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What I’d Rather Not Think About

Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans.)

What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?

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This is Not Miami

Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicás—a genre unique to Latin…

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Blue Hunger

Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards (trans.)

From one of Italy’s most electrifying voices, a powerful and original writer (Michael Cunningham), a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.

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Lady Joker: Volume 2

Kaoru Takamura, Allison Mark Powell (trans.), Marie Iida (trans.)

The second volume of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes the breathtaking saga.

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Is Mother Dead

Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (trans.)

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial…

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The Ascent

Stefan Hertmans, David McKay (trans.)

A fascinating historical novel based on the author's discovery that his home was once owned by a member of the SS

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Seven Empty Houses

Samanta Schweblin

A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist

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The Boy and the Dog

Seishu Hase, Alison Watts (trans.)

One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and…

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Euphoria

Elin Cullhed, Jennifer Hayashida (trans.)

A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her.

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Dead-End Memories

Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover…

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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)

A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve.

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Idol, Burning

Rin Usami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom. Winner of the 2021 Akutagawa Prize and 500,000 copies sold!

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My Soul Twin

Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (trans.)

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.

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Everything Calls for Salvation

Daniele Mencarelli

WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE A heart-breaking and unforgettable novel that challenges our notion of normality and celebrates the salvific power of solidarity and vulnerability.

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The Picture Bride

Lee Geum-yi

Could you marry a man you’ve never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only a photograph of their…

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She and her Cat

Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa (trans.), Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)

The Japanese and Times bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrations

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The Winners

Fredrik Backman

The stunning new novel from multi-million copy bestselling author Fredrik Backman.

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Daughters Beyond Command

Veronique Olmi

A family chronicle, and that of an era, from May 1968 to the 1980s: passionate, heartfelt and profound.

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The Mermaid’s Tale

Lee Wei-Jing

For fans of The Vegetarian and Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, comes a modern-day fairy tale exploring the dark heart of the world of dance

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Before Your Memory Fades

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)

The third novel from the author of the phenomenon Before the Coffee Gets Cold: tales from a little cafe in Hakodate, Cafe Donna Donna, where customers may travel back in…

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At the Breakfast Table

Defne Suman

Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, revealing the psychological consequences of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

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Saha

Cho Nam-Joo

From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes a bold and ambitious novel set in a dystopian future that is all too believable. Parasite meets 1984.

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Scattered All Over the Earth

Yoko Tawada

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.

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Diary of a Void

Emi Yagi, David Boyd & Lucy North (trans)

A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she’s pregnant. She’s not.

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Life Ceremony

Sayaka Murata

Radical, untamed, always unexpected: a thrilling, can’t-look-away collection of stories from the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Convenience Store Woman.

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The Lovers

Paolo Cognetti

The new novel from prizewinning author, Paolo Cognetti - a love story set in a tiny village high in the Italian Alps.

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The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Natsuko Imamura

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.

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Lemon

Kwon Yeo-sun

Focusing on the unsolved murder of teenage girl, this literary crime novel offers insights into gender, class and privilege in Seoul, and marks the English-language debut for award-winning Korean author…

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Our Happy Days

Julia Holbe

A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal-and the memories of a summer that changed things forever.

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The Blacksmith’s Daughter

Selim Ozdogan

A young girl navigates the joys and sorrows of rural life on the cusp of the modern world in mid-twentieth century Turkey.

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The Pachinko Parlour

Elisa Shua Dusapin

It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents…

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Strangers I Know

Claudia Durastanti

A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class.

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A World with No Shore: A Novel

Helene Gaudy

The surprise French bestseller - a brilliant contemporary twist on the historical novel.

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The Night Will Be Long

Santiago Gamboa

An addictive and nuanced narrative about conflict-rife Colombia.

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Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise

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Standing Heavy

Gauz, Frank Wynne (trans.)

A bitingly satirical novel about undocumented security guards in Paris: for fans of Sam Selvon and George Orwell.

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Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Maria Gainza

For readers of Olivia Laing, Mariana Enriquez, Deborah Levy and Valeria Luiselli, a playfully brilliant novel about women’s influence, legacy, art and friendship

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Three Assassins

Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (trans.)

A propulsive new thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.

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Fever

Jonathan Bazzi

A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.

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The Seamstress of Sardinia

Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)

An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

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Grand Hotel Europa

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era.

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Violets

Kyung-Sook Shin

A neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society.

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My Annihilation

Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett (trans.)

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?

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The Old Woman With the Knife

Gu Byeong-mo

A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness.

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Bolla

Pajtim Statovci

The internationally award-winning novel of passion, war, migration - and a destructive forbidden attraction between two men.

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We Had to Remove This Post

Hanna Bervoets

For readers of Leila Slimani’s Lullaby or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star.

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Bitter Orange Tree

Jokha Alharthi

An extraordinary novel from a ‘remarkable’ Booker Prize-winning author who has ‘constructed her own novelistic form’ (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani woman as she builds…

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Chilean Poet

Alejandro Zambra

A tender, acute, hilarious saga about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from a writer internationally heralded as a voice of his generation.

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New translated fiction

What I’d Rather Not Think About

This is Not Miami

Blue Hunger

Lady Joker: Volume 2

Is Mother Dead

The Ascent

Seven Empty Houses

The Boy and the Dog

Euphoria

Dead-End Memories

Our Share of Night

Idol, Burning

My Soul Twin

Everything Calls for Salvation

The Picture Bride

She and her Cat

The Winners

Daughters Beyond Command

The Mermaid’s Tale

Before Your Memory Fades

At the Breakfast Table

Saha

Scattered All Over the Earth

Diary of a Void

Life Ceremony

The Lovers

The Woman in the Purple Skirt

Lemon

Our Happy Days

The Blacksmith’s Daughter

The Pachinko Parlour

Strangers I Know

A World with No Shore: A Novel

The Night Will Be Long

Paradais

Standing Heavy

Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Three Assassins

Fever

The Seamstress of Sardinia

Grand Hotel Europa

Violets

My Annihilation

The Old Woman With the Knife

Bolla

We Had to Remove This Post

Bitter Orange Tree

Chilean Poet