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“I’m delighted to salute the Pushkin Press, whose
books are chosen, edited, designed, printed, and
published with a care and an energy worthy of the
authors represented on their list—which is one of
the most imaginative and eclectic I’ve seen. It’s a
small box full of treasure.”
Philip Pullman

Contents
Frontlist 4
Pushkin Paper 31
Pushkin Collection 43
Contact Details 60
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Traveller of the Century
Andrés neumAn
Translated from the Spanish by
nick cAistor & LorenzA GArciA
A traveller stops off for the night in the mysterious
city of Wandernburg. He intends to leave the following
day, but the city begins to ensnare him with its
strange, shifting geography.
When Hans befriends an old organ grinder, and
falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a local
merchant, he finds it impossible to leave. Through a
series of memorable encounters with starkly different
characters, Neuman takes the reader on a hypothetical
journey back into post-Napoleonic Europe, subtly
evoking its parallels with our modern era.
At the heart of the novel lies the love story between
Sophie and Hans. They are both translators, and between
dictionaries and bed, bed and dictionaries,they
gradually build up their own fragile common language.
Through their relationship Neuman explores
the idea that all love is an act of translation, and that
all translation is an act of love.
Publication: 29th mArch 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 transmural
travel and becomes something of a supervillain.
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: 28th June 2012
ISBN 9781906548643 • 300pp • £12
Marcel Aymé (1902-67) was one of the great French writers of the twentieth century.
Born in the Franche-Comté of Eastern France, he never lost touch with his rural origins, which
influenced much of his work. Initially perceived as a man of the left, throughout his life Aymé espoused
causes from across the political spectrum, for example apparently supporting Mussolini’s
colonialism in Africa whilst also campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty. He attracted
much controversy for his writings for collaborationist magazines during the Second World War,
and his defence of Nazi-sympathising friends including Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Robert
Brasillach in the post-war years. Nevertheless Aymé has remained hugely popular in France
– this collection is particularly famous, and a dozen of his novels have been turned into films,
among them the classics of French cinema La Traversée de Paris, La Vouivre and Uranus.

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Recipes for Sad Women
héctor AbAd
Translated from the Spanish by Anne mcLeAn
A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom,
Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook.
But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the
case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to
dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt),
or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying
reciprocated love, you will find no better collection of
recipes on the market.
An acclaimed novelist, essayist, journalist and translator,
Abad’s eccentric, sensual and wry guide is neither
unserious, nor entirely plausible in its advice. Elegant,
melancholic, funny and full of morsels of insight, it is deftly
and movingly instructional on the proper appreciation of
sadness
Publication: 5th JuLy 2012
ISBN 9781906548636 •156pp • £10
Héctor Abad Faciolince (b. 1958) is a novelist, poet, essayist, editor and translator.
He won the Colombian National Short Story Prize at the age of twenty-one and has twice
won the Símon Bolívar Prize for journalism. In 1987, his father was murdered by Colombian
paramilitaries and Abad was forced into exile, moving first to Spain and then to Italy. He
published his first book, Malos Pensiamentos (1991) while in exile, but it was only when he
returned to Colombia in 1993 that he became a full-time writer. Abad is one of a new generation
of iconoclastic Colombian writers looking for new ways of depicting reality in general, and
Colombian contemporary society in particular. His style shares an affinity with Umberto Eco
and Italo Calvino’s; a champion of stylistic experimentation and flexibility, he favours ‘artists
who have changed (Picasso)’ and ‘writers who search (Calvino)’, over those who pursue a
single unchanging style. His Oblivion: a Memoir was published in English in 2011.

In Search of
the Essence of Place
petr kráL
Translated from the French by
christopher moncrieff
A unique and elliptical self-portrait, In Search of the
Essence of Place constructs the story of a life from its
echoes and reflections in the territories it makes its
own. From childhood dens beneath a piano and forts
built beneath tables, it spreads out past the family
home, to the field beyond and the businesses past
that, and then to a barracks town perforated with
secret spaces, and a whole country that exists only
as a façade.
Compelling and poetic, it explores place with intense
care, and finds it fluid and richly associative – as
familiar places come to jostle for territory with our
own interiors, or with each other (as Czech towns
increasingly bear an American inflection). In a
text that becomes its own rolling landscape, Král’s
extraordinary language is born from and rewards
deep, unusual attention and feeling.
Publication: 26th JuLy 2012
ISBN 9781906548872 • 286pp • £12
Petr Král born in Prague in 1941, was a leading member of the Czech surrealist
movement, studied cinema and moved to Paris in 1968. A poet, essayist and screenwriter,
he writes in French and Czech. He has lived in Prague since 2006. His books Working
Knowledge (2008) and Loving Venice (2011) are also published by Pushkin Press.

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: 26th JuLy 2012
ISBN 9781906548865 • 336pp • £12.99
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born 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, then 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 bed in an apparent double suicide.

About Time
simonA spArAco
Translated from the Italian by
howArd curtis
Svevo Romano is a womanising banker, living the
life of excess in Rome. He may be handsome, rich
and successful, but he is also a ruthless businessman,
workaholic and playboy. At the back of his mind he
has a nagging feeling that this is not the right life; a
feeling he tries to ignore.
But one day, everything changes: time suddenly
speeds up—but only for him. Svevo finds himself
in a race against life itself, trying desperately to
keep up with his colleagues and friends, to hold on
to all the things he once thought important. His
life becomes a mad whirl; but just as everything
threatens to spiral out of control, life acquires a
meaning that reaches beyond time and space.
Publication: 26th JuLy 2012
ISBN 9781906548902 • 180pp • £8.99
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, was published in 2009.
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The Forbidden Kingdom
JAcob sLAuerhoff
Translated from the Dutch by
pAuL Vincent
Slauerhoff’s The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of
historical chronicle, fiction and commentary,
bringing 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.
Cover: Planta da Fortaleza de Macau (1635) © Fundo
Patrimonial Biblioteca Pública de Évora, Portugal.
Publication: 30th AuGust 2012
ISBN 9781906548889 • 304pp • £12
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was born in the Leeuwarden,
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 writers in Dutch.
In 1923, upon graduating from university, Slauerhoff signed up as a ship’s surgeon with the
Dutch East India Company. Despite poor health, he returned to the sea throughout his life,
voyaging many times to the Far East, Latin America and Africa. On his last voyage to South
Africa he contracted malaria, and died in 1936.

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young Gerber
friedrich torberG
Translated from the German by
AntheA beLL
Kurt Gerber embarks hopefully on his last year
at school, leading to the all-important exam, but
finds that he is constantly at odds with the sadistic
class teacher Professor Kupfer, known to his
students as “Lord God Kupfer”, who particularly
dislikes him.
Inspired partly by its author’s own experience of
his final school-leaving examination, which he
passed only at the second attempt, and partly by
the suicides of no less 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: 6th september 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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The Hidden Force
Louis couperus
Translated from the Dutch by
pAuL Vincent
A mystical Javan prince and a promiscuous wife
are twin challenges to Dutch Commissioner Van
Oudijck’s seemingly impregnable authority. As
he struggles to maintain control of his district
and his family, ancient local traditions reassert
their influence and colonial power begins to
disintegrate.
Set at the height of Dutch colonial rule in the
East Indies, this classic of Dutch literature
portrays the clash between Western rationalism
and indigenous mysticism through an evocative
and sensual narrative.
Publication: 27th september 2012
ISBN 9781906548926 • 300pp • £12
Louis Couperus (1863-1923) was born in The Hague, but spent
much of his youth in the Dutch East Indies, where many of his novels and stories
are set. He gained prominence in 1889 with the publication of Eline Vere—a
psychological novel influenced by the style of Zola and Flaubert. Eline Vere was
followed by Ecstasy in 1892, Psyche in 1898 and Inevitable in 1900. A renowned
wit, raconteur and commentator, Couperus continued to publish critically and
commercially successful work until his death from blood poisoning in 1923.

The Polish Boxer
eduArdo hALfon
Translated from the Spanish by
oLLie brook
The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience
while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries
to make sense of his grandfather’s past and the story behind
his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs
for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between
his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli
woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor
yearns for knowledge that he can’t find in books and
discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference.
Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason, they
all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through
humour, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his
encounters with each of them, the narrator – a Guatemalan
literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon
– pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself.
Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by
a legacy of violence and exile, The Polish Boxer marks the
debut of a major new Latin American voice in English.
Publication: 25th october 2012
ISBN 9781908968074 • 188pp • £8.99
Eduardo Halfon has been cited as among the best young Latin
American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá and is the recipient of Spain’s
prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. In 2011 he received
a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue the story of The Polish Boxer, which
is his first work to be published in English. He travels frequently to his native
Guatemala and lives in Nebraska.

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 modern day Algeria, who has joined the
waves of North African immigration into Europe.
Accompanied by a mysterious mongrel and his
Senegalese friend Robinson, this lover of women
and beauty embarks on a journey around the
Mediterranean—from Algiers to Damascus, passing
through Rome, Paris, Baghdad, through the refugee
camps and the deceitful glimmer of the Western
world—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 • 150pp • £8.99
Salim Bachi (b. 1971) is one of the most remarkable new voices of
North Africa writing in French. He was born in Algeria and studied literature
in Paris and now lives in France. His first book Le Chien d’Ulysse (2001) was
awarded the Goncourt du Premier Roman and his fourth book Le Silence de
Mahomet (2008) was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Renaudot.
He just published in French the highly controversial Moi, Khaled Kelkal, where he
impersonates one of the terrorists involved in the 1995 Paris metro bombings.
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Mental Healers:
Mesmer, 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 morality 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 thoughtprovoking
biographical work from a renowned
master of the genre.
Publication: 29th noVember 2012
ISBN 9781906548940 • 430pp • £12.99
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born 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, then 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 bed in an apparent double 27 suicide.

Letter from an Unknown
Woman and other stories
stefAn zweiG
Translated from the German by
AntheA beLL
These four Stefan Zweig stories newly translated by
the award-winning 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: 31st JAnuAry 2013
ISBN 9781906548933 • 200pp • £9.99
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born 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, then 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 bed in an apparent double suicide.
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Cliffs
oLiVier AdAm
PUSHKIN PAPER
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 9781901285758 • 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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Petersburg
Andrei beLy
PUSHKIN PAPER
Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, Petersburg is
a story of apocalypse and redemption played out through
family dysfunction, conspiracy and murder.
Winner of the 2012 Rossica Prize
Translated by John eLsworth
isbn 9781906548438 • 560pp • £10.99
Agua
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 • £10
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 • £10.99
The Light in Between
mAriA cArAccioLo chiA
A collection of letters hidden for a century—all that remains of
the love of princess for a tormented painter. They provide the
basis, not only for the story of a great love, but also the portrait
of a remote and fascinating world and time.
Translated by howArd curtis
ISBN 9781906548278
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Eline Vere
Louis couperus
PUSHKIN PAPER
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
Envy
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
The French Father
ALAin eLkAnn
An imagined dialogue between the suthor's deceased father
and an unruly artist, buried alongside in a Parisian cemetery.
What could have been a story of grief becomes one of peaceful
vitality united through a shared inheritance and faith.
Translated by ALAstAir mcewen
ISBN 9781906548346
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
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Open Secret
PUSHKIN PAPER
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
The Break
pietro Grossi
The life of a placid and unambitious provincial billiards
player is turned upside-down by a series of chance events. As
in his widely praised Fists, Pietro Grossi’s stripped-down prose
brings out the epic human drama in a tale of everyday life.
Translated by howArd curtis
ISBN 9781906548841 • 220pp • £7.99
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
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
ISBN 9781906548216 • 304pp • £8.99
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The Inheritance
PUSHKIN PAPER
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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A Life
itALo sVeVo
PUSHKIN PAPER
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
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
Oliver VII
AntAL szerb
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 con-men
and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself.
Translated by Len rix
ISBN 9781901285901 • 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
ISBN 9781901285895 • 240pp • £7.99
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PUSHKIN PAPER
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
ISBN 9781906548612 • 320pp • £9.99
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
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
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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
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 • £8.99
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 • £7.99
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
ISBN 9781906548490 • 341pp • £11.99
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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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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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The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of
Amedeo Modigliani
VeLibor coLic ˇ ´
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
ISBN 9781906548452 • 137pp • £10
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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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
ISBN 9781906548018 • 64pp • £7
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 • £7
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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 • £12
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 • £10
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 • £12
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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 • £12
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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 • £10
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 • £12
Venices
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
Rock Crystal
AdALbert stifter
This quasi- fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains
but is also a parable of belief and faith. Rock Crystal is
a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the
crystal.
Translated by dAVid bryer
ISBN 9781901285277 • 78pp • £5
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
Oliver VII
AntAL szerb
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 con-men
and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself.
Translated by Len rix
ISBN 9781901285796 • 240pp • £7.99
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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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Confusion
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 Governess
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
ISBN 9781901285116 • 96pp • £8
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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
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 • £10
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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.
Large paperback
ISBN 9781906548629 • 175pp • £12.99
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 • Royal Hardback
ISBN 9781906548292 • 381pp • £20

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