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The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called "one of the must-read books of 2017."Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gr...

A novel of Salem. Follows the judge of the Salem Witchcraft Trials in 1692, Samuel Sewall - a well-meaning man who did evil.

This bestselling noir novel features murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist who is hardly heroic. In this thriller, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system.

The international bestselling story collection. "Truth and beauty are here brought together with all the visual beauty and power of a major literary work" (Lire Magazine, France).A cast of extravagant and affecting characters lovingly portrayed by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt animates these eight contemporary fables about people in search of happiness. One of Europe's most popular and bestselling authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader w...

From the award-winning French author of "The Sermon On The Fall Of Rome", this follows a young philosopher who grapples a world scarred by war, fascinated by Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle. Translated by Howard Curtis.

The play of truth and fiction combine with fine storytelling in this novel by one of the stars of contemporary German fiction. Compelling, poetical, sensitive, erotic--this wonderful novel is all this and much more.--"Express.

Elegantly mixing the mystery and literary fiction genres, French author Coss presents a paean to the love of good books that is sure to keep readers riveted from the first page to the last.

With warmth, great humor, and deep insight, one of Italy's most important new literary talents writes about the customs and the beauty of her native Sardinia, in a novel about love, family, immigration, war, and peace.