Genre: Literary Fiction (241 Listed volumes)
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Alina Bronsky
My Grandmother's Braid
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 From the acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine “a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience” ( The New Yorker). Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees... -
Karen Powell
The River Within
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident? -
Ahmet Altan
Love in the Days of Rebellion
By weaving together tortured love affairs, political intrigue, power struggles, and social upheavals, the book offers a powerful and vivid tableau of the crisis of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. -
Tim Finch
Peace Talks
2020, pp. 192, $ 17.00
A small masterpiece of compression and containment, Peace Talks tells the story of one man grieving, the vicissitudes of the human heart, and our longing for peace. -
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Julia Kerninon
My Devotion
Winner of the 2018 Fénéon Literary Prize A subtle, captivating, and insightful exploration of the mysterious connections between love, submission, and creation. -
Valérie Perrin
Fresh Water for Flowers
A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE PICK A POIGNANT RUNAWAY BESTSELLER full of French charm and memorable characters, Fresh Water for Flowers is Valérie Perrin’s English debut. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors,... -
Lorenza Pieri
The Garden of Monsters
A rural epic about warring families in modern Italy and an intimate bildungsroman of the artist’s journey. -
Jorge Franco
Shooting Down Heaven
Expertly told by one of Latin America’s most exciting voices, Shooting Down Heaven follows the children raised by 1990s Colombia’s most dangerous drug cartels and the consequences that shape their adulthood. -
Ian Williams
Reproduction
Winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC's Best Novel of the Year, Reproduction is an energetically told, funny, and moving book about how strangers become family.