All My Friends Are Superheroes by andrew kaufman (2006) Paperback

Literature & Fiction

Andrew Kaufman

Contemporary

Telegram Books

“The most exhilarating novel I’ve read all year.”—Scotland on Sunday “A rich story of the heart told through a harlequin pattern of alternating voices, each of which is a work of real imaginative insight.”—Marie Claire Christopher and Alexandra’s passion for each other raises eyebrows and invites envy. This beautiful, blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children. Their sudden departure is an act of glorious willfulness. Life in the countries they visit is nothing more than a backdrop to their love affair. Fifteen years later, Alexandra is in remote Bolivia with a lover young enough to be her son and Christopher is in Venice, desolate and alone but for the pigeons and prostitutes. Tormented by past mistakes, neither can accept that they may never meet again.

Where Are the Snows

GEE, Maggie

“An interesting and distinctive read . . . yet another barometer of the current health of the Irish short story.”—Evening Herald The short story is one of Ireland’s national treasures, and within these pages are some of its finest practitioners—from such established names as Julia O’Faolain, Claire Keegan, and Christine Dwyer Hickey to the exciting new voices of Judy Kravis, Eithne McGuinness, and Cherry Smyth. The stories are bold, unsentimental, often very funny, and always deeply affecting.

Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women (Short Stories by Women from Around the World)

History & Criticism

“A page-turner.”—Matthew Collings Nathaniel Water is a doodling, neurotic, self-obsessed young British artist. His career is on the up, but his love life has taken a nosedive. Bored, he proposes marriage to his beautiful Slovak girlfriend, Jelena, with whom he fights constantly. But then he meets Harriet, a curator from Berlin . . . Can Water find happiness? Or is he caught in a downward spiral of nihilism and endless art openings? Delve in to this barking tale of love, family foibles, and fame to find out.

Water

Joffe, Jasper

Literary

“This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges’s magical worlds.”—Mahmoud Darwish “Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex.”—Scotland on Sunday “His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry.”—The Toronto Star Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes. In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world’s finest literary minds; the boy was Alberto Manguel, who was later to become an internationally acclaimed author and bibliophile. Manguel’s reflections are part memoir, part biography, and all celebration of the living quality of literature. A moving portrait of an enigmatic genius, replete with deep insight into Borges and the writers he most admired.

With Borges

MANGUEL, ALBERTO

A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history and legend with everyday reality, a child’s reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness lead him to resolve to sin “just a little bit,” drunken men banter over interminable card games, and a woman’s salvation comes in the unexpected form of pickled buttocks. Bringing together authors of different generations, styles, and backgrounds—including, for the first time in English, two stories by Czech Roma—this collection expresses women’s multiple perspectives on social and intimate issues with by turns caustic and sensitive insight into human nature.

Povídky: Short Stories by Czech Women (Short Stories by Women from Around the World)

Travel

“My Cleaner is a moving, funny, engrossing book.”—The Observer “Elegant, humorous and surprising, this is a classy performance.”—The Times “Beautifully observed, intelligent and moving.”—The Scotsman Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin—now twenty-two, handsome, and gifted—is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother’s surprise, he asks for Mary. When Mary responds to Vanessa’s cry for help and returns from Uganda to look after Justin, the balance of power in the house shifts dramatically. Both women’s lives change irrevocably as tensions build toward a startling climax on a snowbound motorway. 

My Cleaner

“A marvelously affecting memoir of the war in Lebanon: perfectly pitched and intensely evocative, and all the more powerful for being seen through the eyes of a child.”—William Boyd “Delicate and unforgettable.”—ELLE “One of the most talented francophone writers of his generation.”—Le Monde All wars are alike. What I experienced in Lebanon, others experienced in France, in Spain, in Yugoslavia, or elsewhere. Yes, all wars are alike, because while weapons change, the men who wage and are subjected to war do not in the least. Alexandre was eight when Lebanon erupted into a bloody and brutal conflict; he was twenty-three when the guns at last fell silent. After seven years of voluntary exile spent clearing his mind of the unbearable nightmare of civil war, he is now back amongst his family and friends, and the past is quickly catching up with him. As he reacquaints himself with his bullet-riddled city, Alexandre is haunted by vivid memories, which he sets down with extraordinary imagination and humor.

The School of War

Biographies & Memoirs

Najjar, Alexandre

Historical

“A true story of human desperation, shattering in its impact.”—Tennessee Williams
Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed’s family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But his father is unable to find work and grows violent. Mohamed learns how to charm and steal. During a short spell in a filthy Moroccan jail, a fellow inmate kindles his life-altering love of poetry.
The distinguished writer Paul Bowles, perhaps best known for his novel The Sheltering Sky, collaborated closely with Mohamed Choukri on the translation of For Bread Alone, and penned the introduction.

For Bread Alone

Choukri, Mohamed

“We could hardly need these more urgently than we do now.”—The Independent
“…A treasure for Western readers who want to familiarize themselves with the complexities of both Lebanese and Palestinian societies as war zones. The stories also constitute an excellent resource for teachers who are struggling to find material that is not one-dimensional in its presentation of Arab women.”-Hala Khamis Nassar, Yale University, in Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
This anthology of Lebanese women fiction writers offers a captivating mix of stories by published authors with established reputations alongside the narratives of younger women whose voices explore new terrain.
From the crippling effects of the civil war in past decades, through longing for romantic adventures in a conservative society, to the functioning of families across the divides of emigration and generational conflict, these voices reflect the rich diversity of the complex multicultural society out of which they emerged.
Roseanne Saad Khalaf is assistant professor of English and creative writing at the American University of Beirut.

Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women

Short Stories & Anthologies

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