Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Celeste Mogador

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• When Céleste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable fo... Lees meer

Concert

Else Lasker-Schuler

• Hardcover | Engels | European Women Writers
• Concert was one of the last books published by a Jew in Germany before Hitler came to power. The work is autobiographical, a collection of essays and ... Lees meer

The Museum of Useless Efforts

Cristina Peri Rossi

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• In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time... Lees meer

The Book of Promethea

Helene Cixous

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• In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes... Lees meer

Dream of Reason

Rosa Chacel

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• A masterpiece of modernist fiction about one man's search for meaning, Dream of Reason ( La sinrazón ) reveals Rosa Chacel as an intellectual and lite... Lees meer

The Delta Function

Rosa Montero

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• In La función delta (1981), the second novel of the best-selling Spanish author Rosa Montero, the real world is as unmapped and treacherous as ever fo... Lees meer

The Tongue Snatchers

Claudine Herrmann

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• Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern cl... Lees meer

Nevermore

Marie Redonnet

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• When Deputy Willy Bost arrives in the mysterious border town of San Rosa, he does not know why he has been sent there or what he will find. What he en... Lees meer

Forever Valley

Marie Redonnet

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• This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a "personal proje... Lees meer

Private Property

Paule Constant

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• When Tiffany Murano's parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. I... Lees meer

Daughters of Eve

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English translation. It will introduce scholars and general readers ... Lees meer

Bitter Healing

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• Bitter Healing is the first anthology of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German women's writing in English translation. It goes far toward fi... Lees meer

The Maravillas District

Rosa Chacel

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• Rosa Chacel belongs to that brilliant generation of artists that moved to the cultural vanguard in the 1920s and 1930s: García Lorca, Buñuel, Dali, Al... Lees meer

There Are No Letters Like Yours

Isabelle De Charriere, Constant D'Hermenches

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• The letters between a young Dutch woman and a Swiss soldier. Lees meer

Rosie Carpe

Marie NDiaye

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already s... Lees meer

Never to Return

Esther Tusquets

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• Never to Return is a witty, penetrating account of a woman's inner journey to understanding through her encounter with Freudian psychoanalysis. On the... Lees meer

Nadirs

Herta Muller

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Müller's chil... Lees meer

Government Is Good

Joseph F Freeman

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• A former mayor takes readers inside the system to show politics at its most human level. From such events as a moving funeral for a retired police com... Lees meer

Trading Secrets

Paule Constant

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her p... Lees meer

The Terrible But Unfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia

Helene Cixous

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• No contemporary French feminist has made a bigger impact in America than Hélène Cixous. Brilliant, bold, and combative, author of numerous novels and ... Lees meer

Animal Triste

Monika Maron

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of s... Lees meer

Candy Story

Marie Redonnet

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• Candy Story recounts a turbulent year in the life of Mia, a young woman whose apparent calm is perpetually threatened by inner doubts and outer catast... Lees meer

Tomboy

Nina Bouraoui

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you've spent your childhood in Alger... Lees meer

A Broken Mirror

Merce Rodoreda

• Paperback | Engels | European Women Writers
• In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, whic... Lees meer