from Israel/United States
Happy New Years
After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a women’s teaching college. Comprising five decades of correspondence, the novel skillfully weaves together Leah’s...
from Brazil
Very Brazilian Christmas
A literary celebration of Christmas south of the equator where Brazilians observe the holiday in their summertime with religious traditions punctuated by the rhythms of surf and samba. This bountiful, surprising anthology includes works by classic and contemporary authors Machado de Assis, Mario de Andrade,...
from Italy
A Fictional Inquiry
This haunting novel was championed by Italian author Italo Calvino who called it a “very simple book, straightforward to read, but at the same time possessing great depth and extraordinary quality.” First published in 1983 and never before translated into English, A Fictional Inquiry tells...
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...