The nineteenth-century founding of "e;free settlements"e; in the Americas serves as a starting point for the new novel by popular Czech author Patrik Ourednik.
'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.
Die Welt horchte auf, als nach der Befreiung von der Talibanherrschaft eine Gruppe afghanischer Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler Shakespeares Verlorene Liebesmüh in Kabul aufführte.
This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need.
The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets.
Ein großer Roman über ein unbekanntes Stück afrikanischer Kolonialgeschichte, fiktionalisiert zu einer spannenden Abenteuerreise - erzählt von einer der aufregendsten afropolitischen Stimmen unserer Gegenwart.
From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian).
Als Taro, der unscheinbare Angestellte einer PR-Agentur, beobachtet, wie seine Nachbarin über eine Mauer auf das Nachbargrundstück zu gelangen versucht, gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen.
Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text.
Der Mann ohne Schatten - Ein eindringlicher Roman über Liebe, Erinnerung und die Frage, was uns ausmachtDie junge Neurowissenschaftlerin Margot lernt 1965 an der Universität von Darven Park den faszinierenden Patienten Eli kennen, der an einem schweren Gedächtnisverlust leidet.
From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation.
Ein sensibler und intimer Roman, der über den Sinn des Lebens, die Sehnsucht nach Normalität und über gesellschaftliche Normen unserer verrückt gewordenen Welt reflektiert.
Talismano is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities-in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was.
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa s latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee.
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarters takes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is a psychological mystery about Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives.
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "e;Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow-to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know-which is no small offering.
Helga Ruebsamen's extraordinary achievement in this, her first novel to be translated into English, is in finding a voice for a sensitive and highly imaginative child who must endure the painful transition from life in the paradise of the Dutch East Indies to the savage realities of wartime Holland.
"e;Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.
INTRODUCED BY STUART EVERS: 'A genuine, fully fledged masterpiece of the twentieth century; one that remains just as terrifyingly relevant and truthful in the twenty-first'An existential, political, literary thriller first published in 1944, Transit explores the plight of the refugee with extraordinary compassion and insight.
