LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children ArchiveAward-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this "appealingly raw" (NPR) and "incisive" (Publishers Weekly) work of literary autofiction that explores the legacy of colonialism thr...

A ferocious, saber-toothed triptych of novels on sex, queerness, and womanhood—finally in conversation with one another in a single revelatory volume.Finally united in a single volume, these powerhouse novellas from the Catalan superstar Eva Baltasar tell three wild, delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood, and friendship. In prose that has the directness of a firearm and the fragility of a bird of prey on the wing, these int...

**"[A] vibrant and punchy novel . . . Through Falero’s lovable characters, readers will meditate on violence and respectability within the death-trap of runaway capitalism. Head-on against the grim indignities of an unequal world, Falero’s poetic novel embraces humor and empathy."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A modern picaresque novel and vivid satire on social mobility where the lives of two Brazilian supermarket stock clerks are upturned after their small-time m...

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, wr...

A punk revival of Medea as a meddling anti-angel of birth and death, from the International Booker Prize–nominated author of Reservoir Bitches.In the mythic but all-too-familiar country of Aztlán, the violence of the cartel and the military are ever-present and indistinguishable, and everyday people strive to survive in the cross fire. Enter Medea: a deity with punk-rock flair, equal parts midwife and gravedigger, ancient but never too old to be petty....

**Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by Colm Tóibín."An exquisite portrait of old Catalonia meeting its newer version, now nimbly translated by Julia Sanches."—Times Literary Supplement**Spring, 1974. After twelve y...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a relentlessly positive sister, and a society which imposes a gut-wrenching pressure to conform, she contemplates the so-called will to live when that life is given, rather than chosen. Attempting to bridge the gap between the perennially frozen...

Mammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work – all in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of socia...

'An intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent' Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive'Powerful and searing' Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser In an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre...

A dark and masterful portrait of a generation in crisis, from one of the most exciting young voices in international literatureThe world had been theirs in the late 90s: they were the young provocateurs behind a countercultural scene, digital bohemians creating a new future. But fifteen years later, Duke, the leader and undisputed genius of their group, has been murdered, and the three remaining members of their circle reunite to piece together what became of their...

In a Soviet-backed school in Lima, Peru, Indigenous children learn to sing in Russian, do traditional Andean dances and study the theories of Marx and the rules of chess. It's here that young Atusparia learns to dream of revolution.But when the Berlin wall comes down and the school lapses into chaos, she falls into an adolescent haze of sex and drugs. Her journey back towards her socialist ideals will take her to the heart of a feminist, Indigenous insurgency on the shores of Lake ...

From one of Brazil’s most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rio’s largest favela.Life on the morro, the hill, is good. Five young people—the brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biel—live close to Rocinha’s main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.But the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazil’s militarized police storm Rocinha as ...