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Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
RRP: $20.77SciFier: $19.07In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster... -
River of Fire by Qurratulain Hyder
RRP: $37.71SciFier: $28.01Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811222198Author Qurratulain HyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $19.26Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov: "full of the ridiculous and the sublime," says... -
The Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol 9780811219471
SciFier: $18.31It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of... -
Loving Sabotage by Amelie Nothomb
RRP: $30.15SciFier: $22.28Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811217828Author Amelie NothombFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
RRP: $16.99SciFier: $14.35The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as,... -
The Governesses Anne Serre (New Directions) 9780811228077
RRP: $18.88SciFier: $16.80In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however,... -
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
SciFier: $27.61Inspired by one of the finest lyrics in the English language, the anonymous, pre-Shakespearean "Tom o'Bedlam" ("By a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney / Ten leagues beyond the... -
Annotations John Keene 9780811213042
RRP: $18.88SciFier: $17.39An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer's Cane, the book is in part a meditation on... -
The Blue Lantern by Victor Pelevin
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $23.61In a recent New York Times Magazine feature article, Victor Pelevin was cited as "almost alone among his generation of Russian novelists in speaking with a voice authentically his own, and in trying... -
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared Franz Kafka 9780811215695
RRP: $26.37SciFier: $19.64Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light... -
Josephine by Michael McClure
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $24.36Michael McClure's Josephine: The Mouse Singer, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafka's, "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk." Kafka and McClure? And yet the combination is bound to... -
I Found Myself by Naguib Mahfouz
SciFier: $23.04Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811231022Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
The Caretaker Doon Arbus 9780811234771
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $22.98Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a... -
The Caretaker Doon Arbus 9780811229494
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $27.61Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a... -
The Living Statue by Gunter Grass
RRP: $18.88SciFier: $16.42At the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the... -
The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $17.99In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Goettingen is working on a PhD about the... -
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke (New Directions)
SciFier: $20.24Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog Yoko Tawada 9780811239967
RRP: $33.93SciFier: $23.61Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from... -
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (New Directions)
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $24.17Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants... -
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $24.32The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so... -
The Wall Marlen Haushofer 9780811231947
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $21.81While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog,... -
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn 9780811234825
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $18.31Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos... -
The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $24.53"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type... -
The Houseguest by Amparo Davila (New Directions)
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $17.46Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Davila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted-you'll finish each one gasping for air. With acute... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) Solvej Balle 9780811238410
SciFier: $21.38We're a little more than halfway through Balle's hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle's riveting project continues to wring ever... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) Solvej Balle 9780811238397
RRP: $30.15SciFier: $19.45LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $19.45Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd... -
Into the Sun C. F. Ramuz 9780811238663
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $19.83It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "accident in... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) Solvej Balle 9780811237277
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $20.02The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she... -
His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $22.98A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His... -
Ten by Juan Emar
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $20.20A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemon, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts... -
Elevator in Sai Gon Thuan 9780811238540
RRP: $26.44SciFier: $19.83A young Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house in Saigon, and staged a grotesquely lavish ceremony for... -
Festival & Game of the Worlds by Cesar Aira (New Directions)
RRP: $26.44SciFier: $21.34In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled:... -
You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $18.50The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing-at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific-casts... -
The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso
RRP: $32.11SciFier: $25.87Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are... -
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
RRP: $22.66SciFier: $19.26This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes... -
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada
RRP: $18.88SciFier: $17.80Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei...