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On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man’s conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution.

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film.

I try to see him among a migrating flock—he will take the loneliness of my room on his long journey; each whistling note he makes will be a little of my sadness falling over the ocean, to be swallo

Lesbian storyteller Ivan E.

In Close to Spider Man—which won a Danuta Gleed Literary Award—readers were introduced to the crystalline storytelling voice of Ivan Coyote.

An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help.

With dreamlike stories and dark humor, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse.

Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman?

When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost.

The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . .

"Emotionally resonant and deeply characterized." —School Library Journal (starred review) From the author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone comes a stunning contemporary novel, pe

Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and

Au lieu d’aménager la maison qu’il vient juste de faire construire, le narrateur de Pas d’inquiétude va être contraint de prendre un long congé pour rester près de son fils malade et s’installe ave

A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy award