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An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic...

At a time when she'd rather be making her own way in the world, an unnamed young woman finds herself instead moving to a small town at the seaside to care for her uncle. He's a disabled veteran with...

b, Book, and MeAuthor: Sagwa KimPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: February 11, 2020Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1931883963ISBN-13: 9781931883962

Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes...

Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, daily life for him and his friends--purveyors of fake IDs and...

This short, emotional novel follows three generations of Croatian peasants in the aftermath of World War II--Author: Damir KarakasPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of...

A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney. It was meant to be the trip of a...

Cuier alico, 4)Author: Caio Fernando Abreu, Ang?ica Freitas, Carol Bensimon, Jo? Gilberto Noll, Wilson Bueno, Ana Cristina Cesar, Cidinha da Silva, Carla Diacov, Ricardo Domeneck, Cristina Judar,...

Home: New Arabic Poems (Calico (2))Author: Iman MersalPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: September 08, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A narrator's journey to discover his true self and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression--Author: João Gilberto NollPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: Oct 18, 2022Number of...

A consideration of the complex afterlives of grief, the inheritance of place, and the uses and misuses of truth--Author: Johannes AnyuruPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number...

Kaya DaysAuthor: Carl de SouzaPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: 14-Sep-21Number of Pages: 178 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949641198ISBN-13: 9781949641196

Lake Like a MirrorAuthor: Sok Fong HoPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: April 14, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 193188398XISBN-13: 9781931883986

"Eminently worthy of acclaim." -Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far)An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of...

As Lord begins, a Brazilian author is arriving at London's Heathrow airport for reasons he doesn't fully understand. Only aware that he has been invited to take part in a mysterious mission, the...

For readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of FarewellsWriting in the wake of her...

Kim Sagwa is South Korea's young, brilliant, fearless writer. -- Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War "She doesn't know what to do, and that amounts to a state of torture." Crystal toils day and night...

"Marie NDiaye is a master of creating menacing, off-kilter worlds that speak to the truth of human experience."-Ayşeg?l Savaş, author of White on WhiteThere is something very wrong with...

The first collection of contemporary Swahili fiction of its kind introduces eight East African authors searching-through noise, humor, tradition, and mystery-for a future that is theirs to...

A sweeping family saga from one of the most revered writers in Dutch letters, Off-White marks the English-language debut of Astrid Roemer, recipient of the P.C. Hooft Prize and the 2021 Prize for...

It starts when a young boy becomes obsessed with an empty and decayed coal plant, coming to believe that it is tied to mysterious disappearances throughout the countryside. But as a young man, with...

Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend's father). And...

SlippingAuthor: Mohamed KheirPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: June 08, 2021Number of Pages: 187 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949641163ISBN-13: 9781949641165

Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is now recognized as a major Portuguese writer of the twentieth century. In the short story she found the perfect vessel for her frank depictions of tragic,...

A nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege, and social amnesia, the latest from the world-renowned, Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist unveils a small community characterized by absurd kindness,...

Doppelg?ngers, a murderer's guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances-these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons...

They Will Drown in Their Mothers' TearsAuthor: Johannes AnyuruPublisher: Two Lines PressPublication Date: Nov 17, 2020Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In these early stories, Wolfgang Hilbig (1941-2007) summons visions of smoldering factory pits, rampant nature, and split identities. Isabel Fargo Cole's translations masterfully distill the East...

Visible gathers six genre-defying works that blend text and images. Can text itself be an image? Can an abstract painting tell a complex story? This special large-format edition of the Calico Series...

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was...