An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel that echoes the spirit Elena Ferrante's beloved works.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019****NOMINATED FOR THE M DICIS PRIZE 2018**'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy.
Der große neue Roman der japanischen ErfolgsautorinEine letzte Nacht wollen Aki und Hiro in ihrer gemeinsamen Wohnung in Tokio zusammen sein, bevor ihre Wege sich endgültig trennen.
The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "e;Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first half of the 20th century that is subtle and moving"e; David Mills, Sunday Times"e;Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light .
Examining the research possibilities, debates and challenges posed by the emerging field of genetic translation studies, this book demonstrates how, both theoretically and empirically, genetic criticism can shed much-needed light on translators' archives, the translator figure and the creative process of translation.
A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance.
Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled Alphabet I, which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting Switzerland's victory over Nazi Germany in the 1938 Swiss National Cup.
The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.
**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES, STARRING GONG YU AND SEO HYUN-JIN **Read the gripping international feminist satire for fans of KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982, CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE.
When Se ora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death.
A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers An evocative debut about the fragility and fluidity of adult friendship Observer*A summer reading pick in BBC Culture, Vogue, and Esquire*Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark.
Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Veronica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.
Von der Anomalie namens LebenBei einem verhängnisvollen Sherry beschließen Cyril und Kay Wilkinson, mit 80 Jahren freiwillig aus dem Leben zu scheiden.
Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam of documentary, philosophical novel, and black humor.
Kim Hyesoons Virtuosität liegt in ihrer Fähigkeit, einzigartige poetische, überraschende und doch zugängliche Bilder zu schaffen und sich gleichzeitig tief in der weiblichen Erfahrung und Erzähltradition zu verwurzeln.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE Imagine that many of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century were entirely unknown in the West, and only recently discovered in Russia itself.
Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either side of the service.
'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years.
Eine atmosphärisch dichte Familiengeschichte auf einer abgelegenen Insel Norwegens – mit sezierender poetischer Erzählkunst gelingt es Sem-Sandberg, das Schweigen über die Vergangenheit zu brechen.
'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times'Nothing short of brilliant' Wall Street Journal'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' Sunday Times'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman RushdieFrom 'one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey Eugenides), a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.
The second volume in Stig Saeterbakken's loosely connected "e;S Trilogy"e; Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression.
