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In this far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography, legendary and pioneering queer writers continue the legacy of queer expression in Brazil"--

The English-language debut novel from a prolific, award-winning Egyptian writer, Slipping offers a distinct brand of magical realism, one borne out of local legends, spectacles and mysteries both natural and manmade, to create a beautiful, musical reading experience that will appeal to readers of Haruki Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Antonio Tabucchi.

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A heartrending novel punctuated by graves, footsteps, x-rays, and crosses, Bruno Lloret's English-language debut, moodily translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones, combines formal invention and powerful storytelling to transcendent effect, brilliantly staging the jubilance and hubris of youth against the horrors of history, illness, and memory.

Elemental, the third book in the Calico Series from Two Lines Press, is a whirlwind of fiction and reportage from Japan, Iran, Germany, Israel, Poland, Madagascar, Norway, and Iraq that explores how earth, wind, water, and fire continue to shape our narratives and alter our existence.

A striking, innovative collection of stories that combines the gritty surrealism of Roberto Bolaño and David Lynch with the explosive meditations of Clarice Lispector, Rabbit Island locates madness and liberation in smoke-filled hotel rooms, mutating cities, and recurring dreams.

Winner of the prestigious August Prize for best Work of Literary Fiction "They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears is one of the finest novels I've ever read about the nature of radicalization-both of the individual and of societies. There is an inventive and emotionally devastating beauty about this book. That Johannes Anyuru has managed to so precisely capture the metastasis of hatred across time and space shows he is a writer in possession o...

Home: New Arabic Poems, the second book in Two Lines Press's Calico series, explores the intimate world of everyday life, its agonies and delights, through the work of poets from Egypt, Palestine, Tunisia, Iraq, and more.

A mythic tale of art and displacement from the Brazilian master of fragmented logic and spirited prose

A nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege, and social amnesia, the latest from the world-renowned, Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist unveils a small community characterized by absurd kindness, labyrinthine bureaucracy, strange customs, missing persons, and ghostly apparitions.

Winner of the Mishima PrizeIn a small fishing village, the new police chief's teenage daughter listens to the locals who come to her father with bottles of liquor and stories to tell, reading into their words and poring over the silence they leave behind. As conflicting accounts of horrific violence-including a dangerous attempt to save some indentured Korean coal mine workers from the Japanese military police and the fate of a group of Chines...

The first book in the new Calico series from Two Lines Press, THAT WE MAY LIVE represents the vanguard of speculative fiction being published in China today with seven stories that are utterly disorienting yet disturbingly familiar

Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, Jazmina Barrera's "collection" of lighthouses explores the allure of loneliness and asks how we use it to create meaning

Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers

An unflinching novel about the end of girlhood-Kim captures the moment young women find themselves suddenly in an adult world full of dangers like bullying and sexual assault, and where there's no longer anyone to rely on but each other.

In this rich and timely work, Fellous writes in a style reminiscent of her teacher, Roland Barthes, of her complicated Jewish childhood, her recent friend's death, and of feeling she has to leave the country she thinks of as home, Tunisia, where a terrorist just yesterday killed 83 tourists.

Winner of the prestigious August Prize for best Work of Literary Fiction "They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears is one of the finest novels I've ever read about the nature of radicalization-both of the individual and of societies. There is an inventive and emotionally devastating beauty about this book. That Johannes Anyuru has managed to so precisely capture the metastasis of hatred across time and space shows he is a writer in possession o...

How does a shy, traumatized boy overcome the shame, anger, and sadness that silence him? In Lion Cross Point, celebrated Japanese author Masatsugu Ono turns his gentle pen to the mind of ten-year-old Takeru, who arrives at his family's home village amid a scorching summer, carrying memories of unspeakable acts against his mother and brother. As Takeru befriends Mitsuko, his new caretaker, and Saki, his spunky neighbor, he meets more of his mot...

In addition to a dynamic collection of poetry and fiction from around the world, Two Lines 31: Hauntings brings together a selection of contemporary Mexican fiction that responds to the ways violence, loved ones, memories, and transformations can haunt the imagination.

A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography, collage, and narrative, Skin marks the arrival of a truly original literary voice. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, it is as omnivorous as the bodies within it, as unrestrained as the appetites, terrors, and trysts that celebrated author Bjørn Rasmussen evokes in poetic detail. Deeply emotional, erotic, elegiac, and pansexual, it caresses the wounds we visit upon our bo...