World Literature - France - 21st Century
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Driver
$18.95 Add to cartA bracing novel of work, labor, and collective action, this vibrantly written debut is narrated by a man who runs a high-speed train in France–a story born out of the author’s experience as a real-li… [more below]
- Author: Filice, Mattia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379880
- Language: English
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Faraway the Southern Sky
$17.95 Add to cart“Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning.”
A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh’s immigration and radical life in underg
-Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Andras, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1804291714
- Language: English
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Forgotten on Sunday
$28.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
Justine is 21 years old and has liv
- Author: Perrin, Valérie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660187
- Language: English
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Forgotten on Sunday
$18.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
Justine is 21 years old and
- Author: Perrin, Valérie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661047
- Language: English
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The Deserters
$16.95 Add to cartA filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness–he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September… [more below]
- Author: Enard, Mathias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 811239012
- Language: English
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Command Performance
$16.95 Add to cartA thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master.
“Fans of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s deadpan irony will appreciate Command Performance, Eche- Author: Echenoz, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378558
- Language: English
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On the Clock
$13.95 Add to cartClaire Baglin’s On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the 20-ye
- Author: Baglin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239357
- Language: English
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Fragments of a Paradise
$19.00 Read more“Giono’s prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility.” — The Washington Post
Giono’s very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritu- Author: Giono, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962770001
- Language: English
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Canoes
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year
A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella an- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1953861962
- Language: English
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My Life as Edgar
$18.00 Read moreA sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times)
Fabre’s abili- Author: Fabre, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861482
- Language: English
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Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering
$18.00 Read moreA #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows
A still life- Author: Delerm, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861547
- Language: English
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Playboy
$17.95 Add to cartThe prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré’s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.
I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new.- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Debre, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 163590210X
- Language: English
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About Uncle
$16.95 Add to cartA freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness–for readers of Ottessa Mo
- Author: Gisler, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1949641554
- Language: English
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Fowl Eulogies
$17.99 Add to cart“A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence.” ―Kirkus Reviews
Fowl Eulogies is an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprece
- Author: Rico, Lucie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1642861316
- Language: English
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A Leopard-Skin Hat
$14.95 Add to cartA Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense friendship betw… [more below]
- Author: Serre, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 811234517
- Language: English
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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild
$19.95 Add to cartTo research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to unde… [more below]
- Author: Énard, Mathias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811231291
- Language: English
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Eastbound
$18.00 Add to cart** SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS 1 OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR **
** INCLUDED ON THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** “At The New York Times Book Review, I think it’s fair to say we were da- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 137
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861504
- Language: English
