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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Short Letter, Long Farewell tells the story of a young Austrian—evidently modeled on the author—on a harrowing month's journey across the United St

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. "A savagely short novel of immeasurable ambition and violent beauty. This is the language of genius." —Juan Pablos Villalobos.

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious.

This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction.

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005. Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction.

A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything.

This is the story of the comic, relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who thrives through the destruction of others.

After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner.

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind h

A new translation of Bassani's moving novel of childhood friendship and the unexpected loss of innocence.

'A terrific novel' Angela Carter. Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment.

In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to repla

Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distin

The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami.

This masterful translation of a recent Bolivian novel, En el pais del silencio, transports us to a mysterious, silent, and unfamiliar land where astonishing truths are placed within our grasp.