Man Booker International Prize 2018 FinalistIn a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down.
SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed.
This assured debut novel from acclaimed Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic explores the devastating psychological effects of the conflict in the Balkans on a family who flee to South America to build a new life.
On 8 March 2008 the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca set out to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in a wedding dress, documented with a video camera.
Winner PEN Translates Award (UK)Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors' surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled to Spain following the death of his mother.
Set entirely at Wybrany College-a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities-Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "e;program"e; is always palpable, but never explicit.
While studying a seventeenth-century diary, the protagonist of Little Dark Room uncovers information about the first documented professional female artist.
By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man-the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band-composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTThe first English-language story collection from one of Irans most important living fiction writers (Guardian), a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Rushdie of post-Khomeini Iran (Wall Street Journal)In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions.
The stories in Ukrainian film director, writer, and dissident Oleh Sentsov's debut collection are as much acts of dissent as they are acts of creative expression.
Praised for her meticulous descriptions and ability to transform the mundanity of everyday life into something strange and unexpected, Ha Seong-nan bursts into the English literary scene with this stunning collection that confirms Korea's place at the forefront of contemporary women's writing.
Zsofia Ban's Night School: A Reader for Adults uses a textbook format to build an encyclopedia of lifesubject by subject, from self-help to geography to chemistry to French.
"e;Karastoyanov's novel is set in Bulgaria in the 1920s, but also invokes the spirit of John Lennon, and brings to mind Dostoevsky's Demons with its anarchists and assassins, lighthouses, zeppelins, and synthesis of modernist narrative techniques and Balkan storytelling.
Spanning 500 years of Brazilian history, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters chronicles a family of women, beginning in 1500 with the birth of Inaia, daughter of a Tupiniquim warrior, and ending in 2001 with Inaia's distant descendent, Maria Flor.
Gubergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tmas Jnsson, Bestseller, which shocked Icelandic readers in innumerable ways, lashing out as it does at the Icelandic society of the post-war years for its cultural confusion, amorality, and hypocrisy.
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.
Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary AwardThe Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of menmen who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's estate.
"e;Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary.
A man obsessively investigates the mysteries of his family's past in this "e;brave and unflinching"e; novel by the acclaimed Russian author of Oblivion (The Financial Times).
Desire and tragedy upset the lives of an Israeli family in this "e;thrilling, fresh, and surprising"e; debut novel from the award-winning filmmaker (ForeWord Review).
