The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story (Phoenix Fiction Series)
 "Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished."-Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review When the Berlin Wall was ... [... more]
$14.00
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Old New Land
Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. There were Jewish settlers in Palestine, and Zionist ideas had existed in Eastern Europe before Herzl, but Herzl ... [... more]
$26.95
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Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Faceless Killers marks the "brilliant US debut" (Library Journal) of Henning Mankell's highly successful Kurt Wallander detective series. Taut and atmospheric, this winner of Sweden's Best Mystery Award is a gripping mystery in the classic ... [... more]
$14.95
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One Step Behind
Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. On Midsummer's Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander's most trusted colleagues-someone whose help he hoped to rely ... [... more]
$13.95
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Kafka's Prague: A Travel Reader
Franz Kafka rarely left his home town of Prague. At 19, he wrote "Prague doesn't let go. This little mother has claws." And though he complained often to his diary that he needed to get away, he spent most of his 41 years (1883-1924) firmly ... [... more]
$21.95
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Stockholm : City of My Dreams (Stockholm Series, 1) ...
This is the first book in Fogelstrom's five-volume Stockholm Series, which broke the record for bestsellers in his native Sweden. After reading the series in Swedish, Jennifer Brown Baverstam, an accomplished translator of Swedish and French, and married ... [... more]
$18.95
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A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia
In Europe, where it has been seen as pro-Serbian, journalist Peter Handke's meditative essay on ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia has been stirring up a great deal of controversy. But Handke, a German and a longtime resident of Paris, disavows ... [... more]
$17.95
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Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book
Two works by one of the 20th-century's great writers. In Death in Venice, a renowned author finds himself infatuated by a young boy - an attraction that proves fatal. A Man and His Dog is a charming essay about Mann's canine companion, a friendly mongrel ... [... more]
$11.95
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Season In Paradise (A Harvest Book)
Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and mythologies of Africa, but in reality his ... [... more]
$17.00
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The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These ... [... more]
$11.00
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Demian (Perennial Classics)
In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious shoolmate Max Demian--into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and ... [... more]
$12.95
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Death in Venice
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the ... [... more]
$19.95
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