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The CompleTe FiCTion oF FranCis WyndhamIntroduction by Alan Hollinghurst

A New York Review Books Original

“Wyndham has moved in English literature’s most exalted circles. Now his own deliciously precise and funny writings are published.” —The Guardian (London)

In his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little—one novella and two collections of stories—but it adds up to one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. As Alan Hollinghurst notes in his introduction to The Complete Fiction, Wyndham’s fiction stands in the tradition of social comedy that goes back through Henry James to Jane Austen, with this difference: Wyndham writes about the lives of privileged and even titled people, but he is drawn to outcasts and odd ducks, adolescents, lonely women, addicts, eccentrics, and idlers.

The earliest stories here, gathered under the title Out of the War,are brilliant vignettes of deprivation and desire written duringWorld War II, when Wyndham had been invalided out of theBritish army. Mrs. Henderson, by contrast, offers scrupulously observed tragicomic pictures of the vagaries of upper-class Englishfamily life. Finally, in the prizewinning short novel The OtherGarden, a shy teenage boy living in the country strikes up an unlikely friendship with Kay, the thirty-something daughter of neighbors, sister to a famous actor, and black sheep of herfamily. Kay, with her whims and crazes and boyfriends, is unableto hold her own against her family’s disapproval, and the nar-rator watches with helpless fascination as her small but very real tragedy is played out against the background of the Second World War.

Francis Wyndham has worked as a staff writer at The Sunday Times and as an editor at André Deutsch. He is credited with the rediscovery of Jean Rhys in the 1950s, whose letters he pub-lished after her death.

Alan Hollinghurst’s books include The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the 2004 Booker Prize.

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3 The CompleTe FiCTion oF FranCis Wyndham

4 sTones oF aran: laByrinTh by Tim Robinson

5 The one-sTraW revolUTion by Masanobu Fukuoka

6 sUmmer Will shoW by Sylvia Townsend Warner

7 The old man and me by Elaine Dundy

8 alien hearTs by Guy de Maupassant

9 niki by Tibor Déry

10 memories oF The FUTUre by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

11 The JoUrnals oF henry david ThoreaU edited by Damion Searls

The new york review Children’s Collection

12 The kingdom oF CarBonel by Barbara Sleigh

13 oUnCe diCe TriCe by Alastair Reid

The little Bookroom

14 The BesT vinTage, anTiqUe and ColleCTiBle shops in paris by Édith Pauly

15 oUTdoor dining in paris by Simon Roger

16 shopping in marrakeCh by Susan Simon

17 spring 2009 TiTles

18 index

Inside backcover ordering inFormaTion

nyrB ClassiCs: CeleBraTing 10 years oF independenT pUBlishing in 2009.

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The one-sTraW revolUTion

MASANOBU FUKUOKA

Translated from the Japanese by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce, and Tsune Kurosawe

Preface by Wendell Berry

With a new Afterword by the Author

A pioneering cult classic for backyard gardeners, community organizers, and anyone who is looking for new ways to solve the problems of the earth

Masanobu Fukuoka’s book about growing food has been changingthe lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. At the same time, it is the memoir of a man whose spiritual beliefs underpin and inform every aspect of his innovative farming system.

Equal parts farmer and philosopher, Fukuoka is recognized as one of the founding thinkers of the permaculture movement. But when he was twenty-five, he was just another biologist taking advantage of the unprecedented development of postwar Japan. Then a brush with death shattered his complacency. He quit his job and returned to his family farm. Over the decades that followed, Fukuoka perfected his so-called “do-nothing” technique, a way of farming that dispenses with both modern agribusiness practices and centuries of folk wisdom, replacing them with a system that seeks to work with nature rather than make it over through increasingly elaborate—and often harmful—methods. Fukuoka developed commonsense, sustainable prac-tices that all but eliminated the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and the wasteful effort associated with them—and his yields matched those of neighboring factory farms. His farm becamea gathering place for people from all over the world who wished to adapt his ways to their own local cultures.

Now, more than thirty years after they were first published, Fukuoka’s teachings are more relevant and necessary than ever.

Masanobu Fukuoka (1914–2008) was born in a small farmingvillage on the island of Shikoku in southern Japan. He developedwhat many consider to be a revolutionary method of sustainableagriculture called no-till cultivation. He received the Deshikottan and the Ramon Magsaysay awards in 1988, and the Earth CouncilAward in 1997.

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STONES OF ARAN laByrinTh

TIM ROBINSON“Looked upon with a tactful, eager, strategic care that is as tender in its address as an admission of love. . . Robinson’s Aran will, inevitably, become part of the general myth. It is a wonderful achievement.”

—Seamus Deane, London Review of Books

Pilgrimage, the first volume of Tim Robinson’s extraordinary account of walking and mapping Áirann—the largest of the Aran islands off the west coast of Ireland—describes his circuit of the island’s coast. At the end of that book, he turns to the interior of Áirann, noting that “for a book to stand out like an island in the sea of the unwritten, it must acknowledge its own bounds, and turn inward from them and look into the labyrinth.” Labyrinth is the fruit of that inward turn, an unpar-alleled work of reading and writing, of contemplating in the fullest and deepest sense both the natural and human history of a landscape. Encyclopedia of myth and reality, herbal, love letter, prayer book and joke book, Stones of Aran has a near inex-haustibility that mirrors the island itself, just one scrap of earth’s surface. Labyrinth concludes the mission begun in Pilgrimage, opening up the interior and merging cosmic themes with the utter-ly personal, until by the end, the island is mysteriously returned to itself, untrodden and unread, yet revealed.

A book for walkers, for travelers, for students and lovers of the landscape, customs, and history of Ireland, for any explorer of the written word, Labyrinth completes one of the most astonishing literary adventures of our day.

Tim Robinson was brought up in Yorkshire. He studied atCambridge University and worked as a teacher and artist inIstanbul, Vienna, and London. In 1972 he moved to the AranIslands, where he gained fame as a mapmaker. He learned Gaelic and began preserving Irish place-names, gaining respect as an environmentalist and winning a Ford European Conversation Award. NYRB Classics reissued Robinson’s Stones of Aran: Pilgrim-age in 2008.

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The old man and me

ELAINE DUNDY“There isn’t a dull line in it.” —P.G. Wodehouse

“Through it all, Miss Dundy’s prose glitters like confetti againstthe gray English sky.” —Newsweek

In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of a young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older, but certainly no wiser. Honey Flood (if that’s her real name) is determined to make the Soho scene, and she’ll know she’s arrived when she snags its greatest prize, the literary star C. D. McKee.

Set in an early sixties London that is just beginning to swing, The Old Man and Me is populated by hipsters, pill-poppers, liter-ary upstarts, would-be bohemians, and titled divorcées matching wits in smoky nightclubs and Mayfair flats. But by the time Honey gets what she thinks she’s after, she may find that the world she was hell-bent on conquering has gotten the better of her.

Elaine Dundy knows her characters inside and out and renders them with perfect pitch to create a story as funny as it is poignant.

Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) was born in New York City and lived in Paris and London. She was married for a time to theater critic Kenneth Tynan. She wrote plays, novels, and biographies, including Elvis and Gladys and Life Itself! Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, and Vogue, among other pub-lications. Her novel The Dud Avocado was published by NYRB Classics in 2007.

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sUmmer Will shoW

SYLvIA TOWNSEND WARNER

Introduction by Claire Harman

“This book is indeed a woman’s handiwork, with a woman’s insight, malice, exquisiteness; in its wit, its instinct for style, its drawing–room urbanities, it will suggest at one time or another the work of a Rebecca West, a virginia Woolf, anElinor Wylie.” —Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times

Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her unsatisfactory and improvident husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She will devote herself, in the image of her own father, to the serious business of properly raising her two children. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husband’s sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-raising childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street alike. Minna, “magnanimous and unscrupulous, fickle, ardent, and interfering,” leads Sophia on a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris, in a story that reaches an unforgettable conclusion amidst the bullets, bloodshed, and hope of the barricades.

Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most original and inven-tive of twentieth-century English novelists as well as a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, where William Maxwell was her editor. Summer Will Show is the most out-and-out exciting of Warner’s novels and a brilliant reimagining of the possibilities of historical fiction.

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music.Two of her books, Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, havealready appeared in the NYRB Classics series.

Claire Harman’s first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burneyand Robert Louis Stevenson and edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.

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niki THE STORY OF A DOG

TIBOR DÉRY

Translated from the Hungarian by Edward Hyams

“The greatest depicter of human beings of our time.”—Georg Lukács

“Tibor Déry deserves our close attention.”—The Times Literary Supplement

“The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of ’48”: so the storybegins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just begin-ning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set things straight at least, and Mr. Ancsa, an engineer, is as eager to get to work building the future as he is to forget the past. (He and his wife lost their only son in the war.) The last thing he has time for is a little mongrel bitch, pregnant with her first litter. But Niki knows what she wants, and before long she is part of the Ancsa household. The Ancsas even take her along with them when Mr. Ancsa’s new job as director of a newly nationalized mine requires a move to an apartment in the city.

A political crackdown follows, and Mr. Ancsa is swept up in it—disappearing without a trace. For five years he does not return, five years of absence, silence, fear, and the constant struggle to survive. Mrs. Ancsa and Niki have only each other. It is this rela-tionship, between the absent husband, the lonely wife, and the most ordinary of dogs, that lies at the heart of a book that turns the story of man’s inhumanity to man into a deeply poignant but entirely unsentimental parable about the endurance of love and the meaning of caring.

Tibor Déry (1894–1977) was born in Budapest. He was impris-oned in 1943 for translating André Gide’s diary, and after being dispelled from the Communist Party in 1953, began writing satiresof the Hungarian regime. A spokesman during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956, Déry was arrested and sentenced to nine years of prison for his writings and political activities. Due to an inter-national outcry, he was released in 1960.

Edward Hyams won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud.

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alien hearTs

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Newly translated from the French and with an Introduction by Richard Howard


Maupassant’s final written work returns to print in its first new translation in over 100 years.

“The world’s most accomplished of narrators.”—Joseph Conrad

Alien Hearts was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant com-pleted before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. Alien Hearts is the story of lovers bound by bitterness as much as by passion.Maupassant’s hero falls for a woman of the world, a glaciallydazzling beauty whose past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him—and everyone—at arm’s length. He seeks solace with a servant girl, but remains racked by pointless infatuation. Richard Howard’s new English version of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flow-ering of the great French realist’s art.

Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), after serving in the Franco-Prussian War, became a close friend of Flaubert and his circle. He wrote hundreds of short stories as well as novels and verse. In his later years, he suffered from mental illness and died in an asylum.

Richard Howard, a poet, translator, and critic, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1951 and an M. A. in 1952. A growing interest in modern French poetry led to further graduate study at the Sorbonne from 1952 to 1953. Since 1958, he has translated more than 150books and has earned recognition as one of the truly authorita-tive translators of modern French literature.

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The JoUrnals oF henry david ThoreaU 1837–1861

Foreword by John R. Stilgoe

Edited by Damion Searls


“Give me the old familiar walk, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith!”

—Henry David Thoreau, The Journals

Henry David Thoreau’s journal was his life’s work: the daily practice that accompanied his daily walks; the source from which he drew his books and essays; and perhaps the most searching investigation ever made into the everyday environment, seasonal changes, and the ecology or interrelations among different facets of nature and the moods and mind of the observer. It is a trea-sure trove of some of the finest prose in English and is deeply beloved by its readers—but at roughly two million surviving words, or 7,000 pages, it is not often read.

This reader’s edition, commissioned specially for New York ReviewBooks, is the largest one-volume edition of the Journals ever published. It draws on the entirety of the Journals : rather than collecting highlights out of context, it captures the scope, daili-ness, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Thoreau’s infinitely curious mind ranges over nearly every phenomenon of nature and life in nineteenth-century New England—the Journalsare a rich source of social, environmental, natural, and cultural history—but he looks inward as well as outward, for “It is invain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden and“On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” was born and spent his life in Concord, Massachusetts.

John R. Stilgoe is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University, where he has been teachingsince 1977. He is the author of several books, including Along-shore and Shallow Water Dictionary.

Damion Searls is the author of Everything You Say Is True, a travelogue, and What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going: Stories. He also translates modern literature from German, Dutch, French, and Norwegian.

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memories oF The FUTUre

SIGIzMUND KRzHIzHANOvSKY

Translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull


First time published in the United States

“One of the most startling qualities of [Krzhizhanovsky’s] work is the directness with which it addresses our 21st-centuryconcerns. . . His stories, like those of Jorge Luis Borges, arecloser to poetry and philosophy than to the realistic novel . . .It is now clear that Krzhizhanovsky is one of the greatestRussian writers of the last century.”

—Robert Chandler, Financial Times

A man lives in a tiny apartment, engulfed in the noise of his neighbors’ lives, squeezed in among his few possessions, hardly able to move. A mysterious figure turns up at his door, offering a tube of a substance that will, he assures our hero, allow him to enlarge—“biggerize”—his living space. “Why not?”—but clumsily he spills the stuff on the floor. When he wakes the next morning his apartment has begun to grow exponentially, and with it his troubles. What if people find out? He’ll lose his apartment. He must keep everyone at bay, stay to himself. Meanwhile his furniture drifts into the distance. He is lost in the infinitely expanding space of his own loneliness.

Thus “Quadraturin” is a story as memorable as any by Poe or Kafka or Borges or Stanislaw Lem—authors that the mysteri-ous Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, mathematician, philosopher, experimental realist, might be said to resemble if he were not, in fact, utterly, brilliantly sui generis. Unpublished in his lifetime, Krzhizhanovsky’s work came to light in the Soviet state archives after the fall of communism, revealing a writer of prodigious gifts. Memories of the Future is the first English-language collec-tion of this newly discovered modern master.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950) was an ethnically Polish Ukrainian-born short-story writer whose work was largelyunpublished, though he was active among Moscow’s literati in the 1920s. He died in Moscow but his burial site is unknown.

Joanne Turnbull has translated a number of books from Russian, including Andrei Sinyavsky’s Soviet Civilization and Ivan the Fool,Asar Eppel’s The Grassy Street, and Andrei Sergeyev’s Stamp Album.She lives in Moscow.

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oUnCe diCe TriCe

ALASTAIR REID

Illustrated by Ben Shahn

What can words be, or rather, what can’t they be? Poet Alastair Reid introduces children and adults to the wondrous wayward-ness of words in Ounce Dice Trice, a delicious confection and a wildly unexpected exploration of sound and sense and nonsense that is like nothing else. Reid offers light words (willow, whirr, spinnaker) and heavy words (galoshes, mugwump, crumb), words on the move and odd words, words that read both ways and words that read the wrong way around (rezagrats), along with much else. Accompanied by Ben Shahn’s glorious drawings, Ounce Dice Trice is a book of endless delights, not to mention the only place where you can fi nd the answer to the question: What is a gongoozler? Well, all I can say is quoz.

Alastair Reid is a poet, prose writer, translator, and traveler. Born in Galloway, he served in the Royal Navy in wartime, and afterward left Scotland to live in a number of different countries. Since the 1950s, he has been a traveling correspondent for The New Yorker. He has published more than forty books—of poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations—and his writings havebeen widely translated.

Ben Shahn (1898–1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist.He emigrated to New York with his family in 1906, later attend-ing New York University and the National Academy of Design. His work has appeared everywhere, from the cover of Time to the walls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He is best knownfor his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.

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The kingdom oF CarBonel

BARBARA SLEIGH

Illustrated by Richard Kennedy

The sequel to Carbonel: The King of the Cats

“A delightful story for those who like impossible things to happen in a humdrum world. . . The children are lively, the grown-ups (including the witch) colorful and the mingling of magic and reality is most effective.” —The New York Times

When night falls, Cat Country comes to life: the town walls are its roads, and the roofs and treetops its fi elds and mountains. The regal black cat Carbonel and his consort, Queen Blandamour, are the kind overseers of this magical place, where humans are scarce, cats rule, and the rivers fl ow with fresh cream. But Grisana, a beautiful gray Persian who makes Lady Macbeth look like the kitten who lost its mittens, has plans to take over Cat Country —and Carbonel and his children, Prince Calidor and Princess Pergamond, are all that stand between her and the throne.

Luckily, Carbonel can count on his human friends Rosemary and John, familiar to readers from the fi rst Carbonel book, to band together with the good cats of Cat Country to stand up to Grisana’s crew, a nasty bunch that includes Carbonel’s old foe, the retired witch Mrs. Cantrip (who seems to have a bit of magic dust left over, mind you), and her bumbling witch apprentice, Miss Dibdin.

Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982) is the author of Carbonel: The King of The Cats (The New York Review Children’s Collection, 2004) and its two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel and Carboneland Calidor (to be published by The New York Review Children’sCollection in 2010). She worked for the BBC’s Children’s Hour.

Besides being a well-known illustrator of children’s books, Richard Kennedy (1910–1989) worked in oils and watercolors. He went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their embryonic Hogarth Press in 1926, at the age of sixteen, and was propelled into Bloomsbury life. He is the author of A Boy at Hogarth Press, an illustrated diary of his years there.

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oUTdoor dining in paris

SIMON ROGER

Photographs by Sylvain Ageorges

“Summer in Paris is at its best in those heavenly moments when you’re sipping a pastis on a café terrace. But finding one that’s not noisy and overcrowded—and where you don’t soak in more car exhaust than ambiance—is no easy task. Fortunately we now have [a guide] highlighting 50 of the best outdoor dining spots in the city.” —Time magazine

It’s a glorious day in the most beautiful city in the world: the weather is perfect, the light is exquisite, and the best places to dine outdoors are. . . hidden from sight. Don’t settle for a crowded table at a sidewalk café. Outdoor Dining in Paris will open the doors to fifty terrasses in the most coveted settings in Paris. The French author explains: “They are usually hidden from the street, nestled in the rear of a courtyard or garden, set up on a small patio, or perhaps high above the street, on a rooftop. Quiet, nearly invisible, and yet in the middle of Paris: these are the three criteria we applied implacably as we sifted our findings . . .” You’ll be led to parks, hotels, museums, restaurants,movie theaters, and more. Some are venerable Parisian favorites;others, rising stars. Some are elegant and luxurious; others, atmo-spheric neighborhood favorites. What they have in common is the ability to turn a memorable day into an unforgettable experience.

Simon Roger is a journalist with Le Monde 2.

Sylvain Ageorges is a photographer specializing in Paris. He has photographed two previous guidebooks for The Little Bookroom, The Authentic Bistros of Paris and The Brasseries of Paris.

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The BesT vinTage, anTiqUe & ColleCTiBle shops in paris

ÉDITH PAULY

Photographs by Sandrine Alouf

A sublimely eclectic guide to discovering one-of-a-kind vintagefinds in Paris

Antiques aficionados and rummagers of every stripe: call to mind dimly lit attics, trunks smelling of old leather, dusty cartons, and that indescribable tingle of suspense aroused by the idea of a hidden prize which has been lying there, biding its time, waiting for you to find it. If you follow the instructions we have map-ped out for you, you might discover almost anything. . . Armed with this list of Paris addresses, carefully selected to fulfill all your desires, you’ll be equipped with what you need to search for the unknown, unexpected surprise, be it large or small. Parisstill contains many mysterious secrets and magical places, whichyou’ll discover, to your wonderment, as you explore its second-hand stores that are brimming with all sorts of decorativecuriosities. At the rear of a courtyard or sheltered by a nine-teenth-century arcade, in a Gothic stone basement or in an ordinary-looking shop, you will find a cornucopia of delights at a variety of prices, always with charm.

Fifty-eight antique, vintage, and curiosity shops—as well as the Saint-Ouen flea market—are profiled and photographed in this lavish guide to all things collectible in Paris.

Édith Pauly is the author of a book for children, Gigi, la grenouillequi voulait voire la mer, and is the French correspondent to Interni,an Italian design magazine.

Sandrine Alouf is a French photographer whose photographs appear in Paris Chic & Trendy and Boutique & Chic Hotels in Paris(both published by The Little Bookroom). Her installation of photographs of clouds along the platform of the RER Luxembourg station in Paris was called À ciel ouvert (Open to the Sky).

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School for LoveOlivia ManningIntroduction by Jane Smiley978-1-59017-303-9PB • $14.00 / NCR

Chaos and NightHenry de MontherlantIntroduction by Gary IndianaTranslated from the French by Terence Kilmartin978-1-59017-304-6PB • $15.95 / $18.95 C

A Meaningful LifeL. J. DavisIntroduction by Jonathan Lethem978-1-59017-300-8PB • $14.95 / $17.50 C

Season of Migration to the NorthTayeb SalihIntroduction by Laila LailamiTranslated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies978-1-59017-302-2PB • $14.00 / NCR

The Foundation PitAndrey PlatonovIntroduction by Robert ChandlerTranslated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and others978-1-59017-305-3PB • $14.00 / NCR

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany:Exploring & Eating off the Beaten TrackBeth Elon978-1-892145-68-0PB • $17.95 / NCR

Food Wine RomeA Terroir GuideDavid DowniePhotographs by Alison Harris978-1-892145-71-0PB • $24.95 / $28.95 C

The Flea Markets of FranceSandy PricePhotographs by Emily Laxer978-1-892145-59-8PB • $18.95 / $22.00 C

Back Lane Wineries of SonomaTilar Mazzeo978-1-892145-69-7PB • $19.95 / $22.95 C

Paris: Made By HandPia Jane BijkerkWith photographs by the author978-1-892145-70-3HC • $18.95 / $22.00 C

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shopping in marrakeCh

SUSAN SIMON

Photographs by Nally Bellati

“Marrakech attracts a fashionable crowd. . . the ‘old city’ boasts a greater density of chic boutique lodgings thanpossibly anywhere else in the world and the multitude of emporia will keep shopaholics busy for days. Even non-shoppers will be amazed . . . fabulous nightclubs, new-wave riads and radical new Moroccan food makes this the coolestplace to be.” —Condé Nast Traveller

How to choose among the thousands of shops, stores, and soukstalls? And how to even fi nd them in this labyrinthine city, where street names and addresses seldom appear on the city map? Let Susan Simon guide you through the winding alleys, hidden courtyards, and bustling markets to uncover the best of the treasures of Marrakech: luxurious caftans; bejeweled shoes and slippers; ethnic jewelry; handmade decorative objects for thehome; beautifully embroidered linens; colorful ceramics; sequined antique shawls; gold-encrusted glassware.

The stylish author and the photographer (who has appeared on the world’s best-dressed list) both have dozens of ideas of how to incorporate your exotic fi nds into every wardrobe and home.

The guide is divided into seven separate walks—and little bonus walks—that take you through the main shopping areas, using the author’s precise directions and visual landmarks.

And, as a caterer and cookbook author, Simon can’t resist pointing out her favorite spots for everything from mint tea and pastries to fragrant tagines—many hidden behind innocuous entrances and set in ancient, verdant riads (traditional Moroccan courtyardhomes) or on terraces overlooking the breathtaking city.

Susan Simon is the author of fi ve cookbooks. She runs a cateringbusiness in New York City and is a part-time resident of Nantucket.

Italian-born photojournalist and stylist Nally Bellati was raisedin England. She has contributed photographs and features to all major Italian magazines and has had columns in Harper’sBazaar Uomo and L’Uomo Vogue. Today she works as a societyphotographer with fashion houses and design companies. Hercandid party pictures are distributed to newspapers and magazinesworldwide. Her book New Italian Design was translated into four languages.

The Little Bookroom

Travel • Shopping • MoroccoTrade Paperback

4 3/4 x 6192 pages

Color Photographs978-1892145-78-9

$18.95 Us • $22.00 Canada

on sale: June 9



Publicity campaign aimedat national travel, shopping, and

fashion media

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spring 2009 TiTlesnyrB ClassiCs The liTTle Bookroom

PB

Slow HomecomingPeter HandkeIntroduction by Benjamin KunkelTranslated from the German by Ralph Manheim978-1-59017-307-7PB

The Rider on the White HorseTheodor StormTranslated from the German and

The MousewifeRumer GoddenPictures by William Pène du Bois978-1-59017-310-7HC

PB

Food Wine RomeA Terroir GuideDavid DowniePhotographs by Alison Harris978-1-892145-71-0PB

The Flea Markets of FranceSandy PricePhotographs by Emily Laxer978-1-892145-59-8

978-1-59017-301-5PB

School for LoveOlivia ManningIntroduction by Jane Smiley978-1-59017-303-9PB

Chaos and NightHenry de MontherlantIntroduction by Gary IndianaTranslated from the French by

PB

Back Lane Wineries of SonomaTilar Mazzeo978-1-892145-69-7PB

Paris: Made By HandPia Jane BijkerkWith photographs by the author

Terence Kilmartin978-1-59017-304-6PB

A Meaningful LifeLIntroduction by Jonathan Lethem978-1-59017-300-8PB

Season of Migration to the NorthTayeb SalihIntroduction by Laila Lailami

Denys Johnson-Davies978-1-59017-302-2PB

The Foundation PitAndrey PlatonovIntroduction by Robert ChandlerTranslated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and others978-1-59017-305-3PB

15 Ageorges, Sylvain

8 Alien Hearts

14 Alouf, Sandrine

16 Bellati, Nally

5 Berry, Wendell

14 Best Vintage, Antique & Collectible

Shops in Paris, The

3 Complete Fiction of Francis Wyndham, The

9 Déry, Tibor

7 Dundy, Elaine

5 Fukuoka, Masanobu

6 Harman, Claire

3 Hollinghurst, Alan

8 Howard, Richard

9 Hyams, Edward

11 Journals of Henry David Thoreau, The

12 Kennedy, Richard

12 Kingdom of Carbonel, The

5 Korn, Larry

10 Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund

5 Kurosawe, Tsune

8 Maupassant, Guy de

10 Memories of the Future

9 Niki: The Story of a Dog

7 Old Man and Me, The

5 One-Straw Revolution, The

13 Ounce Dice Trice

15 Outdoor Dining in Paris

14 Pauly, Édith

5 Pearce, Chris

13 Reid, Alastair

4 Robinson, Tim

15 Roger, Simon

11 Searls, Damion

13 Shahn, Ben

16 Shopping in Marrakech

16 Simon, Susan

12 Sleigh, Barbara

11 Stilgoe, John R.

4 Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

6 Summer Will Show

11 Thoreau, Henry David

10 Turnbull, Joanne

6 Warner, Sylvia Townsend

3 Wyndham, Francis

The summer 2009 catalog cover background by Louise Fili Ltd and adapted from interior pages of Shopping in Marrakech by Susan Simon.

The book appears on page 16.

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