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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio Jos Bol var seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the …
Order and Collapse : The Lives of Archives
The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticized. This book explores the current digitally informed transformation and multiplication of …
In Praise of Love
The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with …
Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama
Hand-Off details the Bush administration's national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then-classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security …
Juan the Landless
Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on …
Havana Black
A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. …
Blood Dark
Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater existential movement. Blood Dark tells …
Havana Red
On August 6 th 1989 , the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth …
Havana Blue
Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance …
Havana Fever
Havana, 2003, fourteen years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He now makes a living trading in antique books bought from families …
Unwatchable
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police …
Exiled from Almost Everywhere
In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist-the Parisian "e;Monster of Le Sentier"e;-is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself …