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Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Adam (INT) Michael Henry (TRN); Thirlwell Bohumil; Heim Hrabal
Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal; Adam Thirlwell (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
"Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion ...Show more
Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
This yarn takes place in the suburbs of a giant city. In Brasilia they're coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they're having their first whisky sours - that's what's happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. He has had ...Show more
Multiples: 12 stories in 18 languages by 61 authors by Adam Thirlwell (Editor)
Category: Accessories
An ingenious international literary relay race in which stories pass from hand to hand, from language to language, changing all the while, with surprising, thought-provoking, and frequently funny results. Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an u ...Show more
Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández; Margaret Schwartz (Introduction by, Translator); Adam Thirlwell (Preface by)
Category: Classics
"I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio, imperfect previous versions. To not imitate this canon would have ...Show more
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell
Category: Fiction
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist A wild story of female friendship, language and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment- a historical novel like no other. ...Show more
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