Palestinian authors

Background, Details, and Analysis A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a...

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian...

Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last...

Translated by Samuel WilderWinner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards Translation PrizeThis lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrative rich in sensory...

Translated by Samuel WilderWhen he was seven years old, Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan moved with his family to a Karameh refugee camp east of the River Jordan.That camp — a...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as...

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...

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'....

Translated by Giles Murray The Final Curtain brings the story of Detective Kaga to a surprising conclusion in a series of rich, surprising twists with a confounding murder in Tokyo...

Translated by Johnny Lorenz 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us...

TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?ME: I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to...

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...

An Odyssey to Europe A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country...

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...

Translated by Sam Malissa Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both? From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN. A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his...

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...

Translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is...

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...

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 cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever...

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time. In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read...

There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun.Japan's internationally celebrated storyteller returns with...

'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns...

We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything....

Translated by Alan Turney In The Three-Cornered World, an artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic endeavors. When he finds himself...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins...

Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi "Set to be one of the best books of 2023" — GQ Magazine "Soaring, spellbinding, utterly epic" — MUSA OKWONGA "A time-travelling wonder...

Translated by Haydn Trowell A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels — this surrealist fable challenges traditional...

Translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell *THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC — ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* One of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings...

Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, comes to Picador with an astonishing new collection of short stories,...

Translated by Amy B. Reid The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writersBringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a...

Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" — NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. CHINA , 1237 A.D. Genghis Khan is dead, but...

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

The prize-winning story of a Senegalese soldier in the trenches, told in hypnotic, powerful prose. Alfa Diaye and Mademba Diop are two of the many Senegalese tirailleurs who fight in...

Translated by Haydn Trowell Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Several days after...

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...

Translated by Kendall Heitzmann Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer — part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella series Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her...

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back...

Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't really...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

Translated by Daniel Hahn An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland,...

Translated by Anton Hur SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF A PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION GRANT A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told...

Translated by Megan McDowell A tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally acclaimed writer Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be...

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is...

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...

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother; centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held...