archipelago books ny (85 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: no dust jacket present. First Archipelago Books Edition, 2018. This hardcover edition is in good condition, showing some wear on the spine and corners. The absence of a dust jacket is noted, but the binding remains intact and sturdy. The pages are clean and free from inscriptions or markings, making it a well-preserved copy for collectors and readers alike.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 284 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge. This copy is a paperback with French flaps. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Soft cover. Condizione: NEAR MINT. N/A (illustratore). FIRST THUS. GIFT CONDITION LIKE NEW UNMARKED FIRST ARCHIPELAGO EDITION WRAP AROUND JACKET.

paperback. Condizione: fine. 5 3/4 x 7 : 302 pages. translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

Paperback. Condizione: Good to Very Good. 275 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Paperback with French flaps. Remainder mark on bottom fore-edge. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

small square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $18, attractive copy, appears unused. POULIN, JACQUES. Autumn rounds. Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2021, stated First Archipelago books edition, 194pp., . A quiet man living in an apartment in Quebec City, hears a marching band through his window and looks out. He decides to join the crowd and begins a love which begins late in life. ISBN 9781953861061.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 273 pages. Ikonomou?s stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis?laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes. Everyone is dreaming of escape: to the mountains, to an island or a palatial estate, into a Hans Christian Andersen story world. What are they fleeing? The old woes?gossip, watchful neighbors, the oppression and indifference of the rich?now made infinitely worse. In Ikonomou?s concrete streets, the rain is always looming, the politicians? slogans are ignored, and the police remain a violent, threatening presence offstage. Clean copy. Record # 401049.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 362 pages. By the celebrated author of A Dream in Polar Fog, a collection of the myths and stories of Yuri Rytkheu?s own family that is at once a moving history of the Chukchi people who inhabit the northern shores of the Bering Sea and a beautiful cautionary tale rife with conflict, human drama, and humor. We meet fantastic characters: Nau, the mother of the human race; Rau, her half-whale husband; and Rytkheu?s own grandfather, fated to be an intrepid traveler, far-ranging whaler, living ethnographic exhibit, and the last shaman of Uelen. The Chukchi Bible moves through vast Arctic tundra, sea, and sky ? and to places deep within ourselves?introducing readers, in vivid prose, to an extraordinary mythology and a resilient people. Clean copy. Record # 401047.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. João Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil?s most acclaimed poets. From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language. Avoiding ceremony and circumstance, they follow centuries-old paths rather than struggle to break new ground. Clean copy. Record # 401132.

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. Elias Khoury?s most recent novel propels us into a fantastic universe of skewed reality that leaves us breathless to the last page. We follow the path of a young man, Yalo, who is growing up like a stray dog on the streets of Beirut during the long years of the Lebanese civil war. Living with his mother, who ?lost her face in the mirror,? he falls in with a dangerous gang whose violent escapades he treats as a game. The game becomes a frightening reality, however, when Yalo is accused of rape and imprisoned. He is forced to confess to crimes of which he has no recollection. As he writes, and rewrites, he begins to grasp his family?s past and recall all that his psyche has buried, and the true Yalo begins to emerge. Clean copy. Record # 471905.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba?s isolation in the world. Clean copy. Record # 401137.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Moving from the Great Lakes to the jazz bars of Detroit and Chicago, Of Song and Water is a tale of singlehanded sailors and jazz musicians, of working-class dreams blighted by family duty, personal betrayals, and the untold violence between fathers and sons. The novel follows the life of Coleman Moore, a jazz guitarist of early fame who finds himself adrift and in the company of ghosts: his mentor, a black jazz legend trying to live peacefully on the edge of a white town; his grandfather, a Prohibition rumrunner turned ruthless entrepreneur; and his first love, a clear-headed woman who refuses to live in the dark tunnels of the past. As he abandons music and turns his mind to a damaged sailboat, Coleman begins a hazardous course, risking the love of his daughter and the trust of Brian James, his longtime collaborator and friend. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401041.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 215 pages. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Record # 401048.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 351 pages. Written in the shadow of the Yugoslav wars, yet never eclipsed by them, Mama Leone is a delightful cycle of interconnected stories by one of Central Europe?s most dazzling contemporary storytellers. Miljenko Jergovic leads us from a bittersweet world of precocious childhood wonder and hilarious invention, where the seduction of a well-told lie is worth more than a thousand prosaic truths, out into fractured worlds bleary-eyed from the unmagnificence of growing up. Yet for every familial betrayal and diminished expectation, every love and home(land) irretrievably lost, every terror and worst fear realized, Jergovic?s characters never surrender the promise of redemption being but a lone kiss or winning bingo card away. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401040.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 162 pages. Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother?s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for La France libre, which later grew into Book of My Mother. Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, "I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother." Clean copy. Record # 401136.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 292 pages. Tranquility, the acclaimed third novel by Hungarian Attila Bartis, is simultaneously a private psychodrama and a portrait of the end of the Communist era. Reading it, "we arrive at ourselves, at our own obsessions, in our own silence,? writes Ilma Rakusa. A thirty-six-year-old writer struggles to escape his hellish, Oedipal inter dependency with his actress mother as Hungary?s Communist infrastructure collapses around him. One of the most psychologically dark and ironic novels to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature, it is also, as far as human psychology and political farce are concerned, one of the most illuminating. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401043.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 305 pages. The Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his beloved store filled with more than seventy years of fugitive histories. Jumping from the present to various points in the past, the novel ferries us back to Vicenzo's childhood, when his father opened the store in 1935, to the years that the store was run by his Uncle Eliseo, and to the years in the lead-up to the democratic transition, which Vicenzo spent as far away from the bookstore as possible, in Madrid. Clean copy. Record # 401058.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 145 pages. A virtuoso Fin de Siecle Viennese innovator of what he called the ?telegram style? of writing, Altenberg?s signature short prose str1les the line between the lyrical and the narrative, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette. Inspired by the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire, the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Viennese Feuilleton, a light journalistic reflection current in his day, Altenberg carved out a spare, strikingly modern aesthetic that speaks with an eerie prescience to our own impatient time. Peter Wortsman?s new selection and translation reads like a sly lyrical wink from the turn-of-the-century of the telegram to the turn-of-the-millennium of e-mail. Clean copy. Record # 471910.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 194 pages. A heartfelt masterpiece about the joys of travel, reading, and companionship. In rural Canada, dotted along the coast of a vast mauve river, live villagers of different stripes: a recently divorced hydroplane pilot, a factory-worker who closely resembles her fisherman husband, a probing motorcyclist with a pet St. Bernard, a pair of beautiful blonde joggers, and other curious characters. For all their differences, each is brought together by a soft-spoken man, referred to only as ?the Driver,? who travels up and down the coast each season, delivering books to areas not served by libraries and listening closely to the villager?s tales and to their woes. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401039.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 171 pages. One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish?s self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Clean Copy. Record # 401133.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 240 pages. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence. Record # 401055.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 468 pages. Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Clean copy. Record # 401033.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 275 pages. Tarjei Vesaas?s final work, The Hills Reply, is a flow of intensely lyrical autobiographical scenes. The vivid beauty of the wilds of Norway grounds the narrator?s interior flashes. The first sketch finds a boy, his father, and their packhorse clearing a logging road buried in snow as their surroundings give way to a crisis. Profound insights into human behavior, solitude, and nonverbal communication stand up to the power and immensity of the natural world. The land speaks to (and at times almost swallows) the central character, as he is pushed to the edge of what a body and mind can endure. Clean, bright copy. Record # 401037.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good+. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, trade paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, very light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a touch of edge wear to the covers, otherwise a solid, tight, clean Very Good+ copy.

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $20, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. VLADISLAVIC, IVAN. The distance. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2020, stated First Archipelago Books edition, 290pp., . "In his youth in 1970s suburban Pretoria, Joe falls in love with Muhammad Ali. He diligently scrapbooks newspaper clippings of his his hero, recording the showman's words and taking in his inimitable brand of resistance. Forty years later, digging out his yellowed archive of Ali clippings and comic books, Joe sets out to write a memoir of his childhood. Calling upon his brother Branko for help, their two voices interweave to unearth a shared past. Reconstructing a world of bioscopes, Formica tabletops, Ovaltine, and drop-offs in their father's Ford Zephyr, conjuring the textures of childhood, what emerges is a collision of memories, patching the gulf between past and present. Meaning arises in the gaps between fact and imagination, and words themselves become markers of the past and the turbulent present. In this formally inventive, fragmented novel, Vladislavic evokes the beauty, and the strangeness, of remembering and forgetting, and explores what it means to be at odds with one's surroundings". ISBN 9781939810762.

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $22, attractive copy, very good. KOVACIC, LOJZE. Newcomers. Book Two. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2020, stated First Archipelago Books edition., 384pp., . Translated from the Slovenian. - Author: Kovac?ic?, Lojze. ISBN 9781939810403.

thick square sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $20, attractive copy, appears unused, slightly uneven at bottom of spine. HERMANS, WILLEM FREDERIK. A guardian angel recalls. Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2021, stated First Archipelago Books edition., 511pp., . ISBN 9781953861023.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 131 pages. With an introduction by award-winning author Alberto Manguel, Milongas is Edgardo Cozarinsky's love letter to tango, and the diverse array of people who give it life. Argentine writer and filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky traces [tango's] fascinating journey through time and the seedy brothels and rough Argentine and European bars where the dance could be quite mannered or could spark with theatrical violence . . . Cozarinsky takes us through the ebbs and flows of the popularity of the tango, and also through a number of its evolutionary adaptive speciations. Clean copy. Record # 401050.

Condizione: Very Good. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 425 pages. Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann?s wildly imaginative tales offer an unflinching view of human nature and sing clearer than ever in a masterful new translation. Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities of human desire and fear. Clean copy. Record # 401134.

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages. In The Vanishing Moon, Joseph Coulson writes with insight and beauty about the American working-class, about the strength and strain of family bonds, and about tragic incidents that haunt the human psyche over a lifetime. Set in Cleveland and Detroit, the novel chronicles two generations of the Tollman family, opening at the start of the Great Depression and moving forward through five decades to the Vietnam War. The first narrator, Stephen Tollman, looks back on his early adventures with his older brother, as both boys try to shield their siblings from the confusion and vulnerability of financial ruin. Later, as World War II approaches, Katherine Lennox, musician and political activist, offers an outsider?s view of the Tollmans, mesmerizing both Stephen and his brother with her energy and ambition. James Tollman comes of age in the 1960s, and as the youngest son in the family?s second generation, he strives to understand his father and mother amidst a summer of assassinations and civil unrest. Stephen returns to finish the story, struggling to hold his own against the currents of memory and abandoned dreams. Told with the compression and intensity of a poem, The Vanishing Moon is a novel of desire, unyielding necessity, and the people and places that inevitably disappear from our lives. Clean copy. Record # 401044.