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“A magnificent and powerful novel.” —Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País In September 1927, Nalo starts working as a trainee for the gardener at the blue palace of the Belgian engineers. A time of revolutions and war, his years at the palace will bring his awakening to life. With a careful and crafted prose, Fulgencio Argüelles displays a varied array of characters who share friendship, love, and hardship.
Categories: Spanish
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His mother called him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks at the local bar ensure he’s the butt of all their jokes. He spends his days whittling wood, counting pigeons and adding his own name to the bottom of the list on the town war memorial. So how could Germain possibly understand what a casual encounter on a park bench with eighty-five year old Margueritte could mean? In this touchingly comic tale of an unusual friendship, that first conversation […]
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Sophie is haunted by the things she can’t remember – and visions from the past she will never forget. One morning, she wakes to find that the little boy in her care is dead. She has no memory of what happened. And whatever the truth,her side of the story is no match for the evidence piled against her. Her only hiding place is in a new identity. A new life, with a man she has met online. But Sophie is […]
Categories: Lemaitre, Thriller, Verhoeven Trilogy
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October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d’Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and […]
Categories: Francophone Literature, French, Lemaitre • Tags: Lemaitre, Prix Goncourt
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Winner of the 2015 CWA International Dagger Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Élysées. Shot three times, beaten almost beyond recognition, she is lucky to survive, but her ordeal has only just begun. Lying helpless in her hospital bed, with her assailant still at large, Anne is in grave danger. Just one thing stands in her favour – a partner who will break […]
Categories: Awards & Nominations, Crime Fiction, CWA International Dagger, French, Lemaitre, Thriller, Verhoeven Trilogy • Tags: Awards, CWA International Dagger, French, Thriller
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The Occupation Trilogy sees the first English publication of Patrick Modiano’s first novel, “La Place de l’Étoile“. A vitriolic, harrowing, hallucinatory hand grenade of a book. The translations of The Night Watch and Ring Roads (by Caroline Hillier and Patricia Wolf respectively) have been entirely revised for this edition. Publisher’s Synopsis When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the ‘art of memory’ to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during […]
Categories: Awards & Nominations, French • Tags: Modiano, Nobel Prize., Occupation Trilogy
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction prize J. and Elena abandon their life in the bohemian, intellectual circles of Medellin and move to the sea, to a desolate, barren stretch of coastline somewhere in Antioquía, where they sink every peso they possess into buying a finca – a vast estate of several hundred hectares.. Neither has any experience of farming, of rural life, or of the customs and traditions of the local people; instead they are driven by a […]
Categories: Awards & Nominations, Colombia, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Latin America, Spanish • Tags: Colombia, Pushkin Press, Tomas Gonzalez
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Police Inspector Vilar is a broken man. His son was snatched away at the school gate and his marriage collapsed soon after. Now he keeps watch outside the school every morning, his 9mm pistol resting on the passenger seat. A case comes his way – Victor, a troubled teenager, returns home from school to find his mother’s lifeless body, savagely beaten, almost unrecognisable. As Victor is sent first to a care home, then to a foster family, Vilar hits a […]
Categories: Crime Fiction, French, Thriller • Tags: Bordeaux, Crime, Le Corre
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2008. George ‘The Wall’ Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his career as a police officer, his chief concern is how to fund his prostitution habit. When a shady bouncer offers him a photograph, an address and a chance to finally turn a profit with his fists, the temptation is irresistible. Before long the money is flowing, but […]
Categories: Algeria, Crime Fiction, Thriller • Tags: Algeria, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Varenne
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In 2014, UNESCO’s World Book Capital is Port Harcourt, Nigeria—the first city in Africa to receive the designation by public bid. Port Harcourt Book Festival are joining forces with the internationally renowned Hay Festival, which will bring to Port Harcourt its 39 Project, following on the success of Bogotá 39 in 2007 and Beirut 39 in 2010. This year, the 39 project identifies the thirty-nine most promising young writers under the age of forty in sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. […]
Categories: Francophone Literature, Spanish • Tags: Africa39, Congo, Equitorial Guinea, Kinshasa
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Synopsis Cadiz, 1811. Spain is battling for independence while America is doing the same. But in the streets of the most liberal city in Europe other battles are taking place. A serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near the site where a French bomb has just fallen. It is the job of policeman Rogelio Tizon to find the murderer and avoid public scandal in a city already posied on […]
Categories: Awards & Nominations, Crime Fiction, CWA International Dagger, Spanish, Thriller • Tags: Cadiz, Crime Fiction, CWA International Dagger, Historical Fiction, Perez-Reverte
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Set in Algiers Harraga and tells the story of two strong but very different women living in a ferociously male-dominated world. One night, the reclusive Lamia hears a loud banging on her door. She opens it cautiously, trying not to think of who might be out there, to find Cherifa on her doorstep, all of five-foot nothing, seventeen, dressed like a disco queen, and five months’ pregnant. Lamia thinks the father is her wayward younger brother Sofiane, from whom she […]
Categories: Algeria, Francophone Literature, French • Tags: Algeria, Boualem Sansal, Francophone Literature