World Literature

  • Jamie Macgillivray

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    A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

    ‘It gets under the skin of this extraordinary time in a way that few historical novels do. Sayles writes superbly about the confusion of warfare and deals

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    • Author: Sayles, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 168589142X
    • Language: English
  • Lucy

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    A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaid’s second novel is “vivid, true and necessary” (Los Angeles Times).

    Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pai

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    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: January 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250322421
    • Language: English
  • There’s No Turning Back

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    Discover the astonishingly powerful debut novel by the beloved feminist author of the “brilliant” (The Wall Street Journal) Forbidden Notebook and the “courageous” (The Washington Post) Her Side of th[more below]

    • Author: de Céspedes, Alba
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668083639
    • Language: English
  • The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories

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    Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.

    Dino

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    • Author: Buzzati, Dino
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 344
    • Publish Date: January 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1681378671
    • Language: English
  • Letters of a Peruvian Woman

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    One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, who is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brut… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Graffigny, Françoise de
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 26 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199208174
    • Language: English
  • Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales from Storied Lands

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    Something was coming down the tide. It came down as quiet as a sleeping bairn, straight for him as he sat with his horse breasting the waters, and as it came the moon crept out of a cloud and he saw a

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    • Series: British Library Hardback Classics
    • Author: Mains, Johnny
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 0712354549
    • Language: English
  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

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    “Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”–New York Times

    Now in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which th

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    • Author: Sepúlveda, Luis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063349019
    • Language: English
  • Darkmotherland

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    “A Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the spirit of our time and shaped by political ambition and dark vision . . . A grand novel indeed.”[more below]

    • Author: Upadhyay, Samrat
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: January 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1641294728
    • Language: English
  • Good-For-Nothing-Girl

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    A young woman’s quest for a better education results in a case of modern-day slavery, written by the award-winning author of Swallow and Everything Good Will Come.

    What’s in a name?…When Gift escape

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    • Author: Atta, Sefi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: November 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 1623717566
    • Language: English
  • Statistically Speaking: A Quirky British Novel

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    An Amazon Editors’ Pick: Best Literature and Fiction!

    “Emotional, beautiful, wonderful. Debbie Johnson at her finest.” –Milly Johnson, Sunday Times bestselling author

    From Debbie Johnson, the author of

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    • Author: Johnson, Debbie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1400248043
    • Language: English
  • Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy (30th Anniversary Edition)

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    A brand-new 30th anniversary edition of the wildly popular (over fifty million copies in print!), page-turning novel about a young girl’s exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western tho

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Gaarder, Jostein
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250860490
    • Language: English
  • Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories

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    Madness, murder and obsession: a stylishly original and fantastical collection of stories from an iconic Japanese writer

    A collection of the 7 essential Akutagawa short stories, in a vivid and elegant

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    • Series: Pushkin Press Classics
    • Author: Akutagawa, Ryonosuke
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1805330292
    • Language: English
  • The Premonition

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    The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl[more below]

    • Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1640096647
    • Language: English
  • Seeing Further

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    In this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater–an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a considerati[more below]

    • Author: Kinsky, Esther
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681378515
    • Language: English
  • By: So-Un

    Korean Folktales: Classic Stories from Korea’s Enchanted Past

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    Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world.

    Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic tiger, the humble woodcutter, clueless

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    • Author: So-Un
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 080485775X
    • Language: English
  • Of Beasts and Fowls

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    Winner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa in 2023


    “A funerary poem about a bird flying underground; a psychodrama of two sisters drowning in the mirror of memory; a center of a necrophilic labyrin

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    • Author: Adon, Pilar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960385178
    • Language: English
  • We Do Not Part

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – THE NEW NOVEL FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    “[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of[more below]

    • Author: Kang, Han
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593595459
    • Language: English
  • The Liquid Eye of a Moon

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    A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system

    Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be ma

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    • Author: Awoke, Uchenna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646221907
    • Language: English
  • The World Goes on

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    In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take no… [more below]

    • Author: Krasznahorkai, László
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811237516
    • Language: English
  • The Cursed Friend

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    “Bloody, unapologetic, and wild … I loved it!”–Naomi Krupitsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Family

    “The Cursed Friend grabs the reader’s attention and doesn’t let go . . . a magnetic c

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    • Author: Salvioni, Beatrice
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063234009
    • Language: English
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