Mrozek is a masterly storyteller and a sharpshooter with a harpoon. - Chicago Tribune

 

1944: Jurek and his friends, who work in the Tworki psychiatric hospital outside Warsaw, live lives that defy the discord and destruction of the war raging outside the hospital walls. But despite the relative safey of their odd surroundings, the world and the war will soon change their lives forever…

 

Sometimes harshly realistic and sometimes lyrical, this is a haunting and memorable evocation of a turbulent time and place. - Library Journal

 

 

National Translation Award

 

 

 

 

"Sly, funny, absorbing... The two neurotic detectives single-mindedly interrogate the meaning of their surroundings, seeking in the most mundane objects and events the solution to a mystery only they can see, their suspicions growing and growing until we begin to fear for their sanity - or ours…. The insight in these remarkable pages is creatively captivating and intellectually challenging." — Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review

 

First translation directly from Polish of this modernist masterpiece!

Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a grotesque evocation of obsession. – Publishers Weekly

 

 

“Quirky, thoughtful and often poetic, it opens a subjective and fascinating window on to the recent past." – The Times of London

“Tender, beautiful written and puzzling” – The New York Times

 

”A writer whose work is full of depth and allusion... pulses with irony that Mann would have been proud of... wonderfully absurd humour.” – The Independent on Sunday

 

“An intelligent, intriguing and atmospheric novel worthy of its inspiration. It is admirably served by Antonia Lloyd-Jones' nuanced and readable translation.” – The Independent

“Book lovers queue here.” – Scotland on Sunday

 

Breslau 1933: the mutilated bodies of a young woman and her ladies’ maid are found dead on a train. Scorpions writhe in their slashed stomach – a horrifying image that becomes crucial to the investigation. Inspector Eberhard Mock is called in to deal with the case…

Death In Breslau is a stylish, intelligent and original addition to the canon – Financial Times

 

Few are [Lem's] peers in poetic expression, in word play, and in imaginative and sophisticated sympathy.
- Kurt Vonnegut

[Lem was] a giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick.
- The New York Times

 

Chaotic and brilliantly idiosyncratic . . . This thoroughly unique debut is destined to become a cult classic. - Library Journal

 

A story of marvelous skill and poignancy. Maillard is a national treasure. - Kirkus Reviews

 

 

 

Pilch masterfully plays with the tradition of the drunkard novel, demonstrating just how close the alcoholic’s self-fashioning is to the writer’s self-narration. In this way, Pilch’s novel constitutes an act of belief in literature.... The book’s wonderful, delirious and baroque style imparts the experience of dependence, exclusion, and loneliness, as well as the overcoming of loneliness through love. – Maria Janion, head of the jury for the 2001 NIKE Literary Award

 

 

Captures the milieu of those marginalized by the transition from communism to a free-market. I caught a flavor of Hamsun, Sartre, Genet and Kafka in Stasiuk’s scalpel-like but evocative writing – Irvine Welsch, The New York Times For all its street-smart pace and grit, “Nine” is studded with hauntingly graceful … passages (Johnston's translation reads beautifully) – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

 

Stasiuk, exploring a region that so many have assumed to be irresistibly converging with the West, has mapped what Freud might have called its ‘genetic memory.’ - Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

 

A stunning addition to the literature of surrealism... – Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement A prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty… And the collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. – Prof. Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center, author of many books on Surrealism

 

Tulli’s perfect prose is a labyrinth of inexhaustible meanings…. in which there circulate metaphors of emptiness and want, phantoms of unfulfilled emotions. - Marek Zaleski, Gazeta Wyborcza

 

“Just when you fear fiction may have no more turns left to take, along comes Magdalena Tulli. Picking up on the experiments of Oulipo and Robbe-Grillet, she leads us into a dazzling maze out of which we emerge with our wonder and our delight retooled.” - Askold Melnyczuk

 

The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaud, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago. – W.S. Merwin

 

 

A landmark of early modernist Polish drama, Zapolska’s play is an uncompromising look at gender and class in fin-de-siècle Poland. In her introduction Murjas discusses the many intriguing challenges involved in its cultural transference, combining the perspective of translator with that of theatre practitioner. This book is a rare treat in a much neglected area of modern scholarship. – Dr Elwira Grossman, University of Glasgow

 

 

The Bruise is a novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M– deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one which has left a large bruise on her forehead…