Category: Archipelago (Small Press)

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother's role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days "with his head under a cow." The novel begins thirty years later with Helmer moving his invalid father upstairs out of the way, so that he can redecorate the downstairs, finally making it his own. Then Riet, the woman who had once been engaged to marry Helmer's twin, appears and asks if her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come live on the farm for a while. Ostensibly a novel about the country...
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An Untouched House

By: Hermans, Willem Frederik

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: October 2018

Seller ID: 469081

ISBN: 193981006X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

A mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand house his own in the chaos of a war-torn countryside, only to find himself involved with occupying forces and enraged locals.
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An Untouched House

By: Hermans, Willem Frederik

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Archipelago: October 2018

Seller ID: 469207

ISBN: 193981006X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A brooding meditation on violence by a classic post-war Dutch writer who has drawn comparisons to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.

Fantastic Tales

By: Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Archipelago: Sep-20

Seller ID: 459508

ISBN: 1939810620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, a
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A Change of Time

By: Jessen, Ida

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Archipelago: April 2019

Seller ID: 469617

ISBN: 1939810175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.
Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
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Newcomers: Book Two

By: Lojze Kovacic

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Archipelago: Jan-20

Seller ID: 428171

ISBN: 193981040X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naivet . Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as something beautiful out of a fairytale, but as they make their way toward exile, he and his family realize that any attempt to make a home in Slovenia will be in vain. Confronted by misery, hunger, and ho...
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Our Lady of the Nile

By: Mukasonga, Scholastique

Price: $7.50

Publisher: August 2014

Seller ID: 428864

ISBN: 0914671030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school, in the interminable rainy season. Friendships, desires, hatred, political fights, incitation to racial violence, persecu...
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Category: Archipelago (Small Press)