Archipelago books ny (86 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 284 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge. This copy is a paperback with French flaps. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Soft cover. Condición: NEAR MINT. Estado de la sobrecubierta: NEAR MINT. FIRST THUS. GIFT CONDITION LIKE NEW UNMARKED FIRST ARCHIPELAGO EDITION WRAP AROUND JACKET. N/A (ilustrador).

paperback. Condición: fine. 5 3/4 x 7 : 302 pages. translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

Paperback. Condición: Good to Very Good. 275 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Paperback with French flaps. Remainder mark on bottom fore-edge. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 236 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence. Clean copy. Record # 401198.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in a pictorial wrapper, 71 pages. A small masterpiece, Pea?s lyrical autobiographical novel paints a fiery and intimate portrait of an old man through the bold brushstrokes of his grandson. The passions and tensions between the old eccentric and his brothers play themselves out in mythical sketches before a vivid backdrop of the hills of Lunigiana. Moscardino, the first novella of his tetralogy, Il romanzo di Moscardino, is anarchic and haunting. Pound conducts Pea?s vernacular song, allowing images to flow from the land, the flesh, and beyond. Clean, bright copy. Record # 471923.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 114 pages. "This début novel?by an acclaimed Argentinean writer, and first published in 1958?centers on a sixteen-year-old who becomes pregnant after an assault by an older man. Setting the story in the sweltering heat of Argentina?s Pampas, Gallardo re-creates the world of ranchers and missionaries from the perspective of the girl, with her adolescent confusion and private sense of guilt. Gallardo juxtaposes her solitary desperation?she visits a local medicine woman for an abortion, and gallops recklessly on horseback to induce a miscarriage?with the conservative Catholic society that closes ranks against her." Clean, bright copy. Record # 401194. …

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 235 pages. Poems (1945-1971), now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The collection chronicles the writer?s reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheavel in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Sachtouris? world is one of primary colors, blindingly bright and slightly surreal; images?of broken glass, of howling dogs, of bloody gauze and people who fly?recurring like totems throughout his work, bind the poems together into a tight unity. Sachtouris?s verses build upon one another to an extraordinary degree, creating a kind of cumulative madness, a paralogical perspective that comes at the world?or flies from it?always at an angle, never straight on. CLEAN COPY. Record # 471924.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 259 pages. Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rózewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, Rózewicz continues to be a prolific writer and an acerbic commentator on his life and times. This collection combines his latest three volumes: professor's knife, gray zone, and exit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master. Clean copy. Record # 401202.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 127 pages. Eastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds. Racing toward Vladivostok, we meet the young Aliocha, packed onto a Trans-Siberian train with other Russian conscripts. Soon after boarding, he decides to desert and over a midnight smoke in a dark corridor of the train, he encounters an older French woman, Hélène, for whom he feels an uncanny trust. A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently ask?through a pantomime and basic Russian that Hélène must decipher?for her help to hide him. Clean copy. Record # 401201.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 109 pages. Dedicated to Duras? companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed ? or imagined ? by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister?s murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion. Clean copy. Record # 401196.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 273 pages. Ikonomou?s stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis?laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes. Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes?gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich?now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomou?s concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians? slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Clean copy. Record # 401049.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 362 pages. By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu?s own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu?s own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky ? and to places deep within ourselves?introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people. Clean copy. Record # 401047.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. João Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil?s most acclaimed poets. From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language. Avoiding ceremony and circumstance, they follow centuries-old paths rather than struggle to break new ground. Clean copy. Record # 401132.…

Condición: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. Elias Khoury?s most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who ?lost her face in the mirror,? he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a frightening reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape and imprisoned. He is forced to confess to crimes of which he has no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites, he begins to grasp his family?s past and recall all that his psyche has buried, and the true Yalo begins to emerge. Clean copy. Record # 471905.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba?s isolation in the world. Clean copy. Record # 401137.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Moving from the Great Lakes to the jazz bars of Detroit and Chicago, Of Song and Water is a tale of singlehanded sailors and jazz musicians, of working-class dreams blighted by family duty, personal betrayals, and the untold violence between fathers and sons. The novel follows the life of Coleman Moore, a jazz guitarist of early fame who finds himself adrift and in the company of ghosts: his mentor, a black jazz legend trying to live peacefully on the edge of a white town; his grandfather, a Prohibition rumrunner turned ruthless entrepreneur; and his first love, a clear-headed woman who refuses to live in the dark tunnels of the past. As he abandons music and turns his mind to a damaged sailboat, Coleman begins a hazardous course, risking the love of his daughter and the trust of Brian James, his longtime collaborator and friend. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401041.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 215 pages. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Record # 401048.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 162 pages. Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother?s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother." Clean copy. Record # 401136.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 292 pages. Tranquility, the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, "we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,? writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary?s Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401043.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 305 pages. The Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his beloved store filled with more than seventy years of fugitive histories. Jumping from the present to various points in the past, the novel ferries us back to Vicenzo's childhood, when his father opened the store in 1935, to the years that the store was run by his Uncle Eliseo, and to the years in the lead-up to the democratic transition, which Vicenzo spent as far away from the bookstore as possible, in Madrid. Clean copy. Record # 401058.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 194 pages. A heartfelt masterpiece about the joys of travel, reading, and companionship. In rural Canada, dotted along the coast of a vast mauve river, live villagers of different stripes: a recently divorced hydroplane pilot, a factory-worker who closely resembles her fisherman husband, a probing motorcyclist with a pet St. Bernard, a pair of beautiful blonde joggers, and other curious characters. For all their differences, each is brought together by a soft-spoken man, referred to only as ?the Driver,? who travels up and down the coast each season, delivering books to areas not served by libraries and listening closely to the villager?s tales and to their woes. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401039.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish?s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Clean Copy. Record # 401133.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 240 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence. Record # 401055.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 468 pages. Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Clean copy. Record # 401033.…

Condición: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. Tarjei Vesaas?s final work, The Hills Reply, is a flow of intensely lyrical autobiographical scenes. The vivid beauty of the wilds of Norway grounds the narrator?s interior flashes. The first sketch finds a boy, his father, and their packhorse clearing a logging road buried in snow as their surroundings give way to a crisis. Profound insights into human behavior, solitude, and nonverbal communication stand up to the power and immensity of the natural world. The land speaks to (and at times almost swallows) the central character, as he is pushed to the edge of what a body and mind can endure. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401037.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, trade paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, very light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a touch of edge wear to the covers, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy.

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $20, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. VLADISLAVIC, IVAN. The distance. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2020, stated First Archipelago Books edition, 290pp., . "In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero, recording the showman's words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes, Formica tabletops, Ovaltine, and drop-offs in their father's Ford Zephyr, conjuring the textures of childhood, what emerges is a collision of memories, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive, fragmented novel, Vladislavic evokes the beauty, and the strangeness, of remembering and forgetting, and explores what it means to be at odds with one's surroundings". ISBN 9781939810762.…

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $22, attractive copy, very good. KOVACIC, LOJZE. Newcomers. Book Two. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2020, stated First Archipelago Books edition., 384pp., . Translated from the Slovenian. - Author: Kovac?ic?, Lojze. ISBN 9781939810403. …

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $20, attractive copy, appears unused, slightly uneven at bottom of spine. HERMANS, WILLEM FREDERIK. A guardian angel recalls. Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2021, stated First Archipelago Books edition., 511pp., . ISBN 9781953861023. …