Author: Chuang Hua
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, crossings
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-06-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216683
ISBN-13: 9780811216685
A powerful story of one woman’s displacement between cultures and traditions—a landmark in Asian-American literature.When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua’s evocative novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose—marked by spatial and temporal leaps, an unconventional syntax, and unanticipated shifts in plot—as haunting as the writing of Jane Bowles. At the center of Crossings is Fourth Jane
Author: Mircea Cartarescu
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, nostalgia
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-11-29
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811215881
ISBN-13: 9780811215886
The astonishing debut in English of one of Romania’s foremost writers.Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania’s leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia, writes Andrei Codrescu, "introduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few." Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major
Author: Ahmed Ali
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, delhi, twilight
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 081121267X
ISBN-13: 9780811212670
The sounds and smells of Delhi--the flutter of pigeons’ wings, the call to prayer, the scent of jasmine and frying ghee--come to life in the novel whose detail E.M. Forster called "new and fascinating" upon its original publication in 1940. Reprinted with a revised introduction by the author, Twilight in Delhi is enacted between two revolutionary momen s of change, depicting the change of a way of life and culture.
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, assistant
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0811215903
ISBN-13: 9780811215909
The Assistant by Robert Walser—who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald—is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion, and an utterly unique radiance of vision, Walser is as Susan Sontag exclaimed "a truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer." The Assistant is
Author: Evelio Rosero
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, armies
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811218643
ISBN-13: 9780811218641
An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree on a red floral quilt. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail’s wife, is ashamed of his peeping and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz. Instead, Ismail wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have
Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, illuminations
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1957-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811201848
ISBN-13: 9780811201841
poetry, tr Daniel Sloate, bilingual
Author: Veza Canetti
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, tortoises
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216969
ISBN-13: 9780811216968
Spare, dark, and cinematic, The Tortoises describes life in the Nazi reign of terror.A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurial Nazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemorating the Anschluss.
