Like a sword wound

The enlightenment of the greengage tree

LONGLISTED for the 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated LiteratureFINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable c...

Strike your heart

This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is “a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship” (The Washington Post).One of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial high school, and dating...

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...

Breasts and eggs

A BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazine・The Atlantic・Book Riot・Electric Literature・The New York Times (Notable Book of the Year) The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE. On a sweltering summer day, Maki...

All the lovers in the night

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit Hub Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, e...

Red crosses

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity. One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from A...

Disturbance

WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Evening Standard・New Statesman ・Lit Hub) Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts...

The girl with the leica

WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest war and political ph...

The promise

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three ...

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...

Frantumaglia

Red joan

Inspired by the true story of a female spy, this is “an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller” (The National).Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan cent...

The nakano thrift shop

This “gentle, humorous novel” follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal).The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. But like those staff and customers, they hold ...

The lying life of adults

A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post・O, The Oprah Magazine・TIME Magazine・NPR・People Magazine・The New York Times Critics・The Guardian・Electric Literature・Financial Times・Times UK・Irish Times・New York Post・Kirkus Reviews・Toronto Star・The Globe and Mail・Ha...

Trust

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021 Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly. Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet...

The tokyo suite

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025 Nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award The English-language debut of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, The Tokyo Suite is a gripping exploration of the complexities of modern family dynamics and...

A winter’s promise

Amazon Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2018 One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best YA Books of 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of the Year A National Indie Bestseller Longlisted for Irish YA prize Great Reads Award Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unf...

The house on via gemito

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Washington Post・Kirkus Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone’s reputation as one of Italy’s greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop ...

The marvelous land of snergs

A funny, quirky, brand-new story based on E.A. Wyke-Smith’s classic, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, featuring wonderful illustrations from Melissa Castrillón.At the Sunny Bay Home for Superfluous and Accidentally Parentless Children, Pip and Flora were never good at following th...

Fresh water for flowers

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMERINDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK An eccentric young caretaker brings exuberant life to a small-town French cemetery in this “enchanting” #1 bestselling novel (Publishers Weekly). Violette Toussaint’s life follows a gentle, predictable rhythm. ...

First blood

WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023 A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father, who died of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed author’s most personal and heartfelt novel. The Repub...

Mad boy

The art of binding people

From one of Italy’s most brilliant psychiatrists, a moving and transformative journey into the most mysterious, heartbreaking, and awe-inspiring corners of the human mindWe speak of doctors most often as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience working in an emergency p...

Cathedral

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE  “An expansive fictional epic addressing themes of art, religion and power in the mode of Ken Follett or Umberto Eco... Hopkins’s compelling and descriptive tale will leave readers eager for more.”—Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) The Cathedral. A grandiose edifice...

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 ...

The missing of clairdelune

Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor QuartetWINNER of the 2021 Prix Albertine Jeunesse In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, “the plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details abound, and the story envelops the reader as the pages fly by.” (Le M...

Farewell, my orange

Shadowplay

Set during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater ...

All your children, scattered

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER OF THE PRIX ÉTHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s debut novel follows three generations torn apart by the genocide against the Tutsis, as...

Dogs and wolves

From the master of French noir and winner of the French Voices Prize, a gripping mystery about the blossoming of poisonous passions set in the brooding landscapes of Gironde, France When Franck gets out after five years in jail, he expects to find the brother he protected with his silence—instead...

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...

Laidlaw

“So searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind.”—Christopher Brookmyre, international bestselling authorThe Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking series that changed the face of Scottish fiction, are credited with being the founding books of ...

Broken glass park

In this “riveting debut” a Russian teenager living in Berlin dreams of taking revenge on the man who killed her mother—“A stark, moving tale of resiliency” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).A finalist for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann PrizeNow an award-winning motion pictureSeventeen-year-o...

December breeze

LONGLISTED FOR THE QUEEN SOFÍA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEA masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amid parties at th...

Heaven

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “A raw, painful, and tender portrait of adolescent misery… This book is very likely to make you cry.”—Lily Meyer, NPR With profound tenderness and sensitivity, Japanese literary superstar Mieko Kawakami turns her unique gaze onto the causes and ...

Clash of civilizations over an elevator in piazza vittorio (bilingual edition)

In a strange room

A Man Booker Prize finalist: “This tale of ill-fated journeys through Greece, Africa and India shows” the author of The Quarry “at a superb new high” (The Guardian).In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure ...

Paradises lost

The first volume of what promises to be a singular literary adventure: to recount the whole of human history in the form of a single, long novel.  Noam is a young man when the Flood wreaks havoc on the world, destroying the peaceful lakeside village he called home, and turning his life upside dow...

Older brother

”Superb...[Older Brother] accomplishes what the best kind of reporting can do: wade into questions that resist simple answers, while restoring dignity to its characters.”—The New York Times Books Review Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try t...

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...

Opium and other stories

A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psy...

Falling to earth

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