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Concerto al-Quds Blameless Adonis Claudio Magris Translated from the Arabic by Translated from the Italian by Khaled Mattawa Anne Milano Appel From the man revered as the greatest From one of Europe’s most revered living Arabic poet, this deeply felt poem is authors, a tale of one man’s obsessive a hymn to the troubled city of Jerusalem/ project to collect the instruments of death, Al-Quds, embattled by the conflict- evil, and humanity’s darkest atrocities in ing demands of Jews, Christians, and order to oppose them. “[A] remarkable Muslims. “A monumental work.”—Jessica novel.”—New Yorker Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters Hardcover 2017 368 pp. Hardcover 2017 96 pp. 978-0-300-21848-0 $26.00/£16.99 978-0-300-19764-8 $25.00/£18.99 The Mountains of Parnassus New Fiction Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill

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Sundays in August The Valley of the Fallen Patrick Modiano Carlos Rojas Translated from the French by Translated from the Spanish by Damion Searls Edith Grossman “Nobel Prize–winner Modiano does more This historical novel by one of Spain’s with less in this subtle and haunting noir. most celebrated writers imagines . . . Modiano makes the reader work to put Francisco de Goya during his fraught the puzzle pieces in order, while maintain- years as official royal artist to the Spanish ing a convincing atmosphere of tension court in the early nineteenth century, and and dread.”—Publishers Weekly (starred again during Franco’s Fascist era of the review) twentieth century. Flapped paperback 2017 168 pp. Available March 2018 978-0-300-22333-0 $16.00/£12.99 Hardcover 2018 320 pp. 978-0-300-21796-4 $26.00 /£20.00 Now available in paperback Orthokostá The Dirty Dust A Novel Cré na Cille Thanassis Valtinos Máirtín Ó Cadhain Translated from the Greek by Translated from the Irish by Alan Titley Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis; Foreword by Stathis N. Kalyvas This lilting translation of Máirtin Ó Cadhain’s internationally admired A preeminent work of modern Greek satiric novel is full of the brio and guts of literature, this provocative novel poses the Irish author’s original. “Never mind difficult questions about the nation’s that all of the characters are dead, The Nazi occupation and early Civil War years. Dirty Dust is full of life.”—Michael Dirda, “[A] chilling, arresting novel.”—Publishers Washington Post Weekly Paper 2016 328 pp. Cloth 2016 304 pp. 2 b/w maps 978-0-300-21982-1 $16.00/£8.99 978-0-300-20999-0 $27.00/£16.99

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Mesopotamia Melancholy Serhiy Zhadan László F. Földényi Prose translated from the Ukrainian by Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wilkinson; Foreword by Alberto Manguel Stackhouse Wheeler; poetry translated from the Ukranian by Virlana Tkacz and “An astounding work: Földényi, a most Wanda Phipps learned man, brilliantly imaginative, illuminates the mysteries of melancholy A unique work of fiction from the trou- by analyzing how great thinkers of the bled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable past pondered it. A major work of cultural testimony to the new history unfolding in history.”—Fritz Stern, University Professor the nation’s post-independence years. Emeritus, Columbia University Available May 2018 Cloth 2016 360 pp. Flapped paperback 2018 320 pp. 978-0-300-16748-1 $35.00/£20.00 978-0-300-22335-4 $16.00/£12.99 Now avaialble in paperback New Nonfiction and Memoir The Book of Beginnings François Jullien Fibrils Translated by Jody Gladding The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 A capstone work from a renowned Michel Leiris philosopher who explores how Western Translated from the French by Lydia Davis cultural biases may be challenged by classic texts in order to enter another way This much-anticipated translation of thinking. “An encouraging, lively, and brings the third volume of Michel Leiris’s aspirational narrative offering an acclaimed autobiographical essay to illumination in virtually every sentence.” English-language readers for the first —Ron Slate, On the Seawall time. Lévi-Strauss proclaimed Leiris Paper 2016 152 pp. “incontestably one of the greatest writers 978-0-300-22356-9 $17.00/£12.99 of the century,” and his thirty-five-year autobiographical project is considered by many to be a primary document of artistic Journeying life in the twentieth century. Claudio Magris Hardcover 2017 256 pp. Translated from the Italian by 978-0-300-21239-6 $30.00/£20.00 Anne Milano Appel A world-celebrated travel writer reinvents Now available in paperback the form itself in this inviting account of journeys to Spain, Iran, Norway, Vietnam, Scratches Australia, and beyond. Seeking the kind The Rules of the Game, Volume 1 of experience “that occurs when you Michel Leiris abandon yourself to [the gentle current Translated from the French by Lydia Davis of time] and to whatever life brings,” he “For me [Leiris’s] work is not only a docu- demonstrates that wandering is equal ment that enriches our knowledge of part wondering. man, but also a personal testament that Available March 2018 touches me deeply.”—Francis Bacon Hardcover 2018 320 pp. Flapped paperback 2017 272 pp. 978-0-300-21851-0 $25.00/£16.99 978-0-300-21237-2 $18.00/£12.99 The Hatred of Music Now available in paperback Pascal Quignard Translated from the French by Scraps Matthew Amos and Fredrik Rönnbäck The Rules of the Game, Volume 2 This provocative book explores the history Michel Leiris of music, from prehistoric chants to the Translated from the French by Lydia Davis Holocaust and beyond, and exposes the disturbing power of music to manipulate “I read with fervor the literary works of and mesmerize. “Just about any reader Michel Leiris. . . . He is incontestably one of will be perversely thrilled by the intersec- the greatest writers of the century.” tions Quignard unearths between the —Claude Lévi-Strauss mind and the world of sound.”—Jeanne Flapped paperback 2017 248 pp. Bonner, Three Percent 978-0-300-21238-9 $18.00/£12.99 Cloth 2016 216 pp. 4 978-0-300-21138-2 $26.00s/£16.99 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com

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Cover image: Unnamed by Adonis, courtesy of the artist.