World Literature
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Korean Folktales: Classic Stories from Korea’s Enchanted Past
$11.99 Add to cartFifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world.
Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic tiger, the humble woodcutter, clueless- Author: So-Un
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 080485775X
- Language: English
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Of Beasts and Fowls
$16.95 Add to cartWinner 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
- Author: Adon, Pilar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1960385178
- Language: English
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We Do Not Part
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of… [more below]- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593595459
- Language: English
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The Liquid Eye of a Moon
$27.00 Read moreA Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system
Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be ma- Author: Awoke, Uchenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221907
- Language: English
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The World Goes on
$18.95 Add to cartIn The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take no… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237516
- Language: English
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The Cursed Friend
$27.99 Read more“Bloody, unapologetic, and wild … I loved it!”–Naomi Krupitsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Family
“The Cursed Friend grabs the reader’s attention and doesn’t let go . . . a magnetic c
- Author: Salvioni, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063234009
- Language: English
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Service
$16.95 Add to cartA “powerful and compelling” novel about power, consent, and complicity in our #MeToo era — for fans of Sweetbitter and I Have Some Questions for You (Joseph O’Connor, author of My Father’s House)
Ten- Author: Gilmartin, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1911590820
- Language: English
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Practice
$26.00 Read moreNamed a Slate Top 10 Book of the Year
An NPR and Literary Hub Best Book of the Year
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, fantasies, and wis- Author: Brown, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 037461301X
- Language: English
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Takaoka’s Travels
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the Yomiuri Prize.
Winner of the 2024-2025 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Awa
- Author: Shibusawa, Tatsuhiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988688709
- Language: English
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The Throne: The Machiavelli Trilogy, Book 1
$30.00 Read moreThis meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of the Machiavelli trilogy, recounts the enigmatic life of Niccol? Machiavelli, revealing the complex man behind the infam
- Author: Bernini, Franco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660149
- Language: English
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Roman Stories
$17.00 Add to cartThe first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth – Rome–metropolis and monument, suspend… [more below]
- Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469909
- Language: English
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Role Play
$16.00 Add to cartRole Play is a searing satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.
Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every- Author: Drummond, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611289
- Language: English
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Spring on the Peninsula
$26.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize!
A desultory libertine mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters in this unprecedented portrait of millennials livi- Author: Shin, Ery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602227
- Language: English
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The Phoenix Ballroom
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring story about a wealthy widow who revives a beloved famous local landmark–and restores joy and sparkl
- Author: Hogan, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0063348748
- 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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The Banana Wars
$27.95 Add to cartWinner of the Dzanc Prize
for Fiction Urab?, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations
across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local
economy teetering on the bri- Author: Grostephan, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1950539946
- Language: English
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Tenderloin
$18.00 Add to cartCan killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris.
Pim is a delicate youth–stri
- Author: Sorman, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063611
- Language: English
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Pink Slime
$24.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature – Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant – “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windsw… [more below]
- Author: TrÃas, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1668049775
- Language: English
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Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
$19.99 Add to cartThe national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmop
- Author: Waldman, Adelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1250050456
- Language: English
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I’m a Fool to Want You: Stories
$16.99 Add to cartThese dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice.
In the 1990s, a woman- Author: Villada, Camila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1635423856
- Language: English
