Two Lines Press
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I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories
$17.00 Add to cart“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
- Series: Calico #13
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1949641937
- Language: English
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White Nights
$17.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED 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
- Author: Honek, Urszula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1949641910
- Language: English
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The Week of Colors
$18.00 Add to cartShort 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
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The Sleep of the Righteous
$14.95 Add to cartDoppelg?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
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Sea Now
$18.00 Add to cartA 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
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Hair on Fire: Afghan Women Poets
$17.00 Add to cartFive 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
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Grace Period
$16.00 Add to cartMateo 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
- Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641821
- Language: English
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The Queen of Swords
$24.00 Add to cartIn 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
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Woodworm
$21.95 Add to cartThe 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
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Sleep Phase
$18.00 Add to cartAfter 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
- Author: Kheir, Mohamed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641783
- Language: English
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Mending Bodies
$18.00 Add to cartIn 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
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The Voices of Adriana
$17.00 Add to cartA 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
- Author: Navarro, Elvira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641732
- Language: English
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Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartComposing 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- Series: Calico
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641759
- Language: English
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On a Woman’s Madness
$18.00 Add to cartA 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
- Author: Roemer, Astrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641643
- Language: English
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So Many People, Mariana
$19.95 Add to cartLong 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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Lowest Common Denominator
$23.00 Add to cartFor readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of Farewells
Writing in the wake of her … [more below]- Author: Saisio, Pirkko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1949641716
- Language: English
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That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction
$16.95 Add to cart“This remarkable anthology of Chinese speculative fiction offers seven tales of societal responsibility and individual freedom. . . . By turns cryptic and revealing, phantasmagorical and straightforwa
- Series: Calico #1
- Author: Evans, Cj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1949641007
- Language: English
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Celebration
$17.00 Add to cartMijo, a soldier in the Nazi-allied Ustasa force, has returned to his village at the end of the war. He’s hiding in a hole in the woods, watching as the soldiers who want him dead return again and agai… [more below]
- Author: Karakas, Damir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 194964166X
- Language: English
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Ixelles
$20.00 Add to cartRuth lives comfortably with her son, Em, in a house by the sea. She has a well-paying job at the Agency, a firm that creates elaborate fictions to shape public opinion. Their lives weren’t always like… [more below]
- Author: Anyuru, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1949641694
- Language: English
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Home: New Arabic Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“Unbelievably exciting…These are poems to read and reread, repeating the lines as though they were a secret between yourself and the page.” —The Paris Review
Evoking the sights, sounds, and tastes o
- Series: Calico #2
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1949641074
- Language: English
