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Contents
Frontlist 4
Reprints 24
Recently Published 32
Modern Backlist 39
Classic Backlist 47
Contact Details 65
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The Struggle with the Daemon:
Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig
Translated from the German by
eden and Cedar Paul
The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the
European psyche by the great novelist and biographer
Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German
literature and thought: Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich
von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche—powerful minds
whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism
of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating
passions drove them mad but inspired them to great
works. In their struggle with their inner creative
force, Zweig reflects the conflict at the heart of the
European soul—between science and art, reason and
inspiration. Both highly personal and philosophically
wide-ranging, this is one of the most fascinating of
Zweig’s renowned biographical studies.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548865 • 336pp • £11.99
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member
of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and
was first known as a poet and translator, and later as a biographer. Zweig
travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoyed literary
fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year,
with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship.
After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942
he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.

The Essence of Place
Petr Král
Translated from the French by
ChriStoPher MonCrieff
The Essence of Place is a personal memoir of Petr
Král’s experiences growing up in post-war Czechoslovakia
and subsequent years in Paris.
Armed only with his poetic sensibility, Král sets
out to explore our relationship with the places
that we inhabit and with the apparently unremarkable
everyday objects, which often inform
and enrich our lives.
Král bears witness to Flaubert’s observation that
“in order for something to become interesting, we
simply have to look at it for a long time”. He reveals
not only the inner life—the very essence—of
mundane objects and places, but also simple yet
profound truths about ourselves.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548872 • 288pp • £12
Petr Král, born in Czechoslovakia in
1941, was a member of the Czech surrealist movement.
He moved to Paris in 1968, where he has a considerable
reputation as a poet and essayist. He now lives in
Prague. The Essence of Place is a worthy successor to
Král’s Working Knowledge published by Pushkin Press
in 2008, and Loving Venice in 2011.

The Forbidden Kingdom
JaCob Slauerhoff
Translated from the Dutch by
Paul VinCent
The Forbidden Kingdom is a classic of early Modernism
and this is the first English translation of Slauerhoff’s
masterpiece. Blending historical chronicle, fiction
and commentary, it brings together the seemingly
unrelated lives of a twentieth-century ship’s radio
operator and the sixteenth-century Portuguese
poet-in-exile, Luis Camões. Slauerhoff draws his
reader into a dazzling world of exoticism, betrayal
and exile, where past and present merge and the
possibility of death is never far away.
Through a narrative that evolves into a critique
of European history, culture and colonialism,
Slauerhoff also speculates about the lessons to be
learnt from history.
Cover: Planta da Fortaleza de Macau (1635) © Fundo
Patrimonial Biblioteca Pública de Évora, Portugal.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548889 • 170pp • £12
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden,
in the Netherlands. After a childhood plagued by bouts of asthma, he
studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he also began writing poetry. His first work
was published in 1921, and by the end of his life he was considered one of the
most important Dutch writers. In 1923 Slauerhoff signed up as a ship’s surgeon
with the Dutch East India Company and travelled many times to the Far East,
Latin America and Africa. On his last voyage, to South Africa in 1935, Slauerhoff
contracted malaria. He died in 1936 at thirty-eight.

Blame
aManda harleCh
After an unsatisfying relationship, twenty-five-yearold
Graye Weston falls immediately under the spell
of Anthony Tierney, a virile gentleman farmer whose
crumbling country pile contains long-buried family
secrets. Abandoning London for a life of rustic seclusion
at Oerley Hall, Graye finds herself feeling increasingly
isolated as her wedding day approaches, troubled by
mysterious noises in the night and the many unanswered
questions concerning her fiancé’s background.
What was the real fate of Anthony’s brother Lyonel,
and how is it connected with his time in Tuscany twenty
years previously? Who is the tall, debonair stranger
and why does his visit to the Hall infuriate Anthony?
And whose are the nocturnal footsteps in the attic?
Moving backwards and forwards from the 1960s to
the present day, Amanda Harlech’s captivating debut
is a Gothic romance in the tradition of Jane Eyre and
Rebecca, telling a powerful and moving story in vivid,
impressionistic prose.
Publication: SuMMer 2012
ISBN 9781906548834 • 152pp • £10.99
Amanda Harlech was born in London and lives in
Shropshire. After studying English at Oxford, she worked at
Harpers & Queen before moving to John Galliano’s label.
She has famously worked ever since at Chanel, as creative
consultant and muse to designer Karl Lagerfeld. Amanda has
featured in numerous short films and Blame is her first novel.
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young Gerber
friedriCh torberg
Translated from the German by
anthea bell
Kurt Gerber embarks enthusiastically on his
last year at school, determined to focus on
that all-important final exam. He soon finds,
however, that he is constantly at odds with his
sadistic teacher, Professor Kupfer, known to
the students as “Lord God Kupfer”, who takes
a particular dislike to him. Inspired partly by
Torberg’s own experience of his final schoolleaving
exam, which he passed only at the
second attempt, and partly by the suicides of no
fewer than ten school students in a single week
in the winter of 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless
tale of classroom angst, and an undisputed
classic of Austrian literature.
Publication: SuMMer 2012
ISBN 9781906548896 • 314 pp • £12
Friedrich Torberg was born in Vienna in 1908 to a Jewish family. He worked
as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague, until 1938 when he was forced to
emigrate to France as a result of Nazi persecution. Moving to America, Torberg was
nominated by New York PEN-Club one of the ten outstanding German anti-Nazi
writers. He worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter and for Time magazine until 1951,
when he returned to Vienna where he died in 1979.
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Simona Sparaco was born in Rome,
where she now lives and works. She wrote her first story
at the age of twelve, has studied screenwriting, and
currently writes for Italian television. Her first novel
Lovebook published in 2009, was a bestseller in Italy.
About Time
SiMona SParaCo
Translated from the Italian by
howard CurtiS
Svevo Romano is every woman’s dream turned nightmare.
He may be handsome, affluent, and at the peak of his
career, but he’s also a workaholic by day and a playboy
by night, haunting the trendiest clubs in Rome, relentlessly
womanising and snorting cocaine, trying to overcome a
nagging feeling of pointlessness.
Until, one day, everything changes—his mind starts
playing strange tricks on him and his perception of time
suddenly speeds up. Svevo finds himself in a race against
time, trying desperately to hold on to all the things he once
thought important. Everything seems to be swept away in
this mad whirl, but as his life spirals out of control a woman
comes to his rescue, a woman very different from any other
he has known. When he is with her, the world slows down
as if by magic and life acquires a meaning that seems to
reach beyond time and space.
Publication: SuMMer 2011
ISBN 9781906548902 • 180pp • £10.99
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The New Adventures of
Sinbad the Sailor
SaliM baChi
Translated from the French by
Sue roSe
Sinbad the Sailor is reborn as a young, adventurous
man in present-day Algeria. Accompanied by
a mysterious mongrel, this lover of women and
beauty embarks on a journey—from Algiers to
Damascus, passing through Rome, Paris, Aleppo,
Baghdad—that takes him on a headlong pursuit of
happiness and love.
A tale of our times—sometimes cruel, often funny
and always fascinating—this novel tells the story
of a man coming to grips with the stark realities of
war within the framework of legend. It is at once a
reconciliation of East and West and a resounding
judgement on the state of the modern world.
Publication: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781906548919 • 200pp • £12
Salim Bachi was born in Algeria in 1971. He studied literature
in Algeria and France, and now lives and works in France. His first book Le
Chien d’Ulysse was awarded the Goncourt du Premier Roman and his fourth
book Le Silence de Mahomet was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix
Renaudot. Published by Pushkin Press in 2010 as The Silence of Mohammed
it is currently longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
The New Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, first published in 2010, was also
shortlisted for the Prix Renaudot.
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The Hidden Force
louiS CouPeruS
Translated from the Dutch by
Paul VinCent
Set in Java at the height of Dutch colonial rule in
the East Indies, Couperus’ evocative and sensual
narrative depicts the clash between Western
rationalism, represented by the district commissioner
Otto van Oudijck, and ancient indigenous mystical
traditions upheld by the local native prince, Sunario.
The behaviour of Van Oudijck’s promiscuous
wife Léonie proves to be his Achilles heel, and his
seemingly impregnable authority disintegrates.
“His insight into the tragedy of European colonialism
made Couperus a great writer. And his sympathy for
the hybrid, the impure, the ambiguous, gave him a
peculiarly modern voice.” Ian Buruma, The New York
Review of Books
Publication: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781906548926 • 300pp • £12
Louis Couperus was born in The Hague in 1863. Couperus
spent much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies, and many of his novels and
stories are set there. He gained prominence in 1889 with the publication of
Eline Vere—a psychological novel inspired by the style of Zola and Flaubert.
Eline Vere was followed by Ecstasy in 1892, Psyche in 1898 and Inevitable
in 1900; all available from Pushkin Press. A renowned wit, raconteur and
commentator, Couperus continued to publish critically and commercially
successful work until his death in 1923.

Letter From an
Unknown Woman
and other stories
Stefan Zweig
Translated from the German by
anthea bell
These four Stefan Zweig novellas, newly translated by the awardwinning
Anthea Bell, are among his most celebrated and compelling
work. The titular tale is a devastating depiction of unrequited love,
which inspired a classic Hollywood film directed by Max Ophüls,
and starring Joane Fontaine.
Elsewhere in the collection, a young man mistakes the girl he loves
for her sister, two erstwhile lovers meet after an age spent apart,
and a married woman repays a debt of gratitude to her childhood
sweetheart. Expertly paced, laced with the acutely accurate
psychological detail and empathy that are Zweig’s trademarks, this
is a powerful addition to Pushkin’s growing collection of his work.
Publication: winter 2011
ISBN 9781906548933 • 200pp • £12
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-
Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator,
and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and
enjoyed literary fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with
the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in
New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an 20 apparent
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Mental Healers:
Mesme, Eddy and Freud
Stefan Zweig
Translated from the German by
eden and Cedar Paul
Franz Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy and
Sigmund Freud—three influential thinkers
who travelled very different paths in their
search for the crucial link between mind and
body. Zweig’s brilliant study explores the lives
and work of these important figures, raising
provocative questions regarding the efficacy
and even the ethics of their methods.
An insight into the minds of three key thinkers
who shaped the philosophy of our age, Mental
Healers is a wonderfully intriguing and
thought-provoking biographical work from a
renowned master of the genre.
Publication: winter 2012
ISBN 9781906548940 • 411pp • £11.99
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member
of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and
was first known as a poet and translator, and later as a biographer. Zweig
travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary
fame. His stories and novellas were collected in 1934. In the same year, with
the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship.
After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil where in 1942 he and
his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.
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The Break
Pietro groSSi
Translated from the Italian by
howard CurtiS
“A beautiful and deceptively simple little novel”
New York Journal of Books
Dino is a placid, unambitious man. A stonelayer
like his father before him, living in a small
provincial town, he and his wife pass the time
planning journeys to faraway places—journeys
they never take. Dino’s only passion is billiards,
and he spends his evenings in the local billiards
parlour honing his technique. One day,
however, Dino’s quiet life is interrupted—his
wife falls pregnant. This sparks a series of
events that shake Dino from his slumber and
challenge him for the first time.
As in his widely praised Fists, Pietro Grossi’s
muscular, stripped-down prose brings out the
epic human drama in a tale of everyday life.
Reprint: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781906548841 • 196pp • £7.99
Pietro Grossi was
born in Florence in 1978 and
now lives and works between
Tuscany and Milan. Inspired
by authors such as Hemingway
and J D Salinger, he
has been writing since the age
of eight. Grossi’s short story
collection Fists, published by
Pushkin Press in 2009, won
the Campiello Europa Prize
and was shortlisted for the
Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize in 2010.

The Light in Between
Marella CaraCCiolo Chia
Translated from the Italian by
howard CurtiS
“A perfect Christmas read” The Independent
It was in June 1916 that Princess Vittoria Colonna
met the Futurist painter Umberto Boccioni. The
love affair between them was brief but intense—
on August 17th Boccioni died following a fall from
his horse. The last letter he received from Vittoria
was found in his wallet.
This collection of letters, which remained hidden
for almost a century, is all that remains of their
relationship and provides a basis for the story
Marella Caracciolo Chia tells. Set in the midst
of Italian and English high society against the
threatening backdrop of the First World War,
this moving account also provides a compelling
insight into a remote and fascinating world.
Reprint: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781908968050 • 200pp • £9.99
Marella Caracciolo Chia was born in Montreal, studied
at Oxford and London universities and now lives in Rome. A journalist and
writer, in 1995 she was the co-author of a book on the gardens of the Caetani
family, Il Giardino di Ninfa. Among her recent publications are a memoir of
the artist Niki de St Phalle and For the Love of Italy, a journey through rural
Italy.

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The French Father
alain elKann
Translated from the Italian by
alaStair MCewen
“A delightful book [...] unlike anything else I’ve
ever read” The Jewish Chronicle
Having now become companions in the
afterlife, under the ironic and tender smile of
a sculptured angel guarding their tombs, The
French Father describes a dialogue between two
men buried alongside each other in the cemetery
of Montparnasse. One man is strict, upper
middle class and a firm believer in the values
and principles of the grande bourgeoisie, the
other man is unconventional, whose exuberant
lifestyle and creative imagination echoed in
his roaring laughter. Elkann finds harmony in
the clashing proximity of his father—a man of
stern measures—and the unruly artist. What
might have been a story of grief becomes one
of peaceful vitality united through a shared
inheritance and faith.
Reprint: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781908968043 • 120pp • £7.99
Alain El kann
was born in New York in
1950. An award-winning
novelist, essayist and
journalist, he has published
over twenty books and is a
regular contributor to Italian
newspapers and magazines.
The French Father is
Pushkin’s second Elkann
translation, following the
publication of Envy in 2007.
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Oliver VII
antal SZerb
Translated from the Hungarian by
len rix
“Oliver VII is constructed out of pure joy”
The Guardian
The restless ruler of an obscure Central
European state plots a coup against himself
and escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’
experience. There he falls in with a team of
conmen and ends up, to his own surprise,
impersonating himself. His journey through
successive levels of illusion and reality teaches
him much about the world, about his own
nature and the paradoxes of the human
condition.
Reprint: autuMn 2012
ISBN 9781908968067 • 176pp • £7.99
Antal Szerb was born into a cultivated Jewish family of Jewish
descent in 1901. He graduated in German, English and Hungarian, and
rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, publishing books on
drama and poetry, studies of Blake and Ibsen, and Histories of English,
Hungarian and World Literature. In 1933 he was elected president of the
Hungarian Literary Academy. He was also known as an essayist, playwright
and as the author of various novellas and a historical fiction, The Queen’s
Necklace. He died in a labour camp in 1945.

Traveller of the
Century
andréS neuMan
Translated from the Spanish by
niCK CaiStor & lorenZa garCia
In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller
on his way to Dessau stops off for a night
in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He
intends to move on the following day, but the
town begins to ensnare him with its strange,
shifting geography. After befriending an old
organ grinder and falling for the daughter of
a local merchant, he soon finds it impossible
to leave.
A novel of philosophy and love, politics
and waltzes, history and the here-and-now,
Traveller of the Century is a journey into the
soul of Europe, penned by one of the most
exciting South-American writers of our
time.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548667 • 584pp • £12.99
Andrés Neuman was
born in 1977 in Buenos Aires and later
moved to Granada, Spain. He has a
degree in Spanish Philology from the
University of Granada, where he also
taught Latin American literature. Neuman
was selected as one of Granta’s
Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists
and was included in Hay Festival’s
Bogotá 39 list. He has published numerous
novels, short stories, essays and
poetry collections. He received the Hiperión
Prize for Poetry for El tobogán,
and Traveller of the Century won the
Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics
Prize in 2009.

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The Man Who
Walked through Walls
MarCel ayMé
Translated from the French by
SoPhie lewiS
The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has
always been able to pass through walls,
but has never seen the point of using
his gift, given the general availability of
doors. One day, however, his tyrannical
boss drives him to desperate, creative
measures; he develops a taste for intramural
travel and becomes something of
a super-villain. How will the unassuming
clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime?
Aymé’s genius lies in imagining the
practical unfolding of bizarre and
difficult situations. In each story,
anarchic comedy is arrested by moments
of pathos, only to descend into anarchy
and hilarity once more.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548643 • 250pp • £12
Marcel Aymé was born in
Joigny, France in 1902. Working
at first as a journalist, Aymé was
able to dedicate himself entirely
to literature following the success
ofThe Green Mare, a dark satire
on sexuality published in 1933.
Aymé’s ironic, disillusioned perception
of the state of affairs in France
following the German occupation
and French resistance, produced a
body of work that is at the forefront
of twentieth-century French literature.
Aymé died in Paris in 1967.

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Recipes for Sad
Women
héCtor abad
Translated from the Spanish by
anne MClean
No one knows the recipe for happiness—
and yet Héctor Abad has given us a whole
volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at
times wise, can cure almost anything—
although the ingredients are not always
easy to come by. ‘Cauliflower in the
Mist’ is protection against melancholy,
seasoned with salty tears, while a morsel
of prehistoric coelacanth fish can allay any
guilt.
A collection of sensual ruminations, spiced
with subtle wit and irony, this volume offers
practical advice on how to eschew sadness,
attract joy and retain delight.
Publication: SPring 2012
ISBN 9781906548636 •120pp • £10
Héctor Abad was born
in Medellín, Columbia, in 1958.
He was twelve when he wrote his
first stories, going on to win the
1980 Colombian National Short
Story Prize at just twenty-one. In
1987 his father was murdered
by paramilitaries, and Abad was
forced to escape to Italy. While in
exile, he published his first book,
Malos Pensamientos (1991)
but it was only upon returning
to Colombia on 1993, that he
become a full-time writer. His
auto-biographical Oblivion: a
Memoir has recently become
available in English.

Modern baCKliSt
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Cliffs
MODERN BACKLIST
oliVier adaM
During the course of a single night the narrator reflects on his
memories, sensations and loss—and, above all, on the love
that has saved him from despair.
Translated by Sue roSe
ISBN 9781901285 75 8 • 144pp • £8.99
An Education in Happiness:
The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore
flaVia arZeni
The two Nobel Prize-winners Rabindranath Tagore and
Hermann Hesse were very different, but they both understood that
the path to happiness is paved with small acts and simple notions.
Translated by howard CurtiS
ISBN 9781906548117 • 196pp • £10
The Silence of Mohammed
SaliM baChi
Before he became the prophet of Islam, Mohammed was
a simple man of flesh and blood. Based on history and
legends, the novel presents a fictionalised account of “this
exceptional man”, told by key characters in his life.
Translated by Sue roSe new edition
ISBN 9781906548445 • 352pp • £8.99
Rendezvous in Venice
PhiliPPe beauSSant
Five years after his uncle’s death, Pierre finds a diary in which
his uncle had written of a secret, heartbreaking love affair.
Translated by Paul buCK & Catherine Petit
ISBN 9781901285550 • 128pp • £10.99
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The Writing of Art
OLIVIER BERGGRUEN
This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century
art through the prism of aesthetics. Each essay
explores a different vision and Oliver Berggruen’s approach is
both scholarly and highly intimate.
ISBN 9781906548629 � 175pp � ������
EDUARDO BERTI
The year is 1920, and a representative of an electricity company
attempts to convince villagers of the benefits of artificial
light, but learns that the village hides deep secrets.
Translated by ALEXANDER CAMERON & PAUL BUCK
ISBN 9781901285420 � 160pp � ���
How I Lost the War
FILIPPO BOLOGNA
Time runs slowly and serenity reigns in a Tuscan village renowned
for its thermal baths… until the arrival of Ottone Gattai,
a greedy and ruthless businessman intent on transforming
the legendary spa…
Translated by HOWARD CURTIS
ISBN 9781906548360 � 273pp � ������
The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of
Amedeo Modigliani
VELIBOR COLIC � ´
Spanning the turbulent last months of Modigliani’s life, this
evocative novel captures the full essence of his Bohemian
lifestyle. It also conveys something of the intense artistic life
of Paris in the early twentieth century.
Translated by CELIA HAWKESWORTH
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Envy
MODERN BACKLIST
alain elKann
A writer falls victim to an obsessive curiosity about a famous
artist. The narrator’s envy grows as he begins to fear that his
wife could succumb to the charm of this seductive man who
attracts women, paints them and then discards them ...
Translated by alaStair MCewen
ISBN 9781901285819 • 128pp • £7.99
I Was behind you
niColaS fargueS
“For all this time, all these years, I’ve been right behind you, as close as can be,
and you didn’t notice me. It’s obvious you and I were meant to be together ... ”
An impressive and subtle account of gender relations
and examining the choices one has made in the past.
Translated by Sue roSe
ISBN 9781906548056 • 192pp • £12
Open Secret
CarloS gaMerro
Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians ‘disappeared’
by the military government. Twenty years later,
young Fefe returns to Darío’s town and attempts to discover
how the community permitted such a crime to occur.
Translated by ian barnett
ISBN 9781906548483 • 286pp • £9.99
Fists
Pietro groSSi
Three stories, three portraits of young men learning the realities
of adult life. Characters, bound together by fate, struggle
to find meaning in human existence.
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010.
Translated by howard CurtiS
ISBN 9781906548384 • 160pp • £7.99
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The Moonstone Legacy
diana de gunZburg & tony wild
On a quest to solve the mystery of her family’s curse, Lizzie
travels from the yorkshire moors to India where she uncovers
the terrible truth about her ancestor. But her discoveries put
her in mortal danger …
young adult fiCtion new edition
ISBN 9781906548216 • 304pp • £8.99
The Inheritance
Peter StePhan JungK
In a harrowing chase from Venezuela to Miami, via Hamburg
and Panama City, against the backdrop of Hugo Chàvez’s
failed 1992 military coup, Daniel Loew fights desperately to
regain his inheritance.
Translated by MiChael hofMann
ISBN 9781906548209 • 240pp • £10
Philosophy for Polar Explorers
erling Kagge
It’s about dreams, ups and downs and motivation. Mainly, it’s
not only about becoming someone, but how important it is just
to be on your way. It might not be as difficult as you think!
Translated by Kenneth SteVen
ISBN 9781901285697 • 176pp • £10.99
Loving Venice
Petr Král `
This encounter with the city of the Doges is a love letter to a
place that arouses strong and contradictory emotions. Král’s
ethereal prose carries us through the floating city and provides
a portrait both intimate and universal.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff
ISBN 9781906548476 • 93pp • £10
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Working Knowledge
Petr Král `
Petr Král brings together what his compatriot Milan Kundera
describes as a “strange and beautiful existential encyclopedia
of the everyday”.
Introduction by Milan Kundera
Translated by franK wynne
ISBN 9781901285734 • 160pp • £12
Anthology of Apparitions
SiMon liberati
Claude is haunted by memories of 1976, when he was sixteen
and his sister Marina was only a child. When Marina started to
lose her way, Claude did nothing to save her.
Translated by Paul buCK and Catherine Petit
ISBN 9781901285581 • 144pp • £10.99
Three Lives
oliVer MatuSCheK
Drawing on a great wealth of newly available sources, Oliver
Matuschek’s biography of Zweig offers the reader a privileged
view into the private world of a master of psychological insight.
Translated by allan blunden
ISBN 9781906548292 • 381pp • £20
Alphabet of the Night
Jean-euPhèle MilCé
In Haiti, Jeremy embarks on a quest to discover the fate of
his best friend, who disappeared in ominous circumstances. A
great deal is revealed, about Jeremy and about Haiti itself.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff
ISBN 9781901285765 • 120pp • £7.99
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The Age of Flowers
uMberto PaSti
As Luca’s wife’s terminal illness threatens his crumbling existence,
he escapes reality into a dream-like garden, to which he
devotes himself with deperate passion.
Translated by alaiStair MCewen
iSbn 9781901285475 • 224pp • £10
The Game of Cards
adolf SChröder
The young Markus Hauser takes a job with Selma Bruhns, a
strange elderly lady. One day Selma proposes a game of cards
that will change his life for ever.
Translated by andrew brown
iSbn 9781901285710 • 144pp • £8.99
The Fascination of Evil
florian Zeller
When the narrator receives an invitation to visit Egypt as the
guest of the French Embassy in Cairo, he does not foresee the
extraordinary events that will ultimately lead to murder.
Translated by Sue dySon
ISBN 9781906548049 • 160pp • £7.99
Julian Parme
florian Zeller
Julien Parme is fourteen-years old and disillusioned. But tonight
his love for Mathilde will mould his destiny and form the
beginning of his adult identity—that of a great author.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff
ISBN 9781901285970 • 256pp • £12
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Lovers or Something Like it
florian Zeller
A story of the futility of love for the lost souls of Generation X.
Tristan planned to stay single forever, but a meeting with Amelie
sparks off feelings he has been trying, at all costs, to avoid.
Translated by Sue dySon
ISBN 9781901285529 • 144pp • £10.99
Artificial Snow
florian Zeller
Artificial Snow is centered on the narrator’s love for Lou, a woman
with whom he had a brief relationship and who has become
an obsession.
Translated by Sue roSe
ISBN 9781901285840 • 128pp • £10
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A Journey to Mount Athos
françoiS augiéraS
Augiéras spoke of A Journey to Mount Athos as “a sojourn
in the Land of Spirits” inspired by the time he spent with
monks on Mount Athos, the “Holy Mountain”.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff and Sue dySon
iSbn 9781901285390 • 256pp • £12
Journey of the Dead
françoiS augiéraS
A cult classic which began as a diary in the Fifties when
Augiéras was a shepherd in the Sahara. The narrator
makes no secret of the pleasure he derives from his illicit
encounters or his repudiation of conventional morality.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff
iSbn 9781906548681 • 264pp • £12
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
françoiS augiéraS
In the depths of the Sarladais, “a land of ghosts, cool caves
and woods” a teenage boy is sent to live with a priest. This
is one of modern literature’s esoteric, underground texts.
Translated by Sue dySon
iSbn 9781901285444 • 112pp • £9
Beautiful Image
MarCel ayMé
Raoul Cerusier has changed his appearance somewhere
between home and the government office he is visiting. Exploring
his new identity, he realizes his true nature.
Translated by SoPhie lewiS
iSbn 9781901285673 • 224pp • £10
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Petersburg
andrei bely
Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, Petersburg is
a story of apocalypse and redemption played out through
family dysfunction, conspiracy and murder.
Translated by John elSworth new edition
iSbn 9781906548438 • 560pp • £10.99
Inevitable
louiS CouPeruS
A young Dutch divorcée tries to begin a new life in Italy. An
outcast from society her financial situation rapidly worsens.
She then encounters her ex-husband ...
Translated by Paul VinCent
iSbn 9781901285598 • 336pp • £10
Ecstasy
louiS CouPeruS
A young widow falls in love with a notorious womanizer.
The tranquil Dutch setting belies the suffering and pain that
the widow has to endure in the midst of polite society.
Translated by teixteira de MattoS and John gray
iSbn 9781901285024 • 160pp • £6
Psyche
louiS CouPeruS
A modern fairy tale, unmitigating in its detailing of harsh
cruelty. This love story is even less straightforward, even
more tortured than the Greek myth from which it derives.
Afterword by régiS debray
Translated by John howe
iSbn 9781901285215 • 80pp • £9
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Eline Vere
louiS CouPeruS
In 1889, Dutch society was enthralled by Eline Vere.
Published in weekly installments it minutely describes the
conventions, manners and hypocrisies of society.
Afterword by Paul binding
translated by ina rilKe
iSbn 9781906548261 • 604pp • £15
Against Venice
régiS debray
Debray criticises the world of parties and palazzi in a refreshingly
irreverent way, luring the traveller back to this
seductive city.
Afterword for this edition by régiS debray
Translated by John howe
iSbn 9781901285406 • 80pp • £9
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
CharleS diCKenS
In 1837 Charles Dickens, rewrote the famous clown
Grimaldi’s autobiography. The result is a work comparable
to Sketches of Boz, and the Pickwick Papers.
iSbn 9781901285949 • 352pp • £12
Letter to a Hostage
antoine de St exuPéry
Saint-Exupéry’s observations on the aimless existence of
his fellow exiles in Lisbon filled with parties, gambling and
spies leads him to examine the nature of existence itself.
Translated by JaCqueline gerSt new edition
ISBN 9781906548018 • 64pp • £7
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Chateau d’Argol
JULIEN GRACQ
A dissolute, rich and aimless young man invites his best
friend to stay. The friend arrives not alone, but with a beautiful
woman whose detached amorality disturbs both men.
Translated by LOUISE VARESE
ISBN 9781901285147 � 144pp � ��
A Dark Stranger
JULIEN GRACQ
A couple arrive at a hotel in 1920s Brittany, the other guests
soon become obsessed with the man. One by one they realise
that Death has come to spend the summer with them.
Translated by CHRISTOPHER MONCRIEFF
ISBN 9781901285826 � 256pp � ���
The Other Sleep
JULIEN GREEN
Within Denis, a struggle rages between the wild joy of being
alive and the despondency of existence. It is in an exquisitely
etched Paris, that his unspoken passion gradually unfolds.
Translated by EUAN CAMERON
ISBN 9781 901285284 � 128pp � ���
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
This volume contains a carefully chosen selection from
the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales—the most
famous and influential of all the great nineteenth-century
folklore collections.
Translated by ANTHEA BELL
ISBN 9781906548681 � 268pp � ���
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Peter handKe
Handke’s depiction of his mother’s suicide after the Second
World War is a loving portrait of grief, of a woman whose
lively spirit has been crushed by the miseries of her time.
Translated by ralPh ManheiM
ISBN 9781901285178 • 80pp • £8
Hymn to Old Age
herMann heSSe
Hesse lived well into his eighties and this anthology traces
his thoughts and experiences over several of those decades.
The collection captures the problems, delights and very frequently
the humour of old age.
Translated by daVid henry wilSon
ISBN 9781906548322 • 255pp • £10
The Nutcracker The Strange Child
e t a hoffMann
The whole text of E T A Hoffmann’s classic The Nutcracker
and the Mouse King, together with The Strange Child, in which
Felix and Christlieb meet an unusual playmate in the woods
and have to deal with a sinister new schoolmaster.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781906548315 • 144pp • £10
Andreas
hugo Von hofMannSthal
A young aristocrat travels to Venice. His loss of innocence
takes place in the misty alleyways and gloomy palaces,
whose masked inhabitants confuse and entice him.
Afterword by oliVer berggruen
Translated by Marie hottinger
ISBN 9781901285017 • 192pp • £9
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Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro
henry JaMeS
Henry James first came to Venice as a tourist and was soon
fascinated by the city. This selection of letters provides a
unique record of the life and work of this great writer.
illustrated edition
Introduction by leon edel Edited by roSella MaMoli ZorZi
Afterword by PatriCia CurtiS Viganò
ISBN 9781901285079 • 224pp • £10
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner
henry JaMeS
These letters add another dimension to what we know of
Henry James’s relationship with Venice, and serve as an
introduction to the world of Isabella Stewart Gardner.
illustrated edition
Edited by roSella MaMoli ZorZi
ISBN 9781901285833 • 336pp • £12
Diary of a Seducer
Søren KierKegaard
Diary of a Seducer is the disturbing narrative of a man who
explores his sense of detachment by deliberately arousing
the passion of a young society girl.
Translated by alaStair hannay
ISBN 9781906548032 • 192pp • £7.99
The Necklace The Pearls
guy de MauPaSSant iSaK dineSen
The Necklace is a story of vanity, of two lives blighted by the
loss of a diamond necklace, whilst The Pearls is a story of
love and fear.
Translated by Jonathan SturgeS.
ISBN 9781906548025 • 64pp • £7
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The Allure of Chanel
PAUL MORAND
In her own words, Chanel tells us about her friendships,
the men in her life, her philosophy of fashion and the story
behind the legendary N° 5 perfume ...
Translated by EUAN CAMERON
ISBN 9781901285987 � 180pp � ���
The Allure of Chanel
PAUL MORAND
A beautiful luxury edition illustrated by Karl Lagerfeld,
with B&W photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean
Moral, Frank Horvat, Francois Kollar and Boris Lipnitzki
Translated by EUAN CAMERON
With illustrations by KARL LAGERFELD
ISBN 9781906548100 � 224pp � ���
Hecate and Her Dogs
PAUL MORAND
The narrator, sent to North Africa to run a branch of a
French bank, begins a liaison with a married woman, only
to discover in her shocking depths of perversity.
Translated by DAVID COWARD
ISBN 9781901285802 � 160pp � ���
Tender Shoots
PAUL MORAND
These three stories, about a trio of independent young
women, are set in London—the city Paul Morand loved.
Stylish, poetic and highly original, the tales were a breath
of fresh air on the French literary scene of the Twenties.
Foreword by MARCEL PROUST
Translated by EUAN CAMERON
ISBN 978 1906548650 � 142pp � ���
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Paul Morand
Venices is a poetic evocation of certain scenes among Morand’s
rich and varied encounters and experience, filtered
through the one constant in his life—Venice.
Afterword by oliVier berggruen
Translated by euan CaMeron
ISBN 9781901285413 • 256pp • £12
The Journal of Julius Rodman
edgar allan Poe
A fictionalized account of the first travels across the Western
Wilderness and the adventures experienced by a handful
of men in country never before explored by “civilised
man”.
illustrated edition
Afterword by MiChael daVid
ISBN 9781901285956 • 144pp • £10
Count d’Orgel
rayMond radiguet
Count d’Orgel is the study of a three-sided relationship set in
Parisian society after the First World War.
Afterword by Jean CoCteau
Translated by Violet SChiff
ISBN 9781901285031 • 160pp • £8.50
The Devil in the Flesh
rayMond radiguet
François meets Marthe in Paris during the First World
War. While Marthe’s husband is away at the Front, the
two embark on a love affair with tragic consequences.
Translated by ChriStoPher MonCrieff
ISBN 9781906548254 • 128pp • £10
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Laura: A Journey into the Crystal
george Sand
A strange and compelling tale with echoes of Jules Verne,
H G Wells, Conan Doyle’s Lost World and Phillip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials.
Translated by Sue dySon
ISBN 9781901285512 • 128pp • £10
The Man who Sees Ghosts
friedriCh Von SChiller
A young prince of Protestant faith becomes embroiled in a
diabolical net of political intrigue and religious conspiracy.
Translated by daVid bryer
ISBN 9781901285123 • 160pp • £10
Casanova’s Return to Venice
arthur SChnitZler
The story of an ageing Casanova’s desire to return to Venice
after a life of exile, a desire contrasted with his still libidinous
yet weary pursuit of women, money and prestige.
Translated by ilSa barea
ISBN 9781901285161 • 192pp • £9
Dying
arthur SChnitZler
When Felix is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Marie
makes a rash vow to die with him. She then risks shattering
her ideal of how she ought to behave with her dying lover ...
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781901285741 • 120pp • £7.99
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Fraulein Else
arthur SChnitZler
Else receives a telegram from her mother, begging her to
save her father from debtor’s jail by borrowing money from
an elderly acquaintance.
Translated by f h lyon
ISBN 9781901285062 • 112pp • £7.50
Sonnets
williaM ShaKeSPeare
Shakespeare’s sonnets amount to some of the finest poetry
ever written in English. The verses that compose the sonnets
are often subversive, elusive and intimate, shaping an erotic
body of poetry in the pursuit of the depths of emotion.
ISBN 9781901285994 • 160pp • £10
The Bachelors
adalbert Stifter
Victor travels to a remote island, and finds that he has become
a virtual prisoner of his only relative, an uncle he has
never met.
Translated by daVid bryer
ISBN 9781901285703 • 160pp • £10
A Life
italo SVeVo
Alfonso, a bank clerk with a poetic spirit, seeks to retain his
sense of artistic grandeur in the stifling atmosphere of his office.
Then he falls passionately in love with Annetta, the vain
and arrogant daughter of the owner of the bank ...
Translated by arChibald Colquhoun
ISBN 9781901285628 • 320pp • £9.99
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Love in a Bottle
antal SZerb
This selection of stories and novellas, set variously in
mythical times and in the London and Paris of the
Twenties and Thirties, reflects Szerb’s love of life and the
irrepressible irony that is his trademark.
Translated by len rix
ISBN 9781906548285 • 240pp • £12
Journey by Moonlight
antal SZerb
While on his honeymoon in Italy, Mihály “loses” his bride
at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre
journey that leads him finally to Rome.
Translated by len rix
ISBN 9781901285505 • 240pp • £7.99
The Pendragon Legend
antal SZerb
Janos Bátky is invited by the eccentric Earl of Gwynedd, to
Pendragon Castle. He finds himself subject to a bizarre world
of mysticism and romance, science and murder.
Translated by len rix new edition
ISBN 9781901285895 • 240pp • £7.99
The Queen’s Necklace
antal SZerb
In this unusual, witty and often surprising version of the story
of Marie Antoinette’s necklace, Antal Szerb uses the narrative
as a standpoint from which to survey an entire age.
Translated by len rix new edition
ISBN 9781906548612 • 320pp • £9.99
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The Jumping Frog and other Sketches
MarK twain
Capturing the light and humorous spirit of Mark Twain’s
early work these sketches became immensely popular and
launched the author’s fame.
illustrated edition
ISBN 9781901285932 • 240pp • £10
Madame de
louiSe de VilMorin
Madame de is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of society
that has the simplicity of a fairy tale and the elegance of an
eighteenth century roman-à-clef.
Afterword by John JuliuS norwiCh
Translated by duff CooPer
ISBN 9781901285208 • 80pp • £5
Franziska
ernSt weiSS
Franziska follows a grimly determined path to achieve a
career as a concert pianist, which takes her to Prague, and
eventually to a destructive dénouement in pre-war Berlin.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781901285789 • 272pp • £10
Jarmila
ernSt weiSS
Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s,
this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and
a toy maker who falls under her siren spell.
Translated by rebeCCa MorriSon and
Petra howard-wuerZ
ISBN 978190128529 1 • 192pp • £10
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Glimpses of the Moon
edith wharton
A couple agree to separate when either finds a more eligible
proposition. As they honeymoon in Venice jealousy, passion,
and envy begin to trouble the relationship.
ISBN 9781901285567 • 320pp • £12
Amok & other stories
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig’s four tragic and moving cameos of the human
condition are played out against cosmopolitan and colonial
backgrounds in the first half of the twentieth century.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781901285666 • 144pp • £7.99
Burning Secret
Stefan Zweig
A lonely twelve-year-old boy becomes infatuated by a suave
and mysterious baron who has set out to seduce the boy’s
mother.
Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize Winner 2009
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781901285857 • 160 pp • £10
Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture
Stefan Zweig
Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile
from his beloved city and who created his own myth, is the
subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig.
Translated by eden and Cedar Paul
ISBN 9781906548063 • 160 pp • £10
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Stefan Zweig
An aging man remembers himself as a reluctant and indolent
student, and the chance encounter with a professor that was
to inspire him for the rest of his life.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781 901285222 • 144pp • £10
Fear
Stefan Zweig
Irene Wagner starts an affair with a young pianist. When
she finds herself blackmailed by her lover’s former mistress,
Irene is soon in the grip of an agonising fear.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781906548186 • 112pp • £10
The Royal Game
Stefan Zweig
The reigning world chess champion plays an unknown
passenger on a cruise. The stranger’s diffidence masks his
extraordinary ability, but also his dark and damaged past,
the horror of which emerges as the game unfolds.
Translated by b w huebSCh new edition
ISBN 9781901285116 • 96pp • £8
Twilight Moonbeam Alley
Stefan Zweig
Twilight is the story of a noblewoman banished from Versailles
by the king. In Moonbeam Alley, a traveller is enticed
into a curious bar and learns of the mysterious story behind
its existence.
Translated by anthea bell
ISBN 9781901285574 • 96pp • £10
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Wondrak Compulsion In the Snow
STEFAN ZWEIG
In these stories the reader discovers Zweig’s compassion
towards human suffering, his horror of war and his faith in
idealism, generosity and love.
Translated by ANTHEA BELL
ISBN 9781901285864 � 128pp � ���
Beware of Pity
STEFAN ZWEIG
In 1913 a young second lieutenant discovers the terrible
danger of pity. He had no idea the girl was lame when he
asked her to dance…
This is a brand-new translation of Zweig’s masterpiece.
Translated by ANTHEA BELL
ISBN 9781906548414 � 460pp � �����
Journey into the Past
STEFAN ZWEIG
Separated by the First World War, Ludwig has finally returned
home to meet the woman he loved, and who promised
to wait for him. But circumstances have changed ...
Translated by ANTHEA BELL
ISBN 9781906548094 � 128pp � �����
Magellan
STEFAN ZWEIG
In this biography, Zweig brings to life the Age of Discovery
by telling the tale of one of the era’s most daring adventurers,
whose astounding feats of navigation heralded the
modern age.
Translated by EDEN and CEDAR PAUL
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Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig
In this, the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since
its publication, Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s
soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a
Queen under the weight of misfortune and history.
Translated by eden and Cedar Paul
ISBN 9781906548308 • 592pp • £11.99
Mary Stuart
Stefan Zweig
With all the rigour of a scientist and the passion of an artist,
Zweig has skillfully sketched a period full of political
turmoil, as well as the intriguing character of Mary Stuart.
Translated by eden and Cedar Paul
ISBN 9781906548377 • 446pp • £11.99
Selected Stories
Stefan Zweig
A new selection of Stefan Zweig’s most powerful novellas
including Fantastic Night, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The
Fowler Snared, The Invisible Collection, Buchmendel and Twenty-four
Hours in the Life of a Woman.
Translated by anthea bell and eden and Cedar Paul
ISBN 9781906548223 • 256pp • £9.99
The World of yesterday
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher
the day before his tragic death, brings the destruction
of a war-torn Europe vividly to life.
Translated by anthea bell new edition
ISBN 9781906548674 • 496pp • £14.99
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