Archipelago Books

  • Queen

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    Long-awaited rediscovery of visionary Swedish writer Birgitta Trotzig and her mythic, modernist classic, Queen

    Birgitta Trotzig’s 1964 novella is the story of a girl named Judit who is stubborn and sin… [more below]

    • Author: Trotzig, Birgitta
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1962770532
    • Language: English
  • The Monroe Girls

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    For readers of Thomas Pynchon, a conspiratorial adventure through a bleak future where the dead (and their political factions) never really die, from one of France’s most visionary writers

    Breton has

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    • Author: Volodine, Antoine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 278
    • Publish Date: March 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 1962770559
    • Language: English
  • My Struggle, Book One

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    Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaard’s father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaar… [more below]

    • Series: My Struggle #1
    • Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 430
    • Publish Date: February 04 2014
    • ISBN10: 0914671006
    • Language: English
  • A Parish Chronicle

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    From Iceland’s Nobel laureate, an essayistic tale of the unlikely miracles that return a church–fated to disappear over & again throughout time–to the same hillside

    1882. In the still of morning, ?l

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    • Author: Laxness, Halldór
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1962770516
    • Language: English
  • Say Fire

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    Bosnian poet Selma Asotic’s fearless debut on memory and resistance

    In a pocket, Asotic finds a brood of planets. In the wind, a cathedral of voice. And in the throat, a thorn bush hums. She slakes her… [more below]

    • Author: Asotic, Selma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770435
    • Language: English
  • The Leucothea Dialogues

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    A shifting, primordial work by Cesare Pavese, plumbing the netherworlds of philosophy, myth, human feeling, and mortality

    “Above all [Pavese’s novels] are works of an extraordinary depth where one nev

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    • Author: Pavese, Cesare
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770370
    • Language: English
  • One, None, and a Hundred Grand

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    A hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    This uproarious new translation of One, None,

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    • Author: Pirandello, Luigi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: October 28 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770346
    • Language: English
  • Needle’s Eye

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    A rich, polyphonic novel from one of the leading voices of contemporary Polish literature, encompassing a half-century of history and memory

    In a Polish village, a young man watches an old man trip an

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    • Author: Mysliwski, Wieslaw
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 424
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770397
    • Language: English
  • The Hairdresser’s Son

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    International Dublin Literary Award-winning Gerbrand Bakker gives voice to the visceral power of family ties in a novel brimming with Knausgaardian detail

    When his wife tells him she is pregnant, Corn

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    • Author: Bakker, Gerbrand
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: August 12 2025
    • ISBN10: 196277032X
    • Language: English
  • C?c?

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    “The best book on Haiti in a very long time . . . powerful, spot on, likely the best written.” –Dany Laferri?re

    An astonishing novel of raw beauty about gang life, sex work, and social media in Haiti

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    • Author: Prophète, Emmelie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770419
    • Language: English
  • The Golden Pot: And Other Tales of the Uncanny

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    “I could list plausible comparisons all day and night, but The Golden Pot is simply unlike anything else I have ever read.” — Justin Taylor, The Washington Post

    Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann’s wil
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    • Author: Hoffmann, E. T. a.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 425
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861709
    • Language: English
  • The Living and the Rest

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    “Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and you’ve got Jos? Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal’s next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of Matches

    A thrilling tale that considers

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    • Author: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 27 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770206
    • Language: English
  • Stay with Me

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    A breathless, propulsive look into the caustic sides of love, from the beloved Norwegian winner of the PEN translation prize and National Book Award Finalist

    “What is so impressive is rstavik’s abili

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    • Author: Orstavik, Hanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 250
    • Publish Date: April 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1962770184
    • Language: English
  • Journal of an Ordinary Grief

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    One of Darwish’s early works. This prophetic book provides the background for the poet’s decision to become an exile.

    • Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 175
    • Publish Date: November 05 2010
    • ISBN10: 982624646
    • Language: English
  • The Brush: Poems

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    A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth-body artwork of Ana Mendieta

    The Brush is an incantatory, fearles

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    • Author: Hernández-Pachón, Eliana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861865
    • Language: English
  • Fragments of a Paradise

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    “Giono’s prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility.” — The Washington Post

    Giono’s very own Moby-Dick, a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritu

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    • Author: Giono, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 215
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1962770001
    • Language: English
  • The Children of the Ghetto: I: My Name Is Adam

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    Lit by the sublime beauty and tragedy of classical Arabic poetry, a Palestinian falafel seller in New York sets out to shape fragments of his family history

    Weaving history, memory, and poetry, this u

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    • Series: Children of the Ghetto #1
    • Author: Khoury, Elias
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: July 23 2019
    • ISBN10: 1939810132
    • Language: English
  • Sister Deborah

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    A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women

    “In sentences of great beauty and restraint

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    • Author: Mukasonga, Scholastique
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 135
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861946
    • Language: English
  • Canoes

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    From the author of Eastbound, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year

    A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella an

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    • Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 197
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861962
    • Language: English
  • A River Dies of Thirst

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    This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning a… [more below]

    • Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 153
    • Publish Date: August 25 2009
    • ISBN10: 0981955711
    • Language: English
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