"Beloved by contemporary German readers, the poetry of Max Sessner is gathered for the first time in English in Whoever Drowned Here: New and Selected Poems. Painstakingly chosen from Sessner's celebrated three collections and from new work, these poems employ a matter-of-fact magical realism to engage the profound, philosophical mysteries of the everyday. Sessner makes nimble use of the material world as he choreographs poignant reenactments of human...

"Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri writes of love and the place of Arab women in the modern age. "I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman," she writes, "my freedom is so difficult and so desired." Her poems - presented here in a bilingual format - invoke the intoxicating power of seduction and the intensity of lust, the security of relationships and the muffled explosions of emotion."--Jacket.

Tells the stories of Lady Ehrengard's affair with an eccentric portrait painter and five people in the past who are caught up in their own peculiar fates.

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. The sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis, at the height of which comes one of the most famous and genuinely shocking scenes in Latin American literature. Clarice Lispector wrote that of all of her works this novel was the one that "best corresponded to her demands as a writer."

A collection of short stories dealing with the afterlife of Holocaust survivors in Canada.

"Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, is the first collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc telling the adventures of Arsène Lupin. It features the first nine stories depicting the character. Inspiration for numerous interpretations and adaptations in film, television, comic books, and games"--

"To the suburban mansion of a prosperous Milanese businessman comes a mysterious and beautiful young man who invites himself to stay. From the beginning he exercises a strange fascination on the inhabitants of the house, and soon everyone, from the busy father to the frustrated mother, from the yearning daughter to the weak-willed son to the housemaid from the country, has fallen in love with him. Then, as mysteriously as he appeared, the infatuating...

""Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of estab- lishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death-and the death of others. Faced with pressure to conform, he declared his individuality to the world-in all its self-involved, self-conscious, and self-hating...

"Has Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, finally met his match? In this, the second collection of short stories featuring Maurice Leblanc's titular character, Lupin matches wits with none other than Sherlock Holmes. The stories include 'Lottery Ticket No. 514,' 'The Blue Diamond,' 'Sherlock Holmes Opens Hostilities,' 'Light in the Darkness' 'An Abduction,' 'Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin,' 'The Jewish Lamp,' and 'The Shipwreck.'"--