Melville House

Volumes disappear and reappear on the shelves, but the ghosts of literature aren't the only mysterious visitors in Roger Mifflin's haunted bookshop.  Mifflin, who hawked books out of the back of his van in Christopher Morley's beloved Parnassus on Wheels, has finally settled down with his own secondhand bookstore in...

A NovelWinner of the 2013 Jan Michalski PrizeLonglististed for the Man Asian Literary PrizeA new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today  Ten years in the writing, this fearless novelso powerful it's banned in Irantells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive...

A witty yet gripping pastiche of murder mysteries set in an Argentine seaside resort, peppered with literary allusionsIn seaside Bosque de Mar, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortune: the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr. Humberto...

"e;It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."e;A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jackthe British Flagduring the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few...

A NovelHenry James, one of the great literary stylists, anincomparableanalyst of human relations, and---who knew?---a startlingly prescient media critic. This little-known novel from one of his most fertile creative periods could have been written for today's news-hungry, celebrity-obsessed times.Pretty American Francie Dosson travels to...

"e;There's no such thing as chance...only injustice."e;From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for ';writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history..."e; The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre KertAAAa AaAAaAa AaAAAAAaAA...