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  • The Event

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    Winner of the 1987 Nadal Prize


    Blanco the Magician is renowned across Europe for his astonishing telepathic feats, dazzling audiences with the power of his mind. But when a ruthless conspiracy exposes

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    • Author: Saer, Juan José
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385437
    • Language: English
  • Vz: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Making of a Nation

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    How does a comedian become the face of a nation’s fight for survival? In VZ: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Making of a Nation, celebrated Russian author Dmitry Bykov unpacks the extraordinary rise of Vl… [more below]

    • Author: Bykov, Dmitry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 520
    • Publish Date: June 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385399
    • Language: English
  • Of Beasts and Fowls

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    Winner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 2023


    “A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrin

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    • Author: Adon, Pilar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960385178
    • Language: English
  • Attila

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    From the author of Last Words on Earth–an reimagining of Roberto Bola?o’s life–comes a book articulating the final years of Aliocha Coll, one of Spain’s most innovative writers as he completes his m

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    • Author: Serena, Javier
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385356
    • Language: English
  • Mother River

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    Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award
    In Mother River, Can Xue, one of China’s most daring and visionary writers, invites us into a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river itself… [more below]

    • Author: Xue, Can
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385313
    • Language: English
  • The Physics of Sorrow

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    Finalist for the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation

    Winner of the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature

    “A quirky, compulsively readable book that deftly hints at the emptiness and sadness at its… [more below]

    • Author: Gospodinov, Georgi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 283
    • Publish Date: April 14 2015
    • ISBN10: 194095309X
    • Language: English
  • Birthday

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    “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 ov

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    • Author: Egle, Jana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: March 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385151
    • Language: English
  • Garden by the Sea

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

    • Author: Rodoreda, Mercè
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 230
    • Publish Date: February 18 2020
    • ISBN10: 1948830086
    • Language: English
  • The Fake Muse

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    Winners of the Inaugural Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

    Infused with the spirit of pulp fiction, b-movies, zines, and punk rock, The Fake Muse is a linguistic tour-de-force from the author of T

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    • Author: Besora, Max
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 196038533X
    • Language: English
  • Attila

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    “My life will not make any sense when Attila is finished,” declared Aliocha Coll about his mesmerizing final novel. In this groundbreaking “untranslatable” work, he channels Joycean experimentalism to

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    • Author: Coll, Aliocha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960385372
    • Language: English
  • The Culture of Lies

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    The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology … [more below]

    • Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 300
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1948830787
    • Language: English
  • Melvill

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    Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award

    A 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 ru… [more below]

    • Author: Fresan, Rodrigo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 196038516X
    • Language: English
  • Pachinko Parlor

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    From the author of Winter in Sokcho, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

    The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and

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    • Author: Shua Dusapin, Elisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 1948830612
    • Language: English
  • Bluebeard’s First Wife

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    A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of 2020

    Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard’s First Wife. A woman spends a night with her fianc and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that

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    • Author: Ha, Seong-Nan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 243
    • Publish Date: June 16 2020
    • ISBN10: 1948830175
    • Language: English
  • Flowers of Mold & Other Stories

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    On the surface, Ha Seong-nan’s stories seem pleasant enough, yet there’s something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters’ lives.

    A woman meets her next-door ne

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    • Author: Seong-Nan, Ha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 23 2019
    • ISBN10: 1940953960
    • Language: English
  • Bad Handwriting

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    From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.

    The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and a

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    • Series: Spanish Literature
    • Author: Mesa, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 1948830558
    • Language: English
  • Thank You for Not Reading

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    Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]

    • Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1948830450
    • Language: English
  • The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (the First Good Novel)

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    “I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism. I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but th

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    • Author: Fernández, Macedonio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 238
    • Publish Date: February 15 2010
    • ISBN10: 1934824062
    • Language: English
  • Death in Spring

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    Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merc Rodoreda’s most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre

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    • Author: Rodoreda, Mercè
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: September 15 2015
    • ISBN10: 1940953286
    • Language: English
  • Vertical Motion

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    “There’s a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue.”–Robert Coover

    Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A c

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    • Author: Xue, Can
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: September 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 1934824372
    • Language: English
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