Author: David Gilmour
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: nights, sparrow
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-04
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1582432031
ISBN-13: 9781582432038

After she leaves you, how bad can it get? An exhilarating novel of erotic and psychotic extremes from one of Canada’s best novelists. Everyone would agree that Darius Halloway is the most civilized of men--a professor of French literature, a connoisseur of ideas and women and wine, a perfect guest at life’s dinner party. Darius himself would agree--that is, he would until Emma, waifish and insatiable Emma, leaves her empty clothes hangers rattling in his closet and walks out the door. For a little while, it’s not so bad. He’s in shock. He thinks she must come back

Author: Beryl Bissell
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: memoir, god, scent
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1582433615
ISBN-13: 9781582433615

When Beryl Bissell entered a cloistered convent in New Jersey, she believed that God had called her to this way of life. At first blissfully happy, within a year she became prey to obsessive compulsions. Her vocation at risk, she overcame these disorders, and persevered for another ten years until returning home to Puerto Rico to care for her ailing father. Thrust into this sensual environment, she was drawn to Padre Vittorio, a handsome Italian priest, and underwent a belated coming of age. For the next three years, she struggled to reconcile human desire with spiritual long

Author: Maeve Brennan
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: scarcrow, stories, short, garden, rose
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-03-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1582431191
ISBN-13: 9781582431192

From the author of The Springs of Affection comes a second and final collection-20 masterly short stories from the glory days of The New Yorker. "Reading Maeve Brennan is like watching a master jeweler construct a ticking watch from an array of tiny, inanimate parts." -Linda Barrett Osborne, New York Times Book Review "So good that I kept putting the book down to savor a description or perfect phrase, to hug myself with malicious joy, and to put off the evil hour when the stories would be done." -Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe When The Springs of Affection was published in 1

Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: stories, izu, girl, dancing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-08-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1887178945
ISBN-13: 9781887178945

Available again, a newly translated collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called "palm-of-the-hand" stories short enough to fit into ones palm. This collection reflects Kawabata’s keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep melancholy that characterizes much of his work. The stories were written between 1923 and 1929, and many feature autobiographical events and themes that reflect the painful losses he experienced early in his life.

Author: Ronald Frame
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: bearers, lantern
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-10-02
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1582431558
ISBN-13: 9781582431550

A bewitching story of obsession, love, and treachery set on the coast of Scotland. "There are hints of Hitchcock in [his] disturbing tales." -Daily Mail Sent away from home for the first time, Neil Pritchard spends the long summer of 1962 with his Aunt Nessie in claustrophobic Auchendrennan on the Solway Firth, a seascape of fast tides and sinking sands. Eager for a pastime to fill the long dull days, Neil sings for Euan Bone, a young Scottish composer whose star is rising fast. Becoming Bone’s muse, Neil spends afternoons at the composer’s home, hours that become the focu

Author: Lucia Graves
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: life, spanish, voices, unknown, woman
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-11-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1582431647
ISBN-13: 9781582431642

"Although many English writers have opened windows on Spain... none has done it so intimately or so personally as Lucia Graves.... A book of high literary distinction and extraordinary humanity." -Times Literary Supplement This beautifully nuanced memoir is a profound meditation on the three cultures-Spanish, English, and Catalan-that have shaped Lucia Graves’s life and thought. It is also a complex portrait of Spain under Franco. The author explores the patterns of love, sacrifice, and forbearance that mark not only her own life but those of many other Spanish women she has known.

Author: Mary Craig
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: tibet, blood, tears
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1582431027
ISBN-13: 9781582431024

From the author of Kundun, a powerful work that reveals the true horrors behind China’s "liberation" of Tibet. Since 1959, when China claimed power over this tiny mountain nation, more than one million Tibetans are believed to have perished by starvation, execution, imprisonment, and abortive uprisings. Many thousands more, including their spiritual and political leader, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, have been driven into exile. The country has been systematically colonized, so that indigenous inhabitants are now a second-class minority. Not only are Tibetans being squeezed out by Chi