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Clockroot BooksWhy Clockroot? A clock is the puffball head of a dandelion, that resilient invader whose seeds sow themselves in even the most inhospitable soil, whose roots are stubborn, penetrating, wilier than spades. A dandelion is a spot of wild, sunny disorder in the vast green American lawn—an assault against its propriety. Think of Clockroot Books as the literary equivalent of the movement to return lawn to meadows and wildflowers and vegetables. A celebration of a wilder literature, in which each work seems as inevitable as a dandelion spotting the lawn, as clarifying as bitter greens at winter’s end. Works in translation are a crucial starting point for Clockroot, but most importantly, we’re interested in writing that confronts, that feels urgent, disorienting, vivid.
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 Blue Has No South
Alex Epstein; translated by Becka Mara McKay
"Their love story ended many years ago. He still writes her name as a solution to crossword puzzle clues of suitable length."
Alex Epstein’s miniature stories are indeed love stories, puzzles, stray clues to puzzles he neve...
$15.00
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 Geometry of God, The
Uzma Aslam Khan
Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Bronze Medal Winner - Multicultural Fiction Amal: the practical sister who digs up the “diamond key” that unlocks the mystery of Pakicetus, a whale-dog creature...
$18.00
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 In the House Un-American
Benjamin Hollander
A FICTION FOR OUR TIMES AND A RADICAL PROOF THAT “AMERICA WAS FABLE BEFORE IT BECAME FACT.” “It is difficult to speak of Benjamin Hollander’s masterpiece, so America, so like an inner emigration, as if we had all changed na...
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 Kassandra and the Wolf
Margarita Karapanou; translated by N.C. Germanacos
“No retelling of Kassandra and the Wolf can explain its charm, or its riddles. … [It] is one of those rare creations that come alive mysteriously, without any antecedents. The book is original, terrifying, complete. It inven...
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 Landscape with Dog
and Other Stories
Ersi Sotiropoulos; translated by Karen Emmerich
“Let’s just say that Giacometti was setting out to draw a face. If he started with the chin, he would worry that he might never reach the nose. The longer he sketched the face, the harder he tried to offer a faithful representation of it,...
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 Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi
and Other Stories
Edgar Bayley; translated by Emily Toder
The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure
Doctor Pi—a sleuth without a crime. A flâneur on official business. Organizer of unknowable expeditions, lover of brunettes. Doctor Pi, with his frock...
$13.00
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 Literature and War
Conversations with Israeli and Palestinian Writers
Runo Isaksen; translated by Kari Dickson
“The first step toward real peace must be to get to know the other side, its culture and creativity.”
—Mahmoud Darwish
Novelist and journalist Runo Isaksen undertook these interviews with p...
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 Lunar Savings Time
Alex Epstein; translated by Becka Mara McKay
A new collection from an acknowledged master of flash-fiction “The short texts of Alex Epstein virtuously echo the great tradition of world literature in a truly original manner, as the tension between the classical and the intuitiv...
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 Rien ne va Plus
Margarita Karapanou; translated by Karen Emmerich
The story is simple: a love affair ends badly. A woman and a man marry, then cruelty, infidelity, and divorce. But this novel tells their story twice, from opposing perspectives. Our sympathies are inverted; we don’t know whom to trust; the dis...
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 Sleepwalker, The
Margarita Karapanou; translated by Karen Emmerich
Winner of the Prix de meilleur livre étranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France
At the opening of Margarita Karapanou's stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah onto the earth. Or rat...
$16.00
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 So Good in Black
Sunetra Gupta
A superbly crafted novel from award-winning Indian novelist Sunetra Gupta “Sunetra Gupta’s work is genuinely challenging, rare and enriching... The creator of a prose which is capable of the subtlest artistic resonance, sh...
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 Thinner than Skin
Uzma Aslam Khan
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2012 MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE
WINNER OF FRENCH EMBASSY FICTION PRIZE
In the wilds of Northern Pakistan, where glaciers are born of mating ice, two young lovers shatter the tenuous peace of a...
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 Touch
Adania Shibli; translated by Paula Haydar
“The most talked-about writer on the West Bank.”
—Ahdaf Soueif, author of In the Eye of the Sun
“The opening of [Touch]… introduces a fragile little girl,...
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 We Are All Equally Far from Love
Adania Shibli; translated from the Arabic by Paul Starkey
A new award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of Touch A young woman, asked at work to write a letter to an older man, does as she is told. So begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. A lo...
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 Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees
Ersi Sotiropoulos; translated by Peter Green
Zigzag through the Bitter-Orange Trees was first published in Greece, w...
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