Two Lines Press
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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 Read moreMijo, 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
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Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
$15.95 Add to cart“Eminently worthy of acclaim.” —Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far)
An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspir
- Author: Barrera, Jazmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641589
- Language: English
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Days Come and Go
$24.95 Read moreChronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna… [more below]
- Author: Boum, Hemley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 194964135X
- Language: English
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The Interim
$15.95 Read more“Comic and terrifying and profound.” –Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021)
C. is a wretched grump, an anguished patron of bars, brothels, and train stations. He is also an acclaimed East
- Author: Hilbig, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641422
- Language: English
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Slipping
$16.95 Read moreThere are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel.” –Omar El Akkad, author of American War
A struggling journalist named Seif is introduced to a former exile with an encyclopedic knowl
- Author: Kheir, Mohamed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 187
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1949641163
- Language: English
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Baboon
$12.95 Add to cartBeginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt’s stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes o… [more below]
- Author: Aidt, Naja Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1931883386
- Language: English
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Off-White
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, … [more below]
- Author: Roemer, Astrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1949641252
- Language: English
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That Time of Year
$14.95 Add to cartTourist season is over, and the rain won’t stop falling. It’s time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways in the countryside and return to norma… [more below]
- Author: Ndiaye, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 194964149X
- Language: English
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Empty Wardrobes
$14.95 Add to cart“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
- Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 194964121X
- Language: English
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The Red Book of Farewells
$24.95 Add to cartFor fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.
Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenber- Author: Saisio, Pirkko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641465
- Language: English
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Hugs and Cuddles
$14.95 Add to cartAfter abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of Hugs and Cuddles zealously recommits himself to a man he calls “the engineer”, a childhood friend with whom he sh… [more below]
- Author: Noll, João Gilberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641384
- Language: English
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Bright
$16.95 Add to cartWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his fathe
- Author: Pimwana, Duanwad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1931883807
- Language: English
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Elektrik: Caribbean Writing
$16.95 Read moreIn Elektrik, eight women writers from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe come together to explore, in poetry and prose, the complex nature of Caribbean existence. A single mother has an intimate encoun… [more below]
- Series: Calico #8
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641503
- Language: English
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At the Edge of the Woods
$16.95 Add to cart“Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision…Ono continues to captivate.” –Bryan Washington, author of Memorial
In an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling in
- Author: Ono, Masatsugu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641287
- Language: English
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Out of the Sugar Factory
$16.95 Read moreElmiger’s breakout novel is a staring contest with History: an effort to map the resonances and frictions introduced to the world by the sugar industry. But can any writing project contain such devast… [more below]
- Author: Elmiger, Dorothee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641406
- Language: English
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A Working Woman
$14.95 Add to cartA provocative new novel from the author ranked among Granta’s “Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists”
Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyche’s most ob… [more below]- Author: Navarro, Elvira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1931883653
- Language: English
