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The Emissary
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani
Paperback
Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature

Library Journal Best Books of 2018

Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness”
Compass
Mathias Énard, Charlotte Mandell
Paperback
Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world
Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories
Alexander Kluge, Donna Stonecipher, Isabel Cole
Paperback
Revolving around the opera, these tales are an “archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence” (W. G. Sebald)
The Overstory: A Novel
Richard Powers
Hardback
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of...
Territorial Rights
Muriel Spark
Paperback
Wheels spin within wheels in Spark’s comedy of betrayals and terrorism, set in her beloved Venice