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Spain
Historical Fiction
I could close my eyes and smell the fragrant flowers, spices, salty air, and the street grime! The twists and turns were unexpected and unpredictable.
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Contemporary Fiction
Turkey
Contemporary Fiction
The book cover of The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel, translated from the Turkish by Mark David Wyers. The cover shows a collage of vivid green leaves and ferns that encroach from the edges to form a haven on a black background. The silhouette of a young woman exists in that negative space, wherein the title is written in white script.
Şebnem İşigüzel
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Contemporary Fiction
Şebnem İşigüzel
Translated by Mark David Wyers
A girl comes of age amid violent unrest in Turkey and finds an unexpected way to escape in this award-winning and powerful new release.
Turkey
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Istanbul, Turkey of the green forest garden at the base of Hagia Sophia. The faded, ochre walls of the massive monument rise from the foliage to the blue domes and turrets before meeting the golden sky at sunset. Seabirds glide on the intersecting currents of east and west.
A girl comes of age amid violent unrest in Turkey and finds an unexpected way to escape in this award-winning and powerful new release.
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Thriller
South Africa
Thriller
The book cover of Hard Rain by Irma Venter, translated from the Afrikaans by Elsa Silke. The cover shows an off-road utility vehicle leaving a trail of dust as it speeds through the Serengeti of Tanzania, fleeing the sun’s harsh rays. The title appears in large block text, in red to contrast with the scene that is sapped of all other shades but yellow.
Irma Venter
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Thriller
Irma Venter
Translated by Elsa Silke
Chaos, murder, and a hint of sizzling romance descend on East Africa in this electrifying page-turner and new release.
South Africa
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from the Western Cape of South Africa of a verdant valley at the base of the Simonsberg mountains. Agriculture foregrounds eroded cliffs whose crags are simultaneously lit and shadowed by the sun from the west, where a dust storm also stirs.
Chaos, murder, and a hint of sizzling romance descend on East Africa in this electrifying page-turner and new release.
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True Crime
Sweden
True Crime
The book cover of The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa, translated from the Swedish by Tara F. Chace. The cover shows a black and white photograph of the city of Stockholm, Sweden at night. The distant lights reflect off of an elusive body of water in the foreground. Low clouds are lit from below by those same lights and slightly obscure the title text, which burns on the cover in yellow and orange.
Jan Stocklassa
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True Crime
Jan Stocklassa
Translated by Tara F. Chace
The author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them to solve one of Sweden's greatest unsolved crimes.
Sweden
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph of Stockholm, Sweden at dusk. Lit by street-lamps, abandoned railway tracks intersect on their way to the Gamla Stan, the Old Town. The spire of the Riddarholm Church pierces the blue night, which itself pushes the remaining orange glow of day toward the horizon, to follow the sun already gone.
The author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them to solve one of Sweden's greatest unsolved crimes.
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Chinese Literature
China
Chinese Literature
The book cover of Life by Lu Yao, translated from the Chinese by Chloe Estep. The cover shows the book’s title in large white lettering on a background of solid seafoam green. Amongst a few bamboo leaves, an illustrated hand wields a pair of red chopsticks to cradle a dumpling in place of the tittle for the letter “i” in “life”.
Lu Yao
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Chinese Literature
Lu Yao
Translated by Chloe Estep
From the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, this essential masterwork follows a young man whose life is upended as he trades rural life for the big city.
China
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from rural China of a terraced rice field. The day has begun its transition to night, casting a soft orange haze on the rolling hills in the distance.
From the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, this essential masterwork follows a young man whose life is upended as he trades rural life for the big city.
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Romantic Comedy
Germany
Romantic Comedy
The book cover of Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas, translated from the German by Alison Layland. The cover shows an illustrated cityscape with the title text overlaid in handwritten script. A man sits on a park bench and a woman strolls through the frame — both mysteriously hold the same red notebook.
Charlotte Lucas
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Romantic Comedy
Charlotte Lucas
Translated by Alison Layland
In this heart-warming story about second chances, a man consumed by a meaningless life tracks down the owner of a lost daily planner and steps into a whole new life.
Germany
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Germany of a white fixed-gear bicycle. It sits seemingly abandoned against a wooden wall that has been painted the color of the sky.
In this heart-warming story about second chances, a man consumed by a meaningless life tracks down the owner of a lost daily planner and steps into a whole new life.
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Biographical Fiction
Israel
Biographical Fiction
The book cover of The First Mrs. Rothschild: A Novel by Sara Aharoni, translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan. The cover shows a woman, clad in a blue dress with white lace trim, as she lingers at a window, looking out. The title is in a gold font.
Sara Aharoni
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Biographical Fiction
Sara Aharoni
Translated by Yardenne Greenspan
In this award-winning historical saga, young lovers in a German-Jewish ghetto rise to become the foremost financial dynasty in the world.
Israel
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Israel of a courtyard in the old city of Jerusalem. The faded stone facades glow slightly golden in the sunlight while the barred windows on high look out and down upon the shaded courtyard.
In this award-winning historical saga, young lovers in a German-Jewish ghetto rise to become the foremost financial dynasty in the world.
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Historical Fiction
Spain
Historical Fiction
The book cover of The Price of Paradise, by Susana López Rubio, translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas. The cover shows a woman in profile. Alighting her right ear from above like a white butterfly is a mariposa, the national flower of Cuba. From her ear dangles an opulent earring adorned with emeralds, pearls, and rubies, the deep red of which also adorns her lips. She seems lost in thought, her right hand touching her throat and her brown eyes absorbing the light.
Susana López Rubio
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Historical Fiction
Susana López Rubio
Translated by Achy Obejas
Two lovers find each other in 1950s Cuba and embark on a forbidden love affair that spans half a century and survives murder, betrayal, and revolution.
Spain
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Majorca, Spain of a shallow sea. From our vantage atop the green fronds of a palm tree, the water that covers the undulating depths of the bay sparkles as if fashioned from turquoise and emerald.
Two lovers find each other in 1950s Cuba and embark on a forbidden love affair that spans half a century and survives murder, betrayal, and revolution.
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Children's Book
Brazil
Children's Book
The book cover of Along the Tapajós by Fernando Vilela, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. The illustrated cover shows two siblings on a boat navigating a flooded forest. The brother steers the boat through the muddy waters with a wooden pole while the sister dips her toes in and admires the colorful foliage.
Fernando Vilela
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Children's Book
Fernando Vilela
Translated by Daniel Hahn
In one of the first books published by Amazon Crossing Kids, two siblings travel along the Tapajós River of Brazil on a quest to rescue their pet tortoise.
Brazil
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Brazil of a gondola, backlit and awash in orange by the setting sun. A person in a wide-brimmed hat steers the boat away from the overgrown banks of the river and into the light.
In one of the first books published by Amazon Crossing Kids, two siblings travel along the Tapajós River of Brazil on a quest to rescue their pet tortoise.
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Memoir
Argentina
Memoir
The book cover of Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch, in collaboration with Mireya Soriano, translated from the Spanish by Jennie Erikson. The cover shows a photograph taken from an Andean peak, the summit within reach in the distance, the pristine snow unbroken behind but for a marching trail of footsteps. The white title text floats in the thin air above the mountain.
Eduardo Strauch, ...
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Memoir
Eduardo Strauch, ...
Translated by Jennie Erikson
The extraordinary story of the rugby team who crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. One of the survivors breaks his silence in this riveting memoir.
Argentina
Revealed with a brushstroke of transparency is a photograph from Argentina of the Andes Mountains. The lowland golden plains of the Patagonian Steppe transition through violet hills to the towering snow-capped peaks of Monte Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. Clouds at the highest elevations are stretched long and thin in the blue sky.
The extraordinary story of the rugby team who crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. One of the survivors breaks his silence in this riveting memoir.
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