Previews (25 Listed volumes)
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Aldo Schiavone
What Is Progress
Does the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would be best forgotten. Yet, the idea of progress is... -
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Brotherhood
WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman Métis Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal... -
AA.VV.
The Passenger: Berlin
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: When the Circus Came to Town: The Resurrection of Potsdamer Platz by Peter Schneider・ Berlin Suite by Cees Nooteboom・ Tempelhof: A Field... -
Gideon Defoe
An Atlas of Extinct Countries
Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated – and timely – history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. “Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once... -
Christelle Dabos
The Memory of Babel
Book Three of the Mirror Visitor QuartetIn this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. -
Valérie Perrin
Fresh Water for Flowers
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, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers,... -
Mieko Kawakami
Heaven
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through... -
Miguel Benasayag
The Tyranny of Algorithms
AI, artificial intelligence, poses a great risk to democracy. Miguel Benasayag, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, warns of the great risk posed by big data and algorithms deciding the direction of the world. This book explores the relationship between human beings and machines and the... -
Catherine Chidgey
Remote Sympathy
Moving away from Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all – right on their doorstep – are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and... -
Kavita Bedford
Friends & Dark Shapes
Grief is universal and eternal, yet how we deal with it—or how it deals with us—depends on who is grieving, when, and with whom. Losing a father isn’t easy. Neither is the split existence you live afterwards when you can still conjure up the past where he was alive and still having...