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A moody and beautiful reflection on relationships, and how our idea of the world too often fails to match reality, "All My Friends" delivers five stories that probe the boundaries between individuals to mediate on how well we really know anybody, including ourselves. Written in hypnotic prose with characters both fully fleshed and unfathomable, "All My Friends" opens with the fraught love story of a man who has fallen for his housekeeper, his student of many years ago. Losing his grip as he feels his own family turning against him, he plots romance between the housekeeper and an old friend, whom he thinks is perfect for her. Later NDiaye gives us the harsh tale of a young boy longing to escape his life of poverty by becoming a sex slave--just like the beautiful young man that lived next door. And when a woman takes her mentally challenged son on a bus ride to the city, they both know that she'll return, but he won't. Chilling, provocative, and touching, this is an unflinching look at the personal horrors we fight every day to suppress--but in "All My Friends" they're allowed to roam free.

Translation of: O quieto animal da esquina.

"Explores the quality of human resilience through the adventures of Kampol Changsamran, a young boy left behind by his parents after their break-up"--

In 2015, on the night following a terrorist massacring eighty-three tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a complicated love letter to her homeland, Tunisia, which she feels she must leave forever. She also writes of her personal tragedies-the deaths of her father, a quiet man, and of another lifelong friend, who just weeks ago died at sea, having forsaken the writing that had given his life meaning. Part of a trilogy on the history of Tunisia's Jewish community, Fellous's story nods to Proust and encompasses a multitude of colorful portraits, sweeping readers onto a lyrical journey from Tunisia to Paris to a Flaubertian village in Normandy, full of the voices of loved ones now silent.

A road novel that follows a solitary man as he sets off on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.

For fans of Mariana Enriquez and Fernanda Melchor, Layla Martinez's debut novel with its grisly, mystical vision of justice for an unjust world, announces a terrifying new voice in international horror.

"A collection of Latin American horror short stories in translation"--

"At a time when she'd rather be making her own way in the world, an unnamed young woman finds herself instead moving to a small town at the seaside to care for her uncle"--

"This special 10th-anniversary hardcover edition of Marie NDiaye's genre-defying classic restores photographs that appeared in the original French edition alongside Jordan Stump's dazzling translation, revealing in English, at last, the complete vision of NDiaye's influential masterpiece"--

"An exploration of the true meaning of 'home,' this short story collection comprises nine vignettes about the lives of four friends who share a small apartment on the outskirts of Beijing"

"The first collection of contemporary Swahili fiction of its kind introduces eight East African authors searching-through noise, humor, tradition, and mystery-for a future that is theirs to make"--

"Contemporary Russian poetry that reckons with the weight of the past and memories"--

A stunning, expansive chronicle of Suriname from Astrid Roemer, whose On a Woman's Madness was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Evoking Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones, Off-White, in translation from Dutch by Lucy Jones and David McKay, continues Astrid Roemer's long overdue introduction to English-language readers.

Translation of: Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet.

"The Game for Real opens with 'The game of quartering,' where an unnamed hero discovers that he has a double. And surely, if he has a double, then his double must have a double, and so on ... What follows is a grotesquely hilarious, snowballing spree through Paris. 'The game for the honor of payback' neatly inverts things: instead of a branching adventure, a man embarks on a quest that collapses inward; slapped, he launches a doomed crusade to return the insult. He will stop at nothing--even if he discovers that he's only chasing his own tail"--Cover fla

"Narrated by a writer, archivist, and hoarder of objects and stories that speak to the profound impact of the sugar industry on the world. In this deeply researched and stylistic novel, a variety of subjects come together to reveal a vast network of entrenched relationships and connections between a violent global industry and our unsettled present"--