Vellum imprint: 39 books

• Lives in New York, teaches at City College of New York, very active in the New York literary scene • Before won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious prize given for a single novel in Mexico • Boullosa has been awarded numerous prizes around the world, including a Guggenheim...

First novel in English to ever describe daily life in Dagestan Author won the prestigious Debut Prize in Russia in 2009 Published by the biggest publishing houses in Russia, Germany, and France Author participating in Iowa Writers' Workshop conference in summer 2015

The Destiny of Tangled Vines. Gabriel Blackenhawke is quite envious of his older brother the Duke of Mornington’s love match to his duchess, for he is in no doubt it cannot happen to him as he is six feet four inches tall and most woman only come up to his waist. He has worked for the King...

Fate is Never Fortuitous. Book 3 Nicholas Blackenhawke is envious of his two brothers love match marriages, for he is in no doubt it cannot happen to him. He thought he had fallen in love, but the woman concerned betrayed him on all his values with what he believes are the important things...

Pot Shards is a memoir, based on the author's memorable experiences. He served as a CIA's agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, a tour in Burma, four years tied up in the Vietnam War, two tours in Korea, the second time as ambassador, and ten years in the White House, where he worked for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. Bush.

This book by a practitioner (not an academic, a government official, or a pundit) has been written for practitioners and offers fresh thinking on how to do international development work. It combines that thinking with practical guidance, in plain English, on what to do—and perhaps just as importantly—what...

"Klougart has an unusual ability to create phrases, images and a language that you long to stay in and remember forever."—Dagens Nyheter "One can speak of unbearable beauty, but one can also speak of a linguistic beauty that makes it possible to bear the unbearable."—Politiken In...

"This is much more than a survival story. It is the story of how the scars of a woman can be and are passed through generations. It is about being a woman, a mother, and a daughter."—Gabriela Almeida, Continente "An infinite work."—O Estadão de São Paulo A groundbreaking...

A satirical look at the origins of power, A Zero-Sum Game uses the highly-charged election for the presidency of a residents' committee and the influence of a powerful stranger to both expose those in power and sympathize with the individuals who find themselves caught in the paradox of empowerment and impotence that is modern consumer society and the democratic state.

After the 2001 ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan, the United States and its allies found themselves in a country devastated by a series of wars. This book looks at how, working with their Afghan counterparts, they engaged in a complex effort to rebuild security, development, and governance, all while fighting a low-intensity war.

This collection of published blog postings from a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer offers a perspective challenging facile suppositions, and notes historic moments of interest for the general reader.This book is a series of reflections at the point of retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service. The...