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All that dies in april
Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! Read the World A to Z features translated novels from A to Z — one country for every letter of the alphabet. All That Dies in April takes you to Argentina with an ancestral tale rooted in a long Latin American history of ...
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The long version
Can a woman wake up one day and say “#MeToo” 20 years after the fact? Or is “#MeToo” a right reserved for the younger generation? In her early fifties, Czech author Sylvie Novak looks back on her successful career. As she embarks on a tour to promote her book of feminist essays—which she’s not co...
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Nikki d.
Yes, that’s me—Nikki D. I’m the one you’ve been looking at. And this is my story. Who is Nikki D.? The nude poster child of capital-P Photography. A Lolita, perhaps, finally letting the predators off the hook. Or the teller of her own story, albeit under a new name: Christina Cross—the name she a...
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Cocoon
Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia!Read the World A to Zfeatures translated novels from A to Z—one country for every letter of the alphabet.The third volume of the Read the World series takes you to China with Zhang Yueran's Cocoon, called a “luminous gatew...
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To the east of the east
Min-Hui's travels from Taiwan to Beijing in search of her vanished husband in this multi-layered meditation on marriage and freedom from Taiwan's most sophisticated contemporary voice.While chasing business opportunities in China, Min-Hui’s husband disappears without a trace, forcing her to uproo...
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The woman who fed the dogs
Travel the globe with the most influential voices from Argentina to Zambia! Read the World A to Z features translated novels from A to Z—one country for every letter of the alphabet. The Woman Who Fed the Dogs takes you to Belgium, offering a deep-dive by celebrated novelist Kristien Hemmerechts...
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The gospel according to the new world
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023“The great voice of the Caribbean.” —Jury, International Booker 2023“French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise) delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporary Martinique. Readers will be transfixed.” —Publis...
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Always another country
An intimate story of exile and homecoming by the South African author whose TED Talk touched millions.
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The museum of lost love
In Zagreb, a couple discovers a museum that displays mementos of broken relationships. A whirlwind summer of reconnecting with lost pasts follows.
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The tally stick
Lost in the wilderness: subjugation, survival, and the meaning of familyUp on the highway, the only evidence that the Chamberlains had ever been there was two smeared tire tracks in the mud leading into an almost undamaged screen of bushes and trees. No other cars passed that way until after dawn...
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World's best mother
World’s Best Mother is the journey of a writer through infertility, pregnancy, the mothering of small children, marriage, and an affair, told through a mix of personal anecdotes, imagination, and social commentary.
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The storyteller
From Germany to Beirut, the Storyteller follows the turbulent search of a son for a father whose heart has never stopped yearning for his homeland, Lebanon.
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On the isle of antioch
In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other. "Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an elegant portrait of a dying world. ...
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Solo dance
A powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation. Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-i...
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Gliding flight
A whimsical, fresh and adventurous coming-of-age story―set against a backdrop of Dutch ingenuity.
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Real life
This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl’s bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.
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Thirty days
A novel about goodness and compassion, the book finds the perfect balance between sensitivity and humor, hopefulness and criticism, cheer and despair.
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The performance
The story of a love triangle played out through mutual manipulation Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise—until one day she bumps into her old theater director, Mauro, who fans the acting fl...
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Breakwater
A novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies"Excellent novel. Packed with emotional truth and elegantly turned narrative. A fine translation too."―Ian McEwan, author of international bestseller Atonement Emilia has it all: a rewarding caree...
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The summer of kim novak
In this brilliant Swedish thriller and sensitive coming-of-age story, a traumatic event shatters the summer of two boys in love with their young teacher.
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A life without end
Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, bestselling French author Frédéric and his ten-year-old daughter travel the globe in search of immortality.
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Abyss
A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALISTBy the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner“An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian...
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The last poets
A daring and imaginative novel based on the lives of The Last Poets, New York’s legendary Hip-Hop pioneers from the ghettos.
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State of emergency
"State of Emergency is a compelling, important piece of work from one of Singapore’s finest living authors.” —The Straits TimesSiew Li leaves her husband and young children to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the ...
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About people
A World Literature Today Notable Translations of 2023Written by Germany's #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private consequences of the pandemic.Fleeing stay-at-home orders in the big city, Do...
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The wondrous and tragic life of ivan and ivana
By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, a novel of twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another.
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Summer brother
In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother.
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A devil comes to town
A small village full of aspiring writers + The devil in the form of a hot-shot publisher = A refined and engaging literary fable on narcissism, vainglory and human weakness
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Roxy
After her husband’s death, the grieving Roxy embarks on an all-female road-trip with their daughter, his personal assistant, and the babysitter.
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The cut line
In the dog days of an Estonian summer, Liine flees to the countryside to put a conclusive end to her toxic 14-year relationship. She undergoes every stage of separation in a lone farmstead amid forests. Physical labor and gardening help her withstand her ex-partner’s threats, the incredulity of f...
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Dendrites
World Literature Today’s Notable Translation of 2024Winner of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature for readers of Min Jin Lee and The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriWhen young Minnie is orphaned, the Campanis family decides to take her in. Ex-hippie Susan and her husband Basil, a second-generat...
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The darkness that divides us
Beautiful, happy people? No. Outcasts, bullies, a bizarre murder, drama, mystery, a child's heartache? Yes.
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My mother says
“Reeling from a breakup, a young Danish woman recovers her sense of self through conversations with parents, friends, and strangers. A sweet and quirky debut about heartbreak, memory, and the endless potential of language.” ―Kirkus ReviewsThe narrator’s long-term girlfriend has just broken things...
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Game of the gods
In an ultimate feat of manipulation, the exceptionally talented chess player Malik is turned into a human pawn in a game of warfare which will decide the outcome of World War II.
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Biography of a fly
For readers of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a beautifully illustrated philosophical book on the value of friendship and life, told from the perspective of a fly, and a gift book for all ages. What if you were thrown into existence in the middle of your life, with numbered days ...
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The disoriented
After 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.
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The land of short sentences
A young mother follows her partner to a rural community in West Jutland, Denmark, where he teaches at the local school for adult education. Isolated, she is forced to find her way in a bewildering community and in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population. A young woman reloc...
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Two blankets, three sheets
Based on the author’s true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in an asylum center in the Netherlands.
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The last days of ellis island
New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.
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The perfect circle
Two women far apart in time, a mysterious unsellable mansion in Milan that connects them: two lives that start to overlap as impossible parallels are revealed in this story of passion, betrayal, and selfish desire."A thrilling study of time that playfully intertwines birth and death, motherhood a...
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Waiting for the waters to rise
Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.
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Craving
A fearless, unprejudiced investigation of the shadows of the human mind, a novel about a mother and a daughter tormenting each other with good intentions.
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Tale of the dreamer's son
By the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai In what was once a Scottish tea planter’s mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all religions are one and race is unheard of. That...
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Adrift
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
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We are light
Shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardWinner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize"A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewOne apartment, three...
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This world does not belong to us
“One of the debut novels that most stood out this year in Latin America.” —New York Times Lucas was just a child when his father sold him to another farmer as a laborer. Years later, Lucas returns, full of resentment and burning for revenge. After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home ...
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Planet of clay
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE The new novel Planet Of Clay gives a haunting and unflinching look at the horrors of war - the bombing, the starvation, the fear - all seen through the eyes of Rima, a young girl with a vibrant imagination."—NPR “Planet of Clay i...
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Song for the missing
24 MUST-READ 2022 BOOKS IN TRANSLATION as selected by BOOK RIOT "Lebanese German author Jarawan (The Storyteller) movingly evokes life in Lebanon in his affecting and complex latest. This is a gripping, human look at a tragedy that still haunts an entire nation."—Publishers Weekly It’s 2011 an...
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October child
From 2013 to 2017, Linda Boström Knausgård was periodically confined to a psychiatric ward and subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, resulting in the loss of memories. This is the story of her struggle against mental illness and isolation.
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The movement
In this utopia, the feminist Movement has been successful and women rule the world. Men are trained at reeducation facilities to accept the new normal in this futuristic satire challenging our sexual norms. The Movement’s founding ideology emphasizes that women should be valued for their inner q...
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Mr. miller
A top-notch conspiracy thriller about an extremely present-day topic: the power of technology and the Internet.
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Ventoux
A moving and hilarious feel-good novel about male friendship, romance, intrigue, treachery and cycling.
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Río muerto
2026 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE FINALISTBy one of Colombia's most renowned novelists and reminiscent of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Río Muerto by Ricardo Silva Romero tackles the topic of paramilitarism and violence in Colombia when a father of two sons is killed a few ste...
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You have me to love
An unforgettable read about lost childhood innocence, isolation, guilt and mother-and son relationships
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New year
2022 PEN Translation Award FINALIST In this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year’s Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama. Lanzarote on New Year’s Day: Henning is cy...
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Salt on my skin
A classic long-seller that sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, Salt on my Skin is now re-issued with a new introduction by renowned writer and feminist Fay Weldon
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The helios disaster
This powerful portrait of mental illness and modern spin on the myth of Athena portrays the mind of a girl in foster care confined to a small Swedish town.
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The leash and the ball
After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, an Iraqi refugee tries to start a new life as a European citizen and discovers that to make friends in the western world, you need a dog. After nine years in a Dutch asylum center, Samir finally has the chance to start his new life as a European citizen...
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The high-rise diver
This chilling and distressingly plausible dystopia creates a world in which performance is everything and one woman’s failure to achieve becomes another’s downfall.
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Love, if that's what it is
For fans of Marriage Story and Elena Ferrante's Days of AbandonmentTerri runs off with a lover, abandoning her children and her marriage of twenty-five years. Her husband, David, is left to take care of their two daughters, one of whom is falling in love for the first time. These four people star...
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Where the wind calls home
2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST“The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station’s 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains. This slim novel packs a punch.”—Publishers WeeklyAli, a nineteen...
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A little annihilation
In this reflection on second-generation trauma, Anna Janko examines her mother’s memories of witnessing her family’s murder in 1943 Poland.
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Selamlik
An unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticismFurat, a Syrian in his early 20s, visits Sibki Park in Damascus, one of the city’s most popular cruising areas. There he learns about the hammams, secret meeting places for gay men located throughout the old city. Inside these public ba...
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Diamond hill
In Hong Kong, leading up to the fraught handover from British to Chinese rule, a recovering heroin addict returns to Hong Kong’s last shanty town and tries to salvage what’s left of a place he hoped to forget.
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We and me
As sharp as a knife and with great psychological insight the author investigates the "we" feeling versus the longing for freedom and individuality.
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Afterlight
"With its tight sentences and a fast pace, Afterlight moves like detective fiction. It’s a poignant novel in which a single, pregnant woman is mistreated in her conservative society; she remains resilient and determined to honor her baby’s memory." —Foreword ReviewsThe young free-spirited florist...
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Fowl eulogies
"A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence." ―Kirkus ReviewsFowl Eulogies is an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humor. From the meadow to the supermarket, this dazzling first novel of mischief and feathers, b...
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A carnival of atrocities
The residents of a desolate town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes are forced to reckon with the legend of Mildred, a girl wronged by the town years agoCocuán, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and...
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The cracks we bear
Best Books in Translation 2025 — Words Without Borders"Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch."—Publishers WeeklyMotherhood is...
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The dutch maiden
A prize-winning historical romance with powerful currents of sexuality, a rambling old house, a young girl, and the brooding man teaching her to fence.
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Welcome to america
A family on the brink of disaster: The young daughter blames herself for her father’s death and has stopped talking.
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All that dies in april
Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain home in search of a better life."Hypnotic, almost ancestral voice...
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Emily forever
In this novel about poverty, social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarket worker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet.Em’s nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out “to take care of something” and hasn’t returned. He...
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Stubborn life
A memoir of the Russian occupation of Ukraine in the 1930s and the mass deportation of Poles from the region."Not an easy read, but an important one.” —Historical Novel SocietyThe end of the 1920s, the author’s first memory: a knock on the door and the arrest of her uncle, guilty of “anti-Soviet ...
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Goodbye chinatown
As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London’s Chinatown. Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown following the failure of her father’s traditional restaurant. When...
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