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  • All My Goodbyes

    by Mariana Dimópulos ...
    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    “All My Goodbyes is a virtuoso performance. A love story told in razor sharp fragments, the novel lies at the intersection of memory, violence and trauma.”—Katie KitamuraA young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imminence

    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    by Ms Mariana Dimópulos ...
    *Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Minor Bodies

    by Jonathan Bazzi ...
    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    Minor is the desiring body that runs, rises, gravitates towards larger, brighter, more dazzling bodies, that bestows on other bodies the status of suns and planets, fires to be orbited, the reason for everything. There is no centre of the universe except the one we invent for ourselves.Jonathan is twenty years old, gay, and full of life. He’s set out to escape the insignificance of his suburban ... Read more

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  • Fever

    by Jonathan Bazzi ...
    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn’t go away; it's constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • See You at Breakfast

    by Guillermo Fadanelli ...
    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    Set in modern-day Mexico City, See You at Breakfast is the story of four characters, leading lives of quiet desperation, who are thrown together by a despicably violent act. Cristina is an optimistic prostitute managing work, police harassment and the demands of the men who fall in love with her – such as Ulises, a solitary office worker who obsesses over a promotion he will never receive. His ... Read more

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  • Imminence

    by Mariana Dimópulos ...
    Translated by Alice Whitmore ...
    "Playful on the surface, dark and disturbing in its depths."—J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature“Wonderfully atmospheric and evocative, Dimópulos’s latest is exceedingly satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewA new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Translated by Miranda France ...
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  • Granta 121

    Best of Young Brazilian Novelists

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