"e;An existential fable"e; from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York 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).
A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "e;Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag of femininityand then pressing down, slowly and calmly, right where it hurts"e; (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine).
A debut collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans, "e;sly, uncommon stories"e; by "e;a major talent"e; (Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of Hummingbird Salamander).
"e;A cerebral explorer of the problems of narrative in the wake of Joyce and Woolf, of Borges, of Rulfo and Arlt, Saer is also a stunning poet of place.
"e;A darkly humorous work, but also very sada mortal struggle, where the joy of life grapples with the fear of death, and often there is no way of knowing which of the two is on top.
"e;Carlos Labbe's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to fuck with your head from its very first word—moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch.
"e;Flawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopolou's WIKMBF uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFFs.
"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.
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.
Told through a series of "e;historical documents"e;memoirs, illustrations, letters, philosophical treatises, blue prints, mapsthe novel details the tale of a secret Brotherhood who meet in dreams, gain esoteric knowledge from contemplation of the bicycle, and seek to move in and out of history, manipulating events.
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAYNOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2022A sudden catastrophe in Europe exposes the slow-motion destruction of a generation of Venezuelans and their struggle against repression.
WINNER OF THE 2011 YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY IN THE GERMAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARDA beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story from an award-winning, bestselling German authorMike Klingenberg isn t exactly one of the cool kids at his school.
Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love.
Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverInternationally acclaimed author of Not a River , Selva Almada tackles the issue of gender violence in this hybrid work that follows in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or John Hersey's Hiroshima .
Lucia and Pablo are Colombian immigrants who've built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes towards their homeland and the extent to which it defines their identity.
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.
The newly independent Estonia may be moving forward from its dark past, but not quickly enough for young lovers Oskar, an Estonian university student, and Erika, a Baltic German descended from a now defunct nobility.
Through the friendship of two young Franco-Iranians, Exiles from Paradise is a novel that delves deep into the great conflict between enlightened Islam and fanaticism.
