Archipelago

A NovelFor her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "e;Notre-Dame du Nil."e; The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and...

A masterpiece of postwar Polish literature, Stone Upon Stone is Wies?aw My?liwskis grand epic in The rural tradition a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one mans connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive....

Miljenko Jergovics remarkable dbut collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human,...

"e;Czechoslovakia's greatest living writer."e; Milan KunderaIn this moving, absorbing novel, we meet the eccentric residents of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and peppered with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday,...

Yalo propels us into a skewed universe of brutal misunderstanding, of love and alienation, of self-discovery and luminous transcendence. At the center of the vortex stands Yalo, a young man drifting between worlds like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother who "e;lost her face in the...

Four stories narrated from four different perspectives crisscross throughout this poignant and playful novel. Young Tomas who wants above all else to be intelligent embarks upon a dizzying search for a rare blue dragonfly, of which he believes there are only nine or ten in the world (and therefore probably only two or three in his town)....