Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Not A River is the finest expression yet of Selva Almada’s compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina
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In a series of thirteen interconnected stories, Urszula Honek encapsulates the tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people in the Beskid Niski region
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An extract from Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
Hwang Sok-yong’s epic, multi-generational tale threads together a century of Korean history, from the Japanese colonial era, through Liberation, right up to the twenty-first century
In Itamar Vieira Junior’s fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, an act of shuddering violence binds two sisters together forever
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An extract from What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
What I’d Rather Not Think About is Jente Posthuma’s deeply moving exploration of grief, told through brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour
Gabriela Wiener’s provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s family ties to both colonised and coloniser
In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare issues a meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers
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An extract from The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
Narrated against the vivid backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, Domenico Starnone’s The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature
In The Silver Bone, Andrey Kurkov takes inspiration from the real-life archives of crime enforcement agencies in Kyiv, crafting a propulsive narrative that bursts to life with rich historical detail
Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity