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“In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first
book, younger Jewish writers have run with a
similar shtick. . . . But Stern was there first.”
the toronto globe and mail
Praise for The Frozen Rabbi:
“Packed to bursting with epic adventure and hysterical comedy,
with grim poignancy and pointed satire . . . Stern embraces every
outrageous possibility, in lush, cartwheeling sentences that layer deep
mystery atop page-turning action atop Borscht Belt humor.”
t h e wa s h i n g ton p o s t b o o k wo r l d
The Book of Mischief
New and Selected Stories
Steve Stern
The Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years
as they are by instances of bewildering transformation. The
of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short
earthbound take flight, the meek turn incendiary, the power-
story. Steve Stern’s stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish
less find unwonted fame. Weaving his particular brand of mis-
quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-the-century
chief from the wondrous and the macabre, Stern transforms us
immigrant community in New York; from the market towns of
all through the power of his brilliant imagination.
Eastern Europe to a down-at-the-heels Catskills resort. Along
Steve Stern, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, is the author of several previous novels and story collections, including The Frozen Rabbi and The Wedding
Jester. He teaches at Skidmore College in upstate New York.
the way we meet a motley assortment of characters: Mendy
Dreyfus, whose bungee jump goes uncannily awry; Elijah the
prophet turned voyeur; and the misfit Zelik Rifkin, who dis-
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covers the tree of dreams. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Kafka’s
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cockroach also makes an appearance in these pages, animated
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E xce r p t f ro m I t ’s F i ne B y M e
The doors slam shut, and the sound slams through my head,
behind him, and it slams through my head, and he didn’t
and there’s a humming in there, for this is my father leav-
even look at me.
ing, the way I saw him the last time he was home five years
I run into the living room and across to the window and
ago. It was Sunday morning, and we hadn’t seen him for two
watch him walk down the gravel path to the gate. By the
weeks, and suddenly the door opens, and in he comes wear-
road, he stops and turns, puts his hand in the rucksack,
ing the same clothes he wore when he left.
pulls out the pistol and takes a shot at the house. There is
“Hello,” I say. I feel timid, but he doesn’t answer anyway,
the sound of thunder and lightning, and the bullet smashes
just walks right past me to the stairs, his eyes fixed straight
through the kitchen window and hits the cupboard above the
ahead, and then there is the smell of him, the smell of his
sink and bores a hole in the wall behind it, which is nothing
jacket, his body, the smell of bonfire and forest and long-
but plasterboard, and maybe it goes right through to the liv-
forgotten sunny Sundays, only so strong and unfamiliar in
ing room. We stop at the kitchen threshold and dare not go
here. He hasn’t shaved since he was last at home, maybe
any further. We can see the hole in the pane and we turn and
hasn’t washed, either, and there are grey streaks in his
look at the cupboard. There were three jars of strawberry
beard I didn’t know were there. I turn, and my mother is
jam on the middle shelf inside, and soon it is dripping red
standing in the living room doorway, she doesn’t speak,
into the sink. Dripping and dripping, and then it starts to
just gazes up the stairs, and I gaze up the stairs. We can
flow, but neither of us can make the effort to go in and open
hear him in the bedroom, he is taking his rucksack from
the cupboard door to see what’s behind.
the cupboard, pulls out the drawer of the bedside table,
“My God, what shall I do?” my mother whispers. I close
and we know what he’s got there, the police never found
my eyes and see my father’s hand raising the gun, there is a
it, and there is a clunk as he drops it into the rucksack. My
flash of light, for it is sunny outside, and I run back to the
mother mumbles something I can’t make out, and upstairs
living room, the hall smelling of bonfire and forest and long-
he stuffs more things into the rucksack, and then he comes
forgotten sunny Sundays, but when I look out the window,
back down. I hold my breath, I do not breathe, my mother
there is no one by the gate.
The next day my mother starts packing.
does not breathe, and he is outside, slamming the door
Praise for It’s Fine By Me:
© Finn Ståle Felberg
“A sensible, brittle, and razor sharp description of a boy’s universe.”—The Times (London)
“What rings out with the clarity of a perfectly cast bell is the
dammed rage of an adolescent—the impatience to be done with
that transitional stage and become a grown-up overnight. The
Per Petterson won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
mandatory brittle swagger and mask of nonchalance are per-
for his novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into
fectly captured. . . . Although in It’s Fine By Me Petterson’s long,
more than forty languages and was named a Best Book of 2007 by the
falling arcs of luminous language are yet to come, the glimmers
New York Times Book Review.
are all here.”—Financial Times
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“Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a
northern landscape painting—all shafts of
light and clear palpable chill.”
time
“It’s Fine By Me . . . convey[s] those ordinary experiences
close to Petterson’s heart: the pleasure, for example, in the midst of
domestic strife, of slowly and very carefully rolling a good cigarette,
brewing the perfect coffee and settling down on the sofa
with a fine book, like this one.”
the guardian
“It’s Fine By Me is many things—an engaging coming-of-age
tale, a writer’s halting journey and a story of family drama and the
inevitable stages of grief. With Audun Sletten Petterson has created
a hero with gutsy resilience and a nose for the truth of things.
You’d like to meet him on a street in your own home town.”
the scotsman
I t ’s F i n e B y M e
A Novel
P e r P e tt e r s o n
T r a n slat e d f r o m th e N o r w e gia n b y D o n B a r tl e tt
Fans of Per Petterson’s other books in English will be delighted
that school is the right path for him and feels that life holds
by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a
other possibilities. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It’s
fresh perspective. In It’s Fine By Me, Arvid befriends a boy named
Fine By Me is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of Out
Audun. On Audun’s first day of school he refuses to talk or take
Stealing Horses and I Curse the River of Time.
off his sunglasses; there are stories he would prefer to keep to
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himself. Audun lives with his mother in a working-class district
1st ser.: Graywolf Press
of Oslo. He delivers newspapers and talks for hours about Jack
London and Ernest Hemingway with Arvid. But he’s not sure
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A brooding novel of colonial
intrigue in the Congo, from the author of
The Accordionist’s Son and Obabakoak
“Atxaga’s novel is much more than a mere chronicle of the
colonial era. Inevitably, the reader thinks of Conrad’s Heart
of Darkness . . . but Atxaga’s story focuses on more intimate
corruptions, disappearances more personal and profound, on
anxieties more in the spirit of Camus than in
the author of Lord Jim.”
el pas
Seven Houses in France
A Novel
B e r n a r d o A t x aga
T r a n slat e d f r o m th e S pa n ish b y M a r ga r e t J u ll C o sta
The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of
Seven Houses in France is a blackly comic tale that reveals the
the Congo is under the command of Captain Biran. The captain
darkest sides of human desire.
is a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to
Bernardo Atxaga is a prizewinning novelist and poet whose work has won critical
acclaim in Spain and abroad. His books have been translated into twenty-two languages, and he lives in the Basque country.
the literary cafés of Paris. His glamorous wife, Christine, has a
further ambition: to own seven houses in France, one for every
year he has been abroad. At Biran’s side are the brutal womanizer van Thiegel, and the treacherous Donatien, who dreams
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of running a brothel. The officers spend their days guarding
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jungle is transformed into a circus of human ambition and absur-
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dity. But everything changes with the arrival of a new officer
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and brilliant marksman: the enigmatic Chrysostome Liege.
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A haunting, enigmatic novel about a woman
who is given a second chance—and isn’t sure
whether she really wants it
“Over the last decade, J. Robert Lennon’s literary imagination has
grown increasingly morbid, convoluted and peculiar—just as his books
have grown commensurately more surprising, rigorous and fun.”
scott bradfield
The New York Times Book Review
Familiar
A Novel
J. Robert Lennon
Elisa Brown is driving back from her annual visit to her son
one. In Familiar, J. Robert Lennon continues his profound and
Silas’s grave when everything changes. Her body is more
exhilarating exploration of the surreal under­currents of con-
voluptuous; she’s wearing different clothes and driving a new
temporary American life.
car. When she arrives home, her life is familiar—but different.
J. Robert Lennon is the author of seven novels, including Castle and Mailman,
and a story collection, Pieces for the Left Hand. He lives in Ithaca, New York,
where he teaches writing at Cornell University.
There is her house, her husband. But in the world she now
inhabits, Silas is no longer dead, and his brother is disturbingly
changed. Elisa has a new job, and her marriage seems sturdier,
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and stranger. She finds herself faking her way through a life
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she is convinced is not her own. Has she had a psychotic break?
Or has she entered a parallel universe? She soon discovers that
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these questions hinge on being able to see herself as she really
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is—something that might be impossible for Elisa, or for any-
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$14.00
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E xcerpt from Stranger to Histor y
All books have a text and a context. There is an invariable
was less a murder trial—my father’s killer had laid down
gap between the two which widens with time; it is usually
his gun and confessed his crime—than it was a trial about
a gradual process. But, in the case of this book, that gap has
my father’s faith; and, whether his killer had been justified
widened so dramatically in the three years since it was first
under extreme provocation to act against a transgressor. The
published that it has made the writing of these pages essen-
defense, in building their case against my father, sought to
tial. It is safe to say: no book, so soon after its original pub-
rubbish his credentials as a Muslim, moving easily towards
lication, has needed a new introduction as badly as this one.
the conclusion that if he had not been Muslim in the way they
wanted him to be, he deserved to die.
When I first began writing Stranger to History my father had
been out of politics for nearly fifteen years. He was a business-
In this ugly reconfiguration of reality, Stranger to History,
man in Lahore; and, for the purposes of this book, which was
which had been one thing in one time, became another thing
written in part to tell the story of my complicated relation-
in another time. It was used in court to condemn my father,
ship with him, he needn’t have been anything else. But—and
making the case that he was not a practicing Muslim; that
such has been the life of this book and its subject—by the time
he drank alcohol; that he ate pork; that he—in another life
the first draft was ready, my father had reentered politics as a
some thirty years before—had fathered a half-Indian child by
caretaker minister in General Musharraf’s government. A few
an Indian woman.
months later, just before publication, he was appointed gover-
Stranger to History was written as the expression of a need,
nor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province; two years
the need to face and record a suppressed personal history. That
later, on a cold January afternoon in 2011, he was dead, assas-
history began with my parents’ meeting in Delhi in 1980. Or
sinated in Islamabad by a member of his own security detail.
even earlier, perhaps, for what was that meeting between a
The man who killed my father killed him for defending a
Pakistani politician and the Indian reporter who had been sent
Christian woman accused of blasphemy and for opposing the
to interview him without its context in the 1947 Partition of
laws that had condemned her. For this, he became a hero in
India! The arrival of my mother’s family as refugees in Delhi;
Pakistan, a defender of the faith, and my father—in the eyes
the painful shadow of the Partition on my maternal grand­
of many—was declared wajib ul-qatl, the Islamic designation
father, an army man who never recovered from the absurdity
given to a man fit to die, a transgressor against the faith,
of fighting wars against men he considered to be his own . . .
whom any good Muslim might kill. The trial that followed
that history, unrecorded once, is there now, in these pages.
Praise for Stranger to History:
© Theo Wenner
“The writing is elegant and fluent throughout, the characters
skillfully drawn. . . . Stranger to History shines when Taseer
concentrates on what he knows best: the scar across the subcontinent, and across his own heart.”—Robin Yassin-Kassab,
The Guardian
Aatish Taseer is the author of two novels, The Temple-Goers and
Noon, and a translation. He has worked as a reporter for Time maga-
“An amazing narrative: a kind of Muslim Odyssey which
zine, and has written for the Sunday Times, the Financial Times,
unfolds before the reader’s eyes, bringing revelations,
and Esquire. His work has been translated into more than a dozen
­sometimes painful, but always intensely compelling.”
languages. He lives in London and Delhi.
—Antonia Fraser
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“Indispensable reading for anyone who
wants a wider understanding of the Islamic
world, of its history and its politics.”
financial times
“A subtle and poignant work by a young writer to watch.”
v. s . n a i p a u l
“This is a work that ought to be read by policy-makers in Whitehall
and Washington as well as in Islamic countries—for its insights into
the thinking of angry young Muslim men.”
the spectator
Stranger to History
A Son’s J our ney t hr oug h I s la mi c L a nd s
A atish T as e e r
Aatish Taseer’s fractured upbringing left him with many
Bhutto was killed. But the story of Taseer’s divided family
­questions about his own identity. He was raised by his Sikh
has continued beyond the book: his father was murdered by
mother in Delhi, and his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained
a political assassin. A new introduction by the author reflects
a distant figure. Stranger to History is the story of the journey
on this event and explains why Stranger to History’s message is
Taseer made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim
more relevant than ever.
in the twenty-first century. Starting from Istanbul, once
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Islam’s greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and
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then home through Iran and Pakistan. Taseer's journey ends
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in Lahore at his estranged father’s home, on the night Benazir
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“The Convert is the most brilliant
and moving book written about Islam
and the West since 9/11.”
ahmed rashid
“Sexual secrets? Suspense? Drama? Reversals? They’re all here. . . .
Baker’s captivating account conveys the instability, faith, politics, and
improbable cultural migration that make Jameelah’s life story so
difficult to sum up yet impossible to dismiss.”
the new york times book review
“The life story of Maryam Jameelah seems to have alternately
fascinated, disturbed, and unsettled Deborah Baker. It is
guaranteed to do the same to her readers.”
the christian science monitor
The Conver t
A Ta l e o f E x i l e a n d E x t r e m i s m
D e b o r ah B a k e r
What drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City sub-
trenchant voices of Islam’s argument with the West. In this
urb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith,
superb biography, Baker makes it an argument worth our atten-
and embrace a life of permanent exile in Pakistan? The Convert,
tion.”—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
a finalist for the National Book Award and a Publishers Weekly
Deborah Baker is the author of In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. She
divides her time between Goa and Brooklyn.
Best Book of 2011, tells the gripping story of how Margaret
Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore.
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“As absorbing as an excellent detective story. . . . Cutting back
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and forth between Margaret/Maryam’s two perplexing lives,
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Baker gives us a miserable, privileged woman whose argument
with her home was so strong that hers became one of the most
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“A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair
with language.”
pu b l i s h e r s w e e k ly
Top Ten Books of 2011
“Glimmering, strobe-lit language . . . a complex,
cosmopolitan African experience too rarely depicted in books.”
teju cole
GQ’s Book of the Year Club
O n e D ay I W ill Wr i t e A b o u t T hi s P l ace
A Memoir
B i n y ava n ga Wai n ai n a
In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina
or lovers of postcolonial literature. This is a book for anyone
tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter
who still finds the nourishment of a well-written tale preferable
with the world around him. In One Day I Will Write About This
to the empty calorie jolt of a celebrity confessional or Swedish
Place, which was named a 2011 New York Times notable book,
m
­ ystery.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review
Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in
Binyavanga Wainaina is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, and has written
for Vanity Fair, Granta, and the New York Times. Wainaina directs the Chinua
Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College.
joyous, ecstatic language.
“Harried reader, I’ll save you precious time: skip this review and
head directly to the bookstore for Binyavanga Wainaina’s stand-
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up-and-cheer coming-of-age memoir, One Day I Will Write About
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This Place. Although written by an East African and set in East
and Southern Africa, Wainaina’s book is not just for Afrophiles
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The new book by Leslie Adrienne Miller,
whose poems “are delightfully eclectic,
learned and wise”
(te d koo s e r)
If the face is a christening in flesh,
the boy of him is its opposite,
raising the tent of bones in which
he will harbor all the starry anomalies
that a knowledge of God cannot undo.
—from “Y”
Y
Poems
L e sli e A d r i e n n e M ill e r
Y is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller’s book of the looming child,
Leslie Adrienne Miller is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including
The Resurrection Trade. She teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks
a solution. Collaging lyric investigation, personal reflection,
and hard research into psychology and childhood development,
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Miller describes motherhood with a broad-ranging intelligence,
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a fierce humor, and an elegant, emotive poetic line.
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“Leslie Adrienne Miller knows extraordinary secrets and tells
Eat Quite Everything You See, Poetry, Paperback (978-1-55597-365-0),
$14.00
them with searing clarity—about how love is a necessity, a comfort, an itch and an ache, the nexus where hope and fear and the
image of the self and the world come together, or (more often)
fail to.”—Rosellen Brown
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Poetry, 120 pages, 6 x 9, Paperback Original (978-1-55597-622-4), $15.00, September
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New poetry by Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef,
one of the major voices from the Arab world
The country we love was finished
before it was even born.
The country we did not love has claimed
the blood left in our veins.
—from “A Desperate Poem”
Nostalgia, My Enemy
Poems
S aadi Y o u ss e f
T r a n slat e d f r o m th e A r abic b y S i n a n A n t o o n a n d P e t e r M o n e y
This book collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef’s poems
his mind, a poet, not only of the Arab world, but of the human
from the last decade, since the ongoing American-led war in his
universe.”—Marilyn Hacker
home country of Iraq. In direct, penetrating language, Youssef
Saadi Youssef was born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq. He has published more than thirty
volumes of poetry and is considered one of the living masters of Arabic poetry. He lives
in London.
dwells on the casualties of the war, the loss of his country, the
role of the writer in exile, the atrocities of Saddam Hussein,
and the inhumane acts perpetrated by American military at
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Abu Ghraib. What emerges is the powerful voice of a writer for
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whom “poetry transforms in that intimate moment which com-
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bines the ­current and the eternal in a wondrous embrace.”
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, Poetry, Paperback
(978-1-55597-371-1), $16.00
“Saadi Youssef was born in Iraq, but he has become, through
the vicissitudes of history and the cosmopolitan appetites of
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The first career retrospective by the
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We crave radiance in this austere world,
light in the spiritual darkness.
Learning is the one perfect religion,
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Cr ave Radiance
N e w a n d S e l e c t e d P o e m s 19 9 0 – 2 010
Eli z ab e th A l e x a n d e r
Over twenty years, Elizabeth Alexander has become one of
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her place as one of the indispensable voices of our time. Crave
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Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 gathers twenty
Elizabeth Alexander is the author of five previous books of poetry, including
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at Yale University.
pages of new poetry, along with generous selections from her
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