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The Maias, by Eca de Quieros

Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

"The greatest book by Portugal's greatest novelist." --Jose Saramago, Nobel Laureate

"Eca de Queiros bears comparison with Balzac and Flaubert." --The London Sunday Times

"Queiros is far greater than my own dear master, Flaubert." --Zola

The Assistant, by Robert Walser

Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

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.

"A major writer.... A Paul Klee in prose -- as delicate, as shy, as haunted. A cross between Stevie Smith and Beckett." --Susan Sontag

"Robert Walser is a bewitched genius." --Newsweek

Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl, by Gert Hofmann

Translated from the German with an Afterword by Michael Hofmann

"Brimful with love, nature, energy, and intellect: history proved on the pulse and expressed through the heart. A treasure." --Kirkus (starred review)

"Hofmann gives the scientist a delirious, childish glee at the universe's workings, and a sweetness of character that, true to Lichtenberg's biography, eventually wins him the love of a thirteen-year-old beauty." --The New Yorker

Triptych, by Jerome Rothenberg

introduction by Charles Bernstein

The key book by the internationally celebrated poet with the only "Polish ghetto-hassidic-cowboy  and Indian American comic voice" (Robert  Duncan) in history.

Crossings, by Chuang Hua

A powerful story of one woman's displacement between cultures and traditions -- a landmark in Asian-American literature.

A House in Istria, by Richard Swartz

Translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson

A wild and quixotic novel about real estate, marriage, and obsession.

"The novel consists mostly of absurdist digressions that call to mind Beckett, Kafka, or even Monty Python." --The Seattle Times

The Tortoises, by Veza Canetti

Translated from the German by Ian Mitchell

A powerful, subtle, dark novel depicting the destruction of Austrian Jews, never before published in English.

"What she can achieve at her best can be seen in Die Schildkröten [The Tortoises], a masterpiece that confirms her place among the twentieth century's finest writers." --TLS

I Served the King of England, by Bohumil Hrabal

Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohumil Hrabal takes us on a tremendously funny and satirical trip through 20th-century Czechoslovakia.

Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges

With a NEW Introduction by William Gibson; Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby; Tribute by Andre Maurois; Afterword by James E. Irby

Take a new look at Labyrinths, the classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century -- a true literary sensation -- with cyber-author William Gibson

"Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature." --David Foster Wallace, The New York Times

Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre

With a NEW Introduction by Richard Howard; Translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander

The classic Existentialist novel, with a new Introduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard

"It is the most enjoyable book Sartre has ever written." --A.J. Liebling, The New Yorker

Facing the Bridge, by Yoko Tawada

Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination

"Tawada's stories agitate the mind like songs half remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within." --The New York Times

Written Lives, by Javier Marias

Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe)

"It is difficult to be moderate about the charm of these brief portraits . . . Delicious, slyly ironic. . . . A delightful volume." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

An Elemental Thing, by Eliot Weinberger

If you dream of a jaguar, people are coming.
If the jaguar bites you, they are not people.
--Eliot Weinberger, from "Lacandons"

"His remarkable use of simultaneity and collage is something that didn't quite exist before. His work makes you sit up in your seat." --Times Literary Supplement

"Weinberger is a master of distilling massive amounts of information into a compelling takedown." --TimeOut

Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolano

Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

Now available as a paperbook, Last Evenings on Earth is the first story collection by Roberto Bolano -- "the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag).

"If you haven't heard of Roberto Bolano yet, you will soon." -- Benjamin Lytal, The New York Sun

Montano's Malady, by Enrique Vila-Matas

Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne

A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co.

"Mr. Vila-Matas shows that the reasons for (and the consequences of) not writing fiction can, in a funny way, be almost as rich and complicated as fiction itself." --The Economist

Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, by Jimmy Santiago Baca

In a Whitmanesque voice that aims toward American universals, while remaining grounded in his Chicano ancestry, Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the cycles of the seasons and the cycles of life in beautiful and accessible poems.

"His fervent writing hooks you in and leaves you breathless." --Library Journal

The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams

Edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis

With a CD of the Author Reading

Now available in a paperbook edition that comes with a CD of the author reading some of his poems in his unmistakable Mississippi drawl.

DS (2), by Kamau Brathwaite

The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

"His dazzling, inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable vision, make Kamau Brathwaite one of the most compelling of late twentieth-century poets." --Adrienne Rich