Impedimenta

Mark Frost, creator of Twin Peaks, plunges us into a mysterious Victorian London where a young Arthur Conan Doyle faces a satanic cult known as the Dark Brotherhood. After a seance ends in murder, Doyle teams up with Jack Sparks, a master of disguise...

Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion...

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 dog. A hole. A silver mine. And a gang of curiously well-heeled pigs. *The Miraculous Moving of the Miller Mansion* is the wild, true-life account of how a dog changed the destiny of an entire house (and everyone living in it). Written with...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure...

Dorothea Dodds, who has spent 59 years unnoticed while caring for her family, decides to escape her life by house- and pet-sitting across the English countryside. With her cousin Mary’s help, Dorothea starts a journey of self-discovery through others’ lives, uncovering clues about her...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads...

Following the success of the previous edition, the reissue of an epic and subversive tale has arrived — a tribute to the power of women's imagination. What will you encounter when you venture into The Hundred Nights of Hero? Heaps of betrayals, unwavering loyalties,...

Year 2063. Earth's resources are running out. All space expeditions in search of new fuels have failed, China is a global power, the United States is dying in the hands of the mafia, and people are freezing to death in downtown Manhattan. American tycoon...

Can't tell a masterpiece from a run-of-the-mill painting? Let Baudelaire show you the difference. Do you know what André Breton, Kiki de Montparnasse and Man Ray spent their time doing, between romps and romps? Evoking the convulsive beauty of "The Turkish Bath", by Ingres!...

Four friends, a canoe trip, and a deadly encounter. An idyllic landscape transforms into a cemetery, where the prey becomes the relentless hunter. A psychological thriller where friendship is tested and life becomes a fight to the death. Four friends embark on a canoe...

A modern classic that inaugurates one of the most brilliant and unclassifiable cycles of European literature in recent decades: the Giochi dell'eternità trilogy. The Beginnings is the big bang of Antonio Moresco's narrative universe, a modern classic that established him as one of the...

A door to the beating heart of Blinding. Three stories that condense the visionary genius of Mircea Cărtărescu, his overflowing poetry, his hallucinatory imagery, and his astonishing ability to transform the autobiographical into a dazzling, mythical universe. A book that is both map and...

Laird Koenig (The Girl Who Lives Down the Road) returns alongside Peter L. Dixon in a terrifying thriller. It's the last week of summer. The blinding Californian sun scorches the beaches of Malibu. In a huge house by the sea, all the curtains are...

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 poor and desperate fisherman travels the kingdom in search of an honest man who will agree to be the godfather of his newborn son. He rejects God (too unfair), rejects the Devil (too cruel), and is about to give up when a shadowy...

The heroes and the villains blur in "Misadventure", a kind of neo-Romance set in a desperate and remote Andalusia, at the same time unreal and authentic, mythical and wild, full of extreme characters: quinquis, sorceresses, hunters, demons that move over the radio waves, good-hearted...

A new paperback edition of illustrator Júlia Sardà's beautiful tribute to Frankenstein and its fascinating author, Mary Shelley. How does a story begin? Sometimes, it all starts with a dream. Mary is a great dreamer, a child who learns to read by tracing the...

John Dunbar, known as "the Basilisk," wants to turn his back on his brutal and wandering past and finally live in peace with his family. He settles with Lucretia and her daughter, Felicity, in the inhospitable Valley of Rocks, in the heart of Navajo...

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...