Author: Joseph Coulson
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: water, song
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0977857662
ISBN-13: 9780977857661

Praise for Joseph Coulson’s debut novel, The Vanishing Moon: “The novel at times achieves the quiet beauty of William Maxwell’s finest work—generous, episodic, elegiac but not sentimental.”—The Nation “Coulson writes with surpassing clarity and dignity . . . creating a somberly beautiful family saga.”—Booklist “The Vanishing Moon is a beautifully told story about family bonds, love, loss, and the power of memory over our lives. This is Joseph Coulson’s first novel, and I hope not his last.”—The Bloomsbury Review Of Song and Water tells a tale of the Great Lakes, of s

Author: Joseph Coulson
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: vanishing
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0972869204
ISBN-13: 9780972869201

"Joseph Coulson chronicles the American family with enormous intensity. His sense of history is vast, his sense of detail fine, Coulson is the ferryman to that America just beyond—tragic and wondrous."—John Reed"In this powerful narrative, the voices of the characters draw the reader in at every stage. Coulson manages a wonderful what-next world, full of detail and event. But this is also a story of America, of cities caught in the pain and complexity of their particular moment. From the church socials of Cleveland in the thirties to the onset of the Vietnam War, this is a novel of quietly

Author: Magdalena Tulli
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: flaw
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0979333016
ISBN-13: 9780979333019

A single streetcar line runs around the sleepy square of an unnamed city. One day—out of nowhere—refugees pour from the streetcar and set up camp in the square. The residents grow hostile and eventually take extreme action. Magdalena Tulli’s novels include Moving Parts, Dreams and Stones,and In Red. Dreams and Stones won Poland’s Koscielski Foundation Prize in 1995, and Moving Parts was shortlisted for the 2002 NIKE Prize. Tulli lives in Warsaw. Bill Johnston is director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University. In 2005, he won an ASTEEL translation prize for Tulli’s Drea

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: rodin, auguste
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2004
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0972869255
ISBN-13: 9780972869256

Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that "one has only to look at a human face to find a soul, no feature deceives; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. The inclining of the brow, the least furrowing of a look may reveal the -secrets of the heart." Rodin was fortunate to have as his -secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These essays discussing Rodin’s work and development as an artist are as revealing of Rilke as they are of his subject. Written in 1903 and 1907, these meditations mark the entry of the poet into the world of letters. The book sheds li

Authors:George Buchner, Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Johann Wol
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: german, english, lenz
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0974968021
ISBN-13: 9780974968025

Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright’s descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Oberlin’s journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenzis a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever written from the “inside” of insanity. At his death at the age of 23 in 1837, Georg Büchner also left behind Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck, and Danton’s Death—-psychologically and politically acute plays well ahead of their time. Richard Sieburth’s translatio

Author: Yom Sang-seop
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: generations, three
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 097785762X
ISBN-13: 9780977857623

“The novel, filled with gossip and family intrigue as scandalous as any contemporary soap opera, reads deliciously like a Dostoevsky novel or Les Liaisons Dangereuses meets Korea’s traditional middle class.”—KoreAm Magazine Three Generations charts the tensions in the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul. One of Korea’s most important works of fiction, Three Generations gave birth to naturalism in Korean literature and remains a mandatory read for Korean high school students.

Author: Yom Sang-seop
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Keywords: generations, three
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0974968005
ISBN-13: 9780974968001

Three Generations charts the tensions in the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul. Yom’s keenly observant eye reveals family tensions with profound insight. His characters are so alive that if you cut the pages they might bleed. Delving deeply into each character’s history and beliefs, he illuminates the diverse pressures and impulses driving each one. This Korean classic also brings forth the larger issues at hand, revealing Korea’s situation under Japanese rule, the traditional Korean familial structure, political movements of the 1930s (both national and internationa