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.