Previews (19 Listed volumes)
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Maurizio de Giovanni
Puppies
The next installment in Maurizio de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzafalcone” series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary Naples as a new evil spreads throughout the city. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
In a newly designed package, a reissue of one of the most heartbreaking and heartfelt books on the cultures of the Mediterranean ever written. -
Valérie Perrin
Fresh Water for Flowers
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and, most notably, her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her as often as possible to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and... -
AA.VV.
The Passenger: Greece
“On the Greek island of Ikaria, life is sweet... and very, very long. What is the locals’ secret?” from “The island of Long Life” by Andrew Anthony -
AA.VV.
The Passenger: Japan
“Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.”—Brian Phillips -
Ian Williams
Reproduction
Reproduction is an energetically told, funny, and moving novel about—as the author himself has—”how strangers become family.” -
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. -
Joseph O’Connor
Shadowplay
Set in the late-Victorian world of the London theater, Shadowplay tells the story of the first superstar thespian, the era’s greatest Shakespearian actor, and a young man who would go to write the most iconic and best-selling horror novel of all time. -
Muriel Barbery
A Strange Country
When the first glass was emptied, Alejandro and Petrus smiled at each other and Jesús noticed the redhead’s lovely grey and pensive eyes. “Where did you come from?” he asked. “From the bridge,” Petrus answered. “The bridge that links our world to yours.” Then,... -
Mieko Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs
“One of Japan’s brightest stars is set to explode across the global skies of literature.” —Japan Times