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It took me a while to learn that sometimes no matter how much, or how hard you love someone, or something, you have to let them go. You can’t save a sinking ship.

Sometimes, you have someone else you have to be strong for, who needs you more.

You ma

My future is a big ‘what if’ at the moment and I’m fine with that.
For the most part.
When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me.
When he asks me to nanny his kid, it’s a great way to make some extra mone

“Duras manages to combine the seemingly irreconcilable perspectives of confession and objectivity, of lyrical poetry and nouveau roman. The sentences lodge themselves slowly in the reader’s mind until they detonate with all the force of fused feeling and

A major publishing event: the previously untranslated story of a family’s moral reckoning and a daughter’s fall from grace, from the renowned author of The Lover and The War

Marguerite Duras, the Elena Ferrante of French literature, rose to global star

A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews—hailed on its French publication as Duras’s “secret confession”—offers readers a

A mesmerising early novel by the author of the international bestseller The Lover, that explores the same terrains of Indochina and erotic obsession.

Lol Stein's comfortable married life is disrupted when she returns to her hometown and recalls how she was abandoned by a former fiance.

y one of the world’s most acclaimed writers and the author of The Lover

One of France’s leading literary figures, Marguerite Duras casts a brooding, elegant spell over her readers with her acute portrayals of love, its aphrodisiacal power and its sweet

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a diffe

A young woman, working as a childminder for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench, she starts talking to a stranger, a travelling salesman, and their conversation gradually turns into an exchange of confide

The extraordinary range, complexity and power of Marguerite Duras – novelist, dramatist, film-maker, essayist – has been justly recognized. Yet in the years following her death in 1996, there has been an increasing tendency to consecrate her work, particu

Eine Stadt am Meer, irgendwo. Eine Frau, Anne Desbaresdes, Gattin eines Fabrikanten, ist mit ihrem kleinen Jungen bei einer Klavierlehrerin, Schreie auf der Straße, im Café drunten hat ein Mann eine Frau erschossen, man sagt, sie habe es von ihm verlangt.

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doome

El presente volumen contiene la totalidad del material literario de Marguerite Duras para la película de Alain Resnais, incluidas ciertas descripciones adicionales y fragmentos no incluidos finalmente. Una de las experiencias más singulares de la expresió

In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. The sophisticated dalliance

"Duras's language and writing shine like crystals."—The New Yorker

"A spectacular success. . . . Duras is at the height of her powers."—Edmund White

Available for the first time in English, Abahn Sabana David is a late-caree

The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad for the ancient Greeks, and as the Ramayana and Mahabarata in India. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tib

A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism. The story is wryly narrated by the chieftain's son, a self-professed "idio

Written by the true heir to Kafka, Borges, and Angela Carter, THE EMBROIDERED SHOES is a magical collection of hallucinatory tales set in a world where anything can happen, and everything does. Constructed like a set of graduated Chinese boxes, these post

The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a ps

Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sle

The first full-length novel by Chinese author Can Xue to appear in English

Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless supposition

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today

In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and fal

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature

Can Xue’s stories observe no obvious conventions of plot or characterization. That is the only rule they follow. Instead, they tend to

Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature
 In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often

"One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year"—Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire

Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：Positions《位置》

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：Getting Lost

简介：Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, m

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：Shame《耻辱》

简介：My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the tw

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：Things Seen

简介：“Annie Ernaux’s work,” wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, “represents a severely pare

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：The Possession《占领》

简介：Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she re

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：A Frozen Woman

简介：A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：A Man's Place《一个男人的位置》

简介：A Man's Place recounts the story of a daughter coming to terms with her formative years as sh

作者；Annie Ernaux

书名：Simple Passion《单纯的激情》

简介：In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared

This is the story of how a boy called Bob meets a blobfish fish called Blob…

And so begins a funny and heartwarming story of a very unusual friendship – and some very strange animals. An astonishingly brilliant World Book Day Book from one of today’s f

Now a family friendly major motion picture from Fox 2000 Studios—featuring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, and Kevin Costner as the voice of Enzo the dog!

In this young readers’ edition of the New York Times bestselling adult novel The Art of Racing

Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. The boy had been shuttled secretly to another city, along with his teenaged mother, while still a newborn. Now his mother has passed away,

Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s ab

Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station—both deciding whether to turn their families in.

Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that

In this heartbreaking and extraordinary first foray into fiction by Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Arab and the Jew and The Working Poor, David K. Shipler has delivered a miniature masterpiece.

Gibson has learned to keep his spirits up as he rece