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Samir arrives in Amsterdam having fled conscription into Saddam Hussein's army and subsequently wandered Asia for seven years. From the airport, he is transported to an asylum centre, faced with five-hundred co-habitants and nine years of engaging with Dutch bureaucracy. A funny and compassionate window on a defining aspect of the modern era. Al Galidi is a popular poet and performer.

Sweden in the '60s. Erik and his friend Edmund spend their vacation by a forest lake daydreaming about Ewa, a young substitute teacher with an uncanny resemblance to the actress Kim Novak. The boys are having the time of their lives until a shocking discovery disrupts their world. Twenty-five years later, Erik comes across a newspaper article about unsolved crimes and is overwhelmed by memories and questions from that summer of his youth. What...

A portrait of a child's position in a complex, crisis-directed family dynamic from the Swedish author and poet. Martin Aitken translates.

Katia and Goran discover a museum displaying mementos of broken relationships. The things they find there send them both - along with fellow visitor Tyler - on a summer of reconnecting with their difficult pasts. Barker also wrote "The Afghan Vampires Book Club".

One of Colombia's most well-loved authors opens up about his father's murder by paramilitaries. Translated by acclaimed and award-winning pairing Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey.

As Paris floods after unstoppable rain, secrets and tensions between the family of a withdrawn arborist struck ill rise to the surface. An emotionally intelligent, well-observed book from the author of "Sarah's Key".

In turn of the nineteenth century Mozambique, Imani's cultural identity and family life are torn apart by the shifts in the region, with the story of these events interwoven with history and folklore. Couto was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of the bedtime stories he used to tell. The Storyteller follows the turbulent search of a son for a father whose heart had always kept yearning for his homeland Lebanon. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets, love, and f...

The moving story of a close-knit Colombian family, given in precise and atmospheric prose, from the author of acclaimed memoir "Oblivion".

`Eigenlijk kan je lichaam dat werk niet aan. Er waren dagen waarop ik bijna twintig klanten had. In het begin, toen ik nog niet wist hoe ik klanten voor de gek moest houden, scheurde ik uit. Je lichaam gaat er niet alleen kapot aan, maar je geest ook. Je krijgt van alles over de vloer. Kerels die hebben gedronken of gesnoven. Mannen die in je kamer kotsen, wiens zweet op je druppelt, mannen met vieze sokken, die uit hun mond stinken. Sommige k...

A novel about the slow, yet unpredictable implosion of a marriage, set in 1990s West Africa, as well as a study in the psychology of tyrants and how their rules destroy not only their subjects but themselves. Influenced by Naguib Mahfouz's "Palace Walk" and William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying".

The relationship between Coco and her mother Elisabeth is uneasy, to say the least. Running into each other by chance, Elisabeth casually tells Coco that she is terminally ill. When Coco moves in with her mother in order to take care of her, aspects of their troubled relationship come to the fore once again. Elisabeth tries her best to conform to the image of a caring mother, but struggles to deal with Coco's erratic behaviour and unpredictabl...

A mythical novel from a Swedish author, in which a father gives birth to a 12-year-old girl, splitting his head open in the process. Illuminates what it's like to slide away from reality and into a psychotic state. With appeal to fans of Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.

Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a spotters' campground next to an airstrip. Gieles is longing for affection - from the mysterious dreadlocked girl he has met online, and also from his mother, who is always away on hopeless missions to save the world. With an ingenious but dangerous plan he tries to attract their attention.

Michael Bellicher, a successful consultant, has everything going for him. During a night spent at work, he witnesses something he should never have seen. Michael has to flee to escape the conspiracy. But with every step he takes, he is followed by the mysterious Mr. Miller, who seems to know everything about him. Slowly but surely, Michael discovers how much of his life is ruled by technology. Will he ever regain control over his life?

Odette is the most hated woman in Belgium. She spends her days in jail, for being an accomplice to a horrifying offence that she was dragged into by her husband. Who is this woman? Why did she never stop him? Does she deserve a second chance, or is she an unscrupulous monster? The Woman who Fed the Dogs is based on the true story of Michelle Martin, the ex-wife and accomplice of the killer Marc Dutroux.

Growing up in a peaceful Dutch village with her eccentric mother and their two endearing male lodgers, Lucy is the popular leader of the pre-school set-until a bizarre crime rocks her world. After her mother has served time for murder, Lucy, her mother and her 'uncles' leave the village to start over in the Outer Hebrides. But even in this remote corner of the world, the past has a way of catching up with her...

While examining the tumour of one of his patients, Martin Montag, a cancer specialist in Berlin, finds that its shape, resembling a yo-yo, brings back memories of a traumatic incident he suffered as a child. A drama of betrayal and friendship unfolds, intringuingly told by one of Iceland's best-known contemorary writers.

A novel based on the author's life and that of his father, a Ugandan pilot who deserted. Both men grew up without fathers, as Anyuru's father P becomes a refugee and Anyuru himself grows up as a first-generation Swede. It's sold more than 40, 000 copies in Sweden.

Janne Teller waagt zich aan een indringend gedachte-experiment: ze laat ons voelen hoe het is om een oorlogsvluchteling te zijn - door een simpele wisseling van perspectief.