Authors:Jacqueline Loss, Esther Whitfield,
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: cuba, fiction, short, new
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-09-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0810124068
ISBN-13: 9780810124066

With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba’s political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of cultural change. It is a moment amply and complexly reflected in the fiction collected here, twelve short stories written in Cuba during the past ten years and published in English for the first time with the collaboration of some of today’s finest translators. An eclectic selection, the stories offer an exhilarating sense of a rich literary diversity and

Authors:Martin Heidegger, Eugen Fink,
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: spep, seminar, heraclitus
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1993-01-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0810110679
ISBN-13: 9780810110670

Author: Gellu Naum
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: europe, unbound, writings, zenobia
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-07-05
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0810112558
ISBN-13: 9780810112551

An existentialist anti-novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde. It demonstrates a commitment to surrealistic aesthetics, and has a clear lack of an obvious plot, minimal development of character, variations of time sequence, and experiments with vocabulary and punctuation.

Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: plums, land
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1998-11-11
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0810115972
ISBN-13: 9780810115972

Muller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu’s Romania.

Author: Stefan Heym
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: classics, european, architects
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2006-01-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0810120445
ISBN-13: 9780810120440

Written between 1963 and 1966, when its publication would have proved to be political dynamite-and its author’s undoing-this novel of political intrigue and personal betrayal takes readers into the German Democratic Republic in the late 1950s, shortly after Khruschev’s "secret speech" denouncing Stalin and his methods brought about a "thaw" in the Soviet bloc and, with it, the release of many victims of Stalinist brutality. Among these is Daniel, a Communist exile from Hitler who has been accused of treachery while in Moscow and who now returns to Germany after years of imprisonmen

Author: Silvio Sirias
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: voices, latino, virgin, bernardo
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-06-13
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0810122405
ISBN-13: 9780810122406

In 1980, with the Sandinistas newly in power, tailor and pig farmer Bernardo Martinez witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow about the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church where he works as sacristán. Soon the Holy Virgin appears. She tells Bernardo to forget his money problems and fear of ridicule and spread her message of peace and faith to his neighbors. Though a work of fiction, Bernardo and the Virgin is based on actual events in Bernardo Martinez’s life. The visitation of the Virgin Mary at Cuapa, Nicaragua, remains one of the few such events accepted by the

Author: Penny Delamar
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: television, theatre, film, working, artist, complete
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2002-12-11
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0810119692
ISBN-13: 9780810119697

New version of the best-selling "how to" book by England’s leading makeup artist