"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."

Tayala Léha is a medium, healer and author living in Germany. In 2016, she wrote in her poem "Announcement from the upper world": "In 2021, there will be a war in Germany. Warn everybody you know!". Unsettled by the message, she tells friends about it, but pushes this unbelievable-sounding information aside at first. In the spring of 2020, she was "guided" to the predictions of Alois Irlmaier, a Bavarian clairvoyant who was completely unknown to her at the time. He lived during the second world war and even proved his gifts before court! Irlmaier vigorously warned of a third world war for over 10 years until his death in 1959. He claims this will mainly affect Europe but will also have an impact on Alaska, Canada an the USA. Tayala Léha fears: "the information threads" from her own visions and from which Irlmaiers lead... In this booklet, Léha gives compact, useful information about Alois Irlmaier`s prophecies, her own inspiration and practical tips on how you can take preventive measures...

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

A woman’s feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay in this "wild, brutal paean to freedom" (NPR.org). Shortlisted for the National Translation Award "Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated." —NPR.org “A surreal, nightmarish book about women’s struggle for autonomy—and how that struggle is (always, inevitably) met with violence.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its shocking erotic content. In this searing critique of Enlightenment values, fantastic themes are juxtaposed with brutal depictions of misogyny and violence, and frantically build to a fiery conclusion. Finally available to an English-speaking audience, Armonía Somers will resonate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Djuna Barnes, and Leonora Carrington.