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An electric collection that evokes the works of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingeborg Bachmann, Under the Neomoon is a neon-tinged mediation on humanity's violent folly and the importance of storytelling from down below, from the wage worker's hovel.

Eminently worthy of acclaim." --Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far) An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez. Part memoir and part manifesto, Barrera's singular insights, delivered in candid prose, clarify motherhood while also cherishing the myster...

Eight female writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe explore the beauty, pain, and complexity wrapped up in their Caribbean identities. A collection of poems and short stories translated from French"--

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.

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Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women's writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho's biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, the stories in So Many People, Mariana might as well have been written today. These are tough, unflinching accounts o...

A contemporary classic exploring identity, politics, and revolution. This novel is composed as a series of farewells written by Pirkko Saisio-to her mother, to girlfriends she thought she'd spend her life with, and, finally, her to daughter"--

Originally published in 1982 by Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer, Haarlem.

Six genre-defying works that blend text and images. Includes illustrations, memes, and photographs alongside poems, reportage, and fiction"--

From a writer whose work is considered "among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany" (Joshua Cohen), a digressive masterwork in the tradition of Heinrich Böll, Imre Kértesz, and Dasa Drndic that interrogates lust, God, statelessness, addiction, capitalism, and above all else the writer's place in "a century of lies.

For readers of Yaa Gyasi and Imbolo Mbue, this English-language debut of a major African writer dazzles as it devastates, offering an intimate look at three generations of a Cameroonian village as its people attempt to make sense of an inherited past and the complexities of belonging.

Originally published as: Mori no hazure de by Bungeishunju Ltd., Japapan.

A narrator's journey to discover his true self and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression"--

Contemporary Russian poetry that reckons with the weight of the past and memories"--

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

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A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature originally published in 1966, Maria Judite de Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and under-appreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Tove Ditlevsen, Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is tightly plotted and highly entertaining read, a book that, thanks to an ingenious detached n...

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A hazy, riotous novel from the Mauritian French-language author Carl de Souza, KAYA DAYS reimagines the 1999 island race riots (which came after the death of a popular seggae singer while in police custody) as an explosive journey to the end of the night, one animated by huge personalities, revolutionary violence, and the beautiful possibility of another world.