By Sergio Pitol Translated from the Spanish by George Henson Nominated for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award In this Cervantes Prize-winner, fiction invades autobiography—and vice versa—as Pitol writes to forestall the advancement of degenerative memory loss. Publication Date: March 21, 2017 Paperback: 9781941920480 eBook: 9781941920497 Description We can read The Magician of Vienna not…
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 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…