Evoking Calvino & Yan Lianke, Oulipo member Berti paints a classic tragic love story with sumptuous detail in pre-revolutionary China
The first English-language collection by Moroccan-Dutch sensation Mustafa Stitou, Two Half Faces spans the career of an adventurous, exalted poet, a master of the Dutch language and a prophet of his time.
A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.
Fiction and lyric essay combine in Zahia Rahmani’s poetic reflection on Islamic history and what it means to be Muslim.
A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut on illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile's brightest young authors
In this satirical, phantasmagorical novel by a star of contemporary Russian literature, Lipskerov writes about an aging man trying to find his place in modern society despite significant damage to his ego… and his “tool.”
The first short story collection by the greatest contemporary Russian writer, Mikhail Shishkin, spanning his entire writing career, 1993-2013.
The lyrical, feminist novel that exploded onto the Romanian literary scene: a 21st-century Scheherazade recounts her life to a man from whom she is ready to part ways forever.
After a freakish death, a young Argentinian woman is left to observe the world outside of the “cage” of her body; through jarring vignettes and ruminations, acclaimed author García Lao creates a complex, intelligent, and subversive theater of the absurd.
From Ceremony singer Ross Farrar, a darkly cathartic autobiographical debut collection that crosses Samuel Beckett and hardcore.
Rising literary star Ethan Rutherford’s fevered new collection pulls together eight short stories about family and home that are at the same time fevered, personal, and explicitly engaged with their own telling.
A poetic botanical index, Julie Poole’s debut collection explores the history and science of, and human interaction with, the natural world.