New York Review Books Classics
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Mr. Fortune's maggot: and, The salutation
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
Just before his death, Sanford Friedman completed this, his final novel, something entirely different from anything he, or for that matter anyone, had written before - Conversations with Beethoven, a moving meditation on greatness and pettiness, vulnerability and genius, that is as elegiac as it is witty and engaging.
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A legacy
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His only son
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The invisibility cloak
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Paris vagabond
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A family lexicon
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Late fame
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Anniversaries: from a year in the life of Gesine Cresspahl
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Compulsory games: and other stories
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Havoc
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Inhuman land: searching for the truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942
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Ivory pearl
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Criminal child: selected essays
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A king alone
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Three summers
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The word of the speechless: selected stories
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Dissipatio H.G.: the vanishing
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Divorcing
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The end of me
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: selected stories of Nikolai Leskov
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Motley stones
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24) Living pictures
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The prolonged German siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was among the most destructive sieges in history, leading to mass starvation and well over a million deaths. The contemporary Russian poet and scholar Polina Barskova, born in Leningrad, has done extensive research on the siege in archives in St. Petersburg, research that has borne fruit in Living Pictures, an extraordinary dramatization of life under the most extreme of circumstances....
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The right to be lazy and other writings
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26) Telluria
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however, travel everywhere...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Wounded Age begins with a conversation between an unnamed couple, referred to as the Man and the Woman: "I'm leaving soon, he says. / Where, she asks. / East. The mountains." We are given no names, barely any punctuation, just the barest trail of dialogue set as verse: this is the spare style and austere language of the canonical Turkish author Ferit Edgü, a master of distillation. In the two books paired here and translated into English for...
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Our philosopher
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