We Always Treat Women Too Well
by Raymond Queneau | 
Count D'Orgel's Ball
by Raymond Radiguet | 
The Counterfeiters
by Andre Gide | 
A Void
by Georges Perec |
Death on the Installment Plan
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 
The Pure and the Impure
by Colette |
Pierrot Mon Ami
by Raymond Queneau | 
The Vatican Cellars
by Andre Gide |
Funeral Rites
by Jean Genet | 
The Engagement
by Georges Simenon | 
The Great Fire of London
by Jacques Roubaud | 
Zazie in the Metro
by Raymond Queneau | 
Saint Glinglin
by Raymond Queneau | 
Alien Hearts
by Guy de Maupassant | 
Heartsnatcher
by Boris Vian | 
The Flight of Icarus
by Raymond Queneau |
The Fairy Gunmother
by Daniel Pennac | 
Riotous Assembly
by Tom Sharpe | 
Indecent Exposure
by Tom Sharpe | 
Erasure
by Percival Everett |
Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of comic run-ins among a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters living on the sleazy outskirts of the city of lights. Witch Grass (previously titled The Bark Tree) is a philosophical farce, an epic comedy, a mesmerizing book about the daily grind that is an enchantment itself.