The Space Between Us by Zoya Pirzad (Persian)
Translated by Amy Motlagh
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang (Korean)
Translated by Chi-Young Kim
The Hilltop by Assaf Gavron (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen
Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini (Italian)
Translated by Ann Gagliardi
A Perfect Crime by A Yi (Chinese)
Translated by Anna Holmwood
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (French)
Translated by John Cullen
Minus Me by Ingelin Røssland (YA) (Norwegian)
Translated by Deborah Dawkin
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
Masha Regina by Vadim Levental (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
French Concession by Xiao Bai (Chinese)
Translated by Chenxin Jiang
The Sky Over Lima by Juan Gómez Bárcena (Spanish)
Translated by Andrea Rosenberg
A Very Special Year by Thomas Montasser (German)
Translated by Jamie Bulloch
Umami by Laia Jufresa (Spanish)
Translated by Sophie Hughes
The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl (Danish)
Translated by K. E. Semmel
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault (French)
Translated by Liedewy Hawke
Three Envelopes by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (Spanish)
Translated by Megan McDowell
The Postman’s Fiancée by Denis Thériault (French)
Translated by John Cullen
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha (Brazilian Portuguese)
Translated by Eric M. B. Becker
The Temptation to Be Happy by Lorenzo Marone (Italian)
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (Japanese)
Translated by Alison Watts
They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen (Finnish)
Translated by Kristian London
The Tiger and the Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro (Italian)
Translated by Nicoleugenia Prezzavento and Vicki Satlow
The Woman at 1,000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason (Icelandic)
Translated by Brian FitzGibbon
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Arabic)
Translated by Jonathan Wright
Back Up by Paul Colize (French)
Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
Damnation by Peter Beck (German)
Translated by Jamie Bulloch
Oneiron by Laura Lindstedt (Finnish)
Translated by Owen Witesman
The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea by Denis Thériault (French)
Translated by Liedewy Hawke
The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi (Arabic)
Translated by Luke Leafgren
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
Lala by Jacek Dehnel (Polish)
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Bogotá 39: New Voices from Latin America (Spanish and Portuguese) Short story anthology
Last Instructions by Nir Hezroni (Hebrew)
Translated by Steven Cohen
The Day I Found You by Pedro Chagas Freitas (Portuguese)
Translated by Daniel Hahn
Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin (Russian)
Translated by Lisa C. Hayden
In/Half by Jasmin B. Frelih (Slovenian)
Translated by Jason Blake
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A Oneworld Book
First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2019
This ebook published 2019
Originally published in Russian Зулейха открывает глаза by AST, Redaktsia Eleny Shubinoi imprint, 2015
Published by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. Literary Agency
Copyright © Guzel Yakhina, 2015, 2019
Translation copyright © Lisa C. Hayden, 2019
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ISBN 978-1-78607-349-5
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