By the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is BeneathEdgar Wilson has a gruesome job, one he is entirely unsentimental about—he cleans up roadkill in rural Brazil. But one day vultures are circling in the woods, and he can’t not go see what they’re gathering for. What transpires is a quest—a miserable day-long journey—for a couple of poor working men who only want to acknowledge that everybody (and in this case, every literal bo...

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED 2026On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with r...

**SHORTLISTED 2014 – Scotiabank Giller PrizeFrom internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 Canada, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril.**

The latest from Booker International Finalist Ana Paula Maia.A strange virus has forced people to stay confined to their homes, but Edgar Wilson can't abandon his job: dead animals along the roadside are piling up, and it's his duty to collect them. Nothing is as it used to be — the atmosphere grows stranger by the day, as do the routes Edgar Wilson knows so well. Until one day he crosses paths again with Bronco Gil and the former priest Tomás, and a devastating tr...

In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that his includes a prediction, albeit a weak one, that he will die in his tenth year of marriage.Despite the ominous horoscope, Sivakami’s parents hesitate only briefly, won over by the youn...

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder ...

What does Brazilian literature mean to you? Football and favelas, carnival and caipirinhas? Or perhaps, past these clichés, a multifarious literary landscape comes into view?Spanning 150 years of Brazilian history, these stories are a thrilling cross-section of a diverse short story culture. Ranging from luscious avant-garde writing by Clarice Lispector to realist wit by Machado de Assis, The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories takes in wild humour, heartbreaking drama...

**“A brilliant tour de force.”—India TodayA modern classic—a sweeping, luminous saga of love, loss, caste, and resilience in pre-Independence India.**When ten-year-old Sivakami is married to a much older astrologer, her fate is sealed by tradition. By eighteen, she is widowed--her head is shaved and, according to Brahmin custom, she cannot touch or be touched, even by her young children, from dawn to dusk. But Sivakami refuses to vanish into ritual seclusion. With ...

Two women, living in America’s heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose.P is on deadline. She should be translating. Instead, she’s writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. A literary translator in Arkansas (of all places), she’s married to Mac, a professional feminist too slick for his own good. As the COVID lockdown commences, P discovers a secret about her husband, one that upends her understa...

Two women, living in America’s heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose.P is on deadline. She should be translating. Instead, she’s writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. A literary translator in Arkansas (of all places), she’s married to Mac, a professional feminist too slick for his own good. As the COVID lockdown commences, P discovers a secret about her husband, one that upends her understa...

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person-all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story.Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after ...

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in BrazilIn a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of “speaking place.” A crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil, speaking place is the idea that eve...