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Winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature“Sis, I want to tell you about the river. About me in the river. It makes me shiver, tremble. It makes me laugh. It’s been so long since I’ve felt this alive . . .”Rute is no stranger to displacement and loss. As a child she and her older sister, Dina, were subject to their mother’s romantic whims, moving from house to house, boyfriend to boyfriend. Then, when the sisters were in their late...

Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureTonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent . . . when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begins with a fall. Nathalie arrives at the circus in Vladivostok, Russia, fresh ou...

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book AwardA dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin,  and his most beautiful journey—the crossing on foot of the frozen Hudson River. His son,  still a child,  sits at the foot of the bed, attentively collecting these final,  hallucinated words.Could the work of Herman Melville—masterful author,...

Once Upon Argentina tells the sentimental and political story of a family that comes from everywhere, and of a country’s wandering, migratory culture In the beginning it was Jacobo, born in tsarist Russia, who fled to Buenos Aires and married a young Lithuanian woman named Lidia. Or was it René, a French sculptor who knelt before no one, and his wife Louise Blanche, who left France only to end up in a remote town in northern Argentina. Descend...

“Berlin is a sad city, but it’s a sadness you don’t see. It’s like having heavy metals slowly build up in your body. You can spend a few days, weeks, months, or even years here and never notice how heavy your heart has become.”A little boy who is afraid of telephones, a woman recounting to her lover her recent sexual assault, a man wondering what would happen if he woke up each morning nine minutes earlier than he had the morning before, a stu...

Winner of the Spanish National Fiction PrizeSummer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the middle of the night until she chances upon Betania, an isolated house existing in a world of its own. It’s an unfamiliar place inhabited exclusively by women who,  strangely,  all seem to know her.  Like adherents of an ancient cult,  the women of Be...

“Laine looks at the attractive man sitting across from her and can’t decide: does she like his forwardness or not? But she’s been single for so long, maybe it’s worth trying again. Her husband left over ten years ago, and she hasn’t really dated since . . . If this one doesn’t work out either, then she’ll keep living like she has been—but if it does work out? Severīns notices her lingering stare, and his lips once again stretch out at the corn...

•AUTHOR BACKSTORY: "As a testament to his maverick reputation, he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of avant-garde artists, and was officially forbidden to write, being deemed especially pernicious for his perversion of traditional literary forms: in his body of work, which resists simple summary, the classical moraic rules and kireji (punctuative expressions) are often intact, the seasonal references (kig...

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective, " "The Culture of (Self)Harm, " and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of th...

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins.

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As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman-a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author

First U.S. publication of the Bengali William S. Burroughs.

A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War

Based on true events, the story of a Holocaust survivor who spent her life trying to disappear.

Unsettling, haunting short stories in the vein of Yoko Ogawa and Brian Evenson.

Thirty early poems and twelve watercolors demonstrating the poet's cosmopolitan wanderlust and growing interest in wordplay and Surrealism.