In the exciting historical novel "The Throne of Osiris", a pharaoh establishes himself as a ruler in ancient Egypt. Bolesław Prus’s historical novel "The Throne of Osiris" follows the rise and fall of Ramses XIII. Ramses is a... Read More

A spirited young spiritualist rejects confinement in Victoria Mas’s electrifying historical novel The Mad Women’s Ball. At the end of the nineteenth century, otherwise fast-modernizing France still considers anomalous women to be an... Read More

In Simone Buchholz’s original, stylish thriller "Hotel Cartagena": during a high-stakes hostage situation in a high-class hotel bar, the past catches up to the powerful. While celebrating a birthday atop a hotel overlooking Hamburg,... Read More

Defne Suman’s epic historical novel "The Silence of Scheherazade" chronicles the fall of the Ottoman Empire as experienced by four Turkish families. Dense with rich descriptions and interwoven narrative threads, much like a tapestry... Read More

In Basma Abdel Aziz’s haunting novel about state oppression, "Here Is a Body", homeless youth are conscripted into a rehabilitation program sponsored by a general, while ordinary citizens, who oppose him, protest a recent coup. In this... Read More

In Muriel Barbery’s evocative novel "A Single Rose", a woman travels to Japan following the death of her father. Rose is forty, lives in France, and has never met her mysterious father, Haru; she only knows that he is Japanese and... Read More

Characters find unconventional ways to cope (or to avoid coping) in David Clerson’s short story collection "To See Out the Night". In the collection: an unemployed nightwatchman convinces himself he is turning into an ape. A lonely... Read More

A young woman struggles with an inexplicable malady and the weight of her family history in Joy Sorman’s novel "Life Sciences". Ninon has always known about the family curse: every eldest daughter will at some point be stricken by a... Read More