New England Booksellers

Greed

by Jelinek, Elfriede, and Chalmers, Martin (Translated by)

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. New from the publisher From the Nobel Prize-winning author....Greed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, where the investigation of a dead girl's body in a lake leads to the discovery of more than a single crime. Inher signature style, Jelinek chronicles the exploitative nature of relations between ... Read More

Wonderful, Wonderful Times

by Jelinek, Elfriede

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Masks S. New from the publisher Four bored teenagers plan a brutal gratuitous act as an expression of contempt for the mediocrity of everyday life in Austria. Jelinek's prose is breathless and incisive as she paints psychological portraits of her characters in swift, sure brushstrokes. --Publishers Weekly¶Winner of the 1986 Heinrich Böll Prize. Read More

Exposition

by Léger, Nathalie, and DeMarco, Amanda (Translated by)

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. New from the publisher The first in Nathalie LeÌger's acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie LeÌger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress. In each, LeÌger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research--an archivist's journey into the ... Read More

The Childhood of Jesus

by Coetzee, J M

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. New from the publisher From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace. Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of ... Read More

The Schooldays of Jesus

by Coetzee, J M

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. New from the publisher LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of Davíd, Simón, and Inés. The Death of Jesus is forthcoming from Viking. When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. ... Read More

Animalia

by del Amo, Jean-Baptiste, and Wynne, Frank (Translated by)

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. New from the publisher A prizewinning and word of mouth literary sensation in France, Animalia is an extraordinary epic that retraces the history of a modest French peasant family over the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an industrial pig farm, a visceral, chilling tale of man and beast The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose ... Read More

Card Catalogue

by Blyth, Alistair Ian

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 151 p. British Literature. New from the publisher Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike narratives loosely linked by the subject of libraries: book hoarding, book hunting, book burning, and, above all, the dreams of infinite other books-past and future-that every individual codex volume inspires. Whether he is describing his encounters with ... Read More

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

by Imarisha, Walidah (Editor), and Brown, Adrienne Maree (Editor), and Thomas, Sheree Renee (Foreword by)

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 285 p. Contains: Illustrations. New from the publisher Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. These ... Read More

Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy

by Milstein, Cindy (Editor)

Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 300 p. New from the publisher In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only make matters worse. There's a growing sense that we'll have to fix this mess on our own. But how? Deciding for Ourselves, in the spirit of the Zapatistas, demonstrates that the impossible is possible. A better world through self-determination and self-governance is not only ... Read More