Translated books we loved in 2017

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A Horse Walks into a Bar

David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (trans.)

Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry - and all…

$24.99

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Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Dorthe Nors

In Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, Dorthe Nors brings her distinctive blend of style, humor, and insight to a poignant journey of one woman in search of herself when there’s no one…

$29.99

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Anna

Niccolo Ammaniti,Jonathan Hunt

The extraordinary new dystopian novel from the author of the international bestseller I’m Not Scared

$29.99

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The Trap

Melanie Raabe

I know you killed my sister. I wrote this book for you.  

$22.99

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A Winter Book: Selected Stories

Tove Jansson

A collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides…

$22.99

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Multiple Choice

Alejandro Zambra

Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache.  

$26.99

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Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be…

$22.99

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Black Moses

Alain Mabanckou

It’s 1970, and in the People’s Republic of Congo a Marxist-Leninist revolution is ushering in a new age. But over at the orphanage on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire where young…

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