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items list of books that celebrate the many languages, experiences, and people that contribute to the world of literature and story-telling.
chilling short story collection about fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history--with bracing urgency
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
dávila's stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you'll finish each one gasping for air. with acute psychological insight, dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear
The Houseguest by Amparo Dávila
drawn from her experiences of growing up as a young woman in the ‘world’s largest prison’—gaza—qarmout’s stories stitch together a stirring patchwork of perspectives exploring what it means to be a palestinian today
The Sea Cloak by Nayrouz Qarmout
when an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment and she turns up with her girlfriend in tow, her mother is unprepared and unwilling to welcome her into her home
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin
after rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit.
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
this one broke my heart. novella split into two parts; the first takes place in 1949, when israeli soldiers capture and rape a young palestinian girl. second part takes place in the present day, when a young woman in becomes obsessed with learning mo...
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
in this urgent, insightful essay, a respected historian places the israeli-palestinian war in context, challenging western attitudes about the region.
Gaza Faces History by Enzo Traverso
a woman arrives in florence and she finds an unexpected love. she can fix him—they can fix each other; she feels bound to him, body and soul, but soon they’re both cheating and lashing out, and she becomes more and more convinced he’s not merely a vi...
The Devil's Grip by Lina Wolff
a writer searching for inspiration in spain meets a man who is looking for somewhere to hid out as he hides from a woman in charge of a shadowy game show
Carnality by Lina Wolff
marcos works in a meat processing plant in a dystopian world where humans are forced to eat each other after a virus contaminates animal meat
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica
coming-of-age story of a young girl named natsuki and her cousin, yuu, who process and explain their sense of alienation from their families by internalizing the belief that they are both actually from another planet
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
keiko is a social outcast who has never fit in with her family or at school. she finds peace and purpose working at a convenience store, where she learns the rules of social interaction and copies the mannerisms of her colleagues
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
a teacher disappears into the woods. as whispers fill her classroom and relatives scour the streets, she melts into a wild landscape
Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet
in a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, jo finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh through this a heady and hyper-sensual po...
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
follows a young arab-israeli journalist who returns to his hometown, an arab village within israel, after being discriminated against by his jewish neighbors and colleagues
Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
two long-suffering people who have become increasingly alienated from others, in part due to the limitations of their own bodies
Greek Lessons by Han Kang
yeong-hye is a young woman who lives an unremarkable life in korea. after violent and disturbing dreams about the death of animals, she stops eating meat—something that is almost unheard of in korean culture
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
nine stories from frequently ignored voices. one is about leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up. now she struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman and now tries to confront her trauma by volunteering at the orphanage and to a...
Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva
coming-of-age novel about two girls growing up in a working-class neighborhood in the Canary Islands in 2005
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
follows three women, Natsu, Makiko, and Midoriko, as they confront their own uncertainties. the three women battle with their bodies, class, and each other. from breast-enhancement surgery to explores the options available for bringing a new life int...
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
a woman's mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
unique and imaginative short stories blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization.
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
amid a violent student uprising in south korea, a young boy is shockingly killed. the story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony o...
Human Acts by Han Kang
a wife is determined to keep her relationship perfect, meticulously preparing for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. she watches him attentively, testing him to make sure that he still loves her just as...
My Husband by Maud Ventura
on an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses…most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are commit...
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa