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Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, whopainted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illnessand died poor in 1902.

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With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai - whose often dark and cynical work occupies something of a cult place within the Japanese canon - is a disconcerting and astute portrait of life in late-stage capitalist society.

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A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman - a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's oeuvre.

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A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, 'a major American writer' (New York Times).

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Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a mind that is as undeniably singular as it is universal.

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Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading.

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'We have to look suicide in the face, long and hard, and see what features, what profile, what inherited character traits and wrinkles emerge.'

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A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn.

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What is pretentiousness Why are we afraid of it And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture Drawing on the author's own experiences growing up and working at the more radical edges of the arts, this book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and diversity in our culture.

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'Meet girls. Take drugs. Listen to music.' In Rave, cult German novelist Rainald Goetz takes a headlong dive into nineties techno culture.

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Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel's fourth novel, treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence and originality that have won her international acclaim.

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The co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize,Tellis a probing, exuberant and complex examination of the ways in which we make stories of our lives and of other people's.

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A rich and vivid novel about Michelangelo in Constantinople from the 'mesmerizing' (New Yorker) and 'masterful' (Washington Post) author of Compass.

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Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.

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The Book Against Deathis the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.

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Blending fiction and essay, poetry and philosophy, Agustin Fernandez Mallo'sThe Book of All Lovesis a startling, expansive work of imaginative agility, one that makes the case for hope in the midst of a disintegrating present.

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Surreal, ambitious and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabet is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood.

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The third novel by Janet Frame, one of New Zealand's foremost writers,The Edge of the Alphabetis a piercing, startlingly strange work about identity, the post-colonial experience and the search for connection in a lonely world, publishedon the centenary of her birth.

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In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.

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A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.

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A darkly funny and subversive Gothic horror novel by Poland's greatest modernist.

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The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and strikingly original' (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones - now published in the UK for the first time by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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The Second Body is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.

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Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation on eroticism, photography and writing, a major work by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.