**Nebula Award Nominee****Hugo Award Nominee** *Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group guide, and teaser for Wearing the Lion!* “This unusual queer romance is a heartfelt fable about disability and...

Early in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in...

Winner of the 2003 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALThe nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He...

An NYRB Classics OriginalBasti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and...

This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte’s legendary work The Skin. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising...

In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand...

A woman's perspective on the life of Anthony Trollope reveals the family dynamics that shaped his growth and draws from Trollope's work to show how the writer truly felt about topics ranging from democracy to crinolines. 15,000 first printing. BOMC Alt.

Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall—where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl—and he's determined to leave the sins of his past...

A most anticipated novel of 2025 in the Guardian, Financial Times, Irish Times, New Statesman, Independent, Sunday Times, and Stylist"One of the finest writers at work today." ANNE ENRIGHT"Her prose is as haunting and moving as music." ELIZABETH...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALCOTT PRIZE 'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment - there's no better contemporary writer of forms such as the triolet - and in the wit, acuity and seriousness of purpose with which she shows...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY"Remarkable, lucid, austerely honest."--The New YorkerElena Ferrante's shattering English-language debut remains an unforgettable reading experience for her die-hard readers and a thorny pleasure still to be...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEFrom the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history"Stunning... Every line is a jewel."--Lea Carpenter, New York TimesShlomo Libowitz and...

From one our most singular and dazzling writers, and the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright's The Gathering is a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Gathering...

Five female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora. There are "hypnotic, long beards" tangled with mass extinctions; hateful men burning grapevines; black...

From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito ★ "Starnone's sensitivity, nuance, and subtlety are wonderful to behold."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Domenico Starnone's The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old...

Acclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza masterfully portrays the messiness of family, where affection and resentment intertwine and the weight of a shared past looms large. When adult siblings Serge, Jean, and Nana embark on an unexpected road...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister. "I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck." -- Patti Smith, author of Just Kids and M Train From Betsy Lerner, celebrated...

WINNER of the Philip K. Dick Award for BEST Science FictionIn a near and mildly dystopic future, Francine has finally been freed from years of undiagnosed pain--a recent surgery has provided relief. Her subversive "Theory of Bastards," which has unseated...

"From the inimitable Rabih Alameddine-National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award-comes a tragicomic saga set in Lebanon, a modern story of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. Across his oeuvre,...