Transit Books
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The Abyss
$26.95 Read moreRaw, tender, and darkly comic, The Abyss is widely considered a masterpiece from Jeyamohan, a writer whose body of work has shaped modern Tamil literature.
Pothivelu Pandaram is known as a successful,
- Author: Jeyamohan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380040
- Language: English
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Sydney Journals
$18.95 Add to cartA thirty-year diary that became a groundbreaking literary project.
Antigone Kefala has long been considered one of Australia’s best kept secrets. Born in Romania in 1931, she and her family were forced
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380255
- Language: English
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A Very Cold Winter
$18.95 Add to cart“Cause for celebration.”–Jhumpa Lahiri
A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy’s most significant women writers.
Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) was a novelist, jour… [more below]
- Author: Cialente, Fausta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380231
- Language: English
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Pandora
$18.95 Add to cartConfined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance–with a pangolin.
Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover,
- Author: Pacheco, Ana Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380224
- Language: English
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Animal Stories
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a writer who has “invented a new form” (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.
Animal Stories begins with Kat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380200
- Language: English
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Vaim
$25.95 Add to cartBy Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village.
Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle… [more below]
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380217
- Language: English
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Alterations
$17.95 Add to cart“In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads–one by one by hand in the… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Winrock, Cori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389012
- Language: English
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Little World
$22.95 Add to cart“Little World holds tenderness, rage, faith and grace, and it does so in language–so precise, so exacting–it seems, at once, to cut through and join together the complexities of our relations. Each
- Author: Rowe, Josephine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380163
- Language: English
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Immemorial
$17.95 Add to cart“Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization… Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget.”–Publishers Weekly
A speculative essay on language in the face of climat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Markham, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389036
- Language: English
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The Novices of Lerna
$17.95 Add to cartFor the first time in English, a forgotten masterpiece from an enigmatic master of Argentine fantastic literature.
The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of ?ngel Bonomini to English re… [more below]
- Author: Bonomini, Ãngel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492856
- Language: English
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I Who Have Never Known Men (Collector’s Edition)
$24.95 Read more***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, NOW AVAILABLE IN A SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION***
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they
- Author: Harpman, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380309
- Language: English
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The Island
$18.95 Add to cartA dazzling portrait of displacement, of love, and of longing from one of Australia’s most significant and overlooked women writers.
Melina was born abroad and raised on the island. She asks her Aunt Ni
- Author: Kefala, Antigone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Motherhood and Its Ghosts
$17.95 Add to cartContinuing her investigation into the archive, Iman Mersal sifts through representations of one of history’s most elusive figures–the hidden mother.
No one excluded my mother from our joint portrait.
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380170
- Language: English
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Kintu (Anniversary Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartThis 10-year anniversary edition celebrates a classic of Ugandan
literature.First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that re… [more below]
- Author: Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 194549283X
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Life
$18.95 Add to cartA writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer ?zl?.
An unnamed writer embarks on an
- Author: ?zl?, Tezer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Gifted
$18.95 Add to cartA subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter’s final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo’s red-light district.
Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted–S… [more below]
- Author: Suzumi, Suzuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893389005
- Language: English
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Siblings
$16.95 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of 2023
A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers.
“I will never forgive you,” Uli says to his sister Elisabeth. I
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 194549266X
- Language: English
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Cold Nights of Childhood
$16.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE TRANSLATION PRIZE
“A profoundly moving account of desperation, exhilaration, and endurance.”–Kirkus Reviews
The Bell JarGood Morning, Midnight, by one of
- Author: Özlü, Tezer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1945492694
- Language: English
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Speak / Stop
$18.95 Add to cartAn irreverent semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.
–We have read Proust but we’re not sure
–Who has really read Proust
–Besides a few Proustians
–We a… [more below]
- Author: Lefebvre, No?mi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1945492996
- Language: English
