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Koan Khmer
A powerful debut novel about war, immigration, and home
Dare the Sea
Acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini’s debut short-story collection in English explores Iran’s landscape, its culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people—both in Iran and the United States.
Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City
This novel chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna's past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old family home in the mountains.
The Pleasure Marriage
An epic romance that explores the intolerance for interracial marriage in Islamic Moroccan society. Amir enters a “pleasure marriage” with the Senegalese Nabou, disrupting the family and setting the stage for generations of tragedy.
Collected Stories
In Collected Stories, Madeline G. Levine provides a definitive new translation of the complete fiction of Jewish-Polish writer Bruno Schulz, considered among the most influential European writers of his generation.
Stone Baby
The debut collection of short fiction by South African–born Michelle Sacks, Stone Baby introduces a multicultural, interconnected array of characters. One story included in the collection was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2014.
Judgment
Series: Northwestern World Classics
Judgment (Mides-hadin in Yiddish) is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. Born in Ukraine in 1884, and living in Berlin from 1921 until Hitler’s rise to power, Bergelson was executed in Moscow in 1952. This novel interweaves Judaism and socialism in a revolutionary, experimental, modernist style.
Fever Dogs
Fever Dogs is an imagined biography of three generations of women. Faced with missing information, the narrator, in various points of view, invents stories to explain the truth. For Jean, the truth of what she invents serves her as well as any other kind in a lifelong task assigned to all of us—discovering who we are.
Fog
Series: Northwestern World Classics
Fog is a new translation of the Modernist Spanish author Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla. First published in 1914, Fog is considered an influential and enduring classic of European modernism.
Roads, Where There Are No Roads
Winner, 2018 John Gardner Fiction prize In this highly anticipated sequel to her acclaimed first novel, Where I Must Go, Angela Jackson continues the remarkable story of Magdalena...
Koan Khmer
A powerful debut novel about war, immigration, and home
Dare the Sea
Acclaimed fiction writer Ali Hosseini’s debut short-story collection in English explores Iran’s landscape, its culture, and the undercurrent of change affecting its people—both in Iran and the United States.
Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City
This novel chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna's past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old family home in the mountains.
The Pleasure Marriage
An epic romance that explores the intolerance for interracial marriage in Islamic Moroccan society. Amir enters a “pleasure marriage” with the Senegalese Nabou, disrupting the family and setting the stage for generations of tragedy.
Collected Stories
In Collected Stories, Madeline G. Levine provides a definitive new translation of the complete fiction of Jewish-Polish writer Bruno Schulz, considered among the most influential European writers of his generation.
Stone Baby
The debut collection of short fiction by South African–born Michelle Sacks, Stone Baby introduces a multicultural, interconnected array of characters. One story included in the collection was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2014.
Judgment
Series: Northwestern World Classics
Judgment (Mides-hadin in Yiddish) is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. Born in Ukraine in 1884, and living in Berlin from 1921 until Hitler’s rise to power, Bergelson was executed in Moscow in 1952. This novel interweaves Judaism and socialism in a revolutionary, experimental, modernist style.
Fever Dogs
Fever Dogs is an imagined biography of three generations of women. Faced with missing information, the narrator, in various points of view, invents stories to explain the truth. For Jean, the truth of what she invents serves her as well as any other kind in a lifelong task assigned to all of us—discovering who we are.
Fog
Series: Northwestern World Classics
Fog is a new translation of the Modernist Spanish author Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla. First published in 1914, Fog is considered an influential and enduring classic of European modernism.
Roads, Where There Are No Roads
Winner, 2018 John Gardner Fiction prize In this highly anticipated sequel to her acclaimed first novel, Where I Must Go, Angela Jackson continues the remarkable story of Magdalena...