Clash of civilizations over an elevator in piazza vittorio (bilingual edition)

Clete

In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave’s partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug Clete Purcel –...

Clifford's blues

Africans and African Americans in the Holocaust.

Closer

“The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.”—Bret Easton EllisWinner of the Ferro–Grumley Award for LGBTQ FictionFrom “the most dangerous writer in America” (Village Voice), Dennis Cooper’s Closer is the controversial first novel in the award-winning George Miles Cycle—a haunting ex...

Clothed, female figure: stories

Clothed, Female Figure opens a singular investigation of women: mothers, daughters, gardeners, housecleaners, employers, aunts, nannies, friends. There are dispatches from haloed single-girl apartments in New York, from the horsetail scrubland behind the beach club, from the house behind the lin...

Clouds over alexandria

In the city of Alexandria, five students encounter political struggle and the casual cruelty of a harsh government, but ultimately love and resilience. In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundam...

Coal miner's holiday

Coal mining stories from a self-taught writer.

Cock and bull

Cockfight

Thirteen stories explore domestic horrors and everyday violence, providing an intimate and unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America.

Cockpit

Code of the hills

In this blistering return to Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before as familial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everything he loves With his signature crackling prose, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory...

Cold mountain

Winner of the National Book Award for FictionAn instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier's debut novel of love and peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and the subject of an ...

Cold nights of childhood

WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE “A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”—Kirkus Reviews The Bell Jar meets Good Morning, Midnight, by one of Turkey’s most beloved writers. The narrator of Tezer Özlü’s novel is between lovers. She...

Cold victory

AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF THE MONTH From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A ...

Colonel lágrimas

“Beware, reader, in these pages you will experience vertigo, anxiety and joy. You will become a ghostly presence in a Borgesian world, a camera obscura, where mathematics is a secret weapon, and memory the object of an archaeological pursuit. Loosely inspired by the eventful life of the French ma...

Combat camera

A novel about a broken Pulitzer-prize winning combat photographer given a last chance to redeem his life and career.

Come away

Following a fluke accident involving his five-year-old daughter, a father fears supernatural forces might be lurking in the shadows

Come on up

Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic debut“Heartbreaking and hilarious” —New York Times Book Review“Nopca’s stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart and modern, filled with sharply observed detail. They capture the unease of the times and the flux of contempor...

Comemadre

Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to inve...

Common body, royal bones

A seven-foot-tall princess, a woman with "reverse ESP," and a tattooed king are the outlandish main characters of these three stories. Friends of Literature Award Winner.

Companion to victor pelevin

Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to t...

Compass rose

In the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them.

Concerning my daughter

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move...

Condomnauts

“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel…. This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science fiction novel with m...

Confessions of madame psyche

A gem--San Francisco Chronicle Presented as "memoir," it is in fact a brilliant historical fiction.

Constellation

A stellar collection of evocative poetry and prose by contemporary Latin American voices.

Contemporary chinese short-short stories

This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two o...

Contra/diction

Convenience store woman

The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits in to the rigidity of its work culture only too well

Conversations of german refugees and wilhelm meister's journeyman years

The definitive English version of two landmark works of world literatureGoethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and...

Cosmo

Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories.

Cosmos and pornografia

Could you be with her now

Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story.

Cradle book

Haunting and beautiful fables of lonely birds, groaning cows, nurturing wolves, and sad little boys.

Crafting history

This volume is a tribute to Cemal Kafadar from his students, colleagues and friends.

Crazy cock

Crime and punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student living in Saint Petersburg who feels compelled to rob and murder Alyona Ivanovna, an elderly pawn broker and money lender.

Crimini

Short stories by best-selling writers of Italian crime fiction, set in Rome, Palermo, and Guadeloupe.

Crocosmia

A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”—a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya...