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Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi - Catapult
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeIn the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated... |
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Violeta
Isabel Allende - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American... |
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Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang - NYRB Classics
Format: eBook
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A New York Review Books Original"[A] giant of modern Chinese literature" -The New York Times"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very... |
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The End of Days
Jenny Erpenbeck - New Directions; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Presigious Hans Fallada Prize and a bestseller in Europe, The End of Days offers a unique view on twentieth-century German history.The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different... |
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A Family Lexicon
Natalia Ginzburg
Format: Print book
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"Natalia Ginzburg, one of Italy's great writers, introduced A Family Lexicon, her most celebrated work, with an unusual disclaimer: "The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing. Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with... |
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Swallowing Mercury
Wioletta Grzegorzewska - Portobello Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Enchantingly elliptical fiction debut that sparkles with a gem-like quality." - The Guardian"Shines with a surreal and unsettling vigour. As an award-winning poet, Greg writes with a lyricism that brings alive the charms and dangers of Wiola's life." - The Financial... |
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Vagabonds
Hao Jingfang - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from... |
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The Vegetarian
Kang Han - Hogarth
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * "[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation." - Entertainment Weekly "Ferocious." - The New York... |
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First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami - Bond Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream" and "On a Stone Pillow") are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie... |
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Earthlings: A Novel
Sayaka Murata - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman.. Sayaka Muratas Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old... |
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The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa - HarperVia
Format: Book
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Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat named Tiger appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for - or rather, demands - the teenager's help in saving books... |
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious.... |
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Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
Ahmed Saadawi - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A prizewinning novel of literary horror from war-torn Iraq - and the debut in English of "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times) From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caf - collects human... |
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Fever Dream: A Novel
Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair"Genius." - Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's... |
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The Remainder
Alia Trabucco Zeran - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's... |
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The Frightened Ones: A novel
Dima Wannous - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they soon begin a tense affair. But when Naseem, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he sends Suleima the unfinished manuscript of his novel. To Suleima's surprise, she and the novel's... |
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