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  • And How Have You Been?

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    A definitive collection of all the late stories of the Portuguese master of the short form, Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa. In her usual, i

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    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 456
    • Publish Date: May 26 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949641945
    • Language: English
  • Night Train

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    Looking to take a vacation before settling in for to his PHD studies and hoping to swindle a little traveling money from his father, Chen Munian made up a story about killing someone and needing to fl

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    • Author: Xu, Zechen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 290
    • Publish Date: May 12 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949641988
    • Language: English
  • Swell

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    Each story in Swell launches from the common but pivotal moments that determine the course of everyday life, but they’re often filtered through the perspective of someone else: documentarians, novelis

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    • Author: Son, Bo-Mi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 09 2026
    • ISBN10: 1966192002
    • Language: English
  • Empty Wardrobes

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    “There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision and the originality and severity of her voice.” –Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

    For ten years Dora has ritualistically mour

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    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 194964121X
    • Language: English
  • Exemplary Humans

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    JULIANA LEITE MAKES HER ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEBUT WITH A NOVEL ABOUT ONE WOMAN’S PAST AND ALL OF OUR FUTURES

    Ever since the unnamed threat took over, 100-year-old Nat?lia has been stuck inside her Rio de

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    • Author: Leite, Juliana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 315
    • Publish Date: April 21 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949641961
    • Language: English
  • I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories

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    “As surprising as it is unsettling–I Was Alive Here Once overflows with eerie pleasures.”–Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

    Ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan

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    • Series: Calico #13
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: March 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949641937
    • Language: English
  • White Nights

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE


    In a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, it’s as if the poverty and brutality emanate like mist from the cursed dirt. The thirteen inter

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    • Author: Honek, Urszula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 178
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1949641910
    • Language: English
  • The Week of Colors

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    Short stories from the “cursed mother of magical realism” (El Mundo), now in English for the first time

    A woman flits between two realities centuries apart, as scenes from the violent conquest of Mex… [more below]

    • Author: Garro, Elena
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641899
    • Language: English
  • The Sleep of the Righteous

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    Doppelg?ngers, a murderer’s guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances–these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delv… [more below]

    • Author: Hilbig, Wolfgang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 13 2015
    • ISBN10: 1931883475
    • Language: English
  • Sea Now

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    A book on what happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the sea

    The catastrophe that everyone knew was coming has arrived–the dykes are breached, the tideline rises a kilometer a d… [more below]

    • Author: Meijer, Eva
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641856
    • Language: English
  • Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets

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    Five female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora. There are “hypnotic, long beards” tangled with mass exti… [more below]

    • Series: Calico #12
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641848
    • Language: English
  • Grace Period

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    Mateo Silva is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in a life that he no longer seems to control.

    After 25 years away, he has returned to sell his childhood home so he can send his l

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    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641821
    • Language: English
  • The Queen of Swords

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    In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex l[more below]

    • Author: Barrera, Jazmina
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641872
    • Language: English
  • Woodworm

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    The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was bu… [more below]

    • Author: Martinez, Layla
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 14 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949641597
    • Language: English
  • Sleep Phase

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    After seven years in prison, Warif is released to a changed Cairo. Freedom so far has been endless, inscrutable meetings with official-looking strangers, trying to get his job as a translator back. Th

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    • Author: Kheir, Mohamed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 13 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641783
    • Language: English
  • Mending Bodies

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    In a failing city, a government program incentivizes couples to “conjoin”–surgically attach themselves to one another–promising a flourishing economy, ecological revitalization, and personal fulfill[more below]

    • Author: Hon, Lai Chu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641767
    • Language: English
  • The Voices of Adriana

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    A thrilling metafiction about grief, the internet, and the difficulty of knowing others, The Voices of Adriana combines the psychological acuity of Marguerite Duras with the creative possibility of On

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    • Author: Navarro, Elvira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 178
    • Publish Date: February 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641732
    • Language: English
  • Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

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    Composing a fuller picture of the literary era that brought us Osamu Dazai and Kōbō Abe, Unusual Fragments foregrounds stories of alienation with surprising humor and imagination.

    A young st

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    • Series: Calico
    • Author: Coolidge, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: March 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1949641759
    • Language: English
  • On a Woman’s Madness

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    A classic of queer literature that’s as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman’s Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life

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    • Author: Roemer, Astrid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 265
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641643
    • Language: English
  • So Many People, Mariana

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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 … [more below]

    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 450
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641511
    • Language: English
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