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originally: $29.95 The classic war novel, published in 1929, is a timeless document of the devastation and tragedy of World War I. Published here with sixty compelling and previously unpublished photographs from that war, the novel is amplified and given visual and historical context.
originally: $22.00 A murderer is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle. While this so-called Indian Killer terrorizes the city, its Native American population is thrown into turmoil. John Smith, an Indian adopted as a newborn baby into a white family, is increasingly dissatisfied with his life and dreams of the existence he might have led on the reservation; he is gently descending into madness. Indian Killer is a powerful book that offers a disturbing portrait of an Indian man without a tribe, Sherman Alexie's latest novel tells a gritty and compelling story that skillfully explores alienation, identity, and the dark heart of racial hatred.
originally: $24.00 David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In the pages of his novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, he has created as unique a voice and view as any writer at work today, rendering a dazzling array of interior states with delicious insight and humor. In this new collection, the author extends his range and craft in twenty-two stories that intertwine hilarity with an escalating disquiet to create almost unbearable tensions. With Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace reaffirms his reputation as a "passionate and deeply serious writer."
originally: $40.00 Eugenio Montale, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, brought the tradition of Italian lyric poetry that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Montale forged a myth out of his own story that resonates profoundly with contemporary man's anguished existential experience of love and solitude, and his beautiful, stirringly individual work deals courageously and subtly with the dilemmas of the modern era: its tormented history and politics, its struggle with doubt and belief. The most influential Italian writer since Gabriele D'Annunzio, Montale was deeply attracted to Anglo-American poetry; more so, perhaps, than any major European poet. His work in turn has been widely translated, and echoes of his voice can be heard in two generations of American and British poets.
originally: $19.95 When Michael Whittingham joins his local camera club and stumbles across a bizarre photograph from 1959, he is plunged into an investigation which takes him through the seedy world of fifties glamour photography; a world which has surprising connections with his troubled childhood. Before long, he finds himself in the grip of a dangerous obsession. Diary of an Amateur Photographer is an original and intriguing whodunnit which lays bare the dark side of suburbia and is a testament to Graham Rawle's extravagant and eccentric talent.
originally: $21.00 Ever since he was released from a concentration camp forty years earlier, Erwin Siegelbaum has been obsessively riding the trains of postwar Austria. His days are filled with drink, his nights with brief love affairs and the torments of his nightmares. What keeps him sane is his mission to collect the menorahs, kiddush cups, and holy books that have survived their vanished owners. And the hope that one day he will find the Nazi officer who murdered his parents; and have the strength to kill him. The Iron Tracks is a haunting novel of one survivor's complex, wrenching, inner world; distinguished by the depth of insight and the distinctively stark, elegant style that have won Aharon Appelfeld recognition as one of the world's great writers. |
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originally: $22.00 The Gardener's Son is a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and ultimately violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals. This is the first appearance of the film script in book form.
originally: $23.95 In the mid 1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder, in hand. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey without ever writing them down. The answer, they think, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining natural habitat of the oral epic. Part spy novel, part comedy of errors, The File on H. is a work of inventive genius and piercing irony that may be Ismail Kadare's funniest and most accessible to date.
originally: $23.00 Each episode in this dazzling debut collection of short stories captures the spark in some tiny detail of everyday life in contemporary St. Petersburg and fans it into a story that flares with comedy, surreal passion, heartbreaking indifference and mad Russian excess. These are sad, whimsical, macabre, bleakly funny stories, all told in a playful and voluptuous prose that is itself an homage to the great Russian masters whom Schulze is honoring; from Gogol to Pasternak, from Chekhov to Nabokov.
originally: $21.00 A remarkable literary discovery: Lost for 125 years, this fascinating novel, set in 1960s Paris but written a century earlier, reveals an astonishingly prescient view into the future by the world's most renowned science fiction writer. Paris in the Twentieth Century depicts a society that has been taken over by business and technology. The streets are filled with noisy automobiles and lit y electric lights; there is an elaborate subway system, and stores stay open all night. People communicate via fax machines and rely on computers and calculators; they're subjected to cacophonous concerts played by electrified musical instruments. Executions are carried out by electric chair. None of these inventions had been invented when he wrote it. This astonishing book is comparable to Brave New World and 1984 in its chilling, dystopian view of a future world, and although it predates both novels by at least seventy years, its predictions are much closer to the truth.
originally: $24.95 The summer of '47. In the sleepy town of Villiers-la-Foret, roughly an hour from Paris, Olga and her son spent the long years of World War II suffering the deprivations of that time but somehow surviving. She also faced a special problem: her son was afflicted with hemophilia (from which the townspeople who knew concluded that she must be related to the czar). Medicines and medical care were of little help. Yet if love could prevail, she would make him survive...Love has its limits, its limitations and boundaries. But in a woman of great passion, what do such limits mean when you know that each day may be the last for your beloved son? The Crime of Olga Arbyelina is a an epic novel about the Russian émigré experience in France after the World War II by the prize- winning author of Dreams of My Russian Summers. |
All Quiet on the Western Front: the Illustrated Edition
Indian Killer
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Collected Poems 1920-1954
Diary of an Amateur Photographer
The Iron Tracks
The Gardener's Son
The File on H.
33 Moments of Happiness
Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel
The Crime of Olga ArbyelinaFor questions about these titles, contact remainders@harvardsquarebookstore.com.
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