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2008 · Historical Fiction, MysteryThe Sealed Letter
Based on the real-life 1864 Codrington divorce scandal in Victorian England, the novel follows pioneering feminist and press founder Emily 'Fido' Faithfull as she is drawn into the marital collapse of her glamorous friend Helen. When the separation escalates into explosive courtroom accusations of adultery, Fido finds her loyalties tested and her own reputation imperiled by a confidential letter.
2017 · Literary Fiction, Feminist FictionWhen I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Following a whirlwind courtship, an outspoken young Indian writer moves to coastal Mangalore with her university professor husband, only to be subjected to escalating emotional manipulation, surveillance, and marital violence. Clinging to her craft as a clandestine lifeline of resistance, she deconstructs the mechanisms of patriarchal abuse and reclaims her artistic agency through language.
1998 · Philosophical fiction, NovelIdentity
L'IdentitéIn this brief philosophical novel set in contemporary France, lovers Chantal and Jean-Marc find their deep intimacy unsettled after Chantal laments that men no longer turn to look at her. In response, Jean-Marc begins sending her anonymous love letters in an affectionate gesture that spirals into mutual jealousy, paranoia, and a fragile blur between reality and illusion.
2013 · Biography, History, NonfictionGandhi Before India
Historian Ramachandra Guha reconstructs the foundational early decades of Mohandas Gandhi, tracing his upbringing in Gujarat, legal education in London, and formative two-decade residency in South Africa. The volume reveals how his encounters with systemic racial discrimination abroad led him to forge the philosophy of nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha.
2002 · PoetryEl azul en la flama
In this landmark collection dedicated to José Gorostiza, Mexican poet David Huerta departs from baroque verbal excess to construct a luminous and contemplative geography of everyday perceptions. Through disciplined meditation on light, memory, and the physical senses, the poems explore the fragile yet enduring essence of language and existence.
2017 · Literary FictionThe Imperial City is Like the Sea
王城如海Set against the smog-blanketed sprawl of contemporary Beijing, returned avant-garde theater director Yu Songpo sparks a public firestorm with his provocative new play, The Urban Revelation. When an estranged street wanderer and the family of his domestic worker cross his path, an old secret from a past medical misdiagnosis resurfaces, threatening to unravel his household. Xu Zechen crafts a nuanced panoramic inquiry into urban alienation, hidden guilt, and moral responsibility across social classes in modern China.
2001 · Historical fiction, AdventureBrazil Red
Rouge BrésilSet during the 1555 expedition led by Villegagnon to establish a French colony in Guanabara Bay, the novel follows two orphaned French children, Just and Colombe, taken along to serve as interpreters among the Tupinambá. Amid brutal religious strife between Catholic and Calvinist settlers, the children embark on divergent journeys of cultural immersion in the New World.
2013 · Young adult fiction, Sports fictionQueen of the Diving Tower
Königin des SprungturmsTwo inseparable adolescent girls train side by side as competitive high-divers until the immensely gifted Karla abruptly develops a crippling psychological block on the ten-meter platform. As coaches apply pressure and rivalries flare, their deep bond is tested by the harsh emotional realities of perfectionism, envy, and growing up.
1997 · History, MaritimeH.M. Bark Endeavour: Her Place in Australian History
Representing over a quarter-century of meticulous archival and nautical research, seaman and artist Ray Parkin delivers a comprehensive anatomical and historical reconstruction of Captain James Cook's famed exploration vessel. Blending technical architectural plans and rigging diagrams with a composite voyage log from on-board journals, the landmark study chronicles the ship's 1770 eastern Australian passage in exhaustive detail.
2011 · Fiction, Short StoriesOblique Pines
کاجهای موربSet against the desolate desert landscapes and remote railway outposts of southern Iran, this collection of atmospheric noir stories explores the lives of soldiers, laborers, and wanderers caught in cycles of poverty and isolation. Through tense character studies and shifting temporal perspectives, Ali Changizi examines human vulnerability and moral compromise on the margins of modern Iranian society.
2009 · Urban Fantasy, MysteryDead and Gone
As telepathic Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse copes with werewolves and shapeshifters publicly revealing their existence to humanity, a brutal hate crime against a were-panther ignites simmering tensions in Bon Temps. Concurrently drawn into dangerous political infighting among the vampire hierarchy and an impending fae conflict, she must uncover a ruthless killer before whole communities are torn apart.
2024 · Speculative fiction, Literary fictionSympathy Tower Tokyo
東京都同情塔In an alternate, near-future Tokyo, an architect is tasked with designing a luxury high-rise rehabilitation tower within the Shinjuku Gyoen gardens intended for criminal offenders deemed deserving of public sympathy. As she works, she grapples with linguistic distortions in societal discourse, the limits of state empathy, and her own anxieties around evolving artificial intelligence.
2017 · Southern Gothic, Literary fictionSing, Unburied, Sing
A thirteen-year-old boy travelling across rural Mississippi with his mother and toddler sister embarks on a fraught road trip to pick up his white father upon release from the state penitentiary. Guided by visceral family memories and pursued by restless spirits of historical racial trauma, the journey exposes the living and dead to mutual reckoning.
2005 · Poetic prose, Literary fictionIn the Silence of Life
Hayatın SessizliğindeBlurring the lines between memoir, poetry, and lyrical prose, this meditative collection reflects on bodily fragility, exile, and existential solitude. Written between the Aegean island of Rhodes and the Atlantic coast, the evocative texts probe how language and silence confront trauma and mortality.
2006 · Literary Fiction, ThrillerYour Republic Is Calling You
빛의 제국A dormant North Korean sleeper agent who has spent two decades building a comfortable bourgeois life in Seoul as a film importer receives an encrypted morning summons ordering him to liquidate his identity and return north within twenty-four hours. Over the course of a single frantic day, he reflects on compromised loyalties, family secrets, and the elusive nature of freedom.
2004 · Coming-of-Age FictionNighttime Picnic
夜のピクニックDuring their high school's grueling annual tradition of an overnight eighty-kilometer walk, a group of graduating teenagers navigate unspoken family secrets, budding romances, and quiet reckonings with adulthood.
2002 · Short Stories, Contemporary FictionMoving Parts
ส่วนที่เคลื่อนไหวAnchored around eleven human body parts, this surreal and darkly humorous collection captures the absurdity and alienation of modern Bangkok. Through quirky encounters, unexpected romances, and existential detours, Prabda Yoon dissects the physical and emotional disconnections of urban life at the turn of the millennium.
2018 · Historical Fiction, Historical SagaNorthward
北上Interweaving a 1901 voyage along the Grand Canal by an Italian explorer with a modern-day documentary quest, this multi-generational epic chronicles the cultural memory, industrial shifts, and interconnected lives sustained along China's historic waterway.
2013 · Dystopian Fiction, SatireWolves and Bears
Волки и медведиIn a fractured post-cataclysmic Saint Petersburg carved into rival territories ruled by warlords and secret police, a resourceful operative with uncanny intuition is dispatched across dangerous sector borders on a hazardous political mission.
1999 · Historical FictionEl seductor de la patria
Returning to Mexico in his twilight years after decades of bitter exile, former dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna pens his memoirs in a satirical, self-justifying attempt to vindicate his disastrous reign and manipulate his historical legacy.
2016 · Literary Fiction, Humor, MysteryI Am a Truck
In rural New Brunswick, Agathe Lapointe and her husband Réjean approach their twentieth wedding anniversary. One rainy morning Réjean heads out in his Chevy Silverado and does not come back. The truck is found abandoned on the roadside with the driver door open. As the police investigation stalls, Agathe takes up rock music and forms new friendships, while Réjean's whereabouts and the reasons for his disappearance slowly come to light.
2023 · Literary Fiction, Family SagaMountain Mirror
山鏡Following the death of an enterprising Hakka man who spent decades deeply intertwined with indigenous communities in Hsinchu's mountainous Wufeng Township, his family and tribal companions embark on a commemorative journey. Through shifting perspectives among his indigenous wife, daughter, and friends, the novel explores land displacement, communal memory, and intercultural coexistence across contemporary Taiwan.
2015 · Poetry, Prose PoetryTo Feed the Stone
Nakarmić kamieńThrough a striking cycle of minimalist prose poems narrated from a child's intense, defamiliarized perspective, this debut collection examines the tactile relationships between living beings and inanimate household objects. Interrogating adult rationales, grief, and mortality, the poems invest everyday matter with profound emotional resonance.
2022 · Dystopian, Climate Fiction, Literary FictionHeat Islands
Islas de calorSet in a near-future Santiago gripped by catastrophic climate collapse and daytime heat curfews, four interconnected stories trace urban dwellers navigating sweltering domestic spaces and burning hillsides. As ecological ruin blurs into emotional exhaustion, characters confront intimate fractures, survival instincts, and quiet moments of human connection.
2015 · Literary Fiction, Historical FictionThe Stolen Bicycle
單車失竊記Twenty years after his father mysteriously vanished along with his prized bicycle, a Taiwanese novelist sets out to trace the lost heirloom through the antique bicycle trade. His search opens a rich portal into 20th-century Taiwanese history, weaving together wartime elephant handlers, bicycle infantry in Southeast Asia, and forgotten family grief.
2018 · PoetryThe History of Intimacy
Reflecting on personal grief, social history, and the tender aftermath of apartheid in South Africa, this lyrical poetry collection captures quiet domestic intimacies and the fragile bonds of kinship.
2020 · Historical Fiction, Family Saga, Literary FictionBefore Us
Prima di noiBeginning in the chaos of the Caporetto retreat in 1917, when army deserter Maurizio Sartori encounters Nadia in a Friulian farmhouse, this epic generational saga chronicles nearly a century of Italian history through four generations of the Sartori family. Moving from rural northern Italy to postwar industrial Milan, the family confronts the ravages of two world wars, political extremism, social upheavals, and the burden of inherited guilt and silence, culminating in 2012 when their descendant seeks reconciliation with their collective past.
1996 · Romantic Comedy, Humor, Epistolary FictionBridget Jones's Diary
Written in an intimate, candid diary format, this satirical comedy follows thirty-something Londoner Bridget Jones through a year of romantic misadventures, career blunders, and earnest self-improvement resolutions while caught between two very different men.
2019 · Historical Fiction, Biographical FictionFardeqan: The Detention of the Great Sheikh
فردقانConfined within the remote Persian fortress of Fardeqan in the early eleventh century, the renowned polymath, philosopher, and physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna) reflects upon the turbulent political rivalries, personal romances, and relentless quest for knowledge that shaped his life. While in captivity amidst shifting regional conflicts, he channels his solitude into composing seminal philosophical treatises that would profoundly influence human civilization.
2015 · PoetryThe Fingerprint Reader
Czytnik linii papilarnychIn this collection of thirty concise lyric poems, renowned Polish poet Ewa Lipska explores technological alienation, memory, and existential vulnerability in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.
1996 · Non-fiction, Political Science, HistoryThe Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis
In this impassioned critique of military dictatorship, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka analyzes the annulment of Nigeria's 1993 democratic elections and the brutal regime of General Sani Abacha. Drawing on his experience in exile following the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Soyinka challenges conventional ideas of nationhood and sovereignty in post-colonial Africa while calling for international accountability.
1999 · Literary FictionHow Long Is Forever?
永远有多远Set across several turbulent decades in a traditional Beijing courtyard neighborhood, Tie Ning's acclaimed novella follows Bai Dasheng, a woman whose boundless goodwill, sincerity, and self-effacing generosity remain steadfast despite being repeatedly exploited by family, lovers, and friends. As China transforms from the Cultural Revolution into the market-driven era of the 1990s, her unyielding decency stands in stark, poignant contrast to the shifting moral landscape and consumerist pressures of a rapidly modernizing society.
2009 · Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary FictionSandy Mountain
Piaskowa GóraLiving in a massive housing project in the southwestern Polish city of Wałbrzych, three generations of women navigate the realities of life under communism and the turbulent transition to capitalism. The narrative centers on a young woman growing up under the shadow of family secrets, provincial gossip, and national historical trauma.
2015 · Fiction, Literary Fiction, PhilosophyThe Wooden People
Il popolo di legnoIn a mythical, lawless pocket of Calabria, an enigmatic speaker known as the Rat hosts an eccentric radio show on a pirate station run by local criminal elements. Addressing an audience he christens the wooden people, he delivers anarchic sermons satirizing humanity's delusions of moral progress and redemption.
1996 · Literary FictionA Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog
Стрекоза, увеличенная до размеров собакиIn a provincial Ural city during the post-Soviet transition, an overbearing former teacher and her adult daughter live trapped in an isolated, claustrophobic domestic world devoid of men. Bound by toxic codependency, repressed resentment, and relentless mutual surveillance, their daily routines and petty grievances are distorted through an obsessive psychological lens, magnifying ordinary life into something grotesque and monstrous.
2007 · Literary FictionThe Armies
Los ejércitosIn the Colombian mountain town of San José, retired teacher Ismael Pasos spends quiet afternoons peering over his neighbor's garden wall. When rival armed factions invade and residents flee or disappear, Ismael refuses to leave, wandering the devastated town in search of his wife Otilia.
2017 · Short Stories, FictionLet’s Go Back Tonight
همین امشب برگردیمIn this Ahmad Mahmoud Award-winning collection of five short stories, Peyman Esmaeili explores the unsettling psychological terrain of migration, alienation, and modern displacement. From the oppressive claustrophobia of subway tunnels to the unfamiliar landscapes of Australia, ordinary characters find their safe boundaries shattered by primal fear, moral reckoning, and the disquieting sense of being strangers to both their surroundings and themselves.
1999 · Literary Fiction, Domestic DramaFasting, Feasting
Divided between two continents, Anita Desai's novel contrasts the constrained existence of Uma, an unmarried daughter bound to her overbearing parents' household in provincial India, with the emotional isolation of her privileged brother Arun during a summer stay with an American suburban family in Massachusetts. Through the everyday rituals of meals, duty, and quiet domestic restrictions, the story examines gender expectations and the subtle forms of hunger that persist across very different worlds.
2014 · Political Satire, Literary FictionA World History of Second Sons
차남들의 세계사In 1982 South Korea, ordinary taxi driver Na Bok-man finds himself inadvertently ensnared in the aftermath of the Busan American Cultural Center arson. Targeted by authoritarian state security forces who need a scapegoat, he is arrested and pressured into a fabricated espionage confession. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence under Chun Doo-hwan's military dictatorship, his struggle spirals into an absurd, heartbreaking collision between an ordinary citizen and state violence.
2017 · Short Story Collection, Literary FictionThe Refugees
Eight stories depict the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their families across California and Vietnam as they navigate displacement, memory, and longing.
2005 · Short Story Collection, Horror FictionBlack Magic Woman
Sihir PerempuanIn this striking collection of dark feminist tales, Intan Paramaditha reimagines Indonesian folklore, gothic horror, and urban myths through the eyes of unruly women. Moving beyond traditional roles of dutiful daughters, mothers, or subservient office workers, these characters confront and unleash uncanny terrors—from vengeful ghosts and vampires to bodily horror and blood pacts—reclaiming their autonomy within a patriarchal society.
1996 · Literary Fiction, Coming-of-Age FictionEn voz baja
In Santiago during the shadow of military dictatorship, adolescent Amanda observes the secrecy and quiet tension that fractures her household after her father's imprisonment and exile as a political dissident. As she comes of age surrounded by hushed conversations, she gradually deciphers the unspoken traumas and boundaries defining her family's everyday survival.
2021 · Literary Fiction, RomanceOpen Water
In South East London, an unnamed photographer and a dancer meet at a pub and quickly become friends. Both attended private schools on scholarships where they felt out of place, and both are trying to make a living through art. Their friendship gradually becomes a romance rooted in music, conversation, and mutual trust. When constant police scrutiny and personal grief weigh on the photographer, he withdraws into isolation. That silence threatens to undo the bond they built.
2021 · PoetrySendero de suicidas
Awarded the 2021 Premio Bellas Artes de Poesía Aguascalientes, this collection gathers poetic meditations on mortality arranged around methods of departure, engaging in an intimate, choral dialogue with writers and poets throughout history who took their own lives.
2025 · Biographical Essay, Literary Nonfiction¡Milagro! Un retrato de Violeta Quevedo
In this biographical essay, Gonzalo Maier examines the eccentric life and singular literary voice of Chilean author Violeta Quevedo (Rita Salas Subercaseaux). Drawing on archival materials, forgotten chronicles, and period anecdotes, Maier traces how a devoutly Catholic, hypochondriacal aristocrat navigated Santiago's collision with modernity, while reflecting on the arbitrary nature of literary canons and the oddity of writing outside conventional forms.
2001 · Drama, PlayThe Sisters
In the wake of the sudden death of Nigeria's long-serving president, three sisters—Taiwo, Funmi, and Toun—along with their devoted companion Nana, gather in the presidential villa to observe mourning rituals before the state funeral. Funmi, the grieving First Lady, is besieged by secret revelations and phone calls from women claiming to have borne the late president's children. Taiwo, wheelchair-bound from an attack that saw her own husband executed as a coup plotter by the president's regime, harbors deep bitterness and refuses to participate in false piety. As personal resentments and hidden hypocrisies unravel within the villa's walls, the sisters' intense clashes lay bare the transience of political power, the decay of the ruling elite, and the painful truths underlying family bonds.
2018 · Historical FictionFrom the Land of Light
Işık ÜlkesindenFollowing the collapse of Ottoman rule in the Balkans, the Bayraktar family migrates to Anatolia during the founding years of the Turkish Republic. The novel traces an educated woman navigating shifting social customs, family tensions between tradition and reform, and the practical challenges of starting over in a new state.
2020 · Literary Fiction, MysteryShame and Fate
Aib dan NasibFirst Prize winner of the 2019 Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition, this mosaic novel depicts the turbulent social undercurrents of an Indramayu village in West Java. Shifting across episodic viewpoints, Minanto explores how patriarchal violence, poverty, and generational scandals weave collective shame with personal fate.
1996 · Psychological Fiction, SurrealismThe Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra
همنوایی شبانه ارکستر چوبهاYadollah is an Iranian musician and writer living in an attic room in a Parisian boarding house with other Iranian exiles and French tenants. Suffering from chronic insomnia and memory loss, he spends his nights painting and reconstructing his past in Tehran while preparing for what he believes is his trial after death.
2009 · Essays, Philosophy, NonfictionThe Intimate Life of Lighters: Animism in Ultra-Modern Society
La vida íntima de los encendedores: Animismo en la sociedad ultramodernaWinner of the Málaga Essay Prize, this witty philosophical inquiry takes the everyday pocket lighter as a lens to examine how animist thinking endures in the technological age. Mexican author Ignacio Padilla argues that humans persistently attribute capricious intent and soul to inanimate objects to soften modern existential alienation.