Fiction

In 1959, a Baptist pastor takes his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo, convinced he is bringing salvation to a land that hasn't asked for it. There, they will confront religious fervor, the unforgiving wilderness, and the awakening of a nation demanding...

Charlie Hall, glue trap for disaster, crooked from the day she was born, who’d never met a bad decision she wasn’t willing to double down on, may have finally met her match. After defeating Salt and stealing her lover―the powerful shadow, Vince―back from under...

The Salvatore family has a dark past. A long shadow follows them wherever they go. When the Salvatore children entered the Westgard Academy of the Arts, the school's administration knew everything was about to go wrong. An ancient prophecy about the dark arts begins...

Mexico City, early 1999. Twenty-one-year-old Bruno Bolado hasn't managed to finish high school and spends his days in a drunken stupor, fantasizing about writing a radio soap opera titled "The Hotel of Broken Hearts." Until one day, he stumbles upon what appears to be...

This volume gathers Ricardo Piglia’s monumental project: the three volumes of The Diaries of Emilio Renzi. Emilio Renzi -writer and recurring alter ego in Piglia’s fiction- emerges from a mirror game rooted in the author’s full name: Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi. Acclaimed by critics...

Published in 1983, becoming a cult classic (Madonna adored it and Larry David forced the Seinfeld writers to read it), The Harding Papers is one of the funniest, most provocative, and least politically-correct novels of recent decades. Impedimenta revives this queer, delirious, and grotesque...

A masterful tale of betrayal, ambition, and revenge, with an ending as unexpected as it is brutal. When power conspires in the shadows, no one escapes unscathed. Former Peruvian president Alan García is enjoying his retirement in Madrid when, out of the blue, he...

Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she’s carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a...

A detective novel, political and satirical, about the age of post-truth... After finishing her literary studies at university, Phyllida has to move back in with her parents. One day, an old family friend, Christopher Swann, who runs a political blog and is investigating an...

With communication as the central theme of her work and a narrative tinged with surrealism and fantasy, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, Yoko Tawada immerses us in an extraordinary linguistic odyssey to explore the relationship between language and belonging in a world where political...

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at...

Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works with him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind the bar, as Leon flirts with...

Jane Bowles wrote a single, perfect novel, Two Serious Ladies, a book of short stories, Simple Pleasures, and a play, In the Gazebo; but it was enough to forge a free and avant-garde style, a dazzling combination of concise prose and agile, feverish dialogue...

Llanes, 1870. The paths of Mario Melgar and the Lorenzo sisters cross fleetingly, but his ambition will end up putting an ocean between their destinies. Twenty years later, the Indian Mario Melgar returns to his native Llanes to discover that, despite the immense fortune...

Anabelle Gage is trapped in a male body, and it’s rotting from the inside out. But Ana can’t afford to escape her tattered form, even as the wealthiest in Caimor buy and discard expensive designer bodies without a thought. When she fails the entrance...

In this autobiographical account, which in its final section approaches the form of a literary essay, Amélie Nothomb relives the most painful episode of her life: the abuse she suffered at the age of twelve, which led to prolonged anorexia throughout her adolescence. Based...

A novel that explores the illusions of relationships, the difficulties of grief, and friendship as a refuge. Months after her father's death and recently graduated, Marina meets Jaime, a man twenty years older than her who bursts into her life, showering her with attention...

Alfonso Muñoz brings us a moving story about friendship, family, and dashed dreams. With a delicate pen, he brings to life two characters you'll identify with from the first page. A perfect novel for readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Alice Kellen... England, 2007...

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’...

Ellis's debut novel receives all kinds of awards and rave reviews. She lives her new life of success and luxury with different guys every night and constantly traveling along the Mediterranean coast surrounded by artist friends. Until one day, she receives a plagiarism lawsuit...