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Translated by Natascha Bruce A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong. In the mountainous city of Nevers, there...

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity from an award-winning historian, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith.1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky...

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize; an epic, searing satire. A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war. Now with added author content — a Map of Colombo...

Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize 2020 A beautiful, brutal and breath-taking novel-in-verse from one of the brightest young British writers of today. Anansi, your four gifts raised to nyame...

Translated by Philip Gabriel THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to...

Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more? Trang and Quynh - sisters who leave...

In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.Indian American...

FROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITIONArun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their...

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean...

The most unexpected friendships really can transform your life.Malli is unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight of her life is a weekly phone call with her younger...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori The surprise smash hit — Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend,...

The first ever publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning novel outside of the Philippines The story of Raymundo Mata, a visually impaired member of a 19th century anti-Spanish...

Years after the death of her cruel and complicated mother, Erika is still surrounded by the things she left behind: an onigiri basket, a Wedgwood tea set, a knotted ring...

Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where...

A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a debt he may never...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream....

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Literature The inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions...

Welcome to The Centre. You'll never be the same . . . Anisa Ellahi spends her days writing subtitles for Bollywood films in her London flat, all the while longing...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...

Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

Queer, fabulist stories from a rising Asian American talent - Kundiman Fellow, National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree, Lambda Literary finalist. Exploring themes of body, memory, queerness and family...

Translated by Rebecca Copeland Based on the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi, The Goddess Chronicle is a fantastical tour de force about ferocious love and bitter revenge. On an...

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in...

Translated by Jamie Chang The Prize-Winning International Bestseller When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they...

From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality. It begins with a message: a...

Translated by Jamie Chang From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 In a country called ‘Town’, Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer...

A surreal work of science fiction from one of Japan's most brilliant novelists In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage...

Translated by Meredith Weatherby Long regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning...

Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the power of familial love...

Translated by Makiko ItohAdapted by Chika Ito 'I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me.' This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece...

Adapted by Coco Kashiwaya A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in manga for the first time! This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun,...