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How I Became a Nun, by Cesar Aira

Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.

The Man of Feeling, by Javier Marias

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Marías's riveting novel about an opera singer and an extramarital affair is now a paperbook.

"[Marías is] a master of clandestine greatness." --Wyatt Mason, The New Yorker

Kinshu, by Teru Miyamoto

Translated from the Japanese by Roger K. Thomas

As delicate as the shimmering wings of a dragonfly, Kinshu -- an epistolary novel by one of Japan's most popular literary authors -- is a masterpiece of simplicity and beauty.

Once: As It Was, by Griselda Ohannessian

An unconventional family idyll set on a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s, Once: As It Was is a vibrant pastoral memoir that mixes unsentimentality with childhood innocence in a moving story that builds to a spine-tingling confrontation.

Amulet, by Roberto Bolano

Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin

Edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch

Lavishly illustrated, The Way It Wasn't offers an intimate firsthand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from the extraordinary man who defined it for America.

Bernhard, The Christ of Fish, and The Heart is Katmandu

by Yoel Hoffmann

Now in paperback, three novels from ""the Israeli avant-garde genius" (Forward).

it, by Inger Christensen

Translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied; Introduction by Anne Carson

Here at last is Inger Christensen's masterpiece it, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson.

The Sunlight Dialogues, by John Gardner

With a new Introduction by Charles Johnson

Madman. Prophet. Magician. Hippie. Murderer. Who is the Sunlight Man?

"An enormous circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures....A compassionate portrait of America in the uneasy '60s? Yes...Gardner explores everything with love and forbearance." --Time Magazine

Symposium, by Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Spark delivers a delightfully alarming novel, full of high society and low cunning.

"A virtuoso performance." --Time Out

"Stiletto-sharp fiction... [a] dangerous, devilish book." -- Scotland on Sunday

Memoirs, by Tennessee Williams

With a new Introduction by John Waters

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.

The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, by Tomas Transtromer

Translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

At long last, the Collected Poems of one of the world's greatest living writers, Tomas Tranströmer, is now available in this comprehensive edition.

Laughter in the Dark, by Vladimir Nabokov

With a new Introduction by John Banville

The classic novel from the author of Lolita which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal.