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Bonsai
Zambra, Alejandro
Paper Book
"Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving." --The New York Times Book Review The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers--now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaborator When it was first...
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Walking practice : a novel
Min, Dolki
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Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a...
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The night travelers : a novel
Correa, Armando Lucas
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Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows,...
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Ghost music : a novel
Yu, An
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From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musician For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness...
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The seamstress of Sardinia : a novel
Pitzorno, Bianca
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A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century--a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani. In 1900...
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Diary of a void : a novel
Yagi, Emi
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ's Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary Hub A New York Times Editors' Choice "One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse...
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The door-to-door bookstore : a novel
Henn, Carsten
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The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing...
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The night singer
Mo, Johanna
Paper Book
The #1 international crime series from Sweden! An island never forgets -- especially if you're the daughter of a murderer Police detective Hannah Duncker didn't expect to return to her native Öland. She fled after her father's murder conviction and returns to make...
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Confrontations
Bekono, Simone Antangana
Paper Book
A bold, unsettling, surprisingly tender debut novel for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Nightcrawling. Salomé Atabong is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a Cameroonian father and a Dutch mother, living in the Netherlands. She arrives at a juvenile detention center to start a...
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Cold crematorium : reporting from the land of Auschwitz
Debreczeni, József
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National Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time--from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni "As immediate a confrontation of...
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Taiwan travelogue : a novel
Yang, Shuangzi
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WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama...
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The words that remain : a novel
Gardel, Ste?nio
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, handsome Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of...
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Hunchback : a novel
Ichikawa, Saō
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE...
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The suicides
Di Benedetto, Antonio
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reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides-which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself-in this elegant existential novel, the third and final volume of Antonio Di Benedetto's Trilogy of Expectation. A reporter's boss...
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Perfection
Latronico, Vincenzo
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature Winner of AIRMAIL's Inaugural Tom Wolfe Literary Prize for Fiction A scathing,...
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Blood ties : a novel
Nesbø, Jo
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From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they've worked so hard to achieve. By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they...
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Monsieur Teste
Ruby, Ryan
Paper Book
A defining work of twentieth-century modernism, now newly translated-a philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness, all centered around a character who is composed of absolute brain and intellect, a character of pure mind. When, after the Second World War, the American...
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We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE...
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Sons and daughters : a novel
Grade, Chaim
Paper Book
2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST . From "one of the great-if not the greatest-contemporary Yiddish novelists" (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of...
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Snowy day and other stories
Yi, Ch'ang-dong
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"Vivid . . . These stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality." --The New York Times Book Review "What a gift to have these stories translated,...
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Sisters in Yellow
Kawakami, Mieko
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. "I have a feeling I won't forget Hana, perpetually running up life's down...
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Heart lamp : selected stories
Mushtaq, Banu
Paper Book
Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barios Book in Translation Prize A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's...
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We computers : a ghazal novel
Ismailov, Hamid
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A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by "a writer of immense poetic power" (The Guardian) In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon-Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer....
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The unworthy : a novel
Bazterrica, Agustina MariÌa
Paper Book
THE JAW-DROPPING NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in...
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We are green and trembling
Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso begins to write a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl. Since fleeing a dead-end life as a nun, he's become Antonio and undertaken...
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