Dalkey Archive Press - Böcker

Casting light and shadow, looking backwards and forwards, My Paris is a hynotizing tale of desire and nostalgia, magically submerging the reader in the endlessand not always seamlesssensuality of the City of Light. In My Paris, a Canadian woman ke...

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Amid a landscape of rubble, skeletal figures, and helplessness in Europe post-World War II, a girl and a man wander among the ruins. Hanna, a 12-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, is looking for her father. Marius, her companion, seems to be...

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A brutally comic portrait of marriage, taken to extremes reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. Edwin Mortens is almost blind, but has good hearing; his wife Erna is hard of hearing, but can see perfectly. Edwin sits locked...

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A tragic, visceral portrayal of motherhood and mental illness. In a prose form as startling as its content, The Shutter of Snow portrays the post-partum psychosis of Marthe Gail, who after giving birth to her son, is committed to an insane asylum....

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Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a s...

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Brimming with Elkin's comic brilliance and singular wordplay, The Magic Kingdom tells the story of Eddy Bale, who, determined to learn from the ghastly experience of his son's long, drawn-out death, decides to give seven terminally ill children a ...

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A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The novel's protagonist, living at a time that might be the pre...

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Suicide cannot be read as simply another novelit is, in a sense, the authors own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friendperhaps re...

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Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising pa...

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A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyones Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugals greatest living writer. The year is 2011, and our ag...

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Dhumketu is a wonderfully gripping storyteller, and translator Jenny Bhatt has certainly done him justice in this excellent selection. Jennifer Croft, translator of The Books of Jacob The tragic love story of a village drummer and his dancer lover...

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A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging. Im sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of litera...

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A historical document reintroducing Dallas as an early French socialist utopia, pieced from journal entries, letters, and sketches of French scholar Victor Considerant. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, where visions of egalitarian future...

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A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graffiti and murals decorate the walls of trendy shops, loft apartments, restaurants, nightclubs, ar...

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The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The River Always Wins and I Am a Teacher Every day, posits Marquis, every single human has to make a cho...

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Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America...

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Informed by the eerie paranoia of horror film, J. M. Tyree's uncanny novella follows a couple transplanted to Germany. While in the throes of writing a book on Hitchcocks Vertigo, a film scholar believes hes being followed by a strange presen...

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The story of one village, nestled in the Thai jungle, that has fallen under the spell of a mysterious religious leader; and the story of a family's defiance. In the village of Praeknamdang, a ten-year-old boy has big dreams of becoming a star shad...

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The metaphysically disorienting tale of a female captain who loses control of her thinking--and her crew--aboard a cargo ship in the Atlantic. Ultramarine begins when the female captain agrees to let her crew stop the engines and go for a swim. Bu...

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From one of our great artists of catastrophe (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Estheran allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the American whaling industry. Settin...

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The North American debut by cult favorite New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird, Juvenalia wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive. this impressive debut has established Hera L...

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Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Lookout tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana. Josiah and Margaret Kinzler have forged an unusual bond marked by both tendern...

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Moritz Wenk is a moderately unsuccessful artist workng part-time as a commercial painter. He forms a harmonious if uncommitted couple with Judith, a dental hygienist. During a hot week in summer, Moritz reflects on his own position in life while m...

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The unnamed narrator of Francis Bacons Armchair has just been released from an extended stay at a psychiatric hospital and now has only one objective: to shut himself away in his apartment and contemplate the best way to restart his life. But his ...

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A jaded journalist inherits an abandoned manuscript penned by an old acquaintance who has recently passed away. The writing-a collection of ruminations on the nature of existence by a fifty-three-year old businessman who, as far as the journalist ...

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Petar, a devoted family man, leaves his apartment to buy some coffee and goes missing. While his wife is desperately looking for him, he finds himself trapped in another womans dreams. As one dream encounter follows the other, Petar and the dreame...

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A mysterious character from the city arrives at a peaceful country village, attracting the interest of Josu, a young adolescent. Jos Luis, the newly arrived vicar, is the ideal mentor for any rebellious boy with a curious heart. More comfortable s...

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March Hares collects thirty years of Aidan Higginss essays, papers, and diaries, offering reflections on modern literature, modern readers, and Higginss own experience of the literary life in the twentieth century. In witty, insightful, often musi...

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A collection of fifteen stories, Jean McGarrys No Harm Done, depicts family life at its worst, best, and funniest, as if the author had conjoined the lunacy of Cold Comfort Farm with the bitter grievances of Dubliners. As the author writes in Stro...

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The Dogs of Inishere collects stories from across Alannah Hop- kins thirty-year career as a fiction and travel writer. The stories presented here move from adolescence to middle age, sensitive always to the particular social, emotional, and intell...

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