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Type: Book
Date: 06 Sep 2018

Frankenstein in Baghdad

In this dark satire, Ahmed Saadawi creates a monster that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, then from anyone in its path

Type: Book
Date: 31 May 2018

The World Goes On

László Krasznahorkai’s collection of 21 stories, each about ‘speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought’

Type: Book
Date: 22 Mar 2018

Vernon Subutex 1

An audacious and compelling social satire from Virginie Despentes, which casts a penetrating light on the dark underbelly of modern urban life

Type: Book
Date: 05 Apr 2018

The White Book

Hang Kan investigates the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life in a contemplation of memory, loss and the lives that leave this world before us

Type: Book
Date: 14 Nov 2019

The Eighth Life

Tumbling down the years, great characters and greater relationships come and go, in Nino Haratischvili’s compelling epic family drama

Type: Book
Date: 03 Jan 2019

Jokes for the Gunmen

An unexpectedly brilliant collection of short fiction from Mazen Maarof, a fresh voice in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel

Type: Book
Date: 06 Jun 2019

Four Soldiers

Hubert Mingarelli’s short, beautiful novel about friendship and the fragments of happiness that illuminate the darkness

Type: Book
Date: 17 Sep 2020

Serotonin

Michel Houellebecq’s devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, which is also a powerful indictment of modern life

Type: Book
Date: 20 Jun 2018

The Years

Autobiography is given a new form, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective, in Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s genre-bending masterpiece

Type: Book
Date: 01 Sep 2020

The Enlightenment of The Greengage Tree

Shokoofeh Azar weaves a timely and timeless story that juxtaposes the beauty of an ancient, vibrant culture with the brutality of an oppressive regime