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MISSION SUPPORT US
Restless Books is an independent, nonprofit publisher As a nonprofit organization, Restless Books relies on
devoted to championing essential voices from the generosity of our readers and partners to achieve
around the world whose stories speak to us across our mission. Your support enables us to discover
linguistic and cultural borders. We seek extraordinary and promote extraordinary authors from around
international literature for adults and young the world, to champion perspectives from outside
readers that feeds our restlessness: our hunger for the confines of the familiar, and to take risks in our
new perspectives, passion for other cultures and editorial choices, always emphasizing literary value
Letter from the Publisher 4
languages, and eagerness to explore beyond the over the concerns of the market.
confines of the familiar. Spring/Summer 2022 Frontlist 5
Through cultural programming, we aim to Please contribute at
celebrate immigrant writing and bring literature to restlessbooks.org/donate The Murders of Moisés Ville 6
underserved communities. We believe that immigrant
stories are a vital component of our cultural The City of Good Death 7
consciousness; they help to ensure awareness of our
communities, build empathy for our neighbors, and Restless Books gratefully acknowledges the My Life at the Bottom 8
strengthen our democracy. support of the following organizations for our
2021 titles: A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times 10
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Annette Hochstein, Chair
Amazon Literary Partnership, FACE Foundation,
FILI: Finnish Literature Exchange, Italian Ministry of
Pina 13
Alison Gore, Secretary Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Japan
Alison Sparks, Treasurer Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture Published Fall 2021 16
Devin Brooks and Sport
Neal Cohen Forthcoming in Fall 2022 17
Jodie Corngold
Shaul Hochstein Yonder Highlights 18
Steven G. Kellman
Ilan Stavans
Restless Classics Highlights 19
ADVISORY BOARD
Rights Highlights 20
Stephanie Anderson, Assistant Director of Selection Programs 22
for BookOps (NYPL & BPL)
Jeff Deutsch, Director of Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Cristina García, Author Ordering Information 23
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Author
David Bruce Smith, Author
Cover illustration © Linda Bondestam, from My Life at
Norton Juster, Architect, Author, and Professor † the Bottom
Mitchell Kaplan, Owner of Books & Books and Author photo credits:
Co-Founder of The Miami Book Fair Javier Sinay © Veronica Martinez
Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Priyanka Champaneri © Lauren Brennan
Linda Bondestam © Niklas Sandström
Ruth Ozeki, Author Titaua Peu © Martin Coeroli
David L. Ulin, Author
† We mourn the loss of Norton Juster, who passed away in March 2021.
Letter from the Publisher
In our ninth year of life, I’m delighted to introduce in our Spring/Summer 2022
season a treasure trove of unique voices from around the world.
Javier Sinay, an award-winning young journalist from Latin America, investigates
a series of murders in Jewish agricultural colonies in the Pampas in The Murders
of Moisés Ville. In this English-language debut, Sinay reveals a fascinating and rich
cultural history of immigrant life among the gauchos. The paperback edition of
Immigrant Writing Prize Winner Priyanka Champaneri’s The City of Good Death—a
finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize—will introduce new readers to
this transcendent story of rebirth and redemption.
From Linda Bondestam, author and illustrator of the beloved Good Night, Earth,
comes My Life at the Bottom: a funny, philosophical climate change picture book
about the last axolotl in the wild. Meron Hadero’s stunning debut story collection,
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, the 2020 winner of our Restless
Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, looks at a gallery of people in transit.
Hadero’s affecting, compassionate touch will have a profound impact on readers.
And Titaua Peu’s Pina, a prize-winning novel from Tahiti, enters the labyrinth of
intergenerational trauma with courage and determination, confronting the history
and reality of colonialist practices in Polynesia
Lastly, after three successful years offering at-capacity workshops for emerging
immigrant writers in collaboration with the New York and Los Angeles Public Library
systems, Restless Books is launching the Immigrant Writing Lab. Beginning in
February 2022, our year-round workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will help
immigrant writers find their voice. Thanks to a generous donation from the Lewis- Spring/Summer 2022
frontlist
Sebring Family Foundation, scholarships are available to a wide array of participants.
Our ethos behind the Immigrant Writing Lab is simple: It isn’t enough for
Restless Books to publish the best immigrant voices available today at the
international level. We also want to be a crucial player in fostering the next
generation. We believe their stories will help define the twenty-first century.
Un placer,
Ilan Stavans
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F E B R U A RY MARCH
The Murders of Moisés Ville The City of Good Death
Javier Sinay Priyanka Champaneri
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant
Writing
Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates
a series of murders from the nineteenth century, Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
unearthing the complex history and legacy of
Now in paperback: Set in a death hostel in India's
Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and
holy city of Banaras, where dying Hindus come to
his personal connection to a little-known period of
be released from the cycle of reincarnation, this
Jewish history in Argentina.
transcendent debut novel is an unforgettable tale of
When Javier Sinay discovers an article from 1947 by his great- family, ghosts, rebirth, redemption, and letting go.
grandfather detailing twenty-two murders in Moisés Ville sixty years
before, his investigation becomes a deeper exploration of the history of As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Banaras on the banks of
Hardcover List Price: US $28.00 the Ganges, Pramesh Prasad administers to dying pilgrims who hope Paperback List Price: US $18.95
the once-thriving Jewish epicenter in Argentina—and Sinay’s own family
ISBN: 9781632062987 to be released from earthly reincarnation. But when an unwelcome ISBN: 9781632062536
Publication: Feb 8, 2022 connection to it. Publication: Mar 8, 2022
6" × 9" • 304 pages Like their town’s prophetic namesake, these immigrants fled one guest takes up residence in the death hostel, and the dying mysteriously 5.5" × 8.25" • 464 pages
Nonfiction: History / True Crime / form of persecution only to encounter a different set of hardships: continue to live, Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about Fiction: India / Family Saga
Jewish / Yiddish / Immigration / exploitative land prices, starvation, illness, language barriers, and a death, rebirth, and redemption. Rights Held: World All Languages
Argentina / 19th Century South eBook ISBN: 9781632062543
series of murders perpetrated by roving gauchos who preyed upon their
America
vulnerability. Sinay interviews his family members, residents of Moisés “In Champaneri’s ambitious, vivid debut, the dying come to the
Rights Held: World English, Audio
eBook ISBN: 9781632062994 Ville, historians, and archivists, compiling moving portraits of the victims holy city of Kashi to die a good death that frees them from the • Now in paperback: The
of these heinous murders and revealing a fascinating and complex burden of reincarnation. . . . In sharp prose, Champaneri explores Restless Books Prize for New
• Award-winning author’s history of the town once known as the “Jerusalem of South America.” the power of stories—those the characters tell themselves, those Immigrant Writing winner
English-language debut: garnered phenomenal praise
told about them, and those they believe. . . . This epic, magical
Javier Sinay is the recipient from media, booksellers, and
“I greatly admire Javier Sinay’s enlightening and humane account story of death teems with life.” —Publishers Weekly
of the 2015 Gabriel García authors.
Márquez Prize and the 2010 of his sleuthing—the disinterment of a violent episode of buried
“Throughout this epic, Champaneri remains attuned to . . . • Finalist for the Center for
Rodolfo Walsh Prize history—now no longer forgotten. Its implications resonate far
atmospheric details, both physical and emotional. . . . [It] remains Fiction First Novel Prize
• A true crime investigation beyond the borders of Argentina.” —Paul Theroux, author of The
Mosquito Coast and Under the Wave at Waimea an intimate portrait of Pramesh, and yet the other characters • Author events: Champaneri
turns personal: Sinay delves
allow Champaneri to articulate how grief and healing are social has been a hit in virtual events,
into his own family history
“Javier Sinay . . . is one of the most recent and interesting links and in 2022 there will be
as he investigates a series of processes. . . . Just as grief descends, sudden and sweeping, so too opportunities for an author
nineteenth-century murders between narrative journalism, American nonfiction, and the rich can wonder and joy.” —Spencer Quong, The New York Times tour and events for this edition.
• The fascinating rise and tradition of Argentinian detective literature.” —Vice Book Review • A great book club pick: With
fall of “South America’s
beautiful new packaging and a
Jerusalem”: A complex history
JAVIER SINAY is a writer and journalist based PRIYANKA CHAMPANERI received her MFA in reading group guide, perfect
of assimilation, confrontation,
in Buenos Aires. His books include Camino al Este, creative writing from George Mason University for readers of Midnight’s
and transformation
Cuba Stone (co-authored), and Sangre joven, which and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Children, The God of Small
• An intimate exploration Things, and The Inheritance
won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize. In 2015 he was Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018
of Yiddish: Sinay immerses of Loss.
himself in the rich history,
awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for his Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for
literature, and enduring vitality article “Rápido. Furioso. Muerto” (“Fast. Furious. The City of Good Death, her first novel.
of the Yiddish language Dead”) published in Rolling Stone. The Murders of
Moisés Ville is his first book in English.
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APRIL
My Life at the Bottom
The Story of a Lonesome Axolotl
Linda Bondestam
Translated from the Swedish by A. A. Prime
Hardcover List Price: US $19.95 From award-winning Nordic author and illustrator
ISBN: 9781632061386
Publication: Apr 19, 2022
Linda Bondestam comes a new kind of climate
11.42" × 8.46" • 46 pages change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl who
Children's Fiction: Picture Book is—possibly—the last of its kind.
/ Swedish / Climate Change /
Endangered Animals
In a forest of seaweed there was ME, a rare and beautiful little axolotl,
Rights Held: World English
eBook ISBN: 9781632061539 going for my first-ever swim.
So graceful, and yet so lonesome—out of 987 eggs, mine was the only
• An award-winning author:
one that hatched.
Bondestam has been
nominated for the 2020 Who knows, maybe I was the last axolotl in these waters?
August Prize, the 2021 Nordic
Council Children’s and Young At the bottom of a lake in a busy city, our axolotl narrator goes to
People’s Literature Prize, and underwater school, collects treasures tossed away by the big lugs on
the 2020 Elsa Beskow Plaque
land, and has dance parties with tiger salamander friends. Life is good!
for My Life at the Bottom,
as well as selected for the But as the world gets hotter and hotter, the water gets murkier.
2021 Biennial of Illustration Friends become harder to find, and the lonesome axolotl grows even
Bratislava. lonelier. Until one day when, out of the blue, a colossal wave carries the
• A climate change tale axolotl into a surprising new future . . .
like no other with a true Bittersweet, funny, existential, and hopeful, My Life at the Bottom is a
one-of-a-kind protagonist: tale of the climate crisis unlike any other. Combining her irresistible visual
The endearing narrator and wit with exquisite aquatic art and rare empathy, Linda Bondestam brings
hopeful ending put a wholly us a story of catastrophe that bursts with life.
original spin on climate
change picture books. LINDA BONDESTAM is the illustrator and author of
• Virtuosic art: Ingenious dozens of children’s books that have been translated
illustrations blend gorgeous into more than ten languages, including Good
underwater scenes, Night, Earth (2021). She was awarded the Snöbollen
sophisticated satire, and for Swedish Picture Book of the Year in 2016 and
charming humor. the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s
• Earth Day coverage: Literature Prize in 2017 for Djur som ingen sett utom vi
Timed to hit shelves around (Animals that no one has seen except us). She lives in
April 22, 2022. Helsinki, Finland.
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M AY
From A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
A Down Home Meal for
These Difficult Times
Stories An excerpt from “Sinkholes”
Meron Hadero English isn’t my first language, but it’s been years since I found
myself truly unable to grasp a lesson or a class discussion. But when
Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New
Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize Ms. Verne starts us off like that, I think I must have misunderstood.
COVER
NOT for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Everyone seems to feel that way, though, and there is a long, tense
FINAL
Meron Hadero’s gorgeously wrought stories in A minute when the class says nothing, does nothing, waiting to gauge
Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer what kind of permission or pressure this is, exactly. Josh, class prez,
poignant, compelling narratives of those whose
lives have been marked by border crossings and the shoo-in for homecoming king even as an underclassman, gets up
Hardcover List Price: US $26.00 risk of displacement. first and boldly writes cracker. We are stunned, butListthe
Hardcover silence
Price: $22 is
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Set across the U.S. and abroad, Meron Hadero’s stories feature
filled quickly by the click of high heels when Jenny,
Publication:his on-off girl-
5/26/2020
5.5" × 8.25" • 224 pages 5” x 7.125” • 240 pages
Fiction: Short Stories / Ethiopian immigrants, refugees, and those on the brink of dispossession, all friend, yearbook deputy-editor, brunette-blowout Memoir:writes,
Motherhood kike. Our /
/ Childbirth
American / Immigration / Literary struggling to begin again, all fighting to belong. Moving through diverse shock is audible. Grungy, tough, brilliant Sara writes in such tiny
Women / Feminism
Rights Held: World All Languages, geographies and styles, this captivating collection follows characters Rights Held: World English
Audio on the journey toward home, which they dream of, create and redefine, letters that no one can read it. “Wooly-haired, eBookokay. That’s what
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eBook ISBN: 9781632061249
lose and find and make their own. Beyond migration, these stories it says, okay,” she tells us, reluctantly. Pete, •pitcher, pinch-hitter,
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• Winner of the 2020 Restless examine themes of race, gender, class, friendship and betrayal, the
despair of loss and the enduring resilience of hope. assistant coach, nearly every other position as the only one
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Books Prize for New
Immigrant Writing at baseball in our small town, goes up to the board like he’s
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“With enormous power and wonderful subtlety, Meron Hadero • Marketing bullet
• A rising literary star: The
grants us access to the inner worlds of people at moments when up to home plate, lifts his perfect arm like an ever-coiled spring and
winner of the 2021 AKO Caine • Marketing bullet
Prize for African Writing, everything is at risk. . . . That closeness to the edge—of safety, of writes spic then chink. “To be thorough,” he boasts like he hit it out
Hadero’s stories have also been the known and being known—will resonate with all of us whose
selected for Best American
of the park. Someone claps twice; the pace picks up.
lives have been marked by border-crossings. . . . These sharp,
Short Stories.
humane, beautiful portraits are a gift.” —Dinaw Mengestu, Achy Right about now I notice glances darting back at me as I sit in
• Powerful stories of
immigration, displacement,
Obejas, and Ilan Stavans, from the judges’ citation my usual spot in the last row. Here I don’t stand out as the poorest
diaspora, and finding home: kid in the class, as those relegated to the annex are pretty abject, but
Hadero’s funny, topical, and
heartbreaking stories take us MERON HADERO was born in Addis Ababa and I am suddenly all the more aware of my status as the only Black kid
came to the U.S. via Germany as a young child.
inside the experience of people
Her short stories have won the AKO Caine Prize in class, the only person of color at all, member of the only minority
impelled to move, and will
appeal to fans of Jhumpa Lahiri, for African Writing and appear in Best American family in this “traffic stop” town (by which I mean a little pass-
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Short Stories, Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly
Danielle Evans, and Edwidge Concern, and many others. Hadero holds an MFA in through stretch of road that dips down to 25 mph for a handful of
Danticat. creative writing from the University of Michigan, a miles and gets most of its revenue from speeding tickets handed
JD from Yale Law School, and a BA in history from
Princeton with a certificate in American studies. out to drivers racing between two major cities). I realize they are all
She lives in Oakland.
Continues ➛
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JUNE
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times continued
Pina
Titaua Peu
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
waiting for me to write it. The collective focus shifts from Ellison, the
teacher, and the chalkboard to that word and me, simultaneously the Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize
one person permitted to speak it and the one who, maybe more than Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize
most, doesn’t dare. From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu
So I wait, and I avoid their furtive little peeks over at me and stay comes a devastating novel about a family torn
apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism, held
put as the chalkboard quickly fills up with every slur that a few dozen together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering
high school kids can think of. Eventually that granite starts to get over- the immeasurable weight of her family’s traumas.
whelmed with made-up slights, too (has anyone ever heard of curly- Far from Tahiti’s postcard-perfect beaches, Ma and Auguste and five of
toed or flirty-breathed or buxom-bearded, I mean…). I don’t even their nine children live a hand-to-mouth life in destitute Tenaho. Nine- Paperback List Price: US $18.00
think it’s intentional that the very middle of the board seems to be year-old Pina is the keeper of her family’s secrets, though the weight of ISBN: 9781632061553
this knowledge soon proves to be a burden no child could ever bear. Publication: Jul 5, 2022
reserved, and slowly all these words circle this space like a drain, writ- A victim of her father’s alcoholic rages and the object of her 5.5" × 8.25" • 320 pages
Fiction: Coming of age / Tahiti /
ten sideways, slanting, shifting from the perimeter of this emptiness mother’s anger and indifference, Pina protects her younger sister, Colonialism / Family Saga
Moïra, as best she can. But a tragic accident upsets the precarious Rights Held: World English
like the very arms of the Milky Way around a black hole. I watch the equilibrium of the family, setting them on a path to destruction. The eBook ISBN: 9781632061546
space in the center stay blank as the rest of the board gets whiter and fault lines of her family, descendants of Ma’ohi warriors who once
fended off European settlers, begin to shift and crack open, laying bare • Award-winning author
whiter. I am bewildered, confused, and simply decide to deflect expec- how the past shapes and haunts the present: her brother Pauro falls and translator: Peu is the
first Polynesian author to be
tations as I contemplate what I am witnessing. in love with a Frenchman, her sister Rosa sinks into sexual exploitation,
awarded the Eugène Dabit
her eldest brother August Junior’s addictions may lead him into
Well actually this shit happens all the time in Florida, sinkholes Prize. Jeffrey Zuckerman won
ruin, and Hannah, the oldest daughter who had escaped to France, is the 2019 French Voices Grand
open up out of nowhere, and they suck in everything around them. beckoned back home, fearing the worst. Prize for his translation of Pina.
They can swallow up a room, easy. They can even take in a house, car, Elegantly translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina • Brilliant characterization of
introduces a bold and profoundly humane anticolonial writer. It’s a women: Centered around Pina,
the neighbor’s pool. There’s a famous one at the edge of town that grew gut punch that traces the history of a family, an island, and a people, a resilient and contemplative
almost a quarter-mile wide, and it became a nature preserve where peo- reaching back to a time before colonial rule, and stretching into an young girl, Peu depicts the
imagined, hopeful future of independence and autonomy, offering the reality and psyche of its many
ple pay five dollars to stand right against the edge and try to see inside, promise of redemption. female characters, reminiscent
of Toni Morrison.
wondering what might appear: a city, a universe, memories, some
• A raw, anticolonialist voice:
vision, not to mention a reminder that this swampy ground is shaky Peu confronts the legacy and
continuation of the exploitative
ground and count your blessings. TITAUA PEU is known for her politically charged, realistic portrayal of colonialist practices in
I’ve never seen a sinkhole like this, but that’s exactly what it is, right the effects of colonialism on contemporary Polynesia. Her first novel, Polynesia, exposing the dark,
Mutismes (2003), sparked immediate scandal and made her the youngest- overlooked side of paradise.
up there on the board, and we are teetering on its edge. Ms. Verne ever published Tahitian author at age twenty-eight. Pina was awarded
the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, a first for Polynesian literature. She
stares at me with a helplessness I’ve never seen in an authority figure
currently lives in Tahiti where she serves as the general manager of the
before. I am waiting for this moment to pass. ♦ municipality of Paea.
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Excerpt from Pina
Just another Friday night in one of Épinay-sur-Seine’s grungy slums, south with some sales rep. Her guy barely ever said a word but her
not far from Enchien-les-Bains with its casino and its oh-so-pretty friend was still calling him “my sweetheart”—ugh!—never mind that
lake that nobody but her must be able to see was filthy and ugly brown. she cheated on him every chance she got. For Hannah, Cap d’Agde
She looked through that window every bit as grubby and grimy as the had just been days watching her friend’s two little urchins and nights
building she lived in. She could clean it, pane by pane, but why bother? on the beach not far from some nudist camp. She’d seen orgies on the
Four years she’d been living there, and the pigeons had kept on coming beach, hadn’t let herself get pulled into what she figured had to be a
and doing their business on her balcony, the upstairs neighbors had mess, hadn’t met any interesting guys, and in no time all she wanted
kept on tossing out their leftovers that always landed on the windshield was get back to her shitty old neighborhood, even if that meant all the
of her car down below or on the teensy porthole of her kitchen, for no beach she’d be seeing would be the packed Aquaboulevard water
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good reason, just to be petty, a pain. Four years of this—she could clean by the Porte de Versailles. ISBN: 9781632062239
Publication: 5/26/2020
and clean, it didn’t matter. What mattered was not getting raped in the There wasn’t much to say about her vacation, and there
5” x 7.125” was
• 240 even less
pages
Memoir: Motherhood / Childbirth /
stairwell that, how nice, didn’t have a single light bulb. What mattered to say about her life. Twenty-five years old, a heart Women broken too many
/ Feminism
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was not getting killed or beat up, because she was a single woman. times already, a body hurting all over from too much lovemaking
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with
What mattered was staying alive . . . Just another Friday night, like a no love in it, a future that she’d once figured would be shining, extraor-
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hundred others: her on her fifth screwdriver, listening to a LP of trea- dinary, but now figured was just as numb and •lifeless as the towers
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cly-voiced Tahitian singers from the ’50s, mawkish lyrics backed by a all around these parts. Those dreams of hers were a shambles
• Marketing bullet worth
so-called orchestra of white-boy jazz. Whether or not that counted for less and less each day, just pathetic paychecks that her business
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“local,” it was nice enough, it got her plenty teary, and she’d played it a hadn’t helped much with. Her life and the capital weren’t all that dif-
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thousand times. Just another weekend night with her drinking herself ferent. When she’d first come to Paris, she’d lived within the city itself.
to death, thinking about her country, her island, her whole family that Months and years had gone by, and her income had pushed her out to
she couldn’t stand. Just another night pouting at the clubs, the same old the banlieue. The poorer you are, the farther out you go. And that was
thing, just to land herself some big strong guy with no brain. That was her to a T, even if she never dared think it to herself. Every so often she
the life she was living. took a look at her life, felt an urge to give it all up and start over again
It was early September, it was nice out, she was back from seeing her somewhere else, but she always stopped herself, sometimes even before
Tahitian friend in Cap d’Agde. They’d met each other back in Paris the getting started. She couldn’t stand those “professional evaluations,”
one time that Hannah had gone to the Foyer des étudiants polynésiens. that good old “self-improvement.” Only people with no memory or a
They’d been thick as thieves ever since, until her friend moved down real love of pain ever enjoyed those. It was horrific. ♦
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P U B L I S H E D FA L L 2 0 2 1 P U B L I S H E D FA L L 2 0 2 1
Death Fugue Rat Rule 79
Sheng Keyi Rivka Galchen Life Sciences Mud Sweeter than Honey
Joy Sorman Margo Rejmer
“[A] stomach-churning, exuberantly written allegory “We have been waiting for this book our entire lives.”
. . . which recalls Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” —Lemony Snicket “[T]akes an overtly political premise—the “Like Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich . . . Rejmer
—The New York Times
Paperback List Price: US $15
medical establishment’s inability or perhaps allows the voices of everyday Albanians . . . to reveal
Paperback List Price: US $19 ISBN: 9781632061027 • 5.5˝ × 8.25" • 256 pages refusal to take seriously the physical struggles the privations and fear under which they lived. . . . A
ISBN: 9781632062925 • 5.5˝ × 8.25˝ • 384 pages 21 two-color illustrations of women—and transforms it into a surreal and gripping book of starkly revealing testimony.”
Fiction: China / Politics / Revolution / Dystopian / Speculative Fiction Middle Grade Fiction: / Fantasy / Adventure / Coming of Age knife-deep work of fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Territory: World English excluding ANZ, China, Southeast Asia, Ages 10+
—Lena Dunham, The New York Times Book Review
Audio Rights Held: North America Hardcover List Price: US $28
eBook ISBN: 9781632062932 eBook ISBN: 9781632061003 Paperback List Price: US $18 ISBN: 9781632062833 • 6˝ × 9˝ • 304 pages • B&W photographs
ISBN: 9781632062956 • 5˝ × 7.125˝ • 272 pages Nonfiction: Reportage / Polish / Albania / Dictatorship /
Fiction: Chronic Illness / Women / Relationships / Medicine Communism
Rights Held: World English, Audio Rights Held: North America, Audio
eBook ISBN: 9781632062963 eBook ISBN: 9781632062840
F O R T H C O M I N G I N FA L L 2 0 2 2
Dracula The White City Tale
Bram Stoker Choi Jeong Hwa
Aug 23, 2022 Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
Oct 4, 2022
Victorious
The Memory Monster It’s OK, Slow Lizard Yishai Sarid Simple Gimpl
Yishai Sarid Yeorim Yoon Translated from the Hebrew by Translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Bashevis
“A brilliant short novel that serves as a brave, “[A] comforting, multi-layered literary gift to Yardenne Greenspan Singer, David Stromberg, and Saul Bellow
sharp-toothed brief against letting the past devour return to for many years (decades!) to come.” Sep 6, 2022 Oct 18, 2022
the present.” —The New York Times Book Review —Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
Editors’ Choice
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Farfariel De-Integrate Yourselves!
Paperback List Price: US $16 ISBN: 9781632062772 • 9.45˝ × 8.67˝ • 42 pages Pietro Albì Max Czollek
ISBN: 9781632060600 • 5˝ × 7.125˝ • 192 pages Four-color illustrations throughout Translated from the Italian by Denise Muir Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi
Fiction: Israeli / Holocaust / Jewish / Literary Fiction Children’s Fiction: Picture Book / Korea / Animals / Emotions
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Temple Alley Summer Good Night, Earth
Sachiko Kashiwaba Linda Bondestam
Frankenstein Chekhov: Stories for Our Time Passing
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Review ISBN: 9781632062864 • 8.25˝ × 5.85˝ • 48 pages ISBN: 9781632060785 ISBN: 9781632061805 ISBN: 9781632062024
Four-color illustrations 5.5˝ × 8.25˝ • 288 pages • B&W illustrations 5.5˝ × 8.25˝ • 384 pages 5.5˝ × 8.25˝ • 192 pages
Hardcover List Price: US $18 Children’s Fiction: Picture Book / Swedish / Bedtime / Humor Fiction: Classics / Gothic / Horror / Science B&W illustrations B&W illustrations
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Middle Grade Fiction: Japan / Mystery / Fantasy / Legend Rights Held: World English, Audio Rights Held: World English Rights Held: World Harlem Renaissance / Race Relations
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1,001 Creatures Ellie’s Voice, or Trööömmmpffff Run For Your Life
Laura Merz and Aino Järvinen Piret Raud Silvana Gandolfi
The Souls of Black Folk Night and Day Don Quixote
USBBY 2021 Outstanding International World Literature Today’s 75 Notable A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book W. E. B. Du Bois Virginia Woolf Cervantes
Book Translations of 2020 Introduction by Vann R. Newkirk II Introduction by Lauren Groff Introduction by Ilan Stavans
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64 pages • Four-color illustrations Two-color illustrations Young Adult Fiction: Thriller / Mafia 5.5˝ × 8.25˝ • 272 pages • B&W illustrations 6˝ × 9˝ • 480 pages • B&W illustrations 6˝ × 9˝ • 960 pages • B&W illustrations
Children’s Nonfiction Picture Book: Animals Children’s Picture Book: Estonian / Friendship Ages 12–18 Sociology: African-American Studies / Fiction: Classics / Victorian / English Fiction: Classics / Spanish Literature /
Ages 6–9 / Difference / Animals / Music • Ages 3–6 Rights Held: World English Discrimination and Race Relations Literature Picaresque
Rights Held: World English Rights Held: World English eBook ISBN: 9781632061669 Rights Held: World • Nonmerch Rights Held: World Rights Held: World
eBook ISBN: 9781632062697 eBook ISBN: 9781632061430 eBook ISBN: 9781632060983 eBook ISBN: 9781632060334 eBook ISBN: 9781632060808
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Difficult Times
Signature Titles
The Souls of Black Don Quixote Frankenstein Ramayana
Folk
And We Came How Yiddish Beyond the Rice The Wild Book Popol Vuh
Outside and Saw Changed America Fields
the Stars Again and How America
Changed Yiddish More Titles with UK and Audio Rights Available
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Victorious Barbro Lindgren Andrés Neuman
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I Am God
Yonder
Pina Giacomo Sartori
Temple Alley Summer
Titaua Peu
Where the Bird Sings Best Sachiko Kashiwaba
Life Sciences Alejandro Jodorowsky
Rat Rule 79
Joy Sorman
Rivka Galchen
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Death Fugue The Murders of Moisés Ville My Life at the Bottom
Sheng Keyi
Javier Sinay Linda Bondestam
The Way Out Nine Moons It’s OK, Slow Lizard
Ricardo Piglia
Gabriela Wiener Yeorim Yoon
Silence of the Chagos Essays on World Literature The Casket of Time
The Journey Red Dust Condomnauts A Planet for Rent Super Extra Shenaz Patel
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