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A haunting series of connected stories concerning the tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people in a village in Poland’s Beskid Mountains

Set against the vivid backdrop of 1960s Naples, The House on Via Gemito is the story of a would-be great artist whose talent is thwarted by the demands of family life

In modern-day Caracas, a part-time teacher is tasked with turning a great family home into a shelter for the dogs left behind by the elites who have fled the city

A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s ties to both colonised and coloniser

A funny, sharp, wonderfully readable novel that takes us to the heart of an obsessive, unpredictable Italian family

A deeply moving exploration of grief, told in short, precise vignettes, which asks the question: what if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live?

A crime mystery with magical elements, set in 1919 Kyiv during a time of chaos, shifts of power and random violence, shot through with Kurkov’s sense of irony and the absurd

A devastating story of the path of two lovers – a man in his fifties and a 19-year-old woman –through the ruins of a relationship, set against the tumult of East Berlin in the 1980s

Ismail Kadare’s novel is a fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and the relationship between writers and tyranny 

In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human