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César Aira,
Five

Five , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together-each an astonishing work-Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical…

available from 30.6.2026.

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Ingeborg Bachmann,
Ingeborg Bachmann: The Complete Stories

Complete Stories spans three decades of work from one of the most important German-language writers of the last century. Each of these short stories, beautifully translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis,…

available from 29.9.2026.

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Ingeborg Bachmann,
The Honditsch Cross

Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation of Austria…

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Matsuo Basho,
The Narrow Road of Oku

In the spring of 1689, Basho set off from Tokyo on a now-famous pilgrimage: this epic walk, spanning about 1500 miles, took him to the deep north of Honshu, and then back along the island's western coast …

available from 23.6.2026.

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Caren Beilin
Sea, Poison

Cumin Beilin is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-this city of hospitals -who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To star…

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Hélène Bessette,
Lili Is Crying

A New YorkerBest Book of 2025Lili Is Crying , Hélène Bessette's debut novel, conveys with singular force the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother, Charlotte. Wit…

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Hélène Bessette,
Twenty Minutes of Silence

In an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man-a husband, father, and employer-has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during the w…

available from 16.6.2026.

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Jorge Luis Borges, James Irby,
Labyrinths

Since it was first published by New Directions in 1962, Labyrinths has transformed and enriched our collective imaginations, introduced new possibilities for literature, and astonished generation after ge…

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Kamau Brathwaite
Equinox

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and phot…

available from 14.7.2026.

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Kamau Brathwaite
The Arrivants

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivants -containing Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)-a brilliant and visionary exploration of t…

available from 14.7.2026.

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Anne Carson
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia…

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Paul Celan,
Conversation in the Mountains

"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens." So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes:…

available from 19.5.2026.

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline,
London

London centers on Ferdinand, the protagonist of Céline'sLondon who is a gravely injured WWI soldier with a severe wound to his ear and suffers from both vertigo and the endless noise he can't stop hearing…

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Inger Christensen,
Natalja's Stories

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories , modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron , takes an usual app…

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Inger Christensen,
The Painted Room

The Painted Room is a magnificent three-part short novel about the Italian Renaissance, and, specifically, the intrigue surrounding the frescoes that Mategna (1431-1506) made on the walls of a famous brid…

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Copi,
City of Rats

Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an-as spring blooms i…

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Julio Cortázar,
A Certain Lucas

A kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentrically interlocking pieces, by turns comic, philosophical, allusive, and always a pleasure to read. In short…

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Amparo Davila,
Behind the Gate

Written in sharp, impressionistic prose steeped in horror, Amparo Dávila's stories are tiny nightmares come to life. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who shows, sometimes in just a few pages, that…

available from 6.10.2026.

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Malén Denis,
Lithium

Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a pharmakon -both poison and remedy-inviting the reader…

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Marcia Douglas
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive , which continues Marcia Douglas' &qu…

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