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Robinson by Muriel Spark
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.49January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed... -
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.89In 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: £19.95SciFier: £14.75Apologies 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: £11.99SciFier: £10.19Victor 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... -
Annotations John Keene 9780811213042
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £9.20An 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: £12.99SciFier: £12.49In 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: £13.95SciFier: £10.19Michael 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: £12.99SciFier: £12.89Michael 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: £12.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811231022Author Naguib MahfouzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Directions Publishing... -
Loving Sabotage by Amelie Nothomb
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £12.29Apologies 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: £8.99SciFier: £7.59The 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 Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol 9780811219471
SciFier: £9.69It 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... -
Daemon in Lithuania: Novel Henri Guigonnat 9780811209304
SciFier: £10.29Here is a book that is elegant, good-humored, innocent, perverse, poetic, funny, extravagant, preposterous, limpid, insouciant, and philosophic. It has led readers to invoke comparisons to Hans... -
The Yellow Arrow by Victor Pelevin
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £9.39The main character, Andrei, is a passenger aboard the Yellow Arrow, who begins to despair over the trains ultimate destination and looks for a way out as the chapters count down. Indifferent to their... -
The Journal of Albion Moonlight by Kenneth Patchen
SciFier: £14.61Inspired 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... -
The Caretaker Doon Arbus 9780811229494
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £14.61Following 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 Caretaker Doon Arbus 9780811234771
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.16Following 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 Living Statue by Gunter Grass
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.69At 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: £11.99SciFier: £10.19In 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: £10.70Winner 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 English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (New Directions)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.77Raised 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... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog Yoko Tawada 9780811239967
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £12.49Masterfully 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 Divorce Cesar Aira (New Directions) 9780811230933
SciFier: £9.34The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there,... -
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.98The 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 Painted Room by Inger Christensen
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.19The Painted Room is a magnificent three-part short novel about the Italian Renaissance, and, specifically, the intrigue surrounding the frescoes that Mategna (1431-1506) made on the walls of a famous... -
The Wall Marlen Haushofer 9780811231947
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.99While 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: £11.99SciFier: £9.66Now 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: £12.99SciFier: £12.98"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: £11.99SciFier: £9.24Like 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 I) by Solvej Balle
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.29Tara 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... -
On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV) Solvej Balle 9780811238410
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £11.52We'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 II) Solvej Balle 9780811237277
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.49The 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... -
Into the Sun C. F. Ramuz 9780811238663
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.39It'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 III) Solvej Balle 9780811238397
SciFier: £10.27LONGLISTED 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... -
His Name was Death by Rafael Bernal
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.95A 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: £12.99SciFier: £10.59A 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: £13.99SciFier: £10.49A 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: £13.99SciFier: £11.29In 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: £11.99SciFier: £9.74The 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: £16.99SciFier: £13.59Deep 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...