A playful and unpredictable masterpiece of Argentinian literature.

The satirical story of two clerks who set out on a Quixote-esque quest for truth and knowledge.

Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform them

A startling anatomy of a small, Latin American town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayal, scandals, thefts and gossip - but, most of all, to the movies. Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel, finally back in print.

The Crawford family is dominated by Da (Joe), a manic-depressive thief and liar who has spent two years in prison for exposing himself in the woods to young children and couples. Ma is a weak and downtrodden victim of her husband's violent temper who occasionally flirts with her son Benjee, an overly sensitive boy with little hope for future happiness. As the narrative passes back and forth ...

On the night of a man's death, two women unravel the cruelties of their lives together and look to build a future from the ashes of the past. But they must decide whether to accept new possibilities or conform to old values. This book presents a lyrical, impressionistic novel dissecting the effects of the past.

Winter 2008 Novelist as Critic.

New Cuban Fiction. A collection of short stories by Cuban writers that provides a complex vision of life in Cuba.

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His Masquerade. New edition of Melville's scathing satire of American idealism, with an introduction by Lemony Snicket.