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  Current & Upcoming Books by And Other Stories

  01

  Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole

  translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

  02

  Clemens Meyer, All the Lights

  translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire

  03

  Deborah Levy, Swimming Home

  04

  Iosi Havilio, Open Door

  translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler

  05

  Oleg Zaionchkovsky, Happiness is Possible

  translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

  06

  Carlos Gamerro, The Islands

  translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett

  07

  Christoph Simon, Zbinden’s Progress

  translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin

  08

  Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods

  09

  Deborah Levy, Black Vodka: ten stories

  10

  Oleg Pavlov, Captain of the Steppe

  translated from the Russian by Ian Appleby

  11

  Rodrigo de Souza Leão, All Dogs are Blue

  translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry & Stefan Tobler

  12

  Juan Pablo Villalobos, Quesadillas

  translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

  13

  Iosi Havilio, Paradises

  translated from the Spanish by Beth Fowler

  14

  Ivan Vladislavić, Double Negative

  15

  Benjamin Lytal, A Map of Tulsa

  16

  Ivan Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket

  17

  Elvira Dones, Sworn Virgin

  translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford

  18

  Oleg Pavlov, The Matiushin Case

  translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield

  19

  Paulo Scott, Nowhere People

  translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn

  20

  Deborah Levy, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell

  21

  Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, By Night the Mountain Burns

  translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar

  22

  SJ Naudé, The Alphabet of Birds

  translated from the Afrikaans by the author

  23

  Niyati Keni, Esperanza Street

  24

  Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding The End Of The World

  translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

  25

  Carlos Gamerro, The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

  translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett

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  DEBORAH LEVY writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her most recent novel, Swimming Home (2011, And Other Stories), was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year) and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, while her most recent collection of short stories, Black Vodka: ten stories, was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and its title story ‘Black Vodka’ shortlisted for the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award.

  An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell was first published in 1990 by Jonathan Cape and appears now in a new and revised edition.

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  Title: An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell

  Author: Deborah Levy

  Editors: Sophie Lewis & Stefan Tobler

  Copy-editor & Proofreader: Eleanor Crawforth

  Typesetting & eBook design: Tetragon

  Cover Design: Jonathan Pelham