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• Tomb of Sand

  a Novel

  Gītāñjali Śrī, 1957-

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  Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, Shree’s novel explores topics including Buddhism, global warming, feminism, Partition, gender binary, transcending borders, and the profound joys of life.

• I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

  a Novel

  Solà, Irene, 1990-

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  As an ancient woman nears death in a remote farmhouse, generations of fierce, unruly women, both living and dead, gather for a raucous, ghostly celebration in Solà's novel, translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem.

• Tender Is the Flesh

  a Novel

  Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974-

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  In Bazterrica's dystopian novel, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten.

• It's the End of the World, My Love

  Gorbunova, Alla, 1985-

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  Experience the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg through Gorbunova's vignettes, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter.

• Minor Detail

  Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah,

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  Shibli's novel about the murder of a Palestinian girl in the aftermath of the Nakba and a young woman in Ramallah who becomes obsessed with the crime was translated into English from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette.

• This Is Not Miami

  Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-

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  Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes, Melchor's collection of "relatos" or "tales" center around real events in the Mexican city of Veracruz.

• Thirst

  a Novel

  Yuszczuk, Marina, 1978-

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  Argentinian author Yuszczuk's first novel to be released in English, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, centers on a woman in present-day Buenos Aires grappling with her dying mother who encounters a vampire in a cemetery.

• Violeta

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel,

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  Acclaimed Chilean author Allende's 2022 novel was translated into English from the Spanish by Frances Riddle and depicts the life of a woman whose life is bookended by two pandemics, the Spanish flu epidemic and COVID-19.

• Mild Vertigo

  Kanai, Mieko, 1947-

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  Japanese author Kanai's novel of contemporary Tokyo, translated by Polly Barton, portrays a seemingly unremarkable woman who goes about her day while suffering the loneliness and dissociation of late-stage capitalist society.

• If Not, Winter

  Fragments of Sappho

  Sappho

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  Award-winning poet Anne Carson renders what remains of the poetry of the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho into English, using brackets and space to give the reader a sense of what is absent as well as what is present on the papyrus.

• Disoriental

  Djavadi, Négar, 1969-

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  Djavadi's debut novel, translated from the French by Tina Kover, was a finalist for the National Book Award. In it, an Iranian refugee awaiting her appointment in a Parisian fertility clinic is visited by the spirits of her ancestors.

• Whereabouts

  Lahiri, Jhumpa,

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lahiri, who moved to Rome and learned to speak Italian as an adult, first wrote this novel about an unnamed protagonist in an unnamed European city in Italian and then translated it to English herself.

• Paul Celan & the Trans-Tibetan Angel

  Tawada, Yōko, 1960-

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  Tawada, who was born in Tokyo and lives in Berlin, writes in both Japanese and German. Her post-COVID novel about the friendship between two lovers of Paul Celan's poetry was translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.

• Simple Passion

  Ernaux, Annie, 1940-

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  This brief novelette from the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature follows an unnamed narrator (is it Ernaux herself?) throughout a two-year relationship with an indifferent lover, translated from the French by Tanya Leslie.

• Blood Feast

  the Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf

  Mustaẓraf, Malīkah,

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  The complete body of short fiction by Moustadraf, a cult favorite of feminist Moroccan literature who passed away at only thirty-seven, was translated from the Arabic by Alice Guthrie

• Human Acts

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  Han, the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, followed her acclaimed English-language debut The Vegetarian with this novel about the student uprising in Gwangju, which Deborah Smith translated from the Korean.