Eve out of her ruins

A harrowing account of the hidden violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.

Vaseline buddha

A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea's eccentric, award-winning contemporary master delves into subconscious worlds blending reality and imagination.

The anarchist who shared my name

Bearing witness to key moments in Europe’s history, this thrilling novel explores the life of an anarchist in 1920s Spain.

Seeing red

A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut on illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile's brightest young authors

The outlaw

The dark final volume in former Reykjavík mayor's childhood memoir-trilogy delves into the brutal, relentless despair of his late teens

"muslim"

Fiction and lyric essay combine in Zahia Rahmani’s poetic reflection on Islamic history and what it means to be Muslim.

Of darkness

Klougart mixes prose, lyric essay, drama, poetry, and images to meditate on death and loss through breathtaking, moving, apocalyptic writing.

Voroshilovgrad

Easy Rider meets Pedro Páramo in this darkly funny, fast-paced road novel that barrels through eastern Ukraine's ravaged industrial landscape.

Moonbath

An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.

Revenge of the translator

Revenge of the Translator is acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent's brilliant, hilarious, rule-defying exploration of the creative acts of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors, their translators, and readers.

The imagined land

Evoking Calvino & Yan Lianke, Oulipo member Berti paints a classic tragic love story with sumptuous detail in pre-revolutionary China

La superba

A master of language, Pfeijffer's autobiographical novel about migration, illegal and legal, in Genoa tells the story of Europe today

Raised by wolves

Biting poetry and bold translation theory from a Taiwanese feminist poet and her translator

Palestine +100

In this bold, inspiring anthology of short fiction, Palestine +100 gathers 12 stories of speculation about the future of Palestinians, holding space for conversations about trauma, memory, and contemplation of change.

A zero-sum game

Debut from Mexico20-nominated author examines humanity's dark side in fatalistic satire of consumer society and the cult of the individual.

The magician of vienna

In this Cervantes Prize-winner, fiction invades autobiography—and vice versa—as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative memory loss.

Geography of rebels trilogy

English debut with three linked novellas by influential cult Portuguese writer interweaving history, poetry, and philosophy into transcendent literary vision.

Sphinx

A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.

The journey

Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives

The art of flight

Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

Two half faces

The first English-language collection by Moroccan-Dutch sensation Mustafa Stitou, Two Half Faces spans the career of an adventurous, exalted poet, a master of the Dutch language and a prophet of his time.

Target in the night

A masterful psychological and political crime novel by Argentina's greatest living writer expands the genre of "paranoid fiction."

The indian

The rollercoaster childhood story of the Icelandic comedian turned international celebrity whom Noam Chomsky called his "favorite mayor on Earth."

The mountain and the wall

The literary debut of a promising young Russian author from an unknown country, a tale of politics and religion colliding.

Texas

A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.

Dictionary of midnight

The sharp, lyrical verse— personal and political— of a poet that paints a literary window into his contested homeland, Kurdistan.

Bride and groom

A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness.

Mephisto's waltz

Pitol gained legendary status first as a short story writer, this, his first collection in English, showcases his greatest stories.

Seven samurai swept away in a river

A literary meandering into the mythology of place and what a novel can be, inspired by the author’s time spent at an artist residency in small-town Texas.

Tram 83

Exceptional debut Congolese novel uses jazz rhythm to evoke the frenzied exploitation of land and people in contemporary Africa

Blood sisters

A woman in 1980s Korea struggles to understand her identity and live an authentic life in the face of injustice.

Best literary translations 2024

Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work. Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary and historical poetry and prose originally ...

The wild great wall

The edgy, lyrical verse of an essential voice from the China

Sonic peace

The end of the dark era

The End of the Dark Era is the first book of Mongolian poetry to be published in the United States, and one of the few avant-garde collections to have come from the vast steppes of Mongolia. Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov, who is also one of Mongolia's most renowned painters, traverses the Mongolian d...

Night-sky checkerboard

Night-Sky Checkerboard introduces English-language readers to the imagistic lyricism of a Korean master at the peak of his powers. As a young poet fascinated by Modernism, Oh Sae-young attempted to reproduce the inner landscapes of the dislocated self produced by industrial society before arrivi...

The writer's field guide to the craft of fiction

The Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing.

Uyghurland, the farthest exile

In Jeffrey Yang’s collaborative translations from the Uyghur and Arabic, Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile collects over two decades of Ahmatjan Osman’s poetry. Osman, the foremost Uyghur poet of his generation, channels his ancestors alongside Mallarmé and Rimbaud to capture the sacred and philosop...

Banthology

This timely, emotional anthology brings together powerful stories by writers from the seven nations included in Trump’s original “Muslim travel ban.”

The long coming of the fire

A collection celebrating the Centennial of seminal modernist Macedonian poet Aco Šopov. This substantive collection represents Šopov's creative career, starting with his first book of poetry in 1944, when he was fighting in the Yugoslav resistance to the German occupation. In the early 1950s, he ...

Solenoid

WINNER of the Dublin Literary Award 2024 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022LONGLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2025NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Words Without BordersA highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea...

Grey bees

2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED FICTIONWith a warm yet political humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict.Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land be...

What are the blind men dreaming?

Three generations of women reflect, in their own words, on the Holocaust and bearing witness in Jewish and Brazilian identity.

Recitation

A mysterious actress turned wanderer shares her story with a nameless emigrant "chorus" in this novel exploring memory and personhood

Before

A profound and moving coming-of-age novel that explores the end of one woman's innocence in childhood.

One hundred twenty-one days

Debut novel by mathematician Oulipo member layers coded narratives across World Wars unlocking the entangled history of politics and science.

Home

An epic historical saga, Home expands Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing's scope to delve into Indonesia's tragic 20th century

The golden cockerel & other writings

This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.

The curious case of dassoukine's trousers

Award-winning English-language debut by Morocco's most prominent contemporary author, a linked story collection exploring what it means to be foreign.

The pirate

The second volume in former Reykjavik mayor Gnarr's childhood memoir-trilogy focuses on discovering punk music and rebelling against society