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AUTUMN 2024
From Savagery
Alejandra Banca
translated from the Spanish
by
Katie Brown
Narrated by Stephanie Cannon
ENGLISH PEN AWARD WINNER
“Banca’s characters grab you by the heart and refuse to let you go. Visceral, unflinching, ferocious, unashamed—an important and much-needed entry to the world’s literature.”
—Jade Song, author of Chlorine
“From Savagery asks that we hold . . . the broken pieces of the mirror that used to reflect and contain what it meant to be Venezuelan, and find in the pain of the thousand cuts the determination to do more than just survive and to be more than just ruins. A beautiful, devastating, and absolutely essential masterpiece.”
—Irina R. Troconis, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Cornell University, author of The Necromantic State
“Twelve round-trip stories, from here and from there . . . In these wild pages, Banca stirs the emotional memory of the immigrant, and among the tears, uncertainties, and concerns for subsistence, she finds traces of hope and tenderness.”
— Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles, author of The Lisbon Syndrome
Release date: 8 October 2024
ISBN: 9781738522071
Price: £10.99
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Between This World And The Next
Praveen Herat
Narrated by Rory Barnett
RESTLESS BOOKS AWARD FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING
“Set in Cambodia, Between This World and the Next is a tender, yet clear-eyed thriller . . . Elevated by a subtle hum of near-poetic prose, it is a compelling debut by a novelist who . . . cares about enduring human questions of love and rage, witness and action, and what it means to be good.”
—Nii Ayikwei Parkes, author of Azucar
“After a chance encounter, Song and Fearless, each burdened with trauma, each with grief, set off on an extraordinary journey. First through the Cambodian underworld to uncover the mastermind behind a brutal criminal ring, then across Asia, Africa, and Europe to find and save each other, and finally through a mazy wilderness of arms dealers, spies, ordinary citizens and corrupt, powerful bureaucrats to see if even in this fallen world, they might retain their fundamental humanity and, just possibly, also find the one true reason to live: love. Thrilling, terrifying, propulsive and complex, endowed with unforgettable characters and imbued with great beauty, Between This World and the Next is a terrific, gorgeous novel.”
—Paul Griner, author of The Book of Otto and Liam
Release date: 8 October 2024
ISBN: 9781917254014
Price: £10.99
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Celebration
Damir Karakaš
translated from the Croatian
by
Ellen Elias-Bursać
Narrated by Tim Bruce
“A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR MANY CROATIAN CRITICS” —Satellite Review
“A masterpiece . . . an event in Croatian modern literature.”
—Vijenac
“Dark intoxicating reading from a literary wizard.”
—Novi list
“The reader’s hair will frequently stand on end from pure aesthetic thrill.”
—Miljenko Jergovic
“A novel of profound meaning and essential literary beauty.”
—Večernji list
Release date: 17 October 2024
ISBN: 9781917254045
Price: £10.99
The Guardian of Surfaces
Bothayna Al-Essa
translated from the Arabic
by
Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
“A necessary masterpiece, proving that true fiction is not an escape into a dreamlike Wonderland but a cautionary excursion into the depths of the human condition.”
—Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading
“Meaning, metaphor, and the material are all at stake in this sly fable of a near-future won by censors who ban not just books but imagination, dreams, and desire. I'd follow these characters anywhere.”
—Emily Drabinski, president of The American Library Association
“Time will tell whether The Guardian of Surfaces possesses the same kind of world-changing verve of, say, Orwell's 1984 . . . In the meantime, call all your friends, and especially your enemies . . . and let them know that you've heard that Al-Essa's novel might, especially with its liberal use of unregulated rabbits, be even more dangerous than some already banned books.”
—Bruce J. Krajewski, Ancillary Review of Books
“A whirlwind of literary delights.”
—Tonja Drecker, Bookworm for Kids
Release date: 28 November 2024
ISBN: 9781917254076
Price: £10.99