archipelago new york (381 resultados)

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 201 pp.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 179 pp.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 279 pp., First printing of the softcover edition.

Paperback. Condición: new. Ponti, Claude Ilustrador. Paperback. AN "UGLY DUCKLING" TALE THAT KIRKUS REVIEWS CALLS A "WONDERFULLY STRANGE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY" FROM ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORSAN "UGLY DUCKLING" TALE THAT KIRKUS REVIEWS CALLS A "WONDERFULLY STRANGE JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY" FROM ONE OF FRANCE'S MOST ACCLAIMED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORSWhen he is born, Hiznobyuti is not exactly handsome. In fact, his parents and siblings say, "He's no beauty!" They say it so often, Hiznobyuti assumes it is his name. Wherever he goes, only embarrassment and shame await him. Hiznobyuti hides himself away, working on his inventions, until one day he receives a message from the stars. After a fight with his family, Hiznobyuti decides to run away. On a beautiful adventure by himself, he learns the secrets of the universe- how to communicate with trees and birds, how to wake up the sun, and how to see himself for who he truly is - a hero! When he returns from his journey, Hiznobyuti family rejoices and apologizes for not understanding how beautiful and important he was to them all along. From one of France's most celebrated children's writers comes a tender and playful portrait of what it means to be unique--the story of an "ugly duckling" who leaves his family to journey through a fantastical world. Full color.x 10. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Ponti, Claude Ilustrador. Paperback. French luminary Claude Ponti invents his own brilliant universe and invites everyone inside, in a book that was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews. Betsy Bird writes in School Library Journal, "Lush and lovely, cuddly and warm . . . one uncanny valley you may never wish to leave."In My Valley, Claude Ponti leads us on a journey through an enchanted world inhabited by "Touims" (tiny, adorable, monkey-like creatures), secret tree dwellings, flying buildings, and sad giants. Clever language and beautifully detailed maps of imaginary landscapes will delight children and adults alike. Ponti himself has said, "My stories are like fairytales, always situated in the marvelous, speaking to the interior life and emotions of children. That way each child can get what they want out of the images- the characters and dreams are their own." "Originally published as Ma vallaee by L'Ecole des loisirs, 1998 Paris"--Copyright page. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 244 pp., Translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 125 pp., Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 129 pp., Translated from the Afrikaans by J.M. Coetzee.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 211 pp., Translated from the German and with an afterword by Ross Benjamin.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 248 pp.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 138 pp., Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 192 pp., Translated from the Swedish by Victoria Haggblom.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 232 pp., Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.

softcover. Condición: Fine copy. 1st. Square 8vo, 385 pp., Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried.

softcover. Condición: Nearly fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 200 pp., Translated from the Basque by Amaia Gabantxo., Trivial rubbing to wrappers, else fine.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. To Mervas is a turbulent journey through the wilderness of memory, domestic violence, and the vast gulf between lost lovers. After years of insulating herself from humanity in the wake of her disabled son's death, Marta is jolted out of exile when a cryptic note arrives from Mervas, a ghost town deep in Sweden's desolate northern wilds. The letter is from Kosti, her once-great love, shattering a silence of more than twenty years. When spring comes she sets off alone for Mervas, without any notion of who or what might await her there. Physical and emotional abuse, longing and loss, and the nature of love and redemption are explored with remarkable empathy and a visceral lyricism in Elizabeth Rynell's stirring novel. A searing, raw, and haunting story of a reclusive woman's journey through love. A symphony of emotion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir- to die + miroir- mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic images, protean characters and what the author describes as "landscapes and spaces beyond death, spaces that have always existed and will always exist." An Orphic voyage into memory and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed. Mouroir. Breyten Breytenbach composed this wondrous ship of thought, this docu-dream, during a horrific period of incarceration. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctorface an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise, and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating glimpse into contemporary life in India. Coming out of a great storytelling tradition, My Kind of Girl is a moving and imaginative look at love from one of India's most celebrated writers. First published in Bengali as Moner mato meye: Kolkata [India]: Deb Sahitya Kutir, 1951. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Beckett's world- a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression gets straight to the point. In an entirely original voice, Eric Chevillard asks looming and luminous questions about who we are, the paths we've been traveling, and where we might be going - or not. Chevillard asks luminous and very funny questions about who we are, where we come from, and where we might be going. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Hinton, David - translator Ilustrador. 1st Edition. this is the second printing of the First Edition, clean, uncreased copy.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Poems (1945-1971), first published in 1978 and now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains work from the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The first of these volumes was written during the Axis occupation of Greece, and the last was published thirty years later during the military junta of 1967-74. Part poetic auto- biography, part historical document, this collection thus chronicles one writer's reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Evocative and deeply moving, Sachtouris's poetry builds up, block by linguistic block, an unforgettable vision that speaks even to those who inhabit worlds different and distant from his own. Bilingual edition of a major Greek voice. Full of brilliant imagery, alive, visceral, violent, melancholy, heart-wrenching. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brothers role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmers twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the countryside, The Twin ultimately poses difficult questions about solitude and the possibility of taking life into ones own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity, a world culturally apart yet laden with familiar longing. Winner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz R zewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. R zewicz'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, R zewicz 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, andexit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master. "The startling juxtaposition of sensual and brutal histories, of human and animal flesh, of the experience of war and of writing is Rozewicz's great achievement throughout twenty volumes of poetry."—"Guardian" From the earliest days of his poetic career, Tadeusz Rozewicz found a unique, pared-down style that consciously avoided metaphor and sought a new, painfully clear voice in which to express the horrors of wartime experiences. His work was immediately recognized as new and vital in Polish poetry, and he came to be regarded as one of the most important writers of his generation. "New Poems" is a collection of Rozewicz's three latest volumes in their entirety: "exit" (1998), "the professor's knife" (2001), and "gray zone" (2002). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. BP2 - An advance reading copy trade paperback book in very good condition that is lightly curled, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the Arabic by Peter Theroux. 7.5"x6", 317 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright, critic, and prominent public intellectual. He has published 10 novels, which have been translated into several foreign languages, including English, as well as several works of literary criticism. He has also written three plays. Between 1993 and 2009, he served as editor of Al-Mulhaq, the weekly cultural supplement of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Nahar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 342 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge. First Edition / First Printing. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0.

Hardcover. Condición: new. Duezakin, Akin Ilustrador. Hardcover. A book of philosphical questions for young children, by the acclaimed author of SOPHIE'S WORLD (over 40 million copies sold worldwide).Early readers of SOPHIE'S WORLD are now old enough to have young children of their own.A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape. Soon we realize he is on a journey of thoughts and dreams, asking questions about loss, myth, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being. Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions merge with the beautiful illustrations of Akin D zakin into a tale of friendship, love, and grief - and about daring to think about life as you live it. A book of philosophical question for children by Sophie's World author Jostein Gaardner, accompanied by dreamy illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette. Olga RavnAn incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves from within the limits of the psychiatric systemPerfect for fans of Tove Ditlevsen and devotees of Sylvia PlathIn honest, crackling investigations of the psychiatric system and the young people trying to find their way, Grabols soaring debut offers a critique of institutionalization and an urgent recalibrating of the language and conceptions of care.Im not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me, says Fine Grabols nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. A chair that greets you, or shiny tiles of floor that follow a peculiar grammar of their own. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot sleep, and practices her daily routines with the urgency of survival peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice all an acutely calibrated exploration into having a home.Structured as a series of intimate vignettes like those of Olga Ravn, What Kingdom thrums with the swirling voices of this shared home. Hector blares Michael Jackson from the recreation room and recalls a past in Peru when his psychoses were treated with exorcism. The town would shake the devil out of his small, teenage body before he was relocated to Denmark. Or Marie, who has lived in the temporary unit since she was eighteen, has no idea that her mother lives just four floors below in a permanent care unit.Echoing the aching writings of Janet Frame on electroconvulsive therapy, or Linda Bostroem Knausgards mythical meditations on silence and mental health, Fine Grabol renders a delicate and deep uncoupling from the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. ** SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS 1 OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR **** INCLUDED ON THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **At The New York Times Book Review, I think it's fair to say we were dazzled by the way the author creates . . . a miniature masterpiece of narrative tension and compression Emily Eakin, "The Book Review" podcastIn this gripping tale, a Russian conscript and a French woman cross paths on the Trans-Siberian railroad, each fleeing to the east for their own reasonsPerfect for fans of Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle and The Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesEastbound is both an adventure story and a duet of two vibrant inner worlds.In mysterious, winding sentences gorgeously translated by Jessica Moore, De Kerangal gives us the story of two unlikely souls entwined in a quest for freedom with a striking sense of tenderness, sharply contrasting the brutality of the surrounding world. 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, Helene, for whom he feels an uncanny trust.A complicity quickly grows between the two when he manages to urgently askthrough a pantomime and basic Russian that Helene must decipherfor her help to hide him. They hurry from the filth of his third-class carriage to Helenes first-class sleeping car. Aliocha now a hunted deserter and Helene his accomplice with her own inner landscape of recent memories to contend with. "In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself."A masterpiece of the epistolary novel told in diary entries . . . beautifully translated . . . deeply felt"-from an award-winning and bestselling Danish novelist (Bookforum)A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herselfSet 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."An engaging, honest, and beautifully written look at love, loss, and self-realization."-Kirkus Reviews Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.