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Little Star excerpts A THOUSAND PEACEFUL CITIES by Jerzy Pilch

Little Star was thrilled to encounter A Thousand Peaceful Cities, a mind-bending romp by Polish journalist and novelist Jerzy Pilch, miraculously translated by David Frick and published this month by Open Letter. We here with pleasure offer a few choice morsels . . .”

26 July 10 | More...
Barnes & Noble Review features A THOUSAND PEACEFUL CITIES by Jerzy Pilch

“Pilch’s antic sensibility confirms that he is the compatriot of Witold Gombrowicz, the Polish maestro of absurdist pranks. But readers with a taste for the fermented Irish blarney of Flann O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, and John Kennedy Toole might also savor Pilch . . .”

20 July 10 | More...
Newcity reviews THE PRIVATE LIVES OF TREES by Alejandro Zambra

“Zambra’s sentences string together like pearls, each of them perfect, fragile, and self-contained. Often, they are startlingly beautiful in their careful starkness, or hilariously deadpan . . .”

20 July 10 | More...