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The novel centres on 2017's 'Candlelight Revolution', which culminated in the impeachmentof South Korea's first-ever female president, to examine how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorties, invisibilised in service of the 'greater cause'.

A collection of twenty vivid, hilarious, and often unsettling stories that follow the misfortunes and misadventures of a cast of tragicomic characters striving to hold on to their cultural values while struggling to embrace the seemingly unstoppable advance of capitalism and globalization.

Miyah poetry is a literary movement of protest poetry by Bengali-Muslims living in the chars (low-lying islands prone to floods and erosion) of Assam. 20+ poets document stories of love, loss, and injustice, celebrating contemporary lives beyond mere victimisation, while also protesting bigotry, xenophobia, and social exclusion.

Written as a literary experiment while its author was simultaneously translating the poems of Armenian writer Shushanik Kurghinian into English. What is historical, what is imagined? A poetic reflection on authorship, *A Book, Untitled *represents a new and bold approach to autofiction.

The first collection of Swahili fiction in English translation, No Edges introduces eight East African writers from Tanzania and Kenya. Through language bursting with rhythm and vivid Africanfuturist visions, these writers summon the boundless future into being.

What are the ways in which we can disentangle literary translation from its roots in imperial violence? 21 writers and translators from across the world share their ideas and practices for disrupting and decolonising translation.

Monique Ilboudo's novel offers a compelling portrait of migration, one of the defining global concerns of the 21st century, and a sharp critique of both the NGO-isation of African countries. Yarri Kamara has rendered Ilboudo's original French text in a West African English idiom that conveys the sharp humour and urgency of the original.

Dalit feminist stories of a south Indian village that dissolve the borders of realism, allegory and political fable.

An unfinished love story, humorous and haunting, of diasporic lives in Vietnam and France. Interspersed with extracts from I'm Yellow, the narrator's book-length monologue is an attempt, at once desperate, ironic, and self-deprecating, to come to terms with the passions that haunts her.

A fresh and unique debut novel by the bestselling young star of Korean queer fiction about queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and the socio-economic class divide in contemporary South Korea.

A blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve stories that queer the norm. A powerful puff of fresh air, the stories talk to each other as pieces of a larger whole, but with crucial facts - the saddest ones, the happiest ones - omitted, forgotten, unbearable.

A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas, but instead witnesses the full scale of the epic's wrath on his life.

A memoir by journalist Ito Shiori, recounting her rape by one of Japan's best-known TV journalists, making the experience public in a country where few do, and her struggle for justice for victims of sexual assault and rape in Japan.

A long poem accompanied by the author's own 'rainforest gothic' artwork, this is a contemporary, feminist take on a Heart of Darkness-esque tale of an upriver journey through a landscape scarred by ecological destruction, and a culture scarred by historical greed.

Translated by Donald Rayfield, this beautiful title brings together the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan - a world of poetry recitals, polo matches and a culturally diverse Islam that has rarely been portrayed in Western literature.

One Hundred Shadows is an oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul earmarked for demolition.

A sensual, surrealist collection by a young feminist poet, in an equally sensuous and sensitive queer translation. Lee Hyemi's poetry is characterized by fluidity and wetness, with subjects moving about and soaking in each other through curious means.

No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai. Jayant Kaikini seeks out and illuminates moments of existential anxiety and of tenderness. In these sixteen stories, cracks in the curtains of the ordinary open up to possibilities that might not have existed

A whimsical and unsettling novel by one of China's most acclaimed young writers. In the fictional Chinese town of Yong'an, human beings live alongside spirits and monsters, some of which are almost indistinguishable from people. Told in the form of a bestiary, each chapter of Strange Beasts from China introduces us to new creatures.