Linda Coverdale

Annie Ernaux

This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood into womanhood. A fictionalized account of the author's teenage awakening and of her later life as a 30-year-old married teacher and mother of two infant sons, A Frozen Woman mixes affection, rage, and bitterness to reveal Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting, and inspiring.

A Frozen Woman

Edmund White

Herve Guibert

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. A young man called Azel is intent upon leaving one way or another. At the brink of despair he meets Miguel, a wealthy Spanish gallery-owner, who promises to take him to Barcelona if Azel will become his lover.

Leaving Tangier

Flavia Bujor

In the magical world of Fairytale, three teenage girls--Jade, Opal, and Amber--embark on a dangerous quest to save their enchanted land, a journey that also has profound repercussions in a parallel world, where a young girl named Joa battles for her life in a Parisian hospital. A first novel. Reprint.

The Prophecy of the Stones

Elisabeth Gille

Gille was just five when her mother, Russian writer Irene Nemirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz, and the two never heard from each other again. This work is a fictionalized account of their wrenching separation and a piercing look at what it means to survive mass genocide.

A Novel of War and Friendship

Shadows of a Childhood

Tanguy Viel

In the hope of retiring from their collective lives of crime, a group of outlaws plots an imaginative and brazen hold-up of the local casino in a small French seaside town.

A Novel

The Absolute Perfection of Crime

Antoine Volodine

Feigning madness in order to escape being tortured by the revolutionary secret police, Latin American civil war survivor Fabian Golpiez is forced to use indigenous names in order to prove his innocence and true Tupi Indian identity.

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