Carrère follows the true story of Jean-Claude Romand, who maintained an 18-year fiction about being a doctor and researcher before murdering his family. Rather than merely reconstructing the crime, he explores self-deception and the shape of evil in a cool, restrained voice.

It reads the collapse of a long deception not simply as a crime report, but as an encounter with human inscrutability.

A schoolteacher-narrator in suburban Bucharest moves through everyday frustration, dreams, philosophy, history, and mathematics in a novel that keeps pushing at the boundaries of reality. Against the pressure of communist Romania, it explores escape and the power of literature on a vast scale.

A novel that begins in an ordinary day and keeps searching for a way out beyond the world.

A schoolteacher-narrator in suburban Bucharest moves through everyday frustration, dreams, philosophy, history, and mathematics in a novel that keeps pushing at the boundaries of reality. Against the pressure of communist Romania, it explores escape and the power of literature on a vast scale.

A novel that begins in an ordinary day and keeps searching for a way out beyond the world.

From the viewpoint of a woman working as a chiropodist in East Berlin's Marzahn district, the novel gathers the lives of older neighbors into a series of compact portraits. Against the backdrop of redevelopment and generational change, it captures labor, aging, and the warmth of solidarity.

What emerges from ground level is the dignity of the people living at the city's edges.

From the viewpoint of a woman working as a chiropodist in East Berlin's Marzahn district, the novel gathers the lives of older neighbors into a series of compact portraits. Against the backdrop of redevelopment and generational change, it captures labor, aging, and the warmth of solidarity.

What emerges from ground level is the dignity of the people living at the city's edges.

A multigenerational novel set against the Algerian War and its aftermath, tracing colonial rule, return and assimilation, and the inheritance of language and identity to show how personal and collective memory persists and fades.

A multigenerational novel set against the Algerian War and its aftermath, tracing colonial rule, return and assimilation, and the inheritance of language and identity to show how personal and collective memory persists and fades.

家族のアメリカ横断旅行を軸に、子ども移民の危機や記録の倫理を重層的に描く実験的小説。断片的な語り、ドキュメンタリー的挿入、個人的な回想が交錯し、物語と歴史の関係を問いかける。

家族のアメリカ横断旅行を軸に、子ども移民の危機や記録の倫理を重層的に描く実験的小説。

北アイルランドの紛争期を舞台に、無名の若い女性が「ミルクマン」と呼ばれる存在による嫌がらせと噂に翻弄される様を、独特の語り口で描く。集団的ヒステリー、監視、女性の声の抑圧が主題。

北アイルランドの紛争期を舞台に、無名の若い女性が「ミルクマン」と呼ばれる存在による嫌がらせと噂に翻弄される様を、独特の語り口で描く。

A quiet novel about family rupture, memory, and the long shadow cast by a devastating killing.

A quiet novel about family rupture, memory, and the long shadow cast by a devastating killing.

Marcus Conway, an engineer in the west of Ireland, returns in thought to family, work, community, and death while sitting at his kitchen table, all carried in the flow of a single sentence. Ordinary details widen into economic crisis, public failure, love, and loss.

A single sentence quietly holds a family life and the fractures of a community.

1970年代のアンゴラ独立とその混乱を背景に、家に壁を作って閉じこもった女性を中心に展開する物語。個人の孤立と国家的暴力、記憶と忘却が交差し、歴史の周縁に生きる人々の声を浮かび上がらせる叙事的長編。

1970年代のアンゴラ独立とその混乱を背景に、家に壁を作って閉じこもった女性を中心に展開する物語。

ポルトガル語やスペイン語から英語への翻訳で知られる翻訳家。国際的な文学作品の英訳に携わることが多い。

ポルトガル語やスペイン語から英語への翻訳で知られる翻訳家。

A semi-autobiographical novel about an Indian immigrant family. After a childhood accident, the family begins to fracture, and language, expectations, guilt, and healing intertwine in layered ways.

A subtle novel tracing fracture and repair within a family.

A fable-like novel set in a rural village, tracing how outside change unsettles both the community and individual lives across the seasons. It poetically renders the fraying relationship between people and the land.

A four-season story of a village balance coming apart.

Michael Thomas follows a Black father trying to hold together family, memory, and money over four difficult days in New York. The novel combines urgency, humor, and a sharp account of race and precariousness.

A four-day novel about race, family, and survival in New York.

A dark, forceful novel set against the Lebanese Civil War, following two young men as violence and crime pull them toward survival and moral compromise.

A dark novel set against the Lebanese Civil War.

A novel in which an older man recalls a childhood summer and gradually uncovers family secrets, friendship, and loss. Its close attention to nature and memory gives the book its emotional shape.

An older man recalls a childhood summer and the secrets around it.

A novel in which an older man recalls a childhood summer and gradually uncovers family secrets, friendship, and loss. Its close attention to nature and memory gives the book its emotional shape.

An older man recalls a childhood summer and the secrets around it.

A novel focused on the later life of Henry James. It closely follows creativity, solitude, love, and loss while tracing the inner life of a writer with quiet precision.

A novel centered on the later life of Henry James.

A novel set in the early nineteenth-century American South that confronts slavery from the unsettling angle of Black slave ownership. Through multiple perspectives, it probes power, responsibility, and moral contradiction.

A novel set in the early nineteenth-century American South.

A stark novel about political prisoners in a Moroccan prison, shaped by darkness, memory, and endurance. It examines torture, silence, faith, and the struggle to preserve human dignity.

A stark novel about political prisoners in a Moroccan prison.

A stark novel about political prisoners in a Moroccan prison, shaped by darkness, memory, and endurance. It examines torture, silence, faith, and the struggle to preserve human dignity.

A stark novel about political prisoners in a Moroccan prison.

Around the half-brothers Michel and Bruno, the novel satirically depicts a contemporary world shaped by desire, loneliness, science, and consumer culture. Its provocative style and black humor expose the era's emptiness without restraint.

Through two half-brothers, the novel exposes the emptiness of a society ruled by desire and loneliness.

Around the half-brothers Michel and Bruno, the novel satirically depicts a contemporary world shaped by desire, loneliness, science, and consumer culture. Its provocative style and black humor expose the era's emptiness without restraint.

Through two half-brothers, the novel exposes the emptiness of a society ruled by desire and loneliness.

Set around Cape Breton Island, the novel spans generations to trace a Scottish immigrant family's memory, labor, and loss. Family story and local history overlap in a lyrical, elegiac narrative.

Family memory and local history overlap against the landscape of Cape Breton.

Set in a small seaside town, the novel traces odd, isolated residents whose lives reveal family collapse and social estrangement. It is an experimental book in which humor and unease coexist.

The strange connections among people in a seaside town unravel through humor and unease.

Through the life of a young man born unable to feel pain, this historical novel explores eighteenth-century medicine, ethics, and scientific curiosity. Human sensation and loneliness are examined within a tightly controlled structure.

The life of a man who cannot feel pain throws the boundaries between science and ethics into relief.

A stark novel of life under a dictatorship in Romania, marked by fear, surveillance, and the pressure of everyday survival.

A stark novel of life under a dictatorship in Romania, marked by fear, surveillance, and the pressure of everyday survival.

The same novel in translation, carrying the same bleak view of dictatorship, memory, and survival.

The same novel in translation, carrying the same bleak view of dictatorship, memory, and survival.

An introspective novel in which the narrator traces his marriage and his father's past, showing how silence and secrecy shape family ties. Past and present, speech and silence, echo one another until the shape of the truth slowly emerges.

Using a marriage and a father's past as its starting point, the novel slowly brings a buried truth into view.

An introspective novel in which the narrator traces his marriage and his father's past, showing how silence and secrecy shape family ties. Past and present, speech and silence, echo one another until the shape of the truth slowly emerges.

Using a marriage and a father's past as its starting point, the novel slowly brings a buried truth into view.