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The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel
HarperVia

The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel

Stefano Massini, Richard Dixon

Tracing three generations of the Lehman family, the novel shows how immigrant enterprise grows into a vast financial empire. It is a sweeping, kinetic story that fuses family history with the history of capitalism.

How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry Lup)
Liverpool Univ Pr

How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry Lup)

Bhanu Kapil

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. Poetry Book Society Choice for Summer 2020. Bhanu Kapil's extraordinary and original work been published in the U.S. over the last two decades to create what she calls in Ban en Banlieue (2015) a 'Literature that is not made from literature.' During that time Kapil has established herself as one of our most important and ethical writers, whose books often defy categorisation, as she fearlessly engages with colonialism and its ongoing and devastating aftermath. Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart-stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told. How To Wash A Heart, Kapil's first full-length collection published in the U.K., depicts the complex relations that emerge between an immigrant guest and a citizen host. Drawn from a first performance at the ICA in London in 2019, and using poetry as a mode of interrogation that is both rigorous, compassionate, surreal, comic, painful and tender, by turn, Kapil begins to ask difficult and urgent questions about the limits of inclusion, hospitality and care.

Minor Detail
New Directions

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette

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.

A Portable Paradise
Peepal Tree Pr Ltd

A Portable Paradise

Roger Robinson

This poetry collection addresses migration, family, Black British life, and the memory of the Grenfell Tower fire through musical rhythm and narrative force. Paradise is presented not as a distant place but as something to carry, protect, and share.

完全版 マウス――アウシュヴィッツを生きのびた父親の物語 (フェニックスシリーズ)
パンローリング株式会社

完全版 マウス――アウシュヴィッツを生きのびた父親の物語 (フェニックスシリーズ)

アート・スピーゲルマン, 小野耕世

A graphic novel that follows Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman's testimony alongside the author's conversations with his father, Art. By portraying Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, it layers family history, memory, guilt, and generational rupture into a sharply visual account of war's afterlife.

The Old Drift: A Novel
Hogarth

The Old Drift: A Novel

Namwali Serpell

An epic story told through the generations of three families, set against the backdrop of the formation of the city and country of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia). It features a grand narrative structure in which colonialism, technological innovation, and fate intertwine.

Velocities: Stories
Meerkat Pr

Velocities: Stories

Kathe Koja

A collection of Kathe Koja stories in which cracks in ordinary life meet the supernatural. The pieces move through dread, desire, and drift.