New Hardback Books

Joan Haslip / Madame du Barry (Hardback)

Jeanne du Barry, courtesan and Louis XV's official mistress until his death, was the last of the French royal favourites, succeeding Madame de Pompadour. For four years she was feted as one of France's most beautiful women, patron of artists such as...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a series of essential life lessons that every young person...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations are all forums where humanity descends to transact its...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at the height of Gorbachev's power in 1985 but not...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing.   This...

Joyce Carol Oates / Middle Age: A Romance (Hardback)

In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism,...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid heroine...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and...

Zsuzsa Bánk / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives,...

Olga Andreyeva Carlisle / Under a New Sky (Hardback)

In this memoir of one woman's return to her homeland, the granddaughter of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev confronts the painful legacy of repression, exile, censorship, and anti-Semitism in Russia. By the author of The Secret Circle.   This...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our...

The Usual Gang of Idiots / The Mad Bathroom Companion (Hardback)

  This compilation contains all the books of The MAD Bathroom Reader, The MAD Bathroom Companion Number Two, and The MAD Bathroom Companion Turd in a Series. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Martin M. Šimečka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university student   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

John Lukacs / Budapest 1900 (Hardback)

John Lukács, distinquished historian and native of Budapest, offers in Budapest 1900 a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris or Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation...

Bohumil Hrabal / The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (Hardback)

Includes The Little Town Where Time Stood Still and Cutting It Short.In the 1930s Europe is tangoing to the tune of a new age, but in rural Czechoslovakia Maryska dances to a rhythm all her own. In a town dominated by a somber municipal...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of living under martial law   This book is second...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man...

Haruki Murakami / 1Q84 (Hardback)

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves.But things are moving forward, and...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on the world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them...

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at the fallout from the recent transformation...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social...

Günter Grass / Too Far Afield (Hardback)

Two old men roam through Berlin observing life in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Wall in 1989. The men are Theo Wuttke, a former East German cultural functionary, keen observer, and gifted speaker; and Ludwig Hoftaller, a...

Julian Barnes / Something to Declare (Hardback)

Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as...

Michael March / Description of a Struggle (Hardback)

Gathers together prose from ten countries which seek cultural integration with the rest of Europe and brings to the fore the vitality and range of fiction from these Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,...

Wayne Johnston / The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Hardback)

"The Colony of Unrequited Dreams" is Newfoundland--that vast, haunting near-continent upon which the two lovers and adversaries of this miraculously inventive novel pursue their ambitions.Joey Smallwood, sprung from almost Dickensian privation, is a...

Gerald Stern / This Time (Hardback)

An exhilarating new collection by the poet often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman. "For over two decades," the Library Journal has said, "no one has equaled Gerald Stern's compassionate, surreal parables about the burden of and the exaltation of...

Mark Mazower / Dark Continent (Hardback)

Dark Continent is a searching history of Europe's most brutal century. Stripping away the comforting myths and illusions that we have grown up with since the Second World War, Mark Mazower presents an unflinching account of a continent locked in a finely...

Pico Iyer / Video Night in Kathmandu (Hardback)

Mohawk hair-cuts in Bali, yuppies in Hong Kong and Rambo rip-offs in the movie houses of Bombay are just a few of the jarring images that Iyer brings back from the Far East.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Rogers Brubaker / Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Hardback)

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural...

Ernest Gellner / Nationalism (Hardback)

A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of a modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has caused enormous suffering, both directly and indirectly...

Richard Vinen / A History in Fragments (Hardback)

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that we all think we know it. The great stories of the century—the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism—seem self-evident in their importance. But behind the...

Michael Schumacher / Dharma Lion (Hardback)

Draws from eight years of research and full access to Ginsberg's journals to present a dramatic biography that depicts three centuries of vanguard popular culture, from the Beat Generation of the 1950s to the Buddhist revival of the seventies...

George Konrád / A Feast in the Garden (Hardback)

As the Jews of his town are transported to concentration camps, David Kobra escapes to Budapest and grows up amid death and violence, which he later uses in his writing. By the author of The Loser. 10,000 first printing.   This book is second hand,...

Bohumil Hrabal / Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (Hardback)

A grandiose old shoemaker tells his story to a circle of young women basking in the sun, a tale of amorous conquests and drunken misadventures, in a novella by Czechoslovakia's preeminent storyteller.   This book is second hand, and while you may...

Tina Rosenberg / The Haunted Land (Hardback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern EuropeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the...

Péter Nádas / A Book of Memories (Hardback)

A psychological novel about the memory of things in Europe's recent past interweaves the first-person narratives of a young Hungarian writer, his literary creation--an egomaniacal Marxist and aesthete--and his childhood friend.   This book is second...

Frank Kermode / Shakespeare's Language (Hardback)

Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600.   This book...

Iva Pekarkova / The World Is Round (Hardback)

  Chronicles the adventures of Jitka, a Czechoslovak refugee who awaits a visa in an Italian refugee camp where the male-female ratio is 1,800 to 17 This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Tibor Fischer / Under The Frog (Hardback)

Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service. They survive the chaos of communism by becoming part of a...

Slavenka Drakulić / S. (Hardback)

A Bosnian woman who was repeatedly raped by Serbian soldiers in 1992 recalls the events as she prepares to give birth to a child conceived through their abuse of her.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Milan Kundera / Immortality (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Slavenka Drakulić / Cafe Europa (Hardback)

The author of How We Survived Communism reflects on Eastern Europe in the post-Cold War era in a personal compilation of essays that examines everyday life in the once-communist nations, the struggle toward democracy, the influence of Western culture,...

Milan Kundera / Slowness (Hardback)

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Dubravka Ugrešić / The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Hardback)

This is a deeply East European novel in flavour reminiscent of Kundera and Borges. Through weaving together fragments, stories, and diaries Dubravka Ugresic, a prize-winning novelist in the former Yugoslavia, captures the world of a group of characters...

Milan Kundera / The Joke (Hardback)

The first definitive, complete edition of the author's classic first novel presents a tale of love, politics, revenge, and the fate of individuals in contemporary society. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.Toward the end of this...

Jerzy Ficowski / Regions of the Great Heresy (Hardback)

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic...

Angelo Maria Ripellino / Magic Prague (Hardback)

This unusual, distinctive book is a glowing, theatrical blend of history, travelogue, fictional sketch, art and literary criticism, and personal essay. Angelo Ripellino goes beyond the tourist cliché of Prague and brings out the mystery,...

Norman Manea / The Hooligan's Return (Hardback)

The long-awaited memoir by one of Romania’s greatest living authorsThe Hooligan’s Return is a haunting memoir, vividly re-creating Norman Manea’s harrowing childhood in Fascist Romania while providing indelible portraits of...