Terrestrial Intelligence gathers the best new ground-breaking fiction from around the world, from W. G. Sebald and Roberto Bolaño to the Russian enfant terrible Victor Pelevin and the astonishing Yoko Tawada. Not to be missed are the pleasures of Antonio Tabucchi, Javier Marías and Yoel Hoffmann. These are just a few of the two dozen fascinating new writers brought to you in wonderful translations, all on one plate, in Terrestrial Intelligence.

Take a trip around the world—Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Spain—and sample the intelligence: we guarantee you will never look at these countries the same way again.

Contents:

• Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
  Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
• Where Europe Begins by Yoko Tawada
  Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias
  Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
• excerpt from The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
  Translated from the German by Michael Hulse
• Snake Island by Can Xue
  Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gerant & Chen Zeping
• excerpt from Annotations by John Keene
• Six Stories by Alexander Kluge
  Translated from the German by Martin Chalmers & Michael Hulse
• Letter from Casablanca by Antonio Tabucchi
  Translated from the Italian by Janice Thresher
• excerpt from The Heart Is Katmandu by Yoel Hoffmann
  Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole
• Bone Meat by Kono Taeko
  Translated from the Japanese by Lucy Lower
• excerpt from Azorno by Inger Christensen
  Translated from the Danish by Denise Newman
• No Destiny by Fleur Jaeggy Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks
• The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
• The Crocodile by Felisberto Hernandez
  Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
• excerpt from Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tyspkin
  Translated from the Russian by Roger and Angela Keys
• Hale and Hallowed by Jenny Erpenbeck
  Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
• excerpt from The Good Cripple by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
  Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
• excerpt from Morenga by Uwe Timm
  Translated from the German by Breon Mitchell
• excerpt from Massacre River by Rene Philoctete
  Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
• Three Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
  Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
• excerpt from An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira
  Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
• The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII by Victor Pelevin
  Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
• excerpt from War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
  Translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes
• excerpt from The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic
  Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
• excerpt from Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
  Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne