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Crooked Plow

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by Itamar Vieira Junior ...

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The prize-winning international bestseller—800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.' "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.Deep in Brazil's neglected Bah... ... Read more

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The prize-winning international bestseller—800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.' "Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.Deep in Brazil's neglected Bah...
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Crooked Plow

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by Itamar Vieira Junior ...

Translated by Johnny Lorenz ...

Series series Verso Fiction
The prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, ... Read more

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The prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in BrazilShortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland,
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Saving the Fire

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Translated by Johnny Lorenz ...

by Itamar Vieira Junior ...

Series series Verso Fiction
The highly anticipated new novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted international sensation Crooked PlowMoisés lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Moisés is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to be a witch and despised by the villagers. Luzia seeks protection from the monastery, where ... Read more

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The highly anticipated new novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted international sensation Crooked PlowMoisés lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Moisés is raised by his sister Luzia, a young woman rumored to be a witch and despised by the villagers. Luzia seeks protection from the monastery, where
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A Breath of Life

by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...

Translated by Johnny Lorenz ...

A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her ... Read more

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A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her
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The Besieged City

by Clarice Lispector ...

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Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at lastSeven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus ... Read more

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Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at lastSeven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus
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The Details

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by Ia Genberg ...

Translated by Kira Josefsson ...

Featured in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize"The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the ... Read more

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Featured in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023" *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize"The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the
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The Birds

by Tarjei Vesaas ...

Translated by Torbjørn Støverud, Michael Barnes ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds— it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” — Karl Ove KnausgaardThe Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled ... Read more

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“Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, The Birds— it is absolutely wonderful, the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.” — Karl Ove KnausgaardThe Birds tells the story of Mattis, a deeply sensitive, intellectually disabled
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Audition

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by Pip Adam ...

**Winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin PrizeFinalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardA Millions Most Anticipated Book“Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, Audition will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors.” —Casey Lucas, bad apple**The spaceship Audition is hurtling through the ... Read more

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**Winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin PrizeFinalist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardA Millions Most Anticipated Book“Profoundly anti-carceral, abundantly queer, and weird as f*ck, Audition will lead you to spine-tingling places if you are willing to navigate its corridors.” —Casey Lucas, bad apple**The spaceship Audition is hurtling through the
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Juiceboxers

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Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary AwardFinalist for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardWinner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book PrizeA powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war."An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar El Akkad,... ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary AwardFinalist for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardWinner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book PrizeA powerful debut novel about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and the devastating aftermath of war."An unvarnished, intimately informed dissection of war's physical and emotional derangements." – Omar El Akkad,...
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No Place to Bury the Dead

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by Karina Sainz Borgo ...

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer ...

“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the ... Read more

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“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the
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The Road to the Salt Sea

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by Samuel Kolawole ...

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTIONPEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST • ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLISTAs wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must
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Punished

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by Ann-Helén Laestadius ...

From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen, Punished is the harrowing story of five Sámi children who are forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden and the emotional scars that haunt them thirty years later.Can abusers be redeemed? Or can they only be punished?It is the early 1950s in the Arctic Circle, and once they ... Read more

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From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen, Punished is the harrowing story of five Sámi children who are forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden and the emotional scars that haunt them thirty years later.Can abusers be redeemed? Or can they only be punished?It is the early 1950s in the Arctic Circle, and once they
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