NEW DIRECTIONS BOOKS
Fall 1999 / Winter 2000
NINA BERBEROVA
CAPE OF STORMS. Tr. by Schwartz. Novel. "Gogol's, Tolstoy's and especially Chekhov's
most vital inheritor."-Boston Review. First time in English. $23.95
d.
MAURICE COLLIS
CORTES AND MONTEZUMA. History. "[Collis] writes with obvious delight at having
such a good story to tell."
-New Statesman.
An ND Classic. $12.95 pbk.
CIDCORMAN
NOTHING
I
DOING. New vital poems of zen koan and uncompromising wisdom. "A
writer of exquisitely distilled poetry."
-Publishers Wkly.
$13.95 pbk. orig. (Feb.'DO)
JULIO CORTAzAR
FINAL EXAM. Tr. by MacAdam. Long lost, now avail. in Eng. "He spoke of the radical–
ly new and joyful nature of every instant."-Carlos Fuentes. $23.95
d.
(Feb. '00)
YOEL HOFFMANN
THE CHRIST OF FISH. Tr. by Levenston. Fiction about a old Viennese woman's life in
Tel Aviv. "The Israeli avant-garde genius-in English at
last."-Forward.
$21.95 cl.
QURRATULAIN HYDER
RIVER OF FIRE. Epic Indian novel.
"[River ofFire]
is to Urdu fiction what
A Hundred Years
of Solitude
is to Hispanic literature."
-The
London
Times Lit. Supplement.
$25.95 cl.
MICHAEL McCLURE
RAIN MIRROR. New Poems. A series of often funny haikus in the American idiom and
one long poem in three parts that records a near-fatal airplane accident. $13.95 pbk. orig.
JEROME ROTHENBERG
A PARADISE OF POETS. New Poems
&
Translations. A fresh new collection of inspired
collage, visual improvisation, and translated poetry. $14.95 pbk. orig.
MURIEL SPARK
THE BACHELORS. British bachelors involved with a spiritualist and a paternity suit. By
the author of
The Prime ofMiss Jean Brodie.
An ND Classic. $12.95 pbk.
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
THE MISSING HEAD OF DAMASCENO MONTEIRO. Tr. by Creagh. An intellectual
thriller. "Paradoxically sensuous and economical."
-The Boston Rev.
$21.95 d. (Feb. '00)
UWETIMM
MIDSUMMER NIGHT. Tr. by Tegel. Now in pbk. "This novel is smashing."
-The
Washington Post.
"An extraordinary story-teller."-
The New Yorker.
$12.95 pbk. (Feb.'OO)
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC
THE MUSEUM OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Tr. by Hawkesworth. Croatian
novel. "A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling." -Susan Sontag. $24.95 cl.
ROSMARIE WALDROP
RELUCTANT GRAVITIES. A new volume of playful, witty, avant-garde prose poem
"dialogues." "She maintains a distinctly American voice." -VLS. $12.95 pbk. orig.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
SPRING STORM. Intro. by Isaac. Early play about an young woman's sexual awaken–
ing in small town America. "One of his finest achievements." -Lyle Leverich. $12.95 pbk.
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