By Uzma Aslam Khan Winner: 2023 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction A New York Times pick for Best Historical Fiction 2022 A New York Times pick for Books for Summer 2022 Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those…
By Alisa Ganieva Translated from the Russian by Carol Apollonio A rumor spreads through Dagestan’s capital city, Makhachkala: the Russian government is building a wall to close off its Caucasus republics from the rest of the country. Ethnic and religious tensions mount—no one is spared from the consequences. But like a vision in the midst…
By Alisa Ganieva Translated from the Russian by Carol Apollonio A rumor spreads through Dagestan’s capital city, Makhachkala: the Russian government is building a wall to close off its Caucasus republics from the rest of the country. Ethnic and religious tensions mount—no one is spared from the consequences. But like a vision in the midst…
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Translated by Jane Bugaeva A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer. Publication Date: November 16, 2021 Paperback: 9781646051038eBook: 9781646051045 Description “One of Russia’s best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next.” —The New York…
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Translated by Jane Bugaeva A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer. Publication Date: November 16, 2021 Paperback: 9781646051038eBook: 9781646051045 Description “One of Russia’s best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next.” —The New York…
By Taisia Kitaiskaia Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia’s debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language, and the mysteries of our world with wide, witchy eyes. Publication Date: September 22, 2020 Paperback: 9781646050277 eBook: 9781646050284 Description The Nightgown is a mythic, mystic, and hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves…
By Taisia Kitaiskaia Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia’s debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language, and the mysteries of our world with wide, witchy eyes. Publication Date: September 22, 2020 Paperback: 9781646050277 eBook: 9781646050284 Description The Nightgown is a mythic, mystic, and hungry collection of poems, a roiling landscape wandered over by wild swerves…
By Jón GnarrTranslated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith The dark final volume of the former Rekyjavík mayor s childhood memoir-trilogy delves into the brutal, relentless despair of his late teens. Publication Date: March 14, 2017 Paperback: 9781941920527eBook: 9781941920534 Description In The Outlaw, the third and final volume in his acclaimed trilogy, former Reykjavík mayor and comedian Jón Gnarr returns to face…
By Jón GnarrTranslated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith The second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international sensation Jón Gnarr, The Pirate revisits his teenage years with sincere compassion and great humor: bullied relentlessly, young Jón receives rebellious inner strength through the Sex Pistols and Prince Kropotkin—punk rock and anarchy offer…
By Jón GnarrTranslated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith The second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international sensation Jón Gnarr, The Pirate revisits his teenage years with sincere compassion and great humor: bullied relentlessly, young Jón receives rebellious inner strength through the Sex Pistols and Prince Kropotkin—punk rock and anarchy offer…
By Liu Zongyuan With a preface by Robert Hass Translated by Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton & Yu Yuanyuan Liu Zongyuan s remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye. Publication Date: August 29, 2023 Paperback: 9781646052172eBook: 9781646052431 Description The Poetic…
By Liu Zongyuan With a preface by Robert Hass Translated by Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton & Yu Yuanyuan Liu Zongyuan s remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye. Publication Date: August 29, 2023 Paperback: 9781646052172eBook: 9781646052431 Description The Poetic…
By Farhad PirbalTranslated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse & Jiyar HomerIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour From Kurdish poet and writer Farhad Pirbal, a heartbreaking collection of short stories. Publication Date: July 9, 2024 Paperback: 9781646052707eBook: 9781646052912 Description Each tale in The Potato Eaters underlines “otherness”, or isolation and displacement in contemporary society. His characters are at once resonant and shocking, his ability…
By Farhad PirbalTranslated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse & Jiyar HomerIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour From Kurdish poet and writer Farhad Pirbal, a heartbreaking collection of short stories. Publication Date: July 9, 2024 Paperback: 9781646052707eBook: 9781646052912 Description Each tale in The Potato Eaters underlines “otherness”, or isolation and displacement in contemporary society. His characters are at once resonant and shocking, his ability…
By Peter Constantine Based on a true story set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, The Purchased Bride tells the tale of Maria, a Greek girl who was bought at age fifteen by a much older, wealthy Ottoman man. Publication Date: April, 4th 2023 Paperback: 9781646052271eBook: 9781646052530 Description As the Ottoman Empire falls and insurgents…
By Peter Constantine Based on a true story set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, The Purchased Bride tells the tale of Maria, a Greek girl who was bought at age fifteen by a much older, wealthy Ottoman man. Publication Date: April, 4th 2023 Paperback: 9781646052271eBook: 9781646052530 Description As the Ottoman Empire falls and insurgents…