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A hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.

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'The Liar is one of Danish novelist Martin A. Hansen's best known and popular fictions. Published...

A major, career-spanning collection of an Italian master's poetry in English, gathered together f...

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A new translation of the Peruvian poet's most groundbreaking, infamously obstuse work, a collecti...

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A hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi ...

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