The World Cup & Archipelago Books

I meant to write about this last week, but I’m an idiot and totally forgot. Although there’s not a lot of time left to take advantage of this, Archipelago Books is having a World Cup Special: for $90 you get a set of nine Archipelago titles by writers from the host and quarterfinal-qualifying countries, or for $35 you can choose three of the nine featured books.

Here are the nine titles that are part of this offer:

Argentina: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Brazil: Education by Stone by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, translated from the Portuguese by Richard Zenith

Germany: Lenz by Georg Buchner, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth

Germany: The Novices of Sais by Novalis, translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

Germany: Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, translated from the German by Peter Wortsman

The Netherlands: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer

Spain: Plants Don’t Drink Coffee by Unai Elorriaga, translated from the Basque by Amaia Gabantxo

South Africa: Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish by Breyten Breytenbach

South Africa: Mafeking Road by Herman Charles Bosman

Overall, this is a great way to support Archipelago while getting a bunch of interesting books . . .