Coin Locker Babies

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Rebecca Armitage

An irresistible modern fairy tale about a British princess who must decide between her duty to her family--or to her own heart It's New Year's Day in Tasmania and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she's in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she's about to finally...

Ryu Murakami

The long-awaited translation of the novel behind the cult classic Japanese movie.In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, t...

Ryu Murakami

"Mr. Murakami's novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths." — The New York TimesA pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska*One of Literary Hub‘s "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"*Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer liv...

Ryu Murakami

Kawashima lleva una vida apacible junto a su esposa y a su hija recién nacida, pero en los últimos días una pulsión asesina no deja de atormentarlo. Cada noche, cuando su esposa duerme, toma el picahielos de la cocina y se para junto a la cuna de la bebé. Solo así es capaz de controlar el deseo de matarla.Con el paso de los días, los fantasmas de su infancia y los traumas que v...

Ryu Murakami

Kenji es un chico de veinte años que trabaja como guía de vida nocturna en Tokio. Frank, un acaudalado empresario estadounidense, lo contrata para pasar tres noches en el «barrio rojo» de Kabukicho. Pero lo que comienza como un trabajo de rutina se transforma lentamente en una pesadilla sin precedentes. El comportamiento de Frank es tan extraño que Kenji comienza a sospechar qu...

Ryu Murakami

Esta colección de quince cuentos, escritos entre 1986 y 2003, contempla distintas etapas de Ryu Murakami, uno de los mejores y más prolíficos autores japoneses actuales. Desde textos tempranos hasta las perturbadoras historias de Topacio, en las que se basa la película Decadencia de Tokio dirigida por el mismo autor, pasando por textos de carácter personal en los que Murakami, ...

Krasznahorkai, László

A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in...