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A dead man narrates his own life from the grave, skewering nineteenth-century Brazilian society with a wit that anticipates magical realism by a century.
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
A fake reference work of thirty invented right-wing Americas writers, their books and journals and enemies, by the author who turned bibliography into menace.
Dom Casmurro
Bento Santiago, an embittered old lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, sets down the story of his love for his childhood sweetheart Capitu, and of his suspicion that she betrayed him.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.
Simpatía
A film writer in a collapsing Caracas inherits his father-in-law’s mansion on the condition that he turn it into a shelter for the dogs the exiled middle class has left behind.
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China
The complete fiction of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, from A Madman's Diary to the story of Ah-Q, a village labourer who turns every humiliation into a victory.
The Hour of the Star
A self-conscious narrator tells the story of Macabéa, a poor girl adrift in Rio.
Generation X
Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.
A Handful of Dust
A contented English squire devoted to his Gothic country house loses his wife to an idle young social climber, and his life comes apart all the way to the Amazon.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
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.