France

Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in the kitchen...

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman— a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and...

Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the...

From the bestselling author of Lullaby, the prizewinning debut novel about all our attempts to discover who we are — deep down — and what we actually want. Her obsessions...

Translated by Lara Vergnaud *Winner of the Prix Eugène Dabit* Lullaby meets Little Fires Everywhere, this intense, suspenseful prize-winning novel explores the darker side of human nature — and the...

A 'marvelous' (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter,...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

The number-one bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt — a compulsive, riveting and bravely observed exploration of power, class, race, domesticity and motherhood. The baby is dead. It took...