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La neige brûle
Grasset

La neige brûle

Debray-R

Set around the encounter between Imilla and Boris in Havana, it tells a love story torn apart by revolution and violence.

Mal d'amour
Fayard

Mal d'amour

Fayard-J

Three men’s feelings converge around one woman, and the novel traces the crossings of affection and desire, idealization and disappointment. It is a love story that carefully follows emotional instability itself.

Falling Awake
W W Norton & Co Inc

Falling Awake

Alice Oswald

自然や生命の循環を叙事的かつ詩的に描いた作品。声と間の交錯を用い、世界の再発見と時間性を鋭く照射する詩篇が並ぶ。

Love
Archipelago

Love

Hanne Orstavik, Martin Aitken

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.

Hotel Silence
Grove Press, Black Cat

Hotel Silence

Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Brian FitzGibbon

Ör, known in English as Hotel Silence, follows Jónas, a divorced Icelandic handyman whose life has collapsed and who travels to a war-scarred country intending to die. As he repairs a damaged hotel and helps the people around it, he begins to see his own wounds in a different light.

Asymmetry: A Novel
Simon & Schuster

Asymmetry: A Novel

Lisa Halliday

A novel built around an uneven love affair and an airport detention, tracing power imbalances across two very different settings.

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Riverhead Books

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú

This nonfiction account follows the author's years as a U.S. Border Patrol agent and the migrants, deaths, and institutional violence he encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border. His position inside the system intersects with the lives of those crossing it, revealing the human cost of border policy.

Call Me Zebra
Mariner Books

Call Me Zebra

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

After her father's death, Zebra, a narrator shaped by exile, retraces a Mediterranean route carrying her family history and a library of literary references. The novel explores loss, movement, and self-invention in a sharp, comic, book-saturated voice.

The Book of Boy: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Greenwillow Books

The Book of Boy: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Set in medieval Europe, this historical fantasy follows Boy, a servant on a manor, as he travels with the pilgrim Secundus in search of sacred relics. Through danger and revelation, a child who has felt monstrous begins to discover his origins and his own worth.

The World was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer
Blackburn Press

The World was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

David Fairchild, Kay Elizabeth, Kay Alfred

A memoir-like account of plant hunting and gardening around the world. It recounts the experiences behind the introduction of new plants and reflects on the places, people, and practical work that shaped Fairchild’s life in horticulture.

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Oxford Univ Pr

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the gender ambiguous, transformative, artistic African Americans whose art would subjectivize Black people and embolden greatness. Alain Locke (1885-1954) believed Black Americans were sleeping giant that could transform America into a truly humanistic and pluralistic society. In the 1920s, these views were radical, but by announcing a New Negro in art, literature, music, dance, theatre, Locke shifted the discussion of race from the problem-centered discourses of politics and economics to the new creative industries of American modernism. Although this Europhile detested jazz, he used the Jazz Age interest in Black aesthetics to plant the notion in American minds that Black people were America's quintessential artists and Black urban communities were crucibles of creativity where a different life was possible in America. By promoting art, a Black dandy subjectivized Black people and became in the process a New Negro himself.