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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1935554042ISBN 13: 9781935554042
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 32349th. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearThe greatest book ever written about the German resistance to the Nazis. -Primo LeviOne of the most extraordinary and compelling novels ever written about World War II. Ever. . Please, do not miss this. -Alan Furst"It has something of the horror of Conrad, the madness of Dostoyevsky and the chilling menace of Capotes In Cold Blood. In the quiet Quangels, Fallada has created an immortal symbol of those who fight back against 'the vile beyond all vileness' and so redeem us all." -Roger Cohen, The New York TimesAn unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in wartime Berlin. -Philip Kerr, author of the "Berlin Noir" novelsHas the suspense of a John le Carré novel visceral, chilling . -The New YorkerOne of the most extraordinarily ambitious literary resurrections in recent memory . -The Los Angeles TimesA one-of-a-kind novel Fallada can be seen as a hero, a writer-hero who survived just long enough to strike back at his oppressors. -The Globe and MailStunningly vivid characters gets you inside Nazi Germany like no other novel. -The San Francisco ChronicleEssential, thrilling. -The St. Petersburg TimesThis is a novel that is so powerful, so intense, that it almost hums with electricity." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 193363359XISBN 13: 9781933633596
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Ptg. For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought in the shadows.Having interviewed nearly a thousand militants in war-torn Kashmir, Arif Jamal presents a news-breaking account of Pakistan's secret battles with India. From the early 1980s, when the Kashmiri conflict lurked in the background of the CIA's proxy war in Afghanistan, to the eruption of insurgent violence in 1988, to recent Kashmiri connections to terrorist financing and training, Jamal brings much to light.Jamal reveals that the Pakistani military has trained nearly half a million insurgents and, as a matter of defense policy, continued the conflict at great human cost. He also shows how CIA money destined for the Afghan mujahideen was funneled to Kashmiri jihadis, leading to a twenty-year insurgency rarely discussed in Western media.A contributing writer to The New York Times, Arif Jamal is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. A leading Pakistani reporter, he has written for the Pakistan Times, The News, and international media such as Radio France International and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1935554263ISBN 13: 9781935554264
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy--always fresh, new and even startling. A major English-language event, The Zoo in Winter collects poems from seven earlier books as well as from her more recent work. It is a remarkable menagerie of poems, of a strange and intoxicating beauty.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1933633840ISBN 13: 9781933633848
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. In a Freakonomics meets Hollywood saga, veteran investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein goes undercover to explore Hollywoods invisible money machine, probing the dazzlingly complicated finances behind the hits and the flops, while he answers the surprisingly puzzling question: How do the studios make their money?Along the way we also learn much about star system and what makes the business tick:+ What it costs to insure Nicole Kidmans right knee .+ How and why the studios harvest silver from old film prints .+ Why stars do-or dont do-their own stunts .+ Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a contract genius .+ How Hollywood goes about doping outside investors and hedge fund managers .+ Why Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is considered a masterpiece of financing .
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933633670ISBN 13: 9781933633671
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Florey writes with verve.-Slate.comFlorey . . . rattles off crackling prose in a no-nonsense voice.-The San Diego Union-TribuneSteeped in the Palmer Method of handwriting she learned in Catholic school, Kitty Burns Florey is a self-confessed penmanship nut who loves the act of taking pen to paper. So when she discovered that schools today forego handwriting drills in favor of teaching something called keyboarding, it gave her pause: There is a widespread belief that, in a digital world, forming letters on paper with a pen is pointless and obsolete, she says, and anyone who thinks otherwise is right up there with folks who still have fallout shelters in their backyards.Florey tackles the importance of writing by hand and its place in our increasingly electronic society in this fascinating exploration of the history of handwriting. Weaving together the evolution of writing implements and scripts, pen collecting societies, the golden age of American penmanship, the growth in popularity of handwriting analysis, and the pockets of aficionados who still prefer scribbling on paper to tapping on keys, she poses the question: Is writing by hand really no longer necessary in todays busy world?Kitty Burns Florey is the author of Sister Bernadettes Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. A veteran copy editor, she has also written nine novels and many short stories and essays. She lives in central Connecticut with her husband, Ron Savage.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 140994378XISBN 13: 9781409943785
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "All crowds have to howl." Although F.Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, his little-known novella May Day is unique in that it is the most raw, directly political commentary he ever wrote, and one of the most desperate works in his oeuvre.It is a tale of the brutalities of the American class system-of privileged college boys, returned from a bloody war, and a group of intellectual left-wing journalists, all coming into confrontation in the heart of New York City on Mayday at the end of World War I. Fitzgerald's fine eye for detail is on special display and his relentless plot leads to one of his most shocking climaxes, in what is the first and only stand alone version of this rarity.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933633689ISBN 13: 9781933633688
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Acclaimed author Noa Weber has a successful feminist life: a strong career, a wonderful daughter she raised alone, and she is a recognized and respected cultural figure. Yet her interior life is bound by her obsessive love for one man-Alek, a Russian émigré and the father of her child, who has drifted in and out of her life.Trying to understand-as well as free herself from-this lifelong obsession, Noa turns her pen on herself, and with relentless honesty dissects her life. Against the evocative setting of turbulent, modernday Israel, this examination becomes a quest to transform irrational desire into a greater, transcendent understanding of love.The Confessions of Noa Weber introduces a startlingly talented writer in a rich tale that illuminates the desires, yearnings, and complexities of life in Israel.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1933633913ISBN 13: 9781933633916
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Understanding North Korea through its propagandaWhat do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regimes domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the countrys official myths in turn-from the notion of Koreans unique moral purity, to the myth of an America quaking in terror of the Iron General. In a concise but groundbreaking historical section, Myers also traces the origins of this official culture back to the Japanese fascist thought in which North Koreas first ideologues were schooled.What emerges is a regime completely unlike the Wests perception of it. This is neither a bastion of Stalinism nor a Confucian patriarchy, but a paranoid nationalist, military-first state on the far right of the ideological spectrum.Since popular support for the North Korean regime now derives almost exclusively from pride in North Korean military might, Pyongyang can neither be cajoled nor bullied into giving up its nuclear program. The implications for US foreign policy-which has hitherto treated North Korea as the last outpost of the Cold War-are as obvious as they are troubling. With North Korea now calling for a blood reckoning with the Yankee jackals, Myerss unprecedented analysis could not be more timely.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 193555431XISBN 13: 9781935554318
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive safety-net of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, where every visitor is suspect and every object a potential bomb, Tolm and his family wait to discover when and how terrorism will overtake them.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612191398ISBN 13: 9781612191393
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. An encyclopedic collection of vegetarian recipes from Italy-learn how to make all of the classic dishes without meatEven though man can draw all he needs in the way of nourishment from a mere handful of seeds and fruit, he must not give up a proper meal.-Enrico AlliataEnrico Alliata, the Duke of Salaparuta (1879-1946), was a utopian gourmand and winemaker who espoused a vegetarian lifestyle and a raw foods diet at a time when the very notion was unheard of. He worked for decades to systematically re-imagine classic Italian dishes without meat. The result, first published in 1930, is a timeless reference work, with dishes that are surprising, inventive, and often decadent.Early chapters like Appetizers and Salads include recipes for inventive vegetarian sandwiches and crostini, as well as refreshing salads (and even a recipe for simple homemade ricotta cheese). Broths and Purees includes rich and flavorful vegetable broths, hearty purees, and pasta in broth, like vegetarian Agnollotti in broth filled with parmesan and walnuts.The First Courses, Pasta Dishes and Timballi chapter is a comprehensive collection of authentic Italian recipes for gnocchi, risotto, polenta, ravioli, from Risotto alla Milanese with saffron, nutmeg, and parmesan to Sicilian Style Gnocchi, with fried eggplant and tomato sauce. Luncheon Dishes, Vegetables, Legumes and Side Dishes features preparations for eggplant and artichokes, and is a great go-to for quick side dishes and lighter vegetarian meals. His main dishes chapters include a variety of casseroles and soufflés, and the Duke even has several preparations for mock meats, such as vegetarian Foie Gras Mousse made with ricotta cheese and black truffles.Much more than a recipe book, The Duke's Table is a major re-discovery and a fascinating look into the philosophy of a food revolutionary who was truly before his time.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933633417ISBN 13: 9781933633411
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers.The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from coal and convinced numerous people-including officers of the De Beers diamond mine company and Proust himself-to invest in the scheme. In a series of pastiches-imitations written in the style of other writers-Proust tells the story of the embarrassment rippling across high society Paris in the wake of the scandal, poking fun at himself (in one story, a character declares that Marcel Proust is so embarrassed hes suicidal) while lampooning some of Frances greatest writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, and Saint-Simon.Full of sophisticated wit and dazzling wordplay, and rife with allusions to his friend and fictional characters, many Proust scholars see the dead-on mimicry of The Lemoine Affair-written soon after Prousts rejection of society life-as the work by which he honed his own unique, masterly voice.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976140721ISBN 13: 9780976140726
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer, and I mean to."Based on actual historic events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels.It has become, in fact, a classic tale: that of the honorable man forced to take the law into his own hands. In this incendiary prototype, a minor tax dispute intensifies explosively, until the eponymous hero finds the forces of an entire kingdom, and even the great Martin Luther, gathered against him. But soon even Luther comes to echo the growing army of peasants asking, Isnt Kohlhaas right?Widely acknowledged as one of the masterworks of German literature, Michael Kohlhaas is also one of the most stirring tales ever written of the quest for justice.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192203ISBN 13: 9781612192208
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that its a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgeralds ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgeralds hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises.Its the story of John T. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmates family proves to be much more than simply wealthy: They own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And theyve gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret meaning John could be in danger.But the family also has a daughter, lovely Kismine, and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2007
ISBN 10: 0715633368ISBN 13: 9780715633366
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From the maverick author of the international bestseller Who Killed Daniel Pearl? - "a gripping blend of reportage and philosophy," according to The New York Times - comes another startlingly original work of literature.In WAR, EVIL AND THE END OF HISTORY, Bernard-Henri Lévy continues his daring investigation into the breeding grounds of terrorism with a series of riveting first-person reports from five of the world's most horrific "forgotten" war zones. In Sri Lanka, he conducts a clandestine interview with a terrified young woman escaped from a suicide-bomber training camp . . . he journeys, blindfolded, into the Colombian jungle to interview a psychotic drug lord who considers himself the successor to Che Guevara and fronts a bloodthirsty "guerilla" army . . . Lévy surreptitiously observes the nameless slaves working the diamond mines that fund an endless war in Angola . . . airdrops into a rebel stronghold in the blockaded Nuba mountains of the Sudan . . . and reports on the ongoing carnage in Burundi between Hutus and Tutsis. But Lévy is more than just a journalist: as France's leading philosopher, he follows the reports with a series of intensely personal and probing "reflections" considering how, in an enlightened, cultured, and well-informed society, these wars have acquired such a perverse "non-meaning." He considers war literature from Stendhal, Hemingway, Proust and others, and issues an excoriating response to those who have glorified it. He reconsiders his own background as a student revolutionary in Paris in May 1968, and as a 22-year-old war reporter in Bangladesh. And, in one of the book's most moving passages, he recounts his travels with Ahmad Massoud, the anti-Taliban Afghan leader assassinated hours before the September 11 attacks. Already a huge bestseller in Europe, WAR, EVIL, AND THE END OF HISTORY is the work of a scintillating intellect at the height of its powers. Bernard-Henri Lévy's previous book foresaw today's headlines about Pakistan's secret trading of nuclear technology and the nexus of terrorist groups behind the murder of Daniel Pearl. WAR, EVIL, AND THE END OF HISTORY is his brilliant foray into the next danger zones.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192882ISBN 13: 9781612192888
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A new edition of Bulgakovs fantastical precursor to The Master and Margarita, part of Melville Houses reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glennys celebrated translations.A key work of early modernism, this is the superbly comic story of a Soviet scientist and a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Attempting a medical first, the scientist transplants the glands of a petty criminal into the dog and, with that, turns a distinctly worryingly human animal loose on the city. The new, lecherous, vulgar, Engels-spouting Sharik soon finds his niche in govenrmental bureaucracy as the official in charge of purging the city of cats.A Frankenstein fable thats as funny as it is terrifying, Heart of a Dog has also been read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution. It was rejected for publication by the censors in 1925, and circulated in samizdat for years until Michael Glenny translated it into English in 1968-long before it was allowed to be officially published in the Soviet Union. That happened only in 1987, although till this day the book remains one of Mikhail Bulgakovs most controversial novels in his native country.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933633727ISBN 13: 9781933633725
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. The New York Times bestselling author returns with a provocative, sizzling novel--a story of money, power, betrayal, and loveBestselling author Michael M. Thomas turns his gimlet eye--not to mention his gift for wicked plot twists--to the bizarre world of today's pop-culture, celebrity economy in his latest, Love and Money.It's a world that turns on "Stars"--here, a Martha Stewart-like television star who is the keystone of a multi-million dollar television empire, who also promotes a wide range of products, that in turn props up a huge manufacturing industry and a world-wide chain of Wal-Mart stores.So what would happen if she had one little fling--one wild but solitary sexual adventure--that, if known about, would destroy her wholesome image, not to mention put a lot of people out of work? And what if the person who found out about it was her husband, whose disastrous last film seems to have left him diminished in her eyes? And what if he happens to know the world's best divorce attorney?The result is a riveting ride through the stuff of our culture-branding and celebrity, fast money and quick burn-outs--and a thoroughly modern take on the eternal battle between morality and expediency. In the deft hands of Michael Thomas, it's a smart, accurate page-turner about the way of the world and how big money really works.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976140772ISBN 13: 9780976140771
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Softcover. Condition: Good. One of the edgiest and most innovative novels to come out of Europe in years-not to mention one of the most scandalous and successful-this thinly veiled roman--clef is about the daughter of one of Europe's most famous writers as she navigates life after the collapse of her marriage.It is a penetrating, sometimes funny, sometimes enraged look at pain in the limelight, where a glamorous, privileged world offers no protection for shattered heroine Louise. Deserted by her famous husband-the man she has loved since they were children-when he falls for a model-turned-rock star, she is unmoored in a world that suddenly has no meaning for her. And as her life implodes, one misfortune seems to follow another-her grandmother dies, her mother develops cancer, and there is always the question: Why did Adrien leave?Based on some of Europe's most glamorous real-life stars-including Bernard-Henri Lévy and Carla Bruni, Mick Jagger's ex-Justine Lévy captures the world of the "beautiful people" with lacerating relish, as well as humor and a wonderfully poetic eye for detail. In the end, narrator Louise spares no one-and especially not herself-from her ruthless and ultimately energizing honesty.Nothing Serious is a stylish work of blazing intelligence and won universal praise from critics upon its release in Europe, selling over 200,000 copies.Justine Lévy's first novel, The Rendezvous, was hailed by the The New York Times as "devastating," and Library Journal called it "irresistible." Lévy is an editor at Editions Plon, one of France's leading publishing houses, and she is the daughter of the famous philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. She lives in Paris.Charlotte Mandell, winner of the Modern Language Association Prize, has translated Jean Genet, Bernard-Henri Lévy, and Gustav Flaubert.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1933633778ISBN 13: 9781933633770
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS BOOK WILL GO TO JAPAN DISASTER RELIEFA major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force about a young woman who falls for a cult escapee.While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous-a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace-its also one of the most darkly mysterious books shes ever written.It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. She finds herself spending too much time staring out her window, though . until she realizes shes gotten used to seeing a young man across the street staring out his window, too.They eventually embark on a hesitant romance, until she learns that he has been the victim of some form of childhood trauma. Visiting two of his friends who live a monastic life beside a beautiful lake, she begins to piece together a series of clues that lead her to suspect his experience may have had something to do with a bizarre religious cult. . . .With its echoes of the infamous, real-life Aum Shinrikyo cult (the group that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system), The Lake unfolds as the most powerful novel Banana Yoshimoto has written. And as the two young lovers overcome their troubled past to discover hope in the beautiful solitude of the lake in the countryside, its also one of her most moving.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933633530ISBN 13: 9781933633534
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "There's no such thing as chance.only injustice."From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."The acclaimed Hungarian Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész continues his investigation of the malignant methodologies of totalitarianism in a major work of fiction.In a mysterious middle-European country, a man identified only as the commissioner undertakes what seems to be a banal trip to a nondescript town with his wife-a brief detour on the way to a holiday at the seaside-that turns into something ominous. Something terrible has happened in the town, something that no one wants to discuss. With his wife watching on fearfully, he commences a perverse investigation, rudely interrogating the locals, inspecting a local landmark with a frightening intensity, traveling to an outlying factory where he confronts the proprietors . and slowly revealing a past he's been trying to suppress.In a limpid translation by Tim Wilkinson, this haunting tale lays bare an emotional and psychological landscape ravaged by totalitarianism in one of Kertsz's most devastating examinations of the responsibilities of and for the Holocaust.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2007
ISBN 10: 1933633255ISBN 13: 9781933633251
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. "Tao Lin writes from moods that less radical writers would let pass--from laziness, from vacancy, from boredom. And it turns out that his report from these places is moving and necessary, not to mention frequently hilarious."--Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You"Tao Lin is the most distinctive young writer I've come upon in a long time: the most intrepid, the funniest, the strangest. He is completely unlike anyone else."--Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening"I was immediately blown away: the stylistic audacity of [Eeeee Eee Eeee and Bed] is inspiring; despite the talking animals, these are dark works about the alienation of modern times."--Tony O'Neill, The Guardian"Eeeee Eee Eeee is an un-self-conscious yet commanding tour de force."--Powells.com"Eeeee Eee Eeee is one of the first novels in a long time that made me laugh out loud--a wonderful, honest and cathartic laugh. Finally, someone published something written by a young person about a young experience that feels organic and real."--Jennifer Bassett, KGB Bar Lit Magazine"Stimulating and exciting.It doesn't often happen that a debuting writer displays not only irrepressible talent but also the ability to undermine the conventions of fiction and set off in new directions. Tao Lin, who is 24, does it."--San Francisco Bay Guardian"Later one day looking back at this review I'll know I wrote it after reading the novel twice straight through because it's hard to not want to write like Tao Lin but it's even harder to actually do it. I know people who don't read very often who should read this book because like Denis Johnson it's funny and addictive and talks straight into your ear instead of from somewhere far gone. I know people who read constantly who should read this because Tao Lin's sentences are so good they sometimes make me shudder. While doing so, or immediately after, or occasionally a long time after, they make me laugh. It's very hard to make someone shudder and then laugh. Tao Lin persists."--Blake Butler, Bookslut"Tao Lin's fiction will kick your ass and say thank you afterwards!"--Amy Fusselman, author of The Pharmacist's Mate"A revolutionary."--The Stranger"Prodigal, unpredictable."--Paste Magazine".wry, imaginative and off-kilter.charts the tribulations of a heartbroken pizza delivery guy living in a suburb where bears talk and dolphins attempt to commit murder."--Time Out New York.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2007
ISBN 10: 193363314XISBN 13: 9781933633145
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "How dared you, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?"This lesser-known work is perhaps the perfect distillation of Nikolai Gogols genius: a tale simultaneously animated by a joyful, nearly slapstick sense of humor alongside a resigned cynicism about the human condition.In a sharp-edged translation from John Cournos, an under-appreciated early translator of Russian literature into English, How The Two Ivans Quarreled is the story of two long-time friends who have a falling out when one of them calls the other a goose. From there, the argument intensifies and the escalation becomes more and more ludicrous. Never losing its generous antic spirit, the story nonetheless transitions from whither a friendship, to whither humanity, as it progresses relentlessly to its moving conclusion.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612192831ISBN 13: 9781612192833
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1933633514ISBN 13: 9781933633510
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976140748ISBN 13: 9780976140740
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0976658321ISBN 13: 9780976658320
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Softcover. Condition: Good. It was the ultimate 1960s scene: the ashram in Rishikesh, India, where the Beatles, Donovan, Mia Farrow, a stray Beach Boy, and other 1960s icons gathered along the shores of the Ganges-amidst paisley and incense and flowers and guitars-to meditate at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The February 1968 gathering received such frenzied, worldwide attention that it is still considered a significant, early encounter between Western pop culture and the mystical East.But what went on inside the compound has long been the subject of wild speculation and rampant rumor. The Beatles, for example, have said they wrote some of their greatest songs there . . . and yet they also came away bitterly disillusioned.While dozens of reporters from around the world flew to the remote location to camp out at the entrance of the retreat, only one journalist was allowed inside: Lewis Lapham, now the esteemed editor of Harper's Magazine, then a reporter for The Saturday Evening Post, who was seen-along with Tom Wolfe-as one of the progenitors of the hip "New Journalism."Lapham's wry take on what he found inside the ashram won acclaim at the time, but here he includes some surprising material he's never written about before-from hysterically funny descriptions of the Maharishi's daily press conferences, to the high style demands of certain stars upon the hapless local tailor, to impromptu jam sessions and the true story behind the scandal that drove the Beatles out of Rishikesh and led to Lapham's eight-hour cab ride with Ringo Starr.In Lapham's deft and vivid prose, With the Beatles is an exhilarating and surprisingly intimate look at one of the pivotal moments of pop culture and some of its leading figures.Lewis Lapham is the editor in chief of Harper's Magazine and the author of numerous books of political and cultural commentary, including, most recently, last year's Gag Rule.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2012
ISBN 10: 1612191290ISBN 13: 9781612191294
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Now in paperback: David Graebers fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods-that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like guilt, sin, and redemption) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933633557ISBN 13: 9781933633558
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1933633891ISBN 13: 9781933633893
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Softcover. Condition: Good. .the sin of an old man is equal to about two sins of a young man.The fable-like story of an old man's sexual obsession with a young woman is a distillation of Italo Svevo's concerns--attraction of an older man to a younger woman, individual conscience versus social convention, and the cost of sexual desire. This novella is a marvel of psychological insight, following the man's vacillations and tortuous self-justifications to their tragic-comic end. It is presented here in a translation first commissioned and published by Virginia Woolf for her Hogarth Press.The Art of The Novella SeriesToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
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Published by Brand: Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933633832ISBN 13: 9781933633831
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Softcover. Condition: Good. With the release of Roberto Bolaos The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer capable of befriending his readers. After exchanging several letters with Bolao, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaos last.Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaos final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters. As in all of Bolaos work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the authors many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.)The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaos deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.
Published by Brand: Melville House, 2013
ISBN 10: 1612193099ISBN 13: 9781612193090
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