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An archeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth.

After years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and...

Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by...

In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. Reporter Paula Ramón experienced the crisis firsthand as her middle-class family saw their quality of life deteriorate. Public services no longer functioned. Money lost its value. Her mother couldn’t afford to buy food, which was increasingly scarce. The once-prosperous country fell into ruin. Like many others, Ramón’s family struggled to survive each day in their beloved city, Maracaibo—until, one by one, they each made the unbearable choice to leave the home they love.

'Bold, dazzling, hilarious' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A revelation' NEW YORK TIMES 'As sultry as the summer weather' GUARDIAN 'Sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu's talent is thrilling' IRISH TIMES Stuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife's volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl...

Sick and abandoned by his wife and son, Oséias decides to go back to his hometown after 20 years away. During this time apart, he has heard about his family only through sporadic phone calls from his younger sister, Isabela. The shadow of the suicide of their sister Lígia, when she was 15, lingers over Oséias as he tries to reestablish contact with his siblings. 

A dark and masterful portrait of a generation in crisis, from one of the most exciting young voices in international literature The world had been theirs in the late 90s: they were the young provocateurs behind a countercultural scene, digital bohemians creating a new future. But fifteen years...

LONGLISTED for the 2025 International Booker Prize A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival. "Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the mouth...

An engrossing, gritty and adrenalin-fueled coming of age novel, marked by displacement and never-closing family wounds. 'There's much to admire in this layered work' Publishers Weekly Cecília Matzenbacher is a taxidermist working in Northern California. Her passion of restoring once-living...

'So biting and refreshingly honest that the real world feels just a little more ridiculous by comparison' Jinwoo Chong, author of Flux 'Honest, intelligent and funny' Andrea Abreu, author of Dogs of Summer Life is like a supermarket. Her name is Meryem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult...