Dalkey Archive Press: 193 books

Cover of The Last Days of Louisiana Red
by Ishmael Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000

When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists,...
Cover of The Terrible Threes
by Ishmael Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999

In The Terrible Threes, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature. This adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry. This novel begins...
Cover of Music by My Bedside
by Kürsat Basar
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

On the eve of a coup d'etat, the wife of a diplomat newly returned to Turkey from the United States finds that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuat, is in fact a childhood friend. Having married more for status than love, and quizzically unmoored from the reality of day-to-day existence in the capital,...
Cover of The Explosion of the Radiator Hose
by Jean Rolin
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of...
Cover of Our Dead World
by Liliana Colanzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving...
Cover of Bodies of Summer
by Martin Felipe Castagnet, Frances Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017

The existence of an afterlife is now a fact: heaven is the internet. Death is only an interruption as souls can be uploaded to the web and new bodies can be purchased by those wishing to reenter the physical world. The need to settle an old score pushes Ramiro Olivaires to move from the comfort of...
Cover of The Irish Sea
by Carlos Maleno
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

At a New Year’s Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet, and much to the disbelief of her old flame, who interprets the night’s events with the help of his reading of Kafka. A priest is sent by the Vatican...
Cover of The Barnum Museum
by Steven Millhauser
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard;...
Cover of In the Penny Arcade
by Steven Millhauser
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998

After the success of his first novels (Edwin Mullhouse and Portrait of a Romantic), Steven Millhauser went on to enchant critics and readers with two short story collections that captured the magic and beauty of his longer works in vivid miniature. The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend the real...
Cover of Bouvard and Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005

In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new...
Cover of Sisters
by Brigitte Lozerec'h
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013

Mathilde Lewly—a female painter at the dawn of the twentieth century—has achieved notoriety among the Parisian avant-garde. She and her husband, also a talented young artist, pursue their separate visions side by side in a Clichy atelier, galvanized by the artistic ferment that surrounds them....
Cover of Fiction from Georgia
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012

Spanning fifty years, but with a particular emphasis on post-independence fiction, this collection features a diverse range of styles and voices, offering a window onto a vibrant literary scene that has been largely inaccessible to the English-language reader until now. With stories addressing subjects...
Cover of At Least We Can Apologize
by Lee Ki-ho
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

This story focuses on an agency whose only purpose is to offer apologies—for a fee—on behalf of its clients. This seemingly insignificant service leads us into an examination of sin, guilt, and the often irrational demands of society. A kaleidoscope of minor nuisances and major grievances, this novel heralds a new comic voice in Korean letters.
Cover of Joseph Walser's Machine
by Gonçalo M. Tavares
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Continuing Tavares's award-winning "Kingdom" series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser's Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world's most esoteric collection; and the most important routine...
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