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Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

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"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." - Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TodayNearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf —and fifty years after t ...Show more

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The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen

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Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more

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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more

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At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop

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Category: Translated Fiction

The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose.

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How Do You Live? by Yoshino Genzaburo

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Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming of age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the infinite people whose lives play out alongside his own ...Show more

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Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

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Half a million copies sold - Winner of the Japan Booksellers Award voted for by the booksellers across Japan - CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN with a fantasy twist, exploring emotional and anxiety issues in modern-day Japan. How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil ne ...Show more

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Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga; Ted Goossen (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.

Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the uni ...Show more

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Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro

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A classic coming of age story in the tradition of TIN MAN or BLACK SWAN GREEN, from the acclaimed author of ESCAPE ROUTES 'A wonderful book, both tender and wise' Okechukwu Nzelu 'Immersive and timely... you will root for Charlie and Stan from the first page' Deepa AnapparaFrom the acclaimed author ...Show more

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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

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Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence--violence that poisons everything around. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decom ...Show more

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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

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Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Ne ...Show more

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Revenge by Yoko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocen ...Show more

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The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun; Lizzie Buehler (Translator)

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A satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility. Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately she ...Show more

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