ASIMPLE STORY
LEILA GUERRIERO
‘An epic of noble proportions… [Guerriero] is a mistress of the telling phrase or the revealing detail’ Spectator
FORTUNES OF FRANCE
ROBERT MERLE
1 The Brethren
2 City of Wisdom and Blood
3 Heretic Dawn
‘Swashbuckling historical fiction’ Guardian
TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY
ANDRÉS NEUMAN
‘A beautiful, accomplished noveclass="underline" as ambitious as it is generous, as moving as it is smart’ Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Guardian
ONE NIGHT, MARKOVITCH
AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN
‘Wry, ironically tinged and poignant… this is a fable for the twenty-first century’ Sunday Telegraph
KARATE CHOP & MINNA NEEDS REHEARSAL SPACE
DORTHE NORS
‘Unique in form and effect… Nors has found a novel way of getting into the human heart’ Guardian
RED LOVE: THE STORY OF AN EAST GERMAN FAMILY
MAXIM LEO
‘Beautiful and supremely touching… an unbearably poignant description of a world that no longer exists’ Sunday Telegraph
SONG FOR AN APPROACHING STORM
PETER FRÖBERG IDLING
‘Beautifully evocative… a must-read novel’ Daily Mail
THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY
PASI ILMARI JÄÄSKELÄINEN
‘Wonderfully knotty… a very grown-up fantasy masquerading as quirky fable. Unexpected, thrilling and absurd’ Sunday Telegraph
STAMMERED SONGBOOK: A MOTHER’S BOOK OF HOURS
ERWIN MORTIER
‘Mortier has a poet’s eye for vibrant detail and prose to match… If this is a book of fragmentation, it is also a son’s moving tribute’ Observer
BARCELONA SHADOWS
MARC PASTOR
‘As gruesome as it is gripping… the writing is extraordinarily vivid… Highly recommended’ Independent
THE LIBRARIAN
MIKHAIL ELIZAROV
‘A romping good tale… Pretty sensational’ Big Issue
WHILE THE GODS WERE SLEEPING
ERWIN MORTIER
‘A monumental, phenomenal book’ De Morgen
BUTTERFLIES IN NOVEMBER
AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
‘A funny, moving and occasionally bizarre exploration of life’s upheavals and reversals’ Financial Times
BY BLOOD
ELLEN ULLMAN
‘Delicious and intriguing’ Daily Telegraph
THE LAST DAYS
LAURENT SEKSIK
‘Mesmerising… Seksik’s portrait of Zweig’s final months is dignified and tender’ Financial Times
TALKING TO OURSELVES
ANDRÉS NEUMAN
‘This is writing of a quality rarely encountered… when you read Neuman’s beautiful novel, you realise a very high bar has been set’ Guardian
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2002-nen no surō bōto by FURUKAWA Hideo
Copyright © 2006 by FURUKAWA Hideo
Chugoku-yuki no surō bōto RMX by FURUKAWA Hideo
Copyright © 2003 by FURUKAWA Hideo
English Translation copyright © 2017 by David Boyd
English translation rights arranged with FURUKAWA Hideo through Japan UNI Agency, Inc. Tokyo
First published by Pushkin Press in 2017
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Centre for Literary Translation and the Nippon Foundation
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