Margellos World Republic of Letters

The Last Days of Mankind
One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, Th...
Globetrotter
Displaced from his home more than twenty years ago as Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia descended int...
La Vida Doble
Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a...
Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille
In critical opinion and popular polls, Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked...
The Girl with the Golden Parasol
“Just then, Rahul saw a spot of yellow far away. . The yellow glowed beautifully in the morning...
A Love Letter in Cuneiform
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuse...
The Roar of Morning
“Tip” Marugg’s The Roar of Morning has been widely praised as an intensely personal, often drea...
The Hatred of Music
Throughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsessio...
Melancholy
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essa...
France, Story of a Childhood
This moving tale of imprisonment and escape, persecution and loss, is narrated by the daughter...
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left hi...
Orthokostá
A preeminent work of modern Greek literature, this provocative novel poses difficult questions...
Please Talk to Me: Selected Stories
The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irr...
Little Jewel
A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-lang...