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  • The Number Devil

    A Mathematical Adventure

    by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Rotraut Susanne Berner, Michael Henry Heim ...
    Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner ...
    This illustrated international bestseller follows a young boy's thrilling exploration of mathematics in his dreams."A natural follow-up to Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Jon Scieszka's Math Curse , covering more mathematical territory . . .[and] sharing the same daffy sensibility." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate.Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of ... Read more

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    Mysterious Skin

    A Novel

    by Scott Heim ...
    Narrated by Michael Crouch ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 20 min

    A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY GREGG ARAKI AND STARRING BRADY CORBET, JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, ELISABETH SHUE, and MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG“Wrenching . . . powerfully sensuous.”—New York Times"As searing and unforgettable as an electric shock."—Kirkus ReviewsAs timely and compelling as when it was first published more than three decades ago, Scott Heim’s propulsive novel abou... ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Ministry of Pain

    A Novel

    by Dubravka Ugrešic ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Far from home, a fractured community of Yugoslav outcasts struggle with their lives in award–winning author Dubravka Ugrešić's novel The Ministry of Pain.Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talks with T. G. Masaryk

    by Karel Čapek, Michael Henry Heim ...
    Never have two such important world figures collaborated in a biography: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), the original Philosopher-President who founded Czechoslovakia in 1918, and Karel Čapek (1890-1938), the leading Czech writer of the time. Čapek interviewed Masaryk over a number of years and produced a single narrative that tells Masaryk's incredible story in a voice as ordinary yet magical ... Read more

    $9.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chekhov: The Essential Plays

    The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars

    edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim

    by Thomas G. Winner ...
    The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular and turned to spoken language, substandard forms, everyday sources such as newspapers and detective ... Read more

    $94.69 USD

  • Lend Me Your Character

    by Dubravka Ugresic ...
    Translated by Celia Hawkesworth, Michael Henry Heim ...
    From the author of Baba Yaga Laid an Egg and Thank You for Not ReadingFrom the story of Steffie Cvek to "The Kharms Case," the pieces in Dubravka Ugresic's collection Lend Me Your Character are always smart and endlessly entertaining. The former story paints a picture of a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by cliches. She searches endlessly for an elusive romantic love ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diary, 1901-1969

    by Kornei Chukovsky ...
    Translated by Mr. Michael Heim ...
    A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

    by Bohumil Hrabal ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Book of Blam

    by Aleksandar Tisma ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tišma’s “extended kaddish . . . [his] masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Adventures In Immediate Irreality

    by Max Blecher ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    Often called “the Kafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating this incandescent novel.Adventures in Immediate Irreality, the masterwork of the Romanian writer Max Blecher, vividly paints the crises of "irreality" that plagued him in his youth: eerie and unsettling mirages wherein he would glimpse future events. In gliding chapters that move with a peculiar dream logic of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD