On Booze
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This hurried collection of short works by Fitzgerald from New Directions purports to be about booze but is really more steeped in it.
Books published by New Directions
The Emissary
Yoko Tawada
Something terrible has happened in Japan, and the country has cut itself off from the world.
The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada
Three workers reluctantly take jobs at the factory.
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.