A girl returned

WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Washington Post ・Kirkus Reviews・Dallas Morning News) A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke an...

A simplified map of the real world

In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by divorce and death in a rural community where even an old pickle crock has an unsettling history—and high above the strife and the hope and the often hilarious, geese seek the perfect tailwind. Stevan Allred’s stunning debu...

A single rose

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible. Rose is called to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father’s will. Once there, she encounters acquaintances of her ...

A sister’s story

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022FINALIST FOR THE 2021 STREGA PRIZEFrom the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us. It’s the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's...

Beijing sprawl

Stories of friendship, failure, and survival from Xu Zechen, author of “some of the most exciting and energized writing coming out of China now.” (Paul French)Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, da...

Birth canal

This dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature explores generational legacies, lost loves, the damage that war does to men, and the damage that men do to women. In today’s Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong friend Nastiti, and what happened on the day she v...

Bright

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 realizes his father isn’t coming back anytime soon. Ado...

Catch the rabbit

Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Lana Bastašić’s powerful debut novel Catch the Rabbit is an emotionally rich excavation of the complicated friendship between two women in a fractured, post-war Bosnia as they venture into the treacherous terrain of the Balkan wonderlands an...

Forgotten on sunday

An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assis...

Heaven

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity. A bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s no...

Hot springs drive

Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Best Fiction PrizeThe third title in Roxane Gay Books’ inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel about a shocking betrayal and its aftermath, asking just how far you’ll go to have everything you wantJackie Stinson’s best friend ...

In a distant valley

Both a love letter and a window into the rural places that have shaped many, In a Distant Valley sets the stage for a final act to play out across a deep winter in snowy Maine. For a while, Rose Douglas believed life had given her a break. She was enjoying a steady job at the local clinic in Dalt...

Mina

“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 cram school. She’s also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexin...

My brilliant friend

#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples,...

My brilliant friend deluxe edition: the four volumes

A deluxe cloth hardcover with sprayed edges and colored end papers illustrating the Bay of Naples.#1 BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY —NEW YORK TIMES“An unconditional masterpiece.” —Jhumpa Lahiri When Elena Ferrante set out to write the story of Elena and Lila, she conceived it as one single work of fict...

Someone to cook for

A light, humorous, amiably peopled, and tender novel about found families, the people who shape our lives, and the complexities of non-traditional family ties.  Yuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families. The parental figures in her life, despite not being relate...

The book of i

2025 Indies Introduce & Indie Next PickThe Globe and Mail Best Books of 2025New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWSJ Notable Book of 2025 ★ “A small treasure... A bloody and beautiful sojourn in the distant past.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted for the Highla...

The burning origin

A searing story of identity, ambition, and the cost of leaving home, from one of Italy’s most vital contemporary voices Gabriele left Rome to reinvent himself. He traded the working-class streets of his childhood for the sleek design studios of Milan, where he’s built a successful career and a ne...

The café with no name

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness.”—Eliz...

The elegance of the hedgehog

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous. In an elegant apartment building in the heart of Paris, Renée, the concierge, scrutinizes the vacuous lives of its well-to-do tenants. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: plump, cantan...

The gilded butterfly effect

Fans of Mona Awad’s Bunny and Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation rejoice—your newest “weird girl” antiheroes are finally here in this unflinching feminist campus novel.​ When introverted loner Penny transfers to a Midwest university in search of the all-American college experience...

The golden age

The grasshopper king

This debut novel is a profoundly absurd campus satire about immortality, obsession, obscurity, and true love.Chandler State University is the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU’s only claim to fame is its Gravini...

The river swimmer

“Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Trenchant and visionary.”—Ron Carlson, The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times best-seller, enthusiastically received by critics...

The road to dalton

A NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo calls, “measured, wise, and beautiful.”In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves th...

The story of a new name

A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe). The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quart...

The story of the lost child

A BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, th...

The translator

Those who leave and those who stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into ...

Three

An Indie Next List Pick From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are. 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become i...

Where the forest meets the river

A SEPTEMBER 2024 INDIE NEXT PICK Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America.  It’s been five years since Bridget Theroux’s death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young chi...