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World Editions promotes voices from around the globe by publishing books from many different countries and languages in English translation. Through our work we aim to enhance dialogue between cultures, foster new connections, and open doors which may otherwise have remained closed.

We publish high quality novels and narrative non fiction books with a personal angle. Our aim is to uncover the pearls of each and every language territory, works often successfully published in their own regions, and introduce them to the English language reader. We publish voice driven books that touch upon urgent and engaged, relevant universal—outward looking narratives, but always from the point of view of the individual and the personal experiences of people in different countries. We publish books that matter, introducing the reader to a world they may not yet have been able to explore in real life. Books that have the power to move you and may change your way of seeing things.

World Editions publishes long established authors, such as winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, Maryse Condé, and the internationally acclaimed Juli Zeh, alongside rising stars such as Pilar Quintana (National Book Award finalist), Jaap Robben (longlisted for the International Booker Prize), and Linda Boström Knausgård (longlisted for the National Book Award).

In 2023 World Editions celebrates the 5 year anniversary since its US launch and existence as an international com pany. To date we are proud to have published 78 books, from a total of 32 countries and 17 languages, and we hope to add many more in the coming years.

Facts & Figures:

77 titles available • 90% translations • 62% written by women • 17 languages, 32 countries: Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nether lands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, UK, Ukraine, USA

Feb Pilar Quintana, 4

Mar Maryse Condé, 5

Apr Marijke Schermer, 6

May Lucie Rico, 7

May Mia Couto, 8

June Stine Pilgaard, 9

Aug Gerda Blees, 10

Sept Juli Zeh, 11

Héctor Abad, 17

Rodaan Al Galidi, 17

Johannes Anyuru, 17 Gary Barker, 17

Frédéric Beigbeder, 17

Gerda Blees, 17

Linda Boström Knausgård, 17–18

Saskia de Coster, 18 Maryse Condé, 18 Mia Couto, 18–19

Adeline Dieudonné, 19

Bram Dehouck, 19

Renate Dorrestein, 19

Esther Gerritsen, 19

Anne Gine Goemans, 19

Benoîte Groult, 19

Kristien Hemmerechts, 20

Petra Hůlová, 20 Anna Janko, 20 Pierre Jarawan, 20

Gaëlle Josse, 20 Nuria Labari, 20 Tom Lanoye, 20 Li Kotomi, 21 Julia von Lucadou, 21 Marente de Moor, 21 Amin Maalouf, 21 Paolo Maurensig, 21 Sisonke Msimang, 21 Håkan Nesser, 21 Carl Nixon, 22 Christine Otten, 22 Claudia Petrucci, 22 Stine Pilgaard, 22

Pilar Quintana, 22 Lucie Rico, 22

Jaap Robben, 22–23

Tatiana de Rosnay, 23

Preeta Samarasan, 23

Marijke Schermer, 23

Carol Shields, 23–24

Charles den Tex, 24 Jan Vantoortelboom, 24 Annelies Verbeke, 24 Bert Wagendorp, 24 Samar Yazbek, 24 Juli Zeh, 24 Zhang Yueran, 24

Abyss

Pilar Quintana

translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

ISBN 978 1 912987 40 5 €19.99 224 pp fiction trade paperback

From the author of 2021 National Book Award Finalist The Bitch

Claudia is an impressionable eight year old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines, tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia’s head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudia’s world starts falling apart. In this strikingly vivid novel set in Cali, Colombia, Claudia’s acute observations remind us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them. Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.

“Powerful and unsettling.” IRENE

VALLEJO

Pilar Quintana is a widely respected Colombian author. Her previous novel, The Bitch, won a PEN Translates award in the UK and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the US . It also won the prestigious Colombian Biblioteca de Narrativa Prize. Abyss, her latest novel, was awarded the Alfaguara de Novela Prize, which is among the most prestigious awards in the Spanish language.

The Gospel

According to the New World

Maryse Condé

translated from the French by Richard Philcox

ISBN 978 1 912987 36 8 €19.99 256 pp fiction trade paperback

From the Queen of Caribbean Storytelling

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Condé’s latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Condé attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

“Condé has a gift for storytelling, combined with a mordant sense of humor.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Maryse Condé, the Grande Dame of Caribbean Literature, was born in Guadeloupe in 1937. Her impressive oeuvre has twice been awarded in recent years, with the New Academy Prize (or “Alternative Nobel”) in Literature and the Cino Del Duca World Award. She conquered the hearts of many readers with her recent novels The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana and Waiting for the Waters to Rise, longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

Breakwater

Marijke Schermer

translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters

ISBN 978 1 912987 50 4 €18.99 192 pp fiction trade paperback

Some secrets refuse to stay hidden …

Emilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, two healthy young sons, and a house in the countryside. But when a brief moment of panic triggers the memory of a traumatic experience from twelve years before, Emilia finds herself floating away from her average existence. The secret she’s kept for so long refuses to stay hidden, and as Emilia’s grip on reality loosens, heavy rains begin to fall and the river threatens to overflow the house. In this critically acclaimed novel, Schermer explores the impact of sexual violence, and whether or not it’s possible to truly know another person. Breakwater is a haunting examination of memory and trauma, written in prose stunning in its frankness and precision.

“Schermer’s work reminds one of Ian McEwan’s. This is excellent literature.” NRC HANDELSBLAD

Marijke Schermer is a novelist and playwright. Her stage work has been performed by several companies and translated into various languages. Her novel Breakwater was shortlisted for the ECI Literature Prize, has been sold to Spain, Switzerland, and Denmark, and is currently being made into a film. Her novel Love, If That’s What It Is was shortlisted for the prestigious Libris Literature Prize 2020.

Fowl Eulogies

Lucie Rico

translated from the French by Daria Chernysheva

ISBN 978 1 912987 42 9 €19.99 240 pp fiction trade paperback

The all-consuming desire to preserve

Upon her mother’s death, Paule Rojas, a vegetarian city dweller, returns to the chicken farm where she grew up. Pressured to fulfil her mother’s last request, Paule rediscovers pleasure and meaning in running the old family business. Yet, eager to bring something of herself to a family tradition, Paule embarks on increasingly intricate ways of helping the chickens to self actualize before their deaths. She records the chickens’ life stories, adding them to the labels that decorate the vacuum packed meat sent off to market—an individual biography for every chicken. But not all runs smooth in her childhood village; Paule finds she has few friends and many enemies. She is forced to spread her wings, relocate her livestock, and oversee the construction of an urban farm of never before seen practices and proportions.

ELLE

Lucie Rico is an author, screenwriter, and director hailing from Perpignan in the South of France. She worked for several years in publishing and online media before devoting herself to writing for the page and the screen. She has directed several series and short films and written feature films, and is an associate professor in literary creation at the University of Clermont Auvergne. Fowl Eulogies, awarded both the Ecology Prize and the Cheval Blanc Literary Award, is her first novel.

“A dazzling novel of malice and feathers.”

The Drinker of Horizons Mia Couto

translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw

ISBN 978 1 912987 37 5 €19.99 264 pp fiction trade paperback

A story of love and war in nineteenthcentury Africa

During the colonization of the African Kingdom of Gaza, a young local woman Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo share an unexpected love. While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, Imani is enlisted as interpreter to the imprisoned emperor of Gaza, Ngungunyane, on the long voyage to Lisbon. For Ngungunyane and his seven wives, it will be a journey of no return, whereas Imani will come back only after a decade long odyssey through the Portuguese empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mia Couto depicts the beauty and terror of war and love, and reveals the devastation of a profoundly unequal clash of cultures, he gives a uniquely personal voice to those silenced by the horrors of colonialism.

“Couto’s protagonist’s remain consistently fascinating.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Mia Couto, born in Mozambique, in 1955, is one of the most prominent writers in Portuguese speaking Africa. Couto has been awarded the Jan Michalski Prize , the Camões Prize for Literature , and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, among other awards. He was also a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2017 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Woman of the Ashes and The Sword and the Spear were released recently to critical acclaim.

My Mother Says Stine Pilgaard

translated from the Danish by Hunter Simpson

ISBN 978 1 912987 40 5 €17.99 160 pp fiction trade paperback

When good advice is all you need

The narrator’s long term girlfriend has just broken things off, forcing her to move back in with her father, a Pink Floyd–loving priest. While she desperately tries to convince her girlfriend to reconsider, the rest of the world bombards her with advice: from her childhood friend Mulle to her kindly therapist to her overbearing mother and card playing father. Bumbling through the fog of disillusionment, the narrator gives herself permission to grieve, philosophize, and be generally outrageous until at last she sees a light at the end of the tunnel. My Mother Says is a compendium of conversations between people who talk past one another in a universe of misplaced good intentions. In this whirlwind of memories, confessions, temper tantrums, and declarations of love, Pilgaard’s sheer affection for her characters turns the pain of a broken heart into a heartwarming comedy of errors.

“Whirls with elegance and energy.”

POLITIKEN

Stine Pilgaard is a graduate of the Danish Writers’ Academy and the University of Copenhagen. Her first novel, My Mother Says, was a critical and commercial success in Denmark, securing its author the Bodil and Jørgen Munch Christensen Award. The Land of Short Sentences was an instant bestseller and critics’ favorite. It won the prestigious Weekendavisen Literature Prize and the Danish Booksellers’ Association’s Golden Laurels Award.

We Are Light

Gerda Blees

translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison

ISBN 978 1 912987 41 2 €19.99 240 pp fiction trade paperback

Look at things from their perspective

In the middle of a summer night, Elisabeth, the oldest resident of the Sound & Love Commune, dies. Her sister Melodie and their two other housemates are arrested: the group’s attempts to stop eating and start living on light and love alone appears to have been fatal to Elisabeth. From unworldly idealists on the fringes of society, the three suddenly become suspects in a criminal case. Through the eyes of the night, the neighbors, doubt, the scent of an orange, and many other characters and entities, we see how each of those involved gives a different answer to the question of how Elisabeth came to die. Who is to blame? And does the commune still have a future? We Are Light is a highly original and entertaining novel about manipulation, vulnerability, and trying to be better.

“A beautiful, soulful, rich, and relevant portrait of what people are looking for when they reject science.”

JURY, LIBRIS LITERATURE PRIZE

Gerda Blees is a Dutch author and poet. She taught at various universities for several years while doing linguistic research on Dutch German lingua receptiva—conversations in which each person speaks their own language. We Are Light, Blees’s debut novel, won the EU Literature Prize as well as the prestigious Dutch Booksellers Award in 2021. The author recently completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

About People

Juli Zeh

translated from the German by Alta L. Price

About People cover TK

ISBN 978 1 912987 43 6 €22.99 416 pp fiction trade paperback

Everybody needs good neighbors

Fleeing stay at home orders in the big city, Dora and her dog move to the countryside. She knows that Bracken, a village in the middle of nowhere, isn’t the idyll most citydwellers dream of, but she’s desperate for space and a change of scene. The quaint old house she’s saved up for needs work, weeds have taken over the yard, and her skinhead neighbor fits all the stereotypes. Just what is Dora really looking for? Distance from her boyfriend Robert, who’s climate activism has crossed into obsession? Refuge from her inner turmoil? Clarity on how the whole world got so messed up? As Dora tries to keep her thoughts and demons in check, surprising things start happening all around her. Juli Zeh’s epic new novel explores our present predicaments, biases, weaknesses, and fears, but—above all—it reveals the strengths that come to light when we dare to be human.

“Wit, compassion, and a large portion of hope for a more conciliatory society.” ZDF

Juli Zeh holds a doctorate in international law. She is one of Germany’s most successful authors. Her debut novel Eagles and Angels was an international bestseller and was awarded the Deutscher Book Prize, and since then her books have been translated into 35 languages. Her latest novel, New Year, was a finalist for the 2022 PEN Translation Prize. She has been award ed myriad prizes for her work, including the Carl Amery Literature Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, and the Order of Merit .

Héctor Abad

The Farm translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean “Even better than Gabriel García Márquez!” THE NEW YORKER ISBN 978 1 64286 010 8 • €16.99 • 400 pp • trade paperback

Héctor Abad

Oblivion translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey

“An inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love.” THE GUARDIAN ISBN 978 1 912987 00 9 • €17.99 • 296 pp • trade paperback

Rodaan Al Galidi

The Leash and the Ball translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder Out the gate and integrate ISBN 978 1 912987 32 0 • €17.99 • 272 pp • trade paperback

Rodaan Al Galidi

Two Blankets, Three Sheets translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder A humorous account of a nine year wait 978 1 912987 02 3 • €14.99 • 400 pp • trade paperback

Johannes Anyuru

A Storm Blew in from Paradise translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson Broyles “A storm blew in from paradise. That storm was life.” ISBN 978 1 64286 044 3 • €23.99 • 256 pp • trade paperback

Gary Barker

The Museum of Lost Love English language original Dispatches from the frontiers of love ISBN 978 9 912987 03 0 • €14.50 • 216 pp • trade paperback

Frédéric Beigbeder

A Life Without End translated from the French by Frank Wynne A brutal and brilliant exposé on mortality ISBN 978 1 912987 08 5 • €18.99 • 304 pp • trade paperback

Gerda Blees

We Are Light translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison Look at things from their perspective ISBN 978 1 912987 41 2 • €19.99 • 240 pp • trade paperback

Linda Boström Knausgård

The Helios Disaster translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson Broyles Madness from within ISBN 978 1 64286 068 9 • €14.99 • 200 pp • trade paperback

Linda Boström Knausgård

October Child

translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel

A powerful portrait of mental illness

ISBN 978 1 912987 17 7 • £17.50 • 240 pp • trade paperback

Linda Boström Knausgård

Welcome to America translated from the Swedish by Martin Aiken

A family on the brink of silence

ISBN 978 1 912987 04 7 • €18.43 • 128 pp • trade paperback

Saskia de Coster

We and Me

translated from the Dutch by Nancy Forest Flier

A devastating picture of a dysfunctional bourgeois family ISBN 978 1 64286 004 7 • €15.99 • 416 pp • trade paperback

Maryse Condé

The Gospel According to the New World translated from the French by Richard Philcox From the Queen of Caribbean storytelling ISBN 978 1 912987 36 8 • €19.99 • 256 pp • trade paperback

Maryse Condé

Waiting for the Waters to Rise translated from the French by Richard Philcox

A mesmerizing novel from the winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature ISBN 978 1 912987 15 3 • €10.99 • 288 pp • trade paperback

Maryse Condé

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana translated from the French by Richard Philcox

An impressive picture of a colorful yet turbulent 21st century ISBN 978 1 912987 09 2 • €18.99 • 272 pp • trade paperback

Mia Couto

Woman of the Ashes translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw

A vivid and enchanting African novel “Thick with allegory and imagery that recalls Márquez and Achebe.” KIRKUS ISBN 978 1 64286 039 9 • €17.80 • 296 pp • trade paperback

Mia Couto

The Sword and the Spear translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw

A novel on the futility of war

“A nuanced study of the power plays and violence sparked by colonialism.” KIRKUS

ISBN 978 1 912987 12 2 • £12.99 • 328 pp • trade paperback

Mia Couto

The Drinker of Horizons translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw

The ruins of colonial reign “Couto’s protagonists remain consistently fascinating.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

ISBN 978 1 912987 37 5 • €19.99 • 264 pp • trade paperback

Adeline Dieudonné Real Life

translated from the French by Roland Glasser

A fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life

ISBN 978 1 912987 01 6 • €18.00 • 240 pp • trade paperback

Bram Dehouck Sleepless Summer translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder Crime by insomnia

ISBN 978 1 64286 016 0 • €11.99 • 184 pp • trade paperback

Renate Dorrestein

The Darkness That Divides Us translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans Beautiful, happy people? No. ISBN 978 1 64286 014 6 • €16.99 • 336 pp • trade paperback

Esther Gerritsen

Craving

translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison A razor sharp psychological duet ISBN 978 1 64286 002 3 • €11.99 • 192 pp • trade paperback

Esther Gerritsen Roxy translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison A blast of a trip through revenge and grief ISBN 978 1 64286 040 5 • €14.99 • 248 pp • trade paperback

Anne-Gine Goemans Gliding Flight translated from the Dutch by Nancy Forest Flier The bizarre fantasy world of a lonely adolescent ISBN 978 1 64286 008 5 • €14.99 • 464 pp • trade paperback

Benoîte Groult

Salt on My Skin translated from the French by Mo Teitelbaum

The erotic bestseller that conquered the hearts of millions of readers worldwide ISBN 978 1 64286 009 2 • €15.99 • 264 pp • trade paperback

Kristien Hemmerechts

The Woman Who Fed the Dogs translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent A reflection on second generation trauma ISBN 978 1 64286 007 8 • €12.99 • 216 pp • trade paperback

Petra Hůlová

The Movement translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker A feminist dystopian novel on sexual norms ISBN 978 1 912987 24 5 • €15.99 • 320 pp • trade paperback

Anna Janko

A Little Annihilation translated from the Polish by Philip Boehm A reflection on second generation trauma ISBN 978 1 912987 07 8 • €21.99 • 216 pp • trade paperback

Pierre Jarawan

Song for the Missing translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer On friendship, family and destruction in Lebanon ISBN 978 1 912987 29 0 • €27.99 • 472 pp • trade paperback

Pierre Jarawan The Storyteller translated from the German by Sinéad Crowe and Rachel McNicholl

The enthralling search for a missing father in Lebanon ISBN 978 1 64286 011 5 • £13.59 • 468 pp • trade paperback

Gaëlle Josse

The Last Days of Ellis Island translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer A story of love, transgression and remorse ISBN 978 1 912987 11 5 • £19.63 • 208 pp • trade paperback

Nuria Labari

World’s Best Mother translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore An examination of the myth and the scam of motherhood ISBN 978 1 912987 18 4 • €19.99 • 224 pp • trade paperback

Tom Lanoye

Slaves to Fortune translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison Men on the run in a world gone mad ISBN 978 1 64286 046 7 • €21.99 • 320 pp • trade paperback

Tom Lanoye

Speechless translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent A monument of language for a flamboyant mother ISBN 978 1 64286 006 1 • €15.99 • 360 pp • trade paperback

Solo Dance

translated from the Japanese by Arthur Reiji Morris

An important queer voice from East Asia’s millennial generation ISBN 978 1 912987 35 1 • €16.99 • 256 pp • trade paperback

Julia von Lucadou

The High-Rise Diver translated from the German by Sharmila Cohen Big Sister is watching you ISBN 978 1 912987 16 0 • €18.99 • 264 pp • trade paperback

Marente de Moor

The Dutch Maiden translated from the Dutch by David Doherty

A rich and arresting historical romance ISBN 978 1 64286 018 4 • €20.99 • 312 pp • trade paperback

Amin Maalouf

Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way translated from the French by Frank Wynne

A breathtaking analysis of the current global crisis ISBN 978 1 912987 10 8 • €19.99 • 280 pp • trade paperback

Amin Maalouf

The Disoriented translated from the French by Frank Wynne

An exquisite novel about friendship and betrayal ISBN 978 1 912987 06 1 • €18.99 • 440 pp • trade paperback

Paolo Maurensig

A Devil Comes to Town translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel

On devilish publishers and wannabe writers ISBN 978 1 64286 013 9 • €14.99 • 120 pp • trade paperback

Paolo Maurensig

Game of the Gods translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel

A lowly servant becomes a champion of chess ISBN 978 1 912987 14 6 • €19.99 • 256 pp • trade paperback

Sisonke Msimang

Always Another Country English language original

A memoir of exile and home in the African diaspora ISBN 978 1 64286 000 9 • €13.99 • 368 pp • trade paperback

Håkan Nesser

The Summer of Kim Novak translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel Mystery and murder in Sweden ISBN 978 1 64286 019 1 • €21.99 • 224 pp • trade paperback

Carl Nixon

The Tally Stick

English language original Death and survival in New Zealand’s wilderness ISBN 978 9 912987 25 2 • €20.99 • 288 pp • trade paperback

Christine Otten

The Last Poets

translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder An audacious novel about New York’s legendary hip hop pioneers ISBN 978 1 64286 003 0 • $12.99 • 544 pp • trade paperback

Claudia Petrucci

The Performance translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel A love triangle played out through mutual manipulation ISBN 978 9 912987 31 3 • €17.99 • 320 pp • trade paperback

Stine Pilgaard

The Land of Short Sentences translated from the Danish by Hunter Simpson Where small talk is a big deal ISBN 978 9 912987 30 6 • €16.99 • 272 pp • trade paperback

Stine Pilgaard

My Mother Says translated from the Danish by Hunter Simpson When good advice is all you need ISBN 978 9 912987 40 5 • €19.99 • 160 pp • trade paperback

Pilar Quintana Abyss translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman “The storm was in my parents’ room.” ISBN 978 9 912987 40 5 • €19.99 • 224 pp • trade paperback

Pilar Quintana

The Bitch translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman In the jungle, dreams and nightmares coexist ISBN 978 9 912987 05 4 • £14.99 • 160 pp • trade paperback

Lucie Rico

Fowl Eulogies translated from the French by Daria Chernysheva

The all consuming desire to preserve ISBN 978 1 912987 42 9 • €19.99 • 240 pp • trade paperback

Jaap Robben

Biography of a Fly translated from the Dutch by David Doherty A beautifully illustrated book about friendship and life ISBN 978 1 912987 13 9 • €15.99 • 64 pp • trade paperback

Jaap Robben

Summer Brother

translated from the Dutch by David Doherty

An honest, tender account of brotherly love ISBN 978 1 912987 41 2 • €13.49 • 288 pp • trade paperback

Jaap Robben You Have Me to Love

translated from the Dutch by David Doherty

A disturbing take on mother and childhood ISBN 978 1 64286 001 6 • $14.49 • 248 pp • trade paperback

Tatiana de Rosnay

The Rain Watcher

English language original

From the bestselling author of Sarah’s Key “An emotional tour de force.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ISBN 978 1 64286 038 2 • €15.99 • 288 pp • trade paperback

Preeta Samarasan

Tale of the Dreamer’s Son

English language original from Malaysia Skin is thicker than blood ISBN 978 1 912987 39 9 • €21.99 • 496 pp • trade paperback

Marijke Schermer

Breakwater

translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters

A woman refusing to be defined by trauma ISBN 978 1 64286 125 9 • $16.99 • 192 pp • trade paperback ISBN 978 1 912987 50 4 • £13.99 • 192 pp • trade paperback

Marijke Schermer Love, If That’s What It Is translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans

A sharp and unsettling modern take on the meaning of it all ISBN 978 1 912987 27 6 • €20.99 • 312 pp • trade paperback

Carol Shields Happenstance

English language original

Two companion novels telling the Husband’s Story and the Wife’s Story ISBN 978 1 912987 21 4 • €14.99 • 552 pp • trade paperback

Carol Shields

Mary Swann

English language original

A novel about life, death, and the ideas that live on after us ISBN 978 1 912987 22 1 • €17.99 • 440 pp • trade paperback

Carol Shields The Republic of Love

English language original

A celebration of love in its many guises ISBN 978 1 912987 20 7 • €19.99 • 448 pp • trade paperback

Carol Shields

The Stone Diaries

English language original

A Pulitzer Prize winning novel of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life

ISBN 978 1 912987 19 1 • €8.99 • 392 pp • trade paperback

Charles den Tex Mr. Miller

translated from the Dutch by Nancy Forest Flier

The ultimate internet conspiracy thriller ISBN 978 1 64286 015 3 • €15.99 • 392 pp • trade paperback

Jan Vantoortelboom

His Name Is David translated from the Dutch by Vivien D. Glass

A beautifully atmospheric novel about love and tenderness during WWI ISBN 978 1 64286 012 2 • €16.99 • 240 pp • trade paperback

Annelies Verbeke

Thirty Days

translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters

A unique novel about love, outsiders and the need to connect ISBN 978 1 64286 005 4 • €14.99 • 352 pp • trade paperback

Bert Wagendorp

Ventoux

translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent

A feel good novel about friendship and cycling ISBN 978 1 64286 017 7 • €7.49 • 296 pp • trade paperback

Samar Yazbek

Planet of Clay

translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

An ode to fantasy and beauty in the midst of war torn Damascus ISBN 978 912987 23 8 • €22.99 • 320 pp • trade paperback

Juli Zeh

New Year

translated from the German by Alta L. Price

When a family vacation turns into a nightmare ISBN 978 912987 26 9 • €20.39 • 288 pp • trade paperback

Zhang Yueran

Cocoon

translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

A new generation comes to terms with China’s past ISBN 978 912987 28 3 • €23.99 • 328 pp • trade paperback

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