A travelogue that traces Taiwan's landscapes, history, food, and memory, linking place and identity through an intimate, observational voice.

Travel becomes a way of rereading the land's history.

A novel about censorship, forbidden books, and the desire to read, set in a library where power and curiosity are in constant tension.

In a library of banned books, reading itself becomes resistance.

An epic poem of Sámi land, family, migration, and survival that expands from individual voice into collective memory.

Memory of dispossession breathes through the long flow of the poem.

A kinetic novel set against chaos and violence in Congo, where music, rhythm, and bodily energy drive a story of social rupture.

The rhythm of dance becomes the pulse of a broken world.

A Syrian novel of displacement and survival that explores what it means to seek home when war has made return uncertain.

The home the wind calls may already be lost.

A prison memoir by a Palestinian detainee that reflects on decades of captivity while asking what hope and freedom mean behind a wall.

Living beside the wall changes the shape of hope.

A woman trapped in a repeating day discovers how time, routine, and perception can gradually bend into something else.

The same day begins to show different faces.

A gothic novel about a house marked by inherited memory, family tension, and the slow build of feminine rage.

Unease soaked into the house swells across generations.

A novel set in an environmentally damaged world, where toxic seas and an atmosphere of unease shape everyday life after the collapse.

Life goes on even after the world has broken.

An autobiographical novel about the collapse of a house and a family in Medellín, where grief, rage, and memory collide around a dying brother and a violent country.

Before rage burns everything down, memory barely remains.

A tender story of queer life in Brazil that follows love, loss, and the echoes words leave behind.

Even after words fade, feeling leaves a shape behind.

A genre-bending story collection that mixes horror, fable, and black humor to expose violence embedded in family, consumer culture, and the body.

The strange starts to throw the real world back into view.

A historical novel that traces the memory of slavery and colonial violence through a journey to the African coast, where the living and the dead are forced into the same frame.

Beyond the door of no return, history's wounds accumulate.

An autobiographical novel about the collapse of a house and a family in Medellín, where grief, rage, and memory collide around a dying brother and a violent country.

Beneath the rage, a trace of love and memory remains.

A fragmentary novel about Noenka, a Black woman who leaves home after her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and begins a new life shadowed by colonial history, desire, and isolation.

New freedom does not shake off the past so easily.

A biologist returns to his hometown and confronts grief, failure, and the eerie transformations of a provincial place.

Going home means being pulled back into the past.

Set against the collapse of East Germany, a love story gradually turns into a study of power, manipulation, and the way memory can trap people in time.

Love reveals another face as the era collapses around it.

A Syrian novel haunted by war, dictatorship, and the dead, where grief, memory, and disappearance remain inseparable.

The absence of the unprayed-for dead keeps sounding beneath the story.

A collection of true stories and literary sketches from Mexico that captures violence, fatigue, and the unstable life of the city.

This is both a city record and a record of wounds.

A meta-novel about a young Senegalese writer that probes literary memory, legacy, plagiarism, and the burden of authorship.

The most secret memory hides inside the written word.

Seven stories turn domestic spaces and unstable memories into scenes of creeping unease. Schweblin shows how the familiar can slip into estrangement through a sharp, fable-like imagination.

A house can hold silence, but it can also hold dread.

The final volume of Septology follows the painter Asle and his double on Norway's coast, tracing memory, faith, love, art, and time in a hypnotic prose flow.

Two Asles trace the border between life, faith, and memory.

A novel of Rwandan history and female memory that folds genocide, folklore, and lived experience into a story of recovery and witness.

Folklore and memory quietly call back what history tried to erase.

At an all-girls Catholic school, friendship, occult games, and desire spiral into a multivocal horror novel about adolescence and fear.

Friendship swells until it feels like a curse.

A cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, language, and communication in a fractured world.

In a scattered world, language is the only bridge.

A sweeping historical novel about Ibn Arabi that follows spiritual quest, desire, travel, and the making of a thinker across the Islamic world.

Travel and thought combine to bring one mystic life into view.

A story collection that probes memory, silence, and pressure in contemporary Iran, finding quiet tension in lives shaped by repression.

Beneath silence, the cracks in daily life slowly widen.

Set aboard a spaceship, a dossier of human and nonhuman employees turns labor, feeling, and identity into a speculative inquiry into what makes a person human.

On the ship, the meaning of work slowly changes.

A memoir-like book that retraces a return to place and family history, thinking through migration, belonging, and the stories that make a home.

To return is also to retell the past.

A vast historical novel about Jacob Frank that weaves religion, empire, desire, and violence into a polyphonic account of 18th-century Europe.

Many voices overlap around a single life.

A short-story collection that moves among evolution, bodies, and origins, linking science and fable through a series of interrelated pieces.

A short-story collection that moves among evolution, bodies, and origins.

An allegorical novel set around an isolated island, using enclosure and distance to blur the line between reality and imagination.

An allegorical novel set around an isolated island.

A work of brief essays and descriptions that gathers lost things and places into a quiet meditation on loss, memory, and form.

A work of brief essays and descriptions about lost things and places.

An essayistic book that reconstructs Russian family history from photographs, letters, and diaries, turning memory itself into the subject of inquiry.

An essayistic book that reconstructs Russian family history from fragments.

Kazu, a laborer born in Soma, Fukushima, comes to Tokyo before the Olympics, works around Ueno, and eventually lives on the margins of Ueno Park. Through the memories of his ghost wandering the station and the park, the novel quietly layers family loss, poverty, disaster, the imperial system, and the shadows cast by urban prosperity.

The voice of one dead man left amid the crowds of Ueno Station illuminates postwar Japan and its unseen poverty.

Waclaw, an oil-rig worker in the Atlantic, loses his colleague and closest friend Matyas on a stormy night. Driven by grief, he moves through Morocco, Hungary, Malta, Italy, and finally his German hometown, confronting labor, memory, male intimacy, and the difficulty of returning to his own life.

A quiet, piercing journey novel about a man who loses a friend at sea and searches again for the shape of his own life.

A grandfather living abroad returns to Sweden every six months and steps back into the lives of his adult children. His son wants to end an old arrangement with him, while his daughter faces a turning point of her own. The novel portrays the unspoken contract that binds a family and the wounds parents and children pass on to one another, with both wit and pain.

Does staying a family mean being bound to the past, or can it become a way to remake those bonds?

On Colombia's Pacific coast, in a poor village pressed between the sea and the jungle, middle-aged Damaris takes in an orphaned puppy and begins to love it as the daughter she never had. Loneliness, thwarted motherhood, a cooled marriage, and a harsh natural world converge as affection gradually turns into obsession and violence.

A compact tropical gothic in which excessive love for a dog exposes the violence hidden inside loneliness and loss.

This novella begins with the violence and murder of a Palestinian girl in the Negev Desert in August 1949, during the Nakba, and follows a woman in present-day Ramallah as she traces the remnants of that event. By layering two narratives across different times, it renders erased voices, movement under occupation, fear, and the wounds the past leaves in the present with quiet tension.

From one minor detail, the outlines of erased history and continuing violence come into view.

After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a family whose Tehran home has been burned flees to the northern village of Razan to protect both their lives and intellectual freedom. Bahar, the thirteen-year-old daughter who has died, narrates a story of family loss in which the living and the dead, folklore and political violence, continually cross paths.

At the moment her mother receives an enlightenment in a greengage tree, the family's tragedy is retold on the border between history and myth.

Kim Jiyoung lives with her husband and young daughter on the outskirts of Seoul when she begins speaking in the voices of other women, including her mother and friends. Framed as a psychiatrist's account, the novel follows her from birth through school, work, marriage, and motherhood, revealing the sexism and silences that accumulate inside an ordinary life.

Through one woman's life, the discrimination embedded in daily routines quietly comes into focus.

In a village in Tamil Nadu, an elderly farming couple are given a frail black kid by a mysterious, giant-like stranger and raise her as Poonachi. Through the goat's perceptions, the novel turns drought, hunger, livestock bureaucracy, caste, and color hierarchy into an unsettling force behind an apparently pastoral life.

The life of a small black goat reflects both the cruelty of a world meant to protect the vulnerable and the flashes of tenderness that remain within it.

In the fictional Gulf Coast village of La Matosa, the body of a woman known as the Witch is found in an irrigation canal. Through overlapping voices, the novel traces the loneliness, violence, poverty, and misogyny surrounding the murder and the lives drawn into its wake.

Rumors around the Witch's death expose the roots of violence buried in the village.

A short novel that recasts the myth of Athena in contemporary Sweden. Anna, a twelve-year-old girl, is born from the head of her father Conrad; he is taken to a psychiatric hospital, while she is sent to a foster family. Faith, language, loneliness, and longing for her father converge as the book portrays a girl slipping away from ordinary reality through a mythic premise and sharply focused psychological writing.

The loneliness of a girl born as myth reverberates painfully through the landscape of modern family life and psychiatric care.

A translated Hungarian novel in which a baron's return sets off gossip, politics, and philosophical disorder in a provincial town.

A translated Hungarian novel in which a baron's return sets off gossip, politics, and philosophical disorder in a provincial town.

Death Is Hard Work follows three siblings trying to carry their father’s body to his village for burial during the Syrian civil war. A short journey is stretched by checkpoints, violence, and family memory, revealing a world where even burying the dead has become difficult.

A journey to bury a father shows how war has broken life down to its smallest details.

The Barefoot Woman is a memoir that mourns the author’s mother, Stefania, lost in the Rwandan genocide, and reconstructs her life, wisdom, and humor from memory. The family story becomes an act of restoring the dead as individual lives rather than anonymous numbers.

Writing follows the mother’s footprints and becomes a covering for the missing body.

The Memory Police depicts an island where birds, flowers, photographs, and even memories disappear one by one. Under a power that enforces forgetting, the narrator, a novelist, hides her editor and tries to hold what is vanishing in words.

Not forgetting what disappears becomes the last form of resistance.

Crossing follows two young people trying to flee Albania for Italy, shaping a story of exile, sexuality, gender, and self-invention. The narration shifts with each place of arrival, turning suspicion toward fixed identity into the form of the novel itself.

To flee is both to survive and to remake the self again and again.

The Collector of Leftover Souls gathers Eliane Brum’s reportage on marginalized people and places in Brazil in English translation. Through the Amazon, favelas, care homes, and gold-rush landscapes, it portrays everyday resistance and dignity.

The voices of people often overlooked illuminate contemporary Brazil from another angle.

Space Invaders is a brief novel that follows the shadow of a vanished classmate, Estrella, through the memories and dreams of children who grew up under Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Fragmented images from the game become a metaphor for state violence and forgetting.

Memories of children’s play later illuminate the terror of dictatorship.

Will and Testament is a Norwegian novel in which an inheritance dispute reignites a long-buried family secret and trauma. Bergljot’s narration persistently follows anger and self-defense around a past that was not believed.

An inheritance dispute becomes a struggle not over property but over memory and truth.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead tells of a series of deaths in a Polish mountain village through Janina, an older woman devoted to astrology and animal ethics. Mystery, fable, and ecological anger blend together.

The strange suspicion that animals may be taking revenge unsettles the ethics of the world.

Set in a future Japan isolated after a great disaster, this collection centers on a title story in which vigorous elders and frail children inhabit an inverted world. Through the daily life of Yoshiro and his great-grandson Mumei, it asks fable-like questions about environmental collapse, linguistic change, and what passes between generations.

In a diminished world, the time shared by a frail child and his elderly guardian gives off a strange brightness.

In the waiting room of a Paris fertility clinic, Kimiâ Sadr is overtaken by the history of the family that fled Iran for France. The novel layers political revolution, family myth, immigrant dislocation, and sexual identity in a polyphonic and exuberant narrative.

From the quiet of a waiting room erupts a three-generation story of family memory and exile.

Aging illustrator Daniele is asked by his daughter and son-in-law to look after his young grandson Mario in a Naples apartment. Inside the enclosed home, the battle of wits between grandfather and child exposes aging, artistic anxiety, family memory, and the need to reckon with the past.

A few days of confrontation between grandfather and grandson sharply illuminate age, art, and family shadows.

A fragmentary novel in which bodies in motion, travel, anatomy, and memory echo across one another. From the perspective of wanderers, it asks where people come from, where they are going, and what the body remembers, linking episodes about Chopin's heart and anatomical specimens across time and space.

Fragments of travel and the body reveal the anxiety and freedom of lives that never stop moving.

A novel set over a few hours on the eve of a boy's birthday after a mother and son have moved to a small town in northern Norway. Though they seem bound by affection, Vibeke and Jon go out into separate nights, and the alternating viewpoints reveal loneliness and irreversible distance beside intimacy.

As mother and child move separately through a freezing night, the novel quietly illuminates the absence inside love.

This short novel links a 1907 story of grotesque experiments on the boundary between life and death at a sanatorium outside Buenos Aires with a 2009 story of an artist trying to turn his own body into art. Science, art, desire, and faith in progress converge in darkly comic form.

The boundaries between life and death, art and the body, collapse with comedy and discomfort.

A work of nonfiction centered on the testimonies of Yazidi women abducted, abused, and enslaved by ISIS, and on the beekeeper who built a dangerous network to rescue them. The author, a poet and journalist, links the record of violence with survivors' voices and the actions of ordinary people who risked themselves to help.

In the midst of extreme violence, small acts of solidarity become a form of hope.

Set in a village in colonial-era South India, the novel follows Kali and Ponna, a couple unable to conceive, as family and community pressure close in around them. They turn to faith and ritual, until a festival where marital rules loosen for one night emerges as a last possibility.

A loving couple's desire is shaken by custom and the pressure to have a child.

A story collection where Russian reality, memory, reverie, and fantasy cross into one another. Dreams of a dead father, fantasies in an American town, a disintegrating marriage, and a child's religious vision turn everyday details into entrances to other worlds through humor and lyricism.

The fantasies hidden inside ordinary life illuminate memory, politics, and loneliness.

A Norwegian novel in which the stories of Sigrid, a literature student, Linnea, an aspiring film director, Trine, a performance artist, and others intersect around art and desire. Coincidence, quotation, and fantasy accumulate as the characters long to belong to someone or something while learning to live with their own unstable oddness.

Love, art, and coincidence link together until the strangeness of ordinary life suddenly comes into view.