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A failed writer teaching Romanian at a Bucharest school in the 1980s keeps a diary of his dreams, his memories and the strange machine buried under his house.
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The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
The Street of Crocodiles
A son mythologises his father and their provincial Polish town in hallucinatory prose.
The Melancholy of Resistance
A circus arrives in a frozen Hungarian town with a giant stuffed whale and a mysterious figure called the Prince, and the town slides into mob violence.
Hunger
A young writer starving in Kristiania wanders the streets, pawns his waistcoat, chews wood shavings and tells grand lies to strangers, his pride and his mind fraying as the hunger deepens.
The Unconsoled
A concert pianist arrives at a European hotel for a performance and discovers that the building, the city, and his schedule are shifting according to a dream logic he can't control.
War and War
György Korin, an archivist in a provincial Hungarian town, finds an ancient manuscript and travels to New York to put it on the internet before he takes his own life.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
Steppenwolf
A middle-aged intellectual in Weimar Germany is torn between bourgeois respectability and the wildness inside him, guided by a mysterious figure through the theatres of his psyche.
Residence on Earth
The dark, surreal poems Neruda wrote as a young consul in Burma, Ceylon and Java, of loneliness, decay and the weight of things.
The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
Time Shelter
A Bulgarian writer works in a Zurich clinic where each floor recreates a decade of the 20th century for Alzheimer’s patients, and then nations begin choosing their own pasts.