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On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city's walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by first-hand accounts, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel has written an urgent novel, by turns funny and sad, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time.

An original and comic voice from contemporary Brazil - Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad.

An apocalyptic tale of queer sex, drugs and self-destruction in 1990s California, from the author of "Valencia", which was adapted into a film. Michelle heads from San Francisco to LA, desperate to quell her drug addiction, when it's announced that the world will end in one year.

A new novel from the Mexican author of "Signs Preceding The End Of The World" and "The Transmigration Of Bodies". Translated by Lisa Dillman, it will appeal to fans of Robert Bolano, Valeria Luiselli and Juan Pablo Villalobos.

An intriguing tale of a little Buddhist living in Korea who dreams of the western world. Aira's imagination shines through to combine tourism, surprise robotics and Korean temples. 'Surreal and intriguing... A drama that is as fun as it is mystifying' "The Guardian

A moving memoir of a son and his father brought closer together in the face of Alzheimer's. When Arno Geiger's father was diagnosed with the disease, he decided to get to know him, a man happy never to leave his village in the Austrian Alps. Almost a million copies have been sold internationally.

Mr and Mrs Malgas are going out about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears and convinces Mr Malgas to help him build an imaginary home next door.

Driving home, Paulo passes an indigenous girl at the side of the road. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's camp. From cocaine-fuelled rich kids and the Guarani Indians camped along Brazil's highways to a squatter's life in London, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for human connections and a home.

One of the great Argentinian writers now in English. Conti pits man against nature - and himself.

Happiness is Possible tells of a writer late delivering his novel, unable to write anything uplifting since his wife left. But something draws him into the Moscow lives around him, bringing together lonely neighbours, restoring lost love, and helping out with building renovations. And happiness seems determined to catch up with him as well...