Archipelago Books

  • Gate of the Sun

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    New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    “An imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine masterwork” that vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (Ne[more below]

    • Author: Khoury, Elias
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 552
    • Publish Date: November 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 0914671618
    • Language: English
  • My Life as Edgar

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    A sensitive portrait of one boy’s travels from earliest consciousness through his salad days in the countryside and onward by a “genius” of “nuanced interior moments” (Los Angeles Times)

    Fabre’s abili

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    • Author: Fabre, Dominique
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 198
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861482
    • Language: English
  • Moldy Strawberries: Stories

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    Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation…

    In these surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, one of Brazil’s greatest queer writers

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    • Author: Abreu, Caio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953861202
    • Language: English
  • My Struggle, Book Three

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    A family of four–mother, father and two boys–move to the South Coast of Norway to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family’s trajectory, upwardly mobile: the futur… [more below]

    • Series: My Struggle #3
    • Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: May 27 2014
    • ISBN10: 1935744860
    • Language: English
  • Dawn

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    A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended, and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness

    “Like Pamuk’s Snow, Dawn is the Turk[more below]

    • Author: Soysal, Sevgi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 350
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953861385
    • Language: English
  • Ti Amo

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    A penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss from one of Norway’s most tenacious writers: National Book Award Finalist and PEN translation prize winner Hanne rstavik

    Celebrated throughout the

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    • Author: Orstavik, Hanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 195386144X
    • Language: English
  • To the Letter: Poems

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    Frank, acute, and intimate poems of human loss, resilience, and love – detective poem, historical hopscotch, love story

    “A truly lyrical longing for the world to be transformed.”–Polish Book Institut

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    • Author: Rozycki, Tomasz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 145
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861725
    • Language: English
  • The Last Days of Terranova

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    A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life

    “Rivas is a master… His pages bloom lik[more below]

    • Author: Rivas, Manuel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953861326
    • Language: English
  • The End

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    A serpentine maze of memory and artistic obsession in post-war communist Hungary told in bold experimental style and perfect for fans of Helen DeWitt

    Nothing approximates death as closely as photograp

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    • Author: Bartis, Attila
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 575
    • Publish Date: August 22 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861423
    • Language: English
  • January

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    “Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes.” – Lily Meyer, The New York Review of Books

    “Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.” – Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

    ** ONE of THE NEW

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    • Author: Gallardo, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861644
    • Language: English
  • Second Star: And Other Reasons for Lingering

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    A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life’s smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windows

    A still life

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    • Author: Delerm, Philippe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 164
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861547
    • Language: English
  • The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

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    Reminiscent of Kurasawa’s film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling

    Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He’s strolling

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    • Author: Oshiro, Augusto Higa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1953861520
    • Language: English
  • The Children of the Ghetto: II: Star of the Sea

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    An acclaimed Lebanese writer speaks to the complexity of the Palestinian experience in a devastating account of resilience and loss

    “Gives voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving b

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    • Series: Children of the Ghetto
    • Author: Khoury, Elias
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 417
    • Publish Date: November 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1962770060
    • Language: English
  • A Question of Belonging: Cr?nicas

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    “An exemplary compendium of brief glimpses into the quotidian concerns of everyday South Americans . . . [that] exudes the author’s characteristically bright insight and sense of attentive amusement.”[more below]

    • Author: Uhart, Hebe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 241
    • Publish Date: May 28 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861806
    • Language: English
  • For Now, It Is Night: Stories

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    “An enthralling — and welcome — reclamation of Kaul’s fiction. . . Kaul’s work shimmers with questions of reality and illusion, home and exile.” – The New York Times Book Review

    17 lively short stor

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    • Author: Kaul, Hari Krishna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861784
    • Language: English
  • In the Presence of Absence

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    Winner of the 2012 National Translation Award

    “What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoymen[more below]

    • Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: November 29 2011
    • ISBN10: 1935744011
    • Language: English
  • Great Fear on the Mountain

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    A haunting, allegorical Swiss masterpiece centered around a posse of villagers as they brave dark elements to ascend a mountain, thicketed with lore

    Teeming with tension, this immersive, rhapsodic sto

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    • Author: Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 238
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861822
    • Language: English
  • Kibogo

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    FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

    A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature

    “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings i

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    • Author: Mukasonga, Scholastique
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953861369
    • Language: English
  • Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

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    Mahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.
    — Elias Khoury

    The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after [more below]

    • Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 197
    • Publish Date: August 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 0976395010
    • Language: English
  • What Kingdom

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    “An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette.” — Olga Ravn

    An incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves

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    • Author: Grabol, Fine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1953861849
    • Language: English
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