Doubleday
UNIVERSE 1
Robert Silverberg
Universe 1 is the first volume of an original science-fiction anthology series edited by Terry Carr. It gathered new short fiction and launched the series.
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Minotaur Books
The Body in the Belfry
Katherine Hall Page
Set in a small New England town, the novel follows the discovery of a body in a church belfry. Faith Fairchild traces the town's secrets and tangled relationships in a classic mystery plot.
Crown
EVERY GOOD-BYE AIN'T GONE
Itabari Njeri
Njeri traces a family history in Brooklyn and Harlem, moving through Black and West Indian kinship, ambition, and the pressure of racism. The memoir balances sharp wit with unsparing emotional detail.
Vintage
The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
Gunter Grass
Günter Grass's best-known novel follows Oskar Matzerath, who refuses to grow up and narrates the changing world of Danzig and Europe before and after the war. Satire, allegory, and fantasy combine in a major work of postwar literature.
Gallimard
La Table-Aux-Creves
Marcel Ayme
A ensemble novel set in a rural community, mixing the comic and the cruel in everyday life. It looks steadily at village relationships while desire, vanity, and misunderstanding lead toward an unexpected outcome.
Proquest Black Box B&t
Traces of Enayat
Iman Mersal, Robin Moger
Tracing the life and death of the forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat in Cairo, Iman Mersal moves between research and recollection to fill a gap in literary history. The book blends biography, essay, and personal reflection into a quiet but persistent act of rediscovery.
Mountain Leopard Pr
The Son''s Story / Marie-helen Lafon
Marie-helen Lafon
WINNER OF THE PRIX RENAUDOT 'This took my breath away, again and again. Lafon is magic ... A thrilling read in Stephanie Smee's masterful translation' Anna Funder, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wifedom 'A work of the purest literary quality: muscular and densely packed, yet graceful in all its movements, and glowing with brilliant detail' Helen Garner, author of This House of Grief ________________________________________________________________ This is the story of a family and the secret that lies at its heart. André is the son, raised by his aunt in the French countryside. His mother Gabrielle, beautiful but distant, lives in Paris. Surrounded by his cousins, far from the noise of the city, André's childhood is a happy one. No-one questions the absence of his mother, or dares voice the name of his father. But beneath the quiet joy of the everyday lies a tragedy, passed down through the generations. Over time, the truth will come to the surface, whether the son desires it or not. ________________________________________________________________ 'An exquisite and mesmerising work of genius ... Lafon is a name that should be known by readers everywhere' Sarah Holland-Batt 'A magnificent novel' La Croix '[Lafon] breathes life into language . . . pure and rich' Le Monde 'Captivating and heartbreaking from beginning to end' Le Figaro Magazine ' Beautiful prose . . . a rich and melancholy enchantmen t' Sydney Morning Herald
Univ Pr of Kentucky
The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
R. Baxter Miller
Miller offers a critical study of Langston Hughes that traces the poet's artistic vision across lyric, political, and dramatic modes.
Univ Pr of Kentucky
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions & Interviews
D. H. Melhem
Through introductions and interviews with six Black poets, D. H. Melhem traces the social consciousness and aesthetics of Black American poetry. The book shows where poet identity intersects with community, politics, religion, and feminism.
Penguin Books
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner) (Penguin Poets)
John Ashbery
John Ashbery’s most renowned collection of poetry -- Winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award First released in 1975, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is today regarded as one of the most important collections of poetry published in the last fifty years. Not only in the title poem, which the critic John Russell called “one of the finest long poems of our period,” but throughout the entire volume, Ashbery reaffirms the poetic power that made him an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. These are poems “of breathtaking freshness and adventure in which dazzling orchestrations of language open up whole areas of consciousness no other American poet as ever begun to explore” ( The New York Times ).
太平社
クリスマス・キャロル
チャールズ ディケンズ, リスベート ツヴェルガー, 吉田 新一
Lisbeth Zwerger is an Austrian illustrator born in Vienna in 1954. She made her debut in 1977 illustrating E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Strange Child," and went on to create picture book illustrations for classics including Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Dickens. Known for her distinctive style of dreamlike watercolors and delicate linework, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1990 in recognition of her lifetime contribution to children's literature. Her most notable work is Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1988), along with E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nutcracker and Mouseking" (1979) and Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" (1979).
Univ of Chicago Pr
Wittgenstein's Nephew: A Friendship (Phoenix Fiction)
Thomas Bernhard, David McLintock
An autobiographical prose work that follows the friendship between the narrator and Paul Wittgenstein, framed around two men bedridden in separate wings of a hospital. Its sharp humor brings music, illness, and loneliness into focus.