Fiction

Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be...

In these eleven devastatingly precise and psychologically unsettling stories, we follow the female protagonists’ thwarted attempts at intimacy, ranging from pretense, to denial, to violent and ultimately self-destructive acts. This smart, funny, provocative collection demonstrates the profound skills that have made Rumena Bužarovska one...

The Great Salt Lake is a key work in U.S. eco-literature. The story depicts the struggle of birds to survive in a habitat threatened by human intervention and the devastating effects of nearby nuclear testing. As Terry cares for her cancer-stricken mother, she investigates...

Eira, now a champion of the Solaris Empire, journeys to a dreamland only to face a nightmare. Her enemy has escaped, and his deadly allies await. In the dangerous undercity of Risen, she’s entangled in a power struggle between the Court of Shadows and...

The invincible strength of two best friends. A moving and beautifully illustrated book about the lives of Noel, a veterinarian, and Keira, his partner, teaching us how to deal with the ups and downs, the happiness and sadness, the darkness and the light that...

A London museum showcases Garamantian treasures for the first time, drawing huge crowds eager to see the Golden Child and Golden Cord. Rumors of a curse on the Golden Child grow when a mysterious murder occurs. As a German expert hints that the artifacts...

The acclaimed author of Unstable Earth delivers a disturbing and emotional novel about freedom, vulnerability, and sacrifice. Amid a pandemic, Neffy, a biologist scarred by career failures, joins vaccine trials. After a virus mutation, she ends up in a nearly empty hospital with no...

A group of women that resists the squalor of the passage of time; two friends on vacation in an imposing landscape, where she stalks the darkness and the past like a ferocious animal; two sisters who delay parting with their mother's ashes in the...

On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with Stalin secretly watching from a box. The next day, Pravda published an editorial titled "Chaos Instead of Music," reportedly written by Stalin, criticizing the opera....

Amid World War II's chaos, young Spanish Communist María Millán loses her mother and brother, fleeing to France. There, after her father's death and a change of identity, she joins the French Resistance. Captured in Lyon, she's sent to Ravensbrück. Meanwhile, Hans Kammler leads...

Theodor Kallifatides, a major European writer of the late 20th century, is celebrated for his novels Campesinos y señores (1973), El arado y la espada (1975), and Una paz cruel (1977), now translated into Spanish for the first time. These works depict his childhood...

When siblings Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, gather around the table somewhere on the outskirts of Rome to celebrate dad and grandpa Håkon's 70th birthday, an earthquake occurs. Shock and disbelief follow, as the three adult children try to...

A gripping thriller that takes us back to the streets of Oxford. The young Faith Appleford has been kidnapped on the streets of Oxford. For Inspector Fawley, it seems like just another case. However, when Appleford reappears after a miraculous escape, something doesn't add...

According to Genesis, the first punishment was botanical, consisting of our expulsion from a paradise, a garden. Since then, we have lived in longing. Under this tension between exile and belonging, Clara Obligado invites us, through her hybrid writing, on a journey through nature...

Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S....

Written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Collier's magazine on May 27, 1922, it was published in the book Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was inspired by a comment by Mark Twain. Benjamin Button was born with a strange...

The threat of graduation intensifies in Naomi Novik's stunning sequel to A Deadly Education. At Scholomance, where "knowledge grants protection," the reality is that learning is tough and protection is scarce. As a senior with allies, the school’s sinister interest in her grows. Facing...

Growing up, Miller, Olly, and Ash were inseparable, sharing a secret bond. They moved to LA, started a record label, and found success. Olly and Miller fell in love, but things changed when Miller spent a night with Ash, leading to their marriage. Returning...

According to the prophecy, one of the most relevant events in Egypt will occur in the temple of Abu Simbel, the proclamation of a new pharaoh. Everyone wants to be there. Even the pirate Tick and his crew, accompanied by the beautiful Floripondia, show...

A woman wakes up in an overturned car at night, surrounded by smoke and the smell of gasoline. Her legs are numb, and glass is embedded in her back. She realizes she's the driver and hears a sweet voice calling her name. A 15-year-old...