Tag Archives: Literary

Novels II of Samuel Beckett

by Samuel Beckett

A four-volume set of Beckett’s canon, edited by Paul Auster and designed by Laura Lindgren.

NK3

by Michael Tolkin

From the acclaimed Hollywood writer/director and author of The Player and Among the Dead, a panoramic vision—suspenseful, comedic, prophetic—set in a near-future California that…

No Saints or Angels

by Ivan Klíma

“A literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West . . . [A] Czech master at the top of his game.” –Scott…

Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire

by José Manuel Prieto

“Precise, gorgeous, and assured.” –Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

Nohow On

by Samuel Beckett

“This is the most wonderful prose I have ever read by [Beckett]—sleek, ironic, gloom-cadenced, self-dissolving—and perhaps the most wonderful prose I have ever read.”…

Night People

by Barry Gifford

“Night People is the work of a talented writer with a strange and original way of looking at the world. . . . The…

Night Train to Lisbon

by Pascal Mercier

“Rich, dense, star-spangled . . . The novels of Robert Stone come to mind, and Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fe, and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice,…

Night Work

by Thomas Glavinic

“[An] extraordinary apocalyptic novel . . . Glavinic creates a more subtle if no less nightmarish mood than such similar books as The Day of…

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

by Kenzaburo Oe

“An amazing achievement . . . Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids has much in common with both The Lord of the Flies and…

The New Valley

by Josh Weil

“Full of tenderness and looming menace . . . Gripping . . . Meticulous . . . Keep writing novellas, Josh Weil, because you…