From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese liter... more

"Lao She’s great novel." --The New York Times A beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese nov... more

The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Pr... more

These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary ... more

insight, she sketches their aspirations, their fears, and the subtle ties that bind them together. In Howard Goldblatt’s...... more

insight, she sketches their aspirations, their fears, and the subtle ties that bind them together. In Howard Goldblatt s...... more

Ma Bole follows the eponymous cowardly layabout as he escapes his unhappy family life by going on th... more

Ugo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the mean streets of Marseilles, where friendship and loyalt... more

Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companion... more

Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companion... more

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carré... more

most important novels of the twentieth century. Howard Goldblatt s deft translation now gives English-speaking readers...... more

Celebrated short-story writer, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt s (The Most Beautiful Book in the World) first ... more

Two Colombian siblings struggle to reunite as the clock ticks down in this emotional thriller from a... more

The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our pass... more

beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into English by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt....... more

Mo Yan, China s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country s contempora... more

The ancient world through the eyes of a young Jewish woman--Mary of Nazareth. Mary was born into a P... more

Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei s award-winn... more

the genre. Each section is introduced by an original piece of flash fiction written by Howard Goldblatt. The short-short...... more

Ottavio Cappellani s wildly entertaining Mafia comedy takes us into the unhinged world of a family t... more

Liu Heng is one of contemporary China’s most acclaimed and masterful writers, and with Green River D... more

existence on the periphery of mainland China. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin’s masterful translation brings Chu T...... more

Black Snow is the stunning portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man s search ... more

Harp of Burma is Japan’s classic novel of pathos and compassion in the midst of senseless warfare. W... more

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In ... more

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He... more

"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments o... more

and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar. As an added gem, a preface by Howard Eiland...... more

Award winning author Yasmina Khadra gives us a stunning panorama of life in Algeria between the two ... more

Walter Benjamin became a published writer at the age of seventeen. Yet the first stirrings of this m... more

everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and...... more

In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho’s ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspectiv... more

adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard s translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exup ry s...... more

Jon Fosse has been called ’the Beckett of the 21st century’ (Le Monde), and the Royal Court producti... more

critic Richard Howard and essays by the translator that situate The Curved Planks in the author s body of work. All assist in...... more

"By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century" -- Ludwig Wittgenstein One of Soren Kierkegaa... more

The principal force in awakening the people and setting them on the road to struggle, Liu Binyan arg... more

mourning. Howard Eiland s completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more...... more

While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec ... more

Geared toward readers unfamiliar with complex numbers, this text explains how to solve problems that... more

focussing especially on Heine s rethinking of Hegel s philosophy, are presented here in a new translation by Howard...... more

focussing especially on Heine s rethinking of Hegel s philosophy, are presented here in a new translation by Howard...... more

This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write... more

This book brings a new perspective--mainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegel--t... more

This book brings a new perspective--mainly out of German intellectual discussions rooted in Hegel--t... more

workhouse system. Translated by Hildegard Herz and Howard Hartig. Edited and with an Introduction by Jane Caplan, Fellow of St...... more

Second only to Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine was the author of comic and delightful fables that are as ... more

How Christian is evangelism? How biblical is it? In Call and Response: Biblical Foundations of a The... more

First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bests... more

By now the world is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the ten year period (1966-1976) in ... more

In 1930, the great Spanish philosopher Jos Ortega y Gasset set forth a program for reforming the mod... more

Complications is a brilliant study of the nature of communist totalitarianism pursued through the cr... more

This undergraduate text develops its subject through observations of the physical world, covering fi... more

This volume presents Einstein’s writings from the final period of his work in Switzerland. Most of t... more

adequate, especially for use in teaching undergraduates. Howard Kainz has therefore undertaken to provide his own translation...... more

A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of... more

The techniques and insights of modern social science are applied to early medieval history in this e... more