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WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman Métis Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority. Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secre...

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE. "Breasts and Eggs took my breath away."-HARUKI MURAKAMI A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020 Vogue·Thrillist·The Millions· Literary Hub·Now Toronto·Metropolis Japan Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japa...

Key Selling Points Freelance publicist for reviews, interviews, influencers English debut of one of Italy's most innovative and critically acclaimed emerging voices. The author writes for television and film, fast-paced, evocative prose. Target Readership For readers of Donatella di Pietrantonio's A Girl Returned, Olga Tokarcuk's Drive Your Plough over the Bones of the Dead, Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, and the novels of Alina Bron...

TARGET CONSUMER For readers of Lily King's Writers and Lovers and Kristin Arnett's Mostly Dead Things, plus Ottessa Moshfegh, Sally Rooney Young female readers (in their twenties to thirties) KEY SELLING POINTS A wry and moving portrait of feeling lost and dealing with loss among millenials. Author is an award-winning Australian-Indian writer, journalist, and anthropologist. Accessible, humorous and heartbreakingly raw twenty-somethin...

In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus's final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles, ...

A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa, Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises, Astrid, whose beauty is her power, an...

Key Selling Points Book 1 in the series was a top ten Kids indie Next List Book "Your next YA obsession."-Entertainment Weekly "Readers will be dazzled!"-Publishers Weekly 5 starred reviews International bestseller and English-language debut TV series in production Target Readership literary, sci-fi, fantasy YA-Adult crossover Readers of the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, The "Broken Earth" Series b...

The first in a new noir series set in contemporary Naples, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. From the author of the Commissario Ricciardi series.

Un cavaliere scende dalle montagne, attraversa il deserto. Nessuno sa chi sia né da dove venga. Ha con sé un fagotto urlante, un neonato in fasce i cui strilli gli perforano il cranio da giorni. Senza dire una parola il cavaliere entra nel villaggio dei Djimba, smonta, posa a terra il rumoroso fardello e se ne va tra gli sguardi attoniti degli abitanti. Nessuno sa se considerare una fortuna o una disgrazia quell'esserino mandato dagli dei. Nel...

From one of Japan's rising literary stars, two mesmerizing novellas told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity about memory, loss, and love. Touring the Land of the Dead tells the story of Taichi, who was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then he and his wife Natsuko have been getting by on her part-time wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship. When her own family's fortune dried up for years...

Inspired by true events during World War II, Lia Levi's prize-winning novel of loss, despair, and courage tells the tragic history of mid-century Europe through the eyes and lives of ordinary people. "An intense, moving book that tells the story of stories: what happens when Fascism befalls a country."-Esquire (Italy) 1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to deal with the influx of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. Good intenti...

Key Selling Points Winner of the Le Monde Literary Prize Prize-winning fiction by French wunderkind Coulon published her first novel at age 16 and won the France Culture and Nouvel Observateur "mauvais genre" prize at age 22. By 26, she had published her 8th book and 6th novel English language debut A bestseller in France Target Readership Readers of literary fiction, French fiction, family drama, serious fiction focusing on female ch...

From the acclaimed author of THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE - "a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience" (The New Yorker). Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother-a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna-moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how th...

An exquisitely readable, polyphonic novel of domestic drama and human connection set in and around a concentration camp in Germany during the second world war and its aftermath. Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all-right on their doorstep-are some of the finest craftsmen from...

TARGET CONSUMER Fans of Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs Readers of the best contemporary Japanese fiction: Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Yoko Tawada, etc. The stories of working-class women are often at the center of Kawakami's novels, as such she is also reminiscent of authors like Lucia Berlin, Stepheni Danler (Sweetbitter), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joy Williams, George Saunders Blurbs solicited from Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Hisayo Buchan...

Key Selling Points Altan was arrested in September 2016 and is still imprisoned. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities, and a central figure in the Turkish cultural world (Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk has written about his arrest and signed an open letter calling for his release), Op-eds published in the Washington Post (May 2020), New York Times (February 2018) Turkey's present portrayed through the lens of its turbulent rece...

A novel about the remarkable people living on the edge of freedom and slavery, All God's Children brings to life the paradoxes of the American frontier - a place of liberty and bondage, wild equality, and cruel injustice. In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live - and love - as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Vir...

Key Selling Points Author is an internationally bestselling author of suspenseful literary Noir Les Misérables meets action thriller Balzacian panorama of the Paris Commune Target Readership Readers of literary mysteries and historical thrillers, the novels of Andrew Miller and Hilary Mantel

A small masterpiece of compression and containment, Peace Talks tells the story of one man's grief, the tribulations of the human heart, and our longing for peace. Edvard Behrends is a highly regarded senior diplomat who has made his reputation as a mediator in international peace negotiations. In his latest post, he has been sent to a resort hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear. When he isn't working, Edva...

Key Selling PointsA darker Downton Abbey set in the 1950sAtmospheric, suspenseful, immersive, and grippingBookseller fans and readers of classic Europa fair like Jane Gardam, Andrew Miller, Beryl Bainbridge, Patrick HamiltonTarget ReadershipReaders of literary fiction, general fiction, British fiction, book club fiction, family dramaReaders of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, especially The Remains of the Day, Helen Dunmore, Kate Atkinson's Todd Fa...