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“Zhadan presents a nightmarish,
raw vision of contemporary
eastern Ukraine under siege from
Russian-backed separatists.... With
a poet’s sense of lyricism... [Zhadan]
unblinkingly reveals a country’s dev-
astation and its people’s passionate
determination to survive.”—Publishers
Weekly (starred review)“Every sentence is packed with
explosive power, not a word wasted,
and the whole is almost unbearably
moving.”—Hilary Mantel“[These] unfinished works written
after 1861 and appearing in English
together for the first time, Flares, My
Heart Laid Bare, Belgium Disrobed,
and a selection of ‘late prose poems
and projects’ deliver what their titles
seem to promise: a soul stripped of
guises and illusions.”—Ange Mlinko,
New York Review of Books“To read Hocus Bogus in Bellos’s
superb translation is to marvel at its
dizzyingly distorted syntax (‘I don’t
speak Danish, but not well enough’),
constant wit (‘reptiles are always first
in the firing line when it comes to hate
speech’) and sheer energy.”—Michael
Dirda, Washington Post“The Notes should be celebrated: it is
wonderful that this volume of [Hohl’s]
compact, aphoristic observations has
finally arrived in English. Tess Lewis’s
triumphant translation must also be
cheered, given the demands made by
the complex compression of Hohl’s
prose.”—Alexandra Sattler, Arts Fuse“Wonder and horror, history and
mystery, the eternal and the mortal—
this haunting novel contains them all
as it holds the reader in its spell. That a
work so abundant with shape-shifting
doubles comes to us in the mesmeriz-
ing translation of Ottilie Mulzet seems
an eerie, even angelic, sort of poetic
justice.”—Adina Hoffman“An intimate and timely meditation
on dark times, Hermsen’s illuminating
essay offers readers a way to think with
Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
about how to build a more humane
world in common.”—Samantha Rose
Hill, author of Hannah Arendt“Nooteboom’s real subject is the one
that’s defined his career—mainly, the
persistent strangeness of existence
and its refusal to be fully resolved by
religion, philosophy, or science.”
—Danny Heitman, Wall Street JournalMARGELLOS
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