New Directions: 473 books

Cover of The Desert and Its Seed
by Jorge Barón Biza
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

An undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde Sabattini The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia’s face is disintegrating from acid...
Cover of Selected Poetry and Prose
by Stephane Mallarme
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1982

**The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition. ** Selected Poetry and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned “father of the Symbolists.” Mallarmé’s major elegies, sonnets, and other verse,...
Cover of The Infernal Machine: & Other Plays
by Jean Cocteau
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1964

Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced. Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one...
Cover of A Russian Doll & Other Stories
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992

This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly A Russian Doll and Other Stories is...
Cover of Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories
by Alexander Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018

Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald) Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and...
Cover of Letter from Casablanca
by Antonio Tabucchi
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1986

The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each...
Cover of Indian Nocturne
by Antonio Tabucchi
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 1989

"An enjoyable, well-crafted little book."—The Complete Review Translated from the Italian, this winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger for 1987 is an enigmatic novel set in modern India. Roux, the narrator, is in pursuit of a mysterious friend named Xavier. His search, which develops into a quest, takes him from town to town across the subcontinent.
Cover of The Linden Tree
by César Aira
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

A delightful fictional account of the small town César Aira grew up in—not so long ago A delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as César Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning...
Cover of The Dry Heart
by Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the...
Cover of The Dream of My Return
by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. High-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home at the tail end of El Salvador's long civil war. Is the plan a dream or a nightmare? Is he courageous,...
Cover of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

The 1997 novel that put Horacio Castellanos Moya on the map, now published for the first time in English An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother’s funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author,...
Cover of Second Skin
by John Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005

"John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."—Saul Bellow Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in...
Cover of Leapfrog
by Guillermo Rosales
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

The “prequel” to Rosales’s “tragically beautiful and unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) Cuban-American novel The Halfway House Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in Havana ofthe late ’50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood...
Cover of A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2009

In print for fifty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old from its very first edition. Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.
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