only to fail on all fronts.Geniek leads a seemingly unremarkable life with his wife, Wen, and their son, Jurek, in the sleepy Dutch province of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish Messiah

    A Novel

    Translated by Sam Garrett ...
    The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- "a farce of nuclear proportions"(Vanity Fair)Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. The Jewish Messiah, which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitler's Mein Kampf into Yiddish, to Israeli ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Decapolis

    Tales from Ten Cities

    Larissa Boehning (Berlin), David Constantine (Manchester), Arnon Grunberg (Amsterdam), Emil Hakl (Prague), Amanda Michalopoulou (Athens), Empar Moliner (Barcelona), Aldo Nove (Milan), Jacques Réda (Paris), Dalibor Šimpraga (Zagreb), Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson (Reykjavik).Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise. Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

  • Amuse-Bouche

    ‘When you’re dead, I figure you can quit adjusting to other people, but until then life is all about adjusting.’ So reflects Arnon Grunberg, as he finds himself high-fiving an elderly drug-dealer and her husband in a Las Vegas hotel room (‘We use it before sex’). Bizarre, garrulous, self-confident, often desperately lonely; such is the variety of characters Grunberg meets – in Amsterdam or New ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

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    by Kevin Barry ...
    Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new modes of attack.Published in 2011, New Irish Short Stories, edited by Joseph O'Connor, has sold over 10,000 copies to date and featured Kevin Barry's ... Read more

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  • Pax

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    New York Times Bestseller * National Book Award LonglistFrom bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the ... Read more

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  • The History of Love

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  • The Sky Unwashed

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    by Irene Zabytko ...
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  • Maidenhead

    Myra, naive and curious, is on a family vacation to the southernmost tip of Florida – a mangy Key West full of Spring Breakers. Here, suffering through the embarrassments of a family on the verge of splitting up, she meets Elijah, a charismatic Tanzanian musician who seduces her at the edge of the tourist zone. Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, ... Read more

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  • The Crazy Christmas Joke Book

    Packed with brilliant seasonal jokes together with lots of silly stuff that will keep children giggling throughout the Christmas holidays. Cast an unwanted Gift Spell, read Santa's hilarious emails and try the Top Ten things to do with leftover turkey. With hilarious spoof ads and lots of fun Christmas features this book will really put the ho-ho-hointo your holidays. ... Read more

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  • Horsepower

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    He was just an aged Belgian draft horse, left alone in a pasture to live out the remaining days of his twilight years. He spent his time drooling and swishing flies. But one day the old horse stepped out of a wobbly wire fence, and into a new life. He became useful again, as a horse, when he teamed up with the author, who had always wanted a Belgian draft horse.He immediately began to subtly ... Read more

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