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NEWS
Dalkey Archive has launched four new National Literature Series which will allow the translation and publication of 2-3 books from each featured country per year. Visit the links below for more information.
New Titles
Light While There Is Light
An American History
An American History
One of the unheralded masterpieces of twentieth-century American fiction, Light While There Is Light is acclaimed poet Keith Waldrop's autobiographical novel about the myriad ghosts left behind by his family . . .
Peru
Arguably Gordon Lish's masterpiece, Peru begins with its narrator announcing, "There is nothing which I will not tell you if I can think of it." Gradually, the story of a dark childhood secret — real or imagined — unfolds . . .
In Partial Disgrace
The long-awaited final work and magnum opus of one of the United States's greatest authors, critics, and tastemakers, In Partial Disgrace is a sprawling self-contained trilogy chronicling the troubled history of a small Central European
nation . . .
George Anderson
Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time
Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time
Theo Fales is a one-time historian turned book editor who specializes in ghostwriting the memoirs of leading American policy-makers.
My Beautiful Bus
Poetic, comic, obsessed with minutiae, MY BEAUTIFUL BUS is a welcome dose of serious frivolity at the expense of the contemporary novel . . .
Adam in Eden
In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden—but there are snakes in this Eden too.
Silences, or a Woman's Life
When a woman falls into a coma, her daughter accompanies her through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by the monstrous machine of modern medicine. During this final voyage through the fog, the narrator...