World Literature

The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3
Kira Yarmysh
A powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition of fabulist existential uncertainty

Mona
Pola Oloixarac
One of the coolest literary debuts of the year – sexy, funny and thrillingly provocative

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.

Sunken City
Marta Barone
A young woman retraces the footsteps of her elusive father through one of the darkest periods of Italian history

The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid
A controversial masterpiece, grappling with how generations born after the Holocaust can preserve memory without it becoming a commodity

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019: The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career, now in paperback

Satantango
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back – and more devilish than ever.

The Pine Islands
Marion Poschmann
Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2019 – a charming, playful, profound tale of lost souls in search of transformation in modern Japan

Like a Fading Shadow
Antonio Munoz Molina
The hypnotic new novel about Martin Luther King's assassin, by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors

The Accusation
Bandi
Searing fiction smuggled out of North Korea – the English PEN Translates Award winner, now in paperback

¡No Pasaran!
Pete Ayrton
International writing from the Spanish Civil War, from both behind and at the front line

African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou's uproarious, fleet-footed English-language debut, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic to coincide with the publication of…

All the Rivers
Dorit Rabinyan
A haunting love story between a young Israeli translator and a Palestinian painter

The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek's most famous novel is an explicit, shocking exploration of sex and fantasy