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Secker & Warburg

An Explanation of the Birds [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Explicação dos pássaros

Lobo Antunes employs a colloquial, omnivorous language that digests trauma and black comedy and nourishes readers hungry for literature which meets life head on. An Explanation of the Birds is the work of a consummate technician, a shocking artist. (more...)

Act of the Damned [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Richard Zenith
Original title: Auto dos danados

Act of the Damned is a portrait of two things; the corrupt ruling class which fattened itself for decades under Salazar and of Portugal’s revolutionary year of 1974-75. (more...)

A Rose of Flesh (1963)

by Jan Wolkers
Translated by John Scott
Original title: Een roos van vlees

The Horrible Tango

by Jan Wolkers
Translated by R.R. Symonds
Original title: Horrible tango

The First Ship up the Newa (1946)

by Jef Last
Translated by F.G. Renier and Anne Cliff
Original title: Het eerste schip op de Newa

Silent Extras (1997) [Buy Direct]

by Arnon Grunberg
Original title: Figuranten

Blue Mondays (1994) [Buy Direct]

by Arnon Grunberg
Translated by Arnold and Erica Pomerans
Original title: Blauwe maandagen

The Ten Thousand Things (1956) [Buy Direct]

by Maria Dermout
Translated by Hans Koningsberger
Original title: De tienduizend dingen

Maria Dermoût (1888-1961) was born and grew up on the Indonesian island of Java. Although she had been telling and writing stories all her life, she didn’t start publishing until she was in her sixties. Her two novels, (more...)

Days before Yesterday (1951)

by Maria Dermout
Translated by Hans Koningsberger
Original title: Nog pas gisteren

In this novel we see the young Dutch girl Riek growing up as an only child on a plantation in Central Java, at a distance from her Dutch parents, and in intimate contact with the native servants — Oerip, Karto, Asi and Neng, Mangoen, Roos and Boeyoeng — and their culture of storytelling. (more...)

The Swan Villa [Buy Direct]

by Martin Walser
Translated by L Vennewitz
Original title: Das Schwanenhaus

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