Frank Wynne
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically,...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1952 and the grown children of Louis Pelletier, a prominent businessman with a dark past, have settled in Paris. Jean, the menacing eldest brother, hides a terrible secret and is trapped in a stifling marriage, his days lightened only by his love for his three-year-old daughter. François, an up-and-coming reporter, is caught up in a volatile love affair. And Hélène, their younger sister, strives to make her own way as a journalist, but as...
23) Vernon Subutex 1
Author
Series
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly...
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. The United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking apart. The Arab world is embroiled in crisis. Thus divided and lacking solidarity, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment...
Author
Language
English
Description
An elite prep school frozen in the snow. Three friends linked by a tragic secret. One girl taken by the night. The Côte d'Azur - 25 years ago: One freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl in her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. For Vinca, "love is everything or nothing." She will never be seen again....
26) Comrade Papa
Author
Series
Publisher
Biblioasis
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ' returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior. In an attempt to avoid life as a factory worker, Dabilly, a young white man in late nineteenth-century France, seeks colonial adventure in Africa. Still mourning the recent deaths of his parents, he joins a beleaguered French general trying to set up trading routes on the Ivory coast which, in 1880, is still untouched by colonization....
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Álvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the crónica form--a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative nonfiction, and novelistic techniques--to illuminate a particularly turbulent period in Cuban history, from the reestablishment of diplomatic...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis, a propulsive and riveting narrative investigation into an infamous fraud: a man who has been lying his entire life. Who is Enric Marco? An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud:...
29) Blood wedding
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sophie Duguet--young, successful, and happily married--thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she'd parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she'd said and done, too. And when she was detained by the police for shoplifting, a crime she didn't remember committing, the confusion and blackouts...
31) Among the lost
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated of their money, their dreams, their very names, even as countless others scrabble to cross the border, trying to reach a land they call El Paraíso. In this grim inferno, a fierce love has blossomed - one that was born...
32) Animalia
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. Éléonore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village...
Author
Publisher
Maclehose Press
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with...
35) The son of man
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the "extraordinary" Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Best Translated Book Award, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by transgressions of the past. In the soft morning light, a man, a woman, and a child drive beyond the borders of a sleepy French post-industrial town into...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave-he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random women have begun to turn up throughout the city, victims of a shadowy killer. Police Comisario Rogelio Tizón has been assigned the case. Known for his razor-sharp investigation skills--as well as his brutal interrogation...
38) Mafalda
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing the South American comic sensation starring a hilarious 6-year-old whose spunky self-confidence will inspire budding activists and curious middle grade readers along with adult fans. Mafalda may be small--but her hopes for the world are as big as her heart! Six-year-old Mafalda loves democracy and hates soup. What democratic sector do cats fall into? she asks, then unfurls a toilet paper red carpet and gives her very own presidential...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to understand the essence of the local culture, the intrepid young scholar scurries around restlessly on his moped to interview residents. But what David doesn't yet know is that here, in this seemingly ordinary place, once the stage for wars and revolutions,...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Publication Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote tropical coast. Among mango trees, hot sands and everlasting sunshine, they plan to live the Good Life, self-sufficient and close to nature.


