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"A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future:...

A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire is a dangerous and generative force that mutates and...

In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body,...

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's Antiman is a stunning hybrid memoir that blends literary genres to tackle questions of caste, ethnicity, and sexuality,...

A Finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize, a moving and beautifully told story set in a the tumultuous days after the Partition of India and Pakistan, about a wrestling champion and a courtesan...

Winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Praveen Herat's gripping international thriller is a breathtaking exploration of power, identity, unconditional love, and the...

The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences. Description:...

Winner of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature, Lana Bastasic's powerful debut novel Catch the Rabbit is an emotionally rich excavation of the complicated friendship between two women in a...

From the award-winning Serbian author David Albahari comes a devastating and Kafkaesque war fable about an army unit sent to guard a military checkpoint with no idea where they are or who the enemy...

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a...

A gorgeous, contemporary novel by prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin about the effects of cancel culture on a person who has been canceled. Haesoo is a successful therapist who regularly appears...

Banned in China for its taboo allusions to the Tiananmen Square massacre, Sheng Keyi's Death Fugue is a lyrical and explosive dystopian satire that imagines a world of manufactured existence, the...

Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha--called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern...

The Man Booker International?winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania?s most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world...

Winner of the Jarkko Laine Literature Prize In the utterly original, genre-defying, English-language debut of Finnish author Juhani Karila, a young woman's annual pilgrimage to her home in Lapland to...

A towering masterpiece of gothic fiction, Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" brought to life the horror and science fiction genres and spawned countless cultural offspring. With...

Electric, defiant, and singing with melancholia, Alejandra Banca's devastating debut throws its arms around a displaced generation of young Venezuelan migrants, reveling in the clamor and beauty of...

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer--and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires--from Juan Villoro, "Mexico's top f?tbol expert" (NBC News). On a...

"Oddn? Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between...

Winner of the 2017 Eug?e Dabit Prize Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets...

Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New...

Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman's macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris. Pim is a delicate...

The Body Papers: A Memoir (Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W)Author: Alejandro JodorowskyPublisher: Restless BooksPublication Date: March 03, 2020Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage:...

The first-ever English translation of the first known novel to be written about R?nion Island, The Maroons relates in minute detail the horrors of slavery in the nineteenth century. A narrative full...

The Memory Monster - 9781632060600Author: Yishai SaridPublisher: Restless BooksPublication Date: September 07, 2021Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patr?cia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression-by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.The...

From Alejandro Jodorowsky--the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best--comes another autobiographical...

Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois?s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American...

Who will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the...

Does evil lurk in the shadows of the forest, or in the human heart? Eduardo Sangarcía's tale of one woman's witch trial opens the door to deeper horrors. Anna Thalberg is a peasant woman shunned for...