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From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives—artist, son, loner—as he spins the ordinary into something monumental. An engrossing, hopeful novel about life, fiction, and where the two blur together.In 2014, a novelist named Li leaves Manhattan to visit his parents in Taipei for ten weeks. He doesn't know it yet, but his life will begin to deepen and complexify on this trip. As he flies between these two worlds--year by year, over four years--he will flit in and out of optimism, despair, loneliness, sanity, bouts of chronic pain, and drafts of a new book. He will incite and temper arguments, uncover secrets about nature and history, and try to understand how to live a meaningful life as an artist and a son. But how to fit these pieces of his life together? Where to begin? Or should he leave society altogether? Exploring everyday events and scenes--waiting rooms, dog walks, family meals--while investigatively venturing to the edges of society, where culture dissolves into mystery, Lin shows what it is to write a novel in real time. Illuminating and deeply felt, as it builds toward a stunning, if unexpected, romance, Leave Society is a masterly story about life and art at the end of history. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

The basis for the movie High Resolution From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death. Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the way—whether on all night drives up the East Coast, shoplifting excursions in the South, book readings on the West Coast, or ill advised grocery runs in Ohio—movies are made with laptop cameras, massive amounts of drugs are ingested, and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is a suspenseful meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be alive, young, and on the fringe in America, or anywhere else for that matter.

Una visión divertida, literaria y profundamente'guiri'de la ciudad de Madrid.'Hilarante y endiabladamente inteligente, una novela llena de vida.'Jonathan Franzen Adam Gordon, heterónimo del autor y protagonista de Saliendo de la estación de Atocha, goza de una prestigiosa beca en Madrid para llevar a cabo lo que él llama con grandilocuencia'proyecto poético'. Sin embargo, también trata de desentrañar su identidad, así como su relación con el arte. Azuzado por cantidades ingentes de café que rebaja con tranquilizantes que él mismo se prescribe, la búsqueda de Adam le llevará a conocer una ciudad que está a punto de vivir un importante capítulo de su historia. Con una prosa mutante, que transita entre la tragedia y la comedia, el desdén y la burla, esta novela convirtió a Ben Lerner en el autor más premiado de los últimos años, siendo seleccionada como mejor novela por una interminable lista de medios, entre los que destacan: The New Yorker, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, New York Magazine o USA Today. Reseñas: «Hilarante y endiabladamente inteligente, una novela llena de vida.» Jonathan Franzen «Si Bolaño fue nuestra reciente adicción -haciéndonos sentir jóvenes, intoxicándonos con un sentido de las habilidades más salvajes de la literatura para cambiar la vida-, Lerner podría ser, debe ser, su equivalente local del mañana. Es sobrecogedor saber que alguien de mi generación está escribiendo con tal corazón, tanta cabeza y tanta personalidad.» Joshua Cohen «Sutil, sinuosa y muy divertida. Saliendo de la estación de Atocha presenta una seductora mezcla de ligereza y gravedad.» James Wood, The New Yorker «Una novela extraordinaria sobre las intersecciones del arte y la realidad en la vida contemporánea.» John Ashbery «Una de las novelas más divertidas (y más auténticas) de los escritores de su generación [...]. Asombrosamente bueno.» Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books «No creo que haya sentido algo similar leyendo otra novela. Me excita y me conmueve.» Tao Lin, The Believer «Lleno de cautivadoras ideas.» Library Journal

'Winner of Chile's Literary Critics'Award for Best Novel'Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, “a simple story that becomes complicated.” Through both the distance and closeness of these young lovers, Alejandro Zambra brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. Bonsai is accessible yet profound—as one critic in Chile's Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.”

There is no explanation.Written eight years after the publication of Anna Karenina—a time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tracts—The Death of Ivan Ilych represents perhaps the most keenly realized melding of Tolstoy's spirituality with his artistic skills.Here in a vibrant new translation, the tale of a judge who slowly comes to understand that his illness is fatal was inspired by Tolstoy's observation at his local train station of hundreds of shackled prisoners being sent off to Siberia, many for petty crimes. When he learned that the sentencing judge had died, Tolstoy was roused to consider the judge's thoughts during his final days—a study on the acceptance of mortality only deepened by the death, during its writing, of one of Tolstoy's own young children.The final result is a magisterial story, both chilling and beguiling in the fullness of its empathy, its quotidian detail, and the beauty of its prose, and is, as many have claimed it to be, one of the most moving novellas ever written. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband—closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.