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In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr. Kit Maude), and Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz), horror infiltrat...

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A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature originally published in 1966, Maria Judite de Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and under-appreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensat...

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An offbeat, darkly humorous coming-of-age novel about a Thai boy who's raised by the community when his parents abandon him Intensely concentrated, minimalist vignettes that blend Thai folklore with, urban realities, collectively telling the comin...

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Winner of the prestigious August Prize for best Work of Literary Fiction In the midst of a terrorist attack on a bookstore reading by Goran Loberg, a comic book artist famous for demeaning drawings of the prophet Mohammed, one of the attackers, a ...

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Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women's writing , Maria Judite de Carvalho's biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967,...

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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes th...

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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidts stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes the...

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Compared to Kafka and a member of the Surrealists, Richard Weiner is one of European literatures best-kept secrets. The Game for Real marks the long overdue arrival of his dreamlike, anxiety-ridden fiction into English.The book opens with The Game...

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Doppelgängers, a murderer's guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances-these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West ...

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Doppelgngers, a murderers guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romancesthese are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Ger...

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The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh recession, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash. As the town attends the funeral, a banker named Ernest heads to the tree where they died, trying...

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When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when hes abruptly taken to a new home a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All thats required of him is ...

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Marie NDiaye has long been celebrated for her unrivaled ability to make us see just how little we understand about ourselves. My Heart Hemmed In is her most powerful statement on the hidden selves that we rarely glimpse-and are often shocked by. T...

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Marie NDiaye has long been celebrated for her unrivaled ability to make us see just how little we understand about ourselves. My Heart Hemmed In is her most powerful statement on the hidden selves that we rarely glimpse-and are often shocked by.Th...

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A provocative new novel from the author ranked among Granta's "Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists" Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyche's most obscure alleyways, Elvira Navarro here d...

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A "e;Book You Should Read This April"e; at Literary Hub"e;Masatsugu Ono's Lion Cross Point pulls off a number of narrative elements that I admire in fiction. . . . A moving and (literally) haunting novel."e; - Tobias Carroll, Liter...

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Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here a young man named Waller has terrorizing encounters with grotesque figures named "e;the garbagemen."e; As Waller becomes fascinated with the...

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"Kim Sagwa is South Korea's young, brilliant, fearless writer." - Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War "She doesn't know what to do, and that amounts to a state of torture." Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her c...

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What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author focusing his labyrinthine, mercurial mind on...

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What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author focusing his labyrinthine, mercurial mind on...

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As Lord begins, a Brazilian author is arriving at London's Heathrow airport for reasons he doesn't fully understand. Only aware that he has been invited to take part in a mysterious mission, the Brazilian starts to churn with anxiety. Torn between...

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As Lord begins, a Brazilian author is arriving at London's Heathrow airport for reasons he doesn't fully understand. Only aware that he has been invited to take part in a mysterious mission, the Brazilian starts to churn with anxiety. Torn between...

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Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation PrizeWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he reali...

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"A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography, collage, and narrative, Skin marks the arrival of a truly original literary voice. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's¿ The Argonauts , it is as omnivorous as the bodies within it, as ...

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In this rich and timely work, Fellous writes in a style reminiscent of her teacher, Roland Barthes, of her complicated Jewish childhood, her recent friend's death, and of feeling she has to leave the country she thinks of as home, Tunisia, where a...

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Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers

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A mythic tale of art and displacement from the Brazilian master of fragmented logic and spirited prose

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Home: New Arabic Poems , the second book in Two Lines Press's Calico series, explores the intimate world of everyday life, its agonies and delights, through the work of poets from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, Iraq, and more.

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Winner of the prestigious August Prize for best Work of Literary Fiction " They Will¿Drown in Their Mothers' Tears ¿is one of the finest novels I've ever read about the nature of radicalization-both of the individual and of societies. There i...

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A striking, innovative collection of stories that combines the gritty surrealism of Roberto Bolaño and David Lynch with the explosive meditations of Clarice Lispector, Rabbit Island locates madness and liberation in smoke-filled hotel rooms, mutat...

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