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from Brazil
There’s No Point in Dying
In this kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro—“in the city of stray bullets, in the land of lost opportunities”—a gang member runs wildly through the streets not knowing he has only seven minutes left to live. Barflies, prostitutes, immigrants, a gay...
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from France
The Propagandist
In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones. Years later, the...
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from Israel/United States
The Hebrew Teacher
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR HEBREW FICTION IN TRANSLATION Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a...
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from France
Café Unfiltered
At a classic café in the French provinces, anonymity, chance encounters, and traumatic pasts collide against the muted background of global instability. Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling The 6:41 to Paris, presents a moving fresco of intertwined destinies portrayed with humor, insight, and tenderness....
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from Israel
Professor Schiff’s Guilt
An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with...
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from India
A Very Indian Christmas
Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian communities of India celebrate the birth of Christ with food, music, lights, prayer, family gatherings,...
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from Russia
A Present Past
The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of...
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from Italy
Return to Latvia
Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. A masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part memoir, part ruminative essay....
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from Brazil
The Words That Remain
Exploring Brazil’s little-known hinterland as well its urban haunts, this is a sweeping novel of repression, violence, and shame, along with their flip side: survival, endurance, and the ultimate triumph of an unforgettable figure on society’s margins....
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One for Each Night
This rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua, Emma Green, Joanna...
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from Spain
Of Saints and Miracles
A sensuous, astonishing portrayal of an outcast’s struggle to survive in a chaotic world of tragedy and magical splendor....
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from Austria
Palace of Flies
An absorbing depiction of a famed author in crisis, revealing a state of personal upheaval at a time of profound societal change that speaks eloquently to our own....
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from France
A Few Collectors
An utterly charming book of dazzling illustrations and intriguing tales about the often eccentric mindset of inveterate art collectors....
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from Mexico
A Very Mexican Christmas
This seventh installment in our popular Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit....
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from Germany
Pollak’s Arm
Stimulating historical fiction for lovers of Rome and the world of antiquity centered on one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. ...
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from Israel
Where I Am
A piercing novel about life abroad in a cultural setting not one’s own: Reut is an Israeli translator living in Paris with a French husband and their child. She’s made sacrifices for her family but now feels a simmering discontent and estrangement that erupts at...
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from Italy
Distant Fathers
A singular autobiography by a rediscovered Italian author that movingly probes questions of time, language, womanhood, belonging and estrangement. ...
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from France
The Vanished Collection
A Parisian memoir, written like a detective novel, about a quest into a forgotten past to achieve posthumous justice for a leading art collector and his descendants....
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from Syria
Roundabout of Death
A chronicle of Aleppo’s destruction, a literary edifice erected as an unflinching response to the erasure of a once great city, that speaks eloquently of the fragmentation of human existence and the calamities of war....
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from Russia
Untraceable
A psychological thriller about the historical trajectories of evil as the Kremlin sought to develop the ultimate venom to retaliate against its critics....
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from Germany/Switzerland
The Piano Student
A novel involving an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student in the 1930s—a riveting and sensitive tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity....
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from Ireland
A Very Irish Christmas
The sixth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection transports readers to the Emerald Isle with stories and poems sure to bring holiday cheer....
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from France
Villa of Delirium
Along the French Riviera in the early 1900s, an illustrious family in thrall to classical antiquity builds a fabulous villa—a replica of a Greek palace, complete with marble columns and frescoes depicting mythological gods. This is a Greek epic for the modern era....
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from Austria
I Belong to Vienna
A probing tale of heroism, identity and belonging, marked by a surprising freshness as a new generation comes to terms with history’s darkest era....
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from Israel
The Drive
A compelling story of an urgent personal quest to reconcile duty, expectations and individual instinct....
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from Italy
The Bishop’s Bedroom
A sultry, stylish psychological thriller executed with supreme literary finesse....
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from Israel
And the Bride Closed the Door
A provocative and entertaining wedding day drama about contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere....
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from France
Exposed
A dangerous intimacy emerges between a French teacher and a former student who has achieved art world celebrity; the painting of a portrait upturns both their lives....
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from The Netherlands
Sleepless Night
The grande dame of Dutch literature recounts a story of romance and death punctuated by a midnight baking ritual. ...
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from Russia
The Goose Fritz
A passion-filled family saga that takes readers through centuries of turmoil between Germany and Russia. A contemporary narrator searches archives and cemeteries across Europe, while pressing witnesses for keys to understanding both personal and political history....
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from Switzerland
Allmen and the Pink Diamond
When an unimaginably valuable pink diamond goes missing, amorous adventures and diverting mishaps litter the path through a world of European high culture and luxury, with hard-knuckle forays into global financial markets and high tech moves to manipulate them....
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from Austria, Germany, Switzerland
A Very German Christmas
The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland and Germany....
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from Greece
What’s Left of the Night
A spellbinding novel based on the visit to Paris of C.P. Cavafy, one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, filled with lyrical observations and infused with erotic desire....
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from France
The Eye
An art adventure story that exposes readers to a secret, high-stakes profession involving masterpieces, massive amounts of money, and an intense love of painting....
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from Switzerland
Allmen and the Dragonflies
A thrilling art heist escapade that evokes a world of European high culture and luxury, while plumbing the vicissitudes of less exalted human foibles and obsessions.
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from Italy
Neapolitan Chronicles
A masterful classic of European literature that inspired Elena Ferrante’s depiction of Naples in her bestselling novels....
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from Italy
The Animal Gazer
The hypnotic tale of a masterful sculptor increasingly obsessed with animals as he and Europe teeter on the brink of the World War One....
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from France
The Madeleine Project
An audacious work of investigative journalism set in contemporary Paris that reads like a graphic novel for the digital age....
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from Italy
Adua
A searing novel about a young African immigrant woman's dream of freedom in modern-day Rome and the bittersweet legacies of her past....
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from Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
A Very Scandinavian Christmas
A festive continuation of the very popular Very Christmas story collection from the very region where much traditional holiday imagery originates....
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from Lebanon
Moving the Palace
A captivating modern-day Odyssey by a masterful Lebanese author in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux....
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from Russia
The Year of the Comet
Acclaimed Russian author Sergei Lebedev depicts a vast empire coming apart at the seams, transforming a very public moment into something tender and personal, and writes with stunning beauty and shattering insight about childhood and the growing consciousness of a boy in the world....
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from France
The Madonna of Notre Dame
This police novel illuminates the shadowy corners of Notre Dame Cathedral, shedding light on good and evil with wry humor....
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from Italy
If Venice Dies
A passionate, eloquent plea to save the soul of one of the world’s greatest cities....
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from Denmark
The Last Supper
A journey through the Middle East, investigating the often-overlooked plight of the beleaguered Christian minority living there....
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from Germany
Animal Internet
In the wake of the Internet’s profound impact on society, an insightful exploration of how a new digital revolution will transform human ties with the natural world....
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from Switzerland
The Last Weynfeldt
A refined page-turner about the international art market the probes the darker recesses of the heart....
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from Russia
Oblivion
One of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, this masterful work represents an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion....
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from Italy
A Very Italian Christmas
The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works....
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from England
On the Run with Mary
Peter Rabbit meets Marquis de Sade—a youth and his talking dog romp through posh London streets in an unparalleled tale mirroring the horrors and joys of the twentieth century....
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from France
The 6:41 to Paris
A brilliant psychological thriller constructed like an intensely intimate theater performance, a high-wire act of emotions on rails....
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from Poland
Killing Auntie
A hilarious and provocative novel that's equal parts Crime and Punishment and Annie Hall....
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from Israel
Alexandrian Summer
Love, lust, and the convulsions of history surge through this dazzling novel about a now vanished cosmopolitan world....
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from France
Guys Like Me
An ode to a Paris rarely seen—a minutely-observed tale about searching for love and a new lease on life....
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from Russia
A Very Russian Christmas
Crimson ribbons and troubled souls, landowners yearning for love, burning cheeks, salmon, and caviar. This is Russian Christmas celebrated in supreme pleasure and pain by the greatest of writers....
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from France
A Very French Christmas
A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant volume featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet....
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from Poland
All Backs Were Turned
A story set in Israel of sexual passion, violence, and betrayal, in classic hardboiled prose. A noir novel with bite....
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from Austria/Germany
Who is Martha?
A rollicking tale about facing death with verve and style, richly told with great feeling and historical depth....
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from Austria/Japan
I Called Him Necktie
This is the Japanese “Catcher in the Rye” for the twenty-first century....
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from Moldova
The Good Life Elsewhere
This is the hilarious, tragic and grotesque tale of a small village in Moldova, and everything its residents do to escape it—a book with wild imagination and heartbreaking honesty, grim appraisals alongside optimistic commentary about the nature of human striving....
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from Italy
Cocaine
Elegant, witty and wicked, Pitigrilli’s classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young man’s downfall and the lure of a bygone era....
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from Argentina
The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
A novel illuminating the links between art and life amid the intrigue of past family secrets that cast shadows on the present....
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from Austria
Fanny von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment
A majestic biography of a major figure of European Jewry and women’s emancipation that spotlights a central era of cultural and social history. ...
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from Poland
Killing the Second Dog
A hardboiled novel of deception and betrayal in 1950s Israel, where tough men and desperate women all play a role....
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from Israel
Some Day
A gripping family saga, filled with sex, cooking and hypnotic writing that renders a painfully delicious vision of the individual lives behind Israel’s larger national story. ...
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is a National Book Award FINALIST
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER is a FINALIST for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature, with the winner to be announced on November 19. Congratulations to author Anjet Daanje and translator David McKay. This is a monumental novel of European history and the pleasures and pains of profound love written in Daanje’s stunning prose and […]
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Russian Author Sergei Lebedev U.S. Visit
Thursday, April 17, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 5:30 p.m., Presentation and discussion of The Lady of the Mine with author Sergei Lebedev and translator Antonina W. Bouis. English Department Faculty Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 135. Click here for more details. Friday, April 18, New York City, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 5-6:30 p.m. Sergei Lebedev discusses “Excavating Russian History: […]
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2025 New Vessel Press Catalogue
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THE WORDS THAT REMAIN Wins the National Book Award
THE WORDS THAT REMAIN by Stênio Gardel, translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Click here to watch the award being announced and their moving acceptance speeches at a gala ceremony in New York City.
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Watch a video discussion of Nazi art plunder in Paris with THE VANISHED COLLECTION author Pauline Baer de Perignon and Holocaust Art Restitution Project co-founder Marc Masurovsky in a program co-sponsored by The Winter Show and American Friends of the Louvre. Click here to view.
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THE EYE unveils secrets of Old Masters connoisseurs.
Learn about a rare and secret profession by watching this video of an online conversation, sponsored by American Friends of the Louvre and the National Arts Club in New York, with art historian Philippe Costamagna about his book THE EYE: An Insider’s Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art. Click here to watch […]
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Translator Ann Goldstein introduces Distant Fathers
Watch an insightful discussion of Distant Fathers with translator Ann Goldstein and Italian novelist Marta Barone, sponsored by Rizzoli Bookstore. Click here for video.
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Sergei Lebedev discusses his new novel UNTRACEABLE.
Watch a video of celebrated author Sergei Lebedev in a discussion of his timely novel UNTRACEABLE with leading Russian spycraft expert Amy Knight and translator Antonina W. Bouis, sponsored by 192 Books in NYC. Online at bit.ly/sergei-lebedev
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The New York Times profiles UNTRACEABLE author Sergei Lebedev
The New York Times profiles novelist Sergei Lebedev in an article calling his new book UNTRACEABLE “a thriller dipped in poison” with a John le Carré-like “fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil.”
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Villa of Delirium featured in The New York Times
Villa of Delirium is featured in a special report in The New York Times about the fanciful house on the French Riviera that inspired the novel by Adrien Goetz.