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Boualem Sansal
2084: The End of the World
A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. -
Elena Ferrante
The Beach at Night
The Beach at Night is a short, moving, and mysterious tale for future and present readers of Ferrante’s beloved novels. -
Alexander Maksik
Shelter in Place
Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and... -
Charlotte Wood
The Natural Way of Things
The Natural Way of Things is at once lucid and illusory, a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body. This gripping, provocative, and timely... -
Alessandro Baricco
The Young Bride
In this scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family, Alessandro Baricco portrays a cast of mysterious characters who exist outside of the rules of causation as he tells a story, an adult fable, about fate and the difficult job of confronting the... -
Emily Woof
The Lightning Tree
United Kingdom circa the 1980s——Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. When both escape to separate places, they keep in touch through letters that are deep, political, and full of irony——but Jerry harbors a secret uncertainty. -
Joan London
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love. -
Jane Gardam
Bilgewater
Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible crushes, intimidating girls, and a fair share of awkwardness. -
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
Radiation level warnings be damned! Baba Dunja is going home, to her town right near Chernobyl. She and her motley crew of neighbors create an idyllic post-meltdown settlement——until a dangerous stranger shows up and annihilation once again looms. -
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Street Kids
Originally heavily censored, criticized by professional critics, and lambasted by much of the general public upon its publication, The Street Kids ' undeniable force led to it become universally acknowledged as a masterpiece by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo...