KARAN MAHAJANThe Association of Small Bombs“An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan’s piercing gaze…[as] he shows us how by-stander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground.” —Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s SonPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310927-3 • $16.00Shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award

ALE JANDRO ZAMBRAMultiple ChoiceTRANSLATED BY MEGAN McDOWELL

The celebrated Chilean author presents a bold new reading experience: a novel written in the form of a standardized test that invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exer-cises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions. “Latin America’s new literary star.”—The New YorkerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 128 PAGES • 978-0-14-310919-8 • $15.00

JUAN GABR IEL VÁSQUEZReputationsTRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN

From the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling comes a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist that examines the weight of the past, how public per-sona intersects with private history, and the burdens and surprises of memory.“Vásquez is a penetrating force and the most pressing Colombian writer today….Reputa-tions is a powerful, concentrated achievement. It makes clear that our memories, and even the things we’ve forgotten, can come back to haunt us.”—NPRRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-1-59463-347-8 • $25.00

ÁLVARO ENR IGUESudden DeathTRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

A postmodern tale about a 16th-century clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo.“Has both great entertainment value and intellectual appeal, especially as a corrective to a Eurocentric view of history....[This is Mexican author] Enrigue’s fifth novel, but only the first to be translated into English...and beautifully so by Natasha Wimmer....A splendid in-troduction to Enrigue’s varied body of work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-1-59463-346-1 • $27.00

KRYS LEEHow I Became a North Korean“Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea. With heart and passion, [she] forges a world no other writer could create, one where the only response to longing and loss is learning to trust and hope again.”—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son“Terrifying, poetic, and precise….Captures the crushing human cost of fleeing a dictator-ship.”—Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-670-02568-8 • $26.00

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Z AD IE SMITHSwing TimeExploring the depth of friendship, the power of music, and the stubbornness of roots, this new novel from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty moves from North-West London to West Africa to tell the story of two girls who dream of becoming dancers. “A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land mines….Smith is dazzling in her specificity, evoking predicaments, worldviews, and per-sonalities with a camera-vivid precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 464 PAGES • 978-1-59420-398-5 • $27.00

BRIT BENNETTThe MothersSet within a contemporary small-town black community in Southern California, an emo-tionally perceptive novel about a teen pregnancy and the life-altering decisions that follow. “Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel—moving, thoughtful. Stun-ning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming “[A] much-needed new voice in literature.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner HouseRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-18451-2 • $26.00

HELEN OYEYEMIWhat Is Not Yours Is Not YoursA playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. “Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists at all….Transcendent.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00

NAOMI JACKSONThe Star Side of Bird Hill“From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean writers have produced an exquisite literature of diaspora and affirmation….Now Naomi Jackson joins their ranks with…a serious yet effervescent debut that showcases three gener-ations of women as they grapple with conflict and loss during the fateful summer of 1989….More than a coming-of-age novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill evokes the intractable forces that tear at families and cultures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-310916-7 • $16.00

CLA IRE -LOU ISE BENNETTPondThis debut collection of stories from the young Irish writer captures the interior reality of its protagonist, a young woman living a singular life on the outskirts of a coastal village.“What moves the reader forward is the sense the stories convey of a real-time psychological fabric: the reader experiences the narrator’s world at the same pace she does….Like Lydia Davis, Bennett…takes a state of mind closely associated with madness and places it in set-tings that are utterly domestic, mundane.”—The New YorkerRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-0-399-57589-1 • $26.00

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KARAN MAHAJANThe Association of Small Bombs“An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan’s piercing gaze…[as] he shows us how by-stander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground.” —Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s SonPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310927-3 • $16.00Shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award

ALE JANDRO ZAMBRAMultiple ChoiceTRANSLATED BY MEGAN McDOWELL

The celebrated Chilean author presents a bold new reading experience: a novel written in the form of a standardized test that invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exer-cises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions. “Latin America’s new literary star.”—The New YorkerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 128 PAGES • 978-0-14-310919-8 • $15.00

JUAN GABR IEL VÁSQUEZReputationsTRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN

From the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling comes a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist that examines the weight of the past, how public per-sona intersects with private history, and the burdens and surprises of memory.“Vásquez is a penetrating force and the most pressing Colombian writer today….Reputa-tions is a powerful, concentrated achievement. It makes clear that our memories, and even the things we’ve forgotten, can come back to haunt us.”—NPRRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-1-59463-347-8 • $25.00

ÁLVARO ENR IGUESudden DeathTRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

A postmodern tale about a 16th-century clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo.“Has both great entertainment value and intellectual appeal, especially as a corrective to a Eurocentric view of history....[This is Mexican author] Enrigue’s fifth novel, but only the first to be translated into English...and beautifully so by Natasha Wimmer....A splendid in-troduction to Enrigue’s varied body of work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-1-59463-346-1 • $27.00

KRYS LEEHow I Became a North Korean“Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea. With heart and passion, [she] forges a world no other writer could create, one where the only response to longing and loss is learning to trust and hope again.”—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son“Terrifying, poetic, and precise….Captures the crushing human cost of fleeing a dictator-ship.”—Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-670-02568-8 • $26.00

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Z AD IE SMITHSwing TimeExploring the depth of friendship, the power of music, and the stubbornness of roots, this new novel from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty moves from North-West London to West Africa to tell the story of two girls who dream of becoming dancers. “A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land mines….Smith is dazzling in her specificity, evoking predicaments, worldviews, and per-sonalities with a camera-vivid precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 464 PAGES • 978-1-59420-398-5 • $27.00

BRIT BENNETTThe MothersSet within a contemporary small-town black community in Southern California, an emo-tionally perceptive novel about a teen pregnancy and the life-altering decisions that follow. “Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel—moving, thoughtful. Stun-ning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming “[A] much-needed new voice in literature.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner HouseRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-18451-2 • $26.00

HELEN OYEYEMIWhat Is Not Yours Is Not YoursA playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. “Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists at all….Transcendent.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00

NAOMI JACKSONThe Star Side of Bird Hill“From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean writers have produced an exquisite literature of diaspora and affirmation….Now Naomi Jackson joins their ranks with…a serious yet effervescent debut that showcases three gener-ations of women as they grapple with conflict and loss during the fateful summer of 1989….More than a coming-of-age novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill evokes the intractable forces that tear at families and cultures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-310916-7 • $16.00

CLA IRE -LOU ISE BENNETTPondThis debut collection of stories from the young Irish writer captures the interior reality of its protagonist, a young woman living a singular life on the outskirts of a coastal village.“What moves the reader forward is the sense the stories convey of a real-time psychological fabric: the reader experiences the narrator’s world at the same pace she does….Like Lydia Davis, Bennett…takes a state of mind closely associated with madness and places it in set-tings that are utterly domestic, mundane.”—The New YorkerRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-0-399-57589-1 • $26.00

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KARAN MAHAJANThe Association of Small Bombs“An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan’s piercing gaze…[as] he shows us how by-stander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground.” —Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s SonPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310927-3 • $16.00Shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award

ALE JANDRO ZAMBRAMultiple ChoiceTRANSLATED BY MEGAN McDOWELL

The celebrated Chilean author presents a bold new reading experience: a novel written in the form of a standardized test that invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exer-cises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions. “Latin America’s new literary star.”—The New YorkerPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 128 PAGES • 978-0-14-310919-8 • $15.00

JUAN GABR IEL VÁSQUEZReputationsTRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN

From the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling comes a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist that examines the weight of the past, how public per-sona intersects with private history, and the burdens and surprises of memory.“Vásquez is a penetrating force and the most pressing Colombian writer today….Reputa-tions is a powerful, concentrated achievement. It makes clear that our memories, and even the things we’ve forgotten, can come back to haunt us.”—NPRRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-1-59463-347-8 • $25.00

ÁLVARO ENR IGUESudden DeathTRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

A postmodern tale about a 16th-century clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo.“Has both great entertainment value and intellectual appeal, especially as a corrective to a Eurocentric view of history....[This is Mexican author] Enrigue’s fifth novel, but only the first to be translated into English...and beautifully so by Natasha Wimmer....A splendid in-troduction to Enrigue’s varied body of work.”—The New York TimesRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-1-59463-346-1 • $27.00

KRYS LEEHow I Became a North Korean“Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea. With heart and passion, [she] forges a world no other writer could create, one where the only response to longing and loss is learning to trust and hope again.”—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son“Terrifying, poetic, and precise….Captures the crushing human cost of fleeing a dictator-ship.”—Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-670-02568-8 • $26.00

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Z AD IE SMITHSwing TimeExploring the depth of friendship, the power of music, and the stubbornness of roots, this new novel from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty moves from North-West London to West Africa to tell the story of two girls who dream of becoming dancers. “A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land mines….Smith is dazzling in her specificity, evoking predicaments, worldviews, and per-sonalities with a camera-vivid precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 464 PAGES • 978-1-59420-398-5 • $27.00

BRIT BENNETTThe MothersSet within a contemporary small-town black community in Southern California, an emo-tionally perceptive novel about a teen pregnancy and the life-altering decisions that follow. “Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel—moving, thoughtful. Stun-ning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming “[A] much-needed new voice in literature.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner HouseRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-18451-2 • $26.00

HELEN OYEYEMIWhat Is Not Yours Is Not YoursA playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. “Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists at all….Transcendent.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00

NAOMI JACKSONThe Star Side of Bird Hill“From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean writers have produced an exquisite literature of diaspora and affirmation….Now Naomi Jackson joins their ranks with…a serious yet effervescent debut that showcases three gener-ations of women as they grapple with conflict and loss during the fateful summer of 1989….More than a coming-of-age novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill evokes the intractable forces that tear at families and cultures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-310916-7 • $16.00

CLA IRE -LOU ISE BENNETTPondThis debut collection of stories from the young Irish writer captures the interior reality of its protagonist, a young woman living a singular life on the outskirts of a coastal village.“What moves the reader forward is the sense the stories convey of a real-time psychological fabric: the reader experiences the narrator’s world at the same pace she does….Like Lydia Davis, Bennett…takes a state of mind closely associated with madness and places it in set-tings that are utterly domestic, mundane.”—The New YorkerRIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-0-399-57589-1 • $26.00

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OLGA GRUSHINForty RoomsA mysterious novel that explores women’s identity and choices through an imaginative con-ceit: the diverse “forty rooms” a modern woman inhabits over the course of her lifetime. “The reader’s impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign…of Grushin’s genius….This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it.”—New York Times Book ReviewPUTNAM HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-1-101-98233-4 • $27.00

MONA AWAD13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlIn her brilliant debut, Awad skewers our body image-obsessed culture that values women exclusively for their physical appearance and delivers a moving depiction of a young wom-an whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.“With dark humor and heartbreaking honesty, Awad cuts away at diet culture and the pres-sure on women to make thinness and beauty their priority.”—San Francisco ChroniclePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PAGES • 978-0-14-312848-9 • $16.00

LAUREN GROFFFates and Furies“Groff ’s story of a marriage in which neither partner truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling.”—Time“Keenly probes the different ways that men’s and women’s creativity and human value are assessed.”—The GuardianRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-1-59463-448-2 • $16.002015 National Book Award Finalist

EL IZABETH McKENZ IEThe Portable Veblen“A smart charmer about a brainy off-center couple who face up to their differences—and their difficult, eccentric families—only after they become engaged….Ultimately, a morality tale about the values by which we choose to live.”—NPR.org“A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between plausible and the absurd. Veblen, the book’s heart and spirit, wins us over with her sense of wonder about the natural versus the man-made world—a wonder that suffuses the entirety of this quirky, engaging novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-101-98159-7 • $16.00Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

MARK BEAUREGARDThe Whale: A Love StoryThis captivating novel set amid the literary society of 1850s New England offers a new win-dow on Melville’s relationship with Hawthorne and how it transformed Moby-Dick.“The Whale is fiction, of course, although the author is careful to depart as little as possible from the historical record, but the accuracy of the premise is of less interest than Beaure-gard’s immense skill in rendering Melville’s inner voice—an impressive feat of authorly ven-triloquism. Beauregard has captured the true hide and grit of that God- and nature-haunted 19th-century mind in all its rough, baroque, oddly tender poetry.”—The Washington PostVIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-56233-4 • $26.00

RICHARD GREENBERGThe Babylon LineA new play by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, this tale of Long Island in the late 1960s follows an adult-education creative writing class as they discover the power of storytelling.PLUME PAPERBACK • 144 PAGES • 978-0-399-57655-3 • $14.00

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LEOPOLD INE COREWhen Watched“Core’s [twenty] stories have a voyeuristic quality, like peering through the windows of a ground floor apartment as you walk by….Her narrative voice has earned her comparisons to Mary Gaitskill, Jane Bowles, and even William Burroughs, but these references don’t do justice to the intimacy and relative gentleness with which [she] treats her group of modern, often millennial drifters….She captures a precious slice of what it is to be human…[and] reaches moments of extraordinary grace.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-0-14-312869-4 • $16.00

LAUREN HOLMESBarbara the Slut and Other People“Sometimes painful, sometimes brilliantly funny, and most often both; Holmes can find the humor in the worst situations, and the tragedy in the most glorious moments. But it’s her characters that carry the [short] stories—imperfect, difficult, and defiantly human.”—NPR“[Holmes’] narrators are often women who are funny, imaginative, and yes, a little slutty. But…as Holmes’s Barbara quickly figures out, ‘slut’ is only a word. And Holmes’s collection dares us to treat it that way: in the pages of her book and beyond.”—The Washington PostRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-57603-4 • $16.00

REBECCA MAKKAIMusic for WartimeThese seventeen transporting, moving short stories—some inspired by Makkai’s own family history—confirm her as a master of the form. “Ricocheting from the war-torn twentieth century to the reality-show-rich present day, the stories in this impressive collection feature characters buffeted by fate—or is it mere hap-penstance?”—The New Yorker PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 256 PAGES • 978-0-14-310923-5 • $16.00

OTTESSA MOSHFEGHHomesick for Another WorldThe author of Eileen presents an impressive selection of short stories featuring characters who are unsteady on their feet in one way or another, yearning for connection and better-ment but getting tripped up by baser impulses and existential insecurities. “Expertly crafted….The author’s acute insight focuses obsessively, uncomfortably, humor-ously on excreta, effluvia, and human foible, drilling to the core of her characters’ existential dilemmas. Moshfegh is a force.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-399-56288-4 • $26.00

JOSHUA BENNETTThe Sobbing SchoolSELECTED BY EUGENE GLORIA

This debut poetry collection presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. “There are glimpses here of James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston where Bennett’s syn-tactical dexterity and feeling for language meet the rhythm and flow of dangerous music. His poems of identity are also poems of imagery and invention, and they testify to poetry’s endless mutability through story and song, lament and praise.”—Eugene GloriaPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 96 PAGES • 978-0-14-311186-3 • $18.00

ELENA FERRANTEFrantumaglia: A Writer’s JourneyTRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN

An intimate self-portrait of a writer honing her craft. In these pages, Ferrante medi-tates on a variety of topics: her decision to remain anonymous, her concerns about film adaptations of her novels, the joys and the struggles of writing, and her rela-tionship with psychoanalysis, the cities she has lived in, motherhood, feminism, and childhood. Includes over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews.EUROPA HARDCOVER • 400 PAGES • 978-1-60945-292-6 • $24.00

BOUALEM SANSAL2084: The End of the WorldTRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON

In this tribute to George Orwell’s 1984, the award-winning Algerian writer tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate that forbids autonomous thought.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-366-4 • $17.00AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2017

PARISA REZAThe Gardens of ConsolationTRANSLATED BY ADRIANA HUNTER

A multigenerational family saga that chronicles Iran’s secular revolution, The Gardens of Consolation introduces us to a brilliant boy who—born in the early 1920s to illiter-ate shepherd parents living outside Tehran—becomes a fervent follower of reformer Mohammad Mosaddegh, participating in Iran’s political and social upheavals.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-1-60945-350-3 • $16.00

ALEXANDRE V IDAL PORTOSergio Y.TRANSLATED BY ALEX LADD

Set in São Paulo and New York, this work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” movement presents a story about gender, identity, and happiness.“With Sergio Y., Alexandre Vidal Porto makes clear why he is one of the essential writ-ers in Brazilian contemporary literature.”—Luiz RuffatoEUROPA PAPERBACK • 160 PAGES • 978-1-60945-327-5 • $16.00

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OLGA GRUSHINForty RoomsA mysterious novel that explores women’s identity and choices through an imaginative con-ceit: the diverse “forty rooms” a modern woman inhabits over the course of her lifetime. “The reader’s impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign…of Grushin’s genius….This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it.”—New York Times Book ReviewPUTNAM HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-1-101-98233-4 • $27.00

MONA AWAD13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlIn her brilliant debut, Awad skewers our body image-obsessed culture that values women exclusively for their physical appearance and delivers a moving depiction of a young wom-an whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.“With dark humor and heartbreaking honesty, Awad cuts away at diet culture and the pres-sure on women to make thinness and beauty their priority.”—San Francisco ChroniclePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PAGES • 978-0-14-312848-9 • $16.00

LAUREN GROFFFates and Furies“Groff ’s story of a marriage in which neither partner truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling.”—Time“Keenly probes the different ways that men’s and women’s creativity and human value are assessed.”—The GuardianRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-1-59463-448-2 • $16.002015 National Book Award Finalist

EL IZABETH McKENZ IEThe Portable Veblen“A smart charmer about a brainy off-center couple who face up to their differences—and their difficult, eccentric families—only after they become engaged….Ultimately, a morality tale about the values by which we choose to live.”—NPR.org“A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between plausible and the absurd. Veblen, the book’s heart and spirit, wins us over with her sense of wonder about the natural versus the man-made world—a wonder that suffuses the entirety of this quirky, engaging novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-101-98159-7 • $16.00Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

MARK BEAUREGARDThe Whale: A Love StoryThis captivating novel set amid the literary society of 1850s New England offers a new win-dow on Melville’s relationship with Hawthorne and how it transformed Moby-Dick.“The Whale is fiction, of course, although the author is careful to depart as little as possible from the historical record, but the accuracy of the premise is of less interest than Beaure-gard’s immense skill in rendering Melville’s inner voice—an impressive feat of authorly ven-triloquism. Beauregard has captured the true hide and grit of that God- and nature-haunted 19th-century mind in all its rough, baroque, oddly tender poetry.”—The Washington PostVIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-56233-4 • $26.00

RICHARD GREENBERGThe Babylon LineA new play by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, this tale of Long Island in the late 1960s follows an adult-education creative writing class as they discover the power of storytelling.PLUME PAPERBACK • 144 PAGES • 978-0-399-57655-3 • $14.00

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LAUREN HOLMESBarbara the Slut and Other People“Sometimes painful, sometimes brilliantly funny, and most often both; Holmes can find the humor in the worst situations, and the tragedy in the most glorious moments. But it’s her characters that carry the [short] stories—imperfect, difficult, and defiantly human.”—NPR“[Holmes’] narrators are often women who are funny, imaginative, and yes, a little slutty. But…as Holmes’s Barbara quickly figures out, ‘slut’ is only a word. And Holmes’s collection dares us to treat it that way: in the pages of her book and beyond.”—The Washington PostRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-57603-4 • $16.00

REBECCA MAKKAIMusic for WartimeThese seventeen transporting, moving short stories—some inspired by Makkai’s own family history—confirm her as a master of the form. “Ricocheting from the war-torn twentieth century to the reality-show-rich present day, the stories in this impressive collection feature characters buffeted by fate—or is it mere hap-penstance?”—The New Yorker PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 256 PAGES • 978-0-14-310923-5 • $16.00

OTTESSA MOSHFEGHHomesick for Another WorldThe author of Eileen presents an impressive selection of short stories featuring characters who are unsteady on their feet in one way or another, yearning for connection and better-ment but getting tripped up by baser impulses and existential insecurities. “Expertly crafted….The author’s acute insight focuses obsessively, uncomfortably, humor-ously on excreta, effluvia, and human foible, drilling to the core of her characters’ existential dilemmas. Moshfegh is a force.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-399-56288-4 • $26.00

JOSHUA BENNETTThe Sobbing SchoolSELECTED BY EUGENE GLORIA

This debut poetry collection presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. “There are glimpses here of James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston where Bennett’s syn-tactical dexterity and feeling for language meet the rhythm and flow of dangerous music. His poems of identity are also poems of imagery and invention, and they testify to poetry’s endless mutability through story and song, lament and praise.”—Eugene GloriaPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 96 PAGES • 978-0-14-311186-3 • $18.00

ELENA FERRANTEFrantumaglia: A Writer’s JourneyTRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN

An intimate self-portrait of a writer honing her craft. In these pages, Ferrante medi-tates on a variety of topics: her decision to remain anonymous, her concerns about film adaptations of her novels, the joys and the struggles of writing, and her rela-tionship with psychoanalysis, the cities she has lived in, motherhood, feminism, and childhood. Includes over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews.EUROPA HARDCOVER • 400 PAGES • 978-1-60945-292-6 • $24.00

BOUALEM SANSAL2084: The End of the WorldTRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON

In this tribute to George Orwell’s 1984, the award-winning Algerian writer tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate that forbids autonomous thought.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-366-4 • $17.00AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2017

PARISA REZAThe Gardens of ConsolationTRANSLATED BY ADRIANA HUNTER

A multigenerational family saga that chronicles Iran’s secular revolution, The Gardens of Consolation introduces us to a brilliant boy who—born in the early 1920s to illiter-ate shepherd parents living outside Tehran—becomes a fervent follower of reformer Mohammad Mosaddegh, participating in Iran’s political and social upheavals.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-1-60945-350-3 • $16.00

ALEXANDRE V IDAL PORTOSergio Y.TRANSLATED BY ALEX LADD

Set in São Paulo and New York, this work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” movement presents a story about gender, identity, and happiness.“With Sergio Y., Alexandre Vidal Porto makes clear why he is one of the essential writ-ers in Brazilian contemporary literature.”—Luiz RuffatoEUROPA PAPERBACK • 160 PAGES • 978-1-60945-327-5 • $16.00

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OLGA GRUSHINForty RoomsA mysterious novel that explores women’s identity and choices through an imaginative con-ceit: the diverse “forty rooms” a modern woman inhabits over the course of her lifetime. “The reader’s impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign…of Grushin’s genius….This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it.”—New York Times Book ReviewPUTNAM HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-1-101-98233-4 • $27.00

MONA AWAD13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlIn her brilliant debut, Awad skewers our body image-obsessed culture that values women exclusively for their physical appearance and delivers a moving depiction of a young wom-an whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.“With dark humor and heartbreaking honesty, Awad cuts away at diet culture and the pres-sure on women to make thinness and beauty their priority.”—San Francisco ChroniclePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PAGES • 978-0-14-312848-9 • $16.00

LAUREN GROFFFates and Furies“Groff ’s story of a marriage in which neither partner truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling.”—Time“Keenly probes the different ways that men’s and women’s creativity and human value are assessed.”—The GuardianRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-1-59463-448-2 • $16.002015 National Book Award Finalist

EL IZABETH McKENZ IEThe Portable Veblen“A smart charmer about a brainy off-center couple who face up to their differences—and their difficult, eccentric families—only after they become engaged….Ultimately, a morality tale about the values by which we choose to live.”—NPR.org“A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between plausible and the absurd. Veblen, the book’s heart and spirit, wins us over with her sense of wonder about the natural versus the man-made world—a wonder that suffuses the entirety of this quirky, engaging novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-101-98159-7 • $16.00Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

MARK BEAUREGARDThe Whale: A Love StoryThis captivating novel set amid the literary society of 1850s New England offers a new win-dow on Melville’s relationship with Hawthorne and how it transformed Moby-Dick.“The Whale is fiction, of course, although the author is careful to depart as little as possible from the historical record, but the accuracy of the premise is of less interest than Beaure-gard’s immense skill in rendering Melville’s inner voice—an impressive feat of authorly ven-triloquism. Beauregard has captured the true hide and grit of that God- and nature-haunted 19th-century mind in all its rough, baroque, oddly tender poetry.”—The Washington PostVIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-56233-4 • $26.00

RICHARD GREENBERGThe Babylon LineA new play by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, this tale of Long Island in the late 1960s follows an adult-education creative writing class as they discover the power of storytelling.PLUME PAPERBACK • 144 PAGES • 978-0-399-57655-3 • $14.00

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LEOPOLD INE COREWhen Watched“Core’s [twenty] stories have a voyeuristic quality, like peering through the windows of a ground floor apartment as you walk by….Her narrative voice has earned her comparisons to Mary Gaitskill, Jane Bowles, and even William Burroughs, but these references don’t do justice to the intimacy and relative gentleness with which [she] treats her group of modern, often millennial drifters….She captures a precious slice of what it is to be human…[and] reaches moments of extraordinary grace.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-0-14-312869-4 • $16.00

LAUREN HOLMESBarbara the Slut and Other People“Sometimes painful, sometimes brilliantly funny, and most often both; Holmes can find the humor in the worst situations, and the tragedy in the most glorious moments. But it’s her characters that carry the [short] stories—imperfect, difficult, and defiantly human.”—NPR“[Holmes’] narrators are often women who are funny, imaginative, and yes, a little slutty. But…as Holmes’s Barbara quickly figures out, ‘slut’ is only a word. And Holmes’s collection dares us to treat it that way: in the pages of her book and beyond.”—The Washington PostRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-57603-4 • $16.00

REBECCA MAKKAIMusic for WartimeThese seventeen transporting, moving short stories—some inspired by Makkai’s own family history—confirm her as a master of the form. “Ricocheting from the war-torn twentieth century to the reality-show-rich present day, the stories in this impressive collection feature characters buffeted by fate—or is it mere hap-penstance?”—The New Yorker PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 256 PAGES • 978-0-14-310923-5 • $16.00

OTTESSA MOSHFEGHHomesick for Another WorldThe author of Eileen presents an impressive selection of short stories featuring characters who are unsteady on their feet in one way or another, yearning for connection and better-ment but getting tripped up by baser impulses and existential insecurities. “Expertly crafted….The author’s acute insight focuses obsessively, uncomfortably, humor-ously on excreta, effluvia, and human foible, drilling to the core of her characters’ existential dilemmas. Moshfegh is a force.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-399-56288-4 • $26.00

JOSHUA BENNETTThe Sobbing SchoolSELECTED BY EUGENE GLORIA

This debut poetry collection presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. “There are glimpses here of James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston where Bennett’s syn-tactical dexterity and feeling for language meet the rhythm and flow of dangerous music. His poems of identity are also poems of imagery and invention, and they testify to poetry’s endless mutability through story and song, lament and praise.”—Eugene GloriaPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 96 PAGES • 978-0-14-311186-3 • $18.00

ELENA FERRANTEFrantumaglia: A Writer’s JourneyTRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN

An intimate self-portrait of a writer honing her craft. In these pages, Ferrante medi-tates on a variety of topics: her decision to remain anonymous, her concerns about film adaptations of her novels, the joys and the struggles of writing, and her rela-tionship with psychoanalysis, the cities she has lived in, motherhood, feminism, and childhood. Includes over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews.EUROPA HARDCOVER • 400 PAGES • 978-1-60945-292-6 • $24.00

BOUALEM SANSAL2084: The End of the WorldTRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON

In this tribute to George Orwell’s 1984, the award-winning Algerian writer tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate that forbids autonomous thought.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-366-4 • $17.00AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2017

PARISA REZAThe Gardens of ConsolationTRANSLATED BY ADRIANA HUNTER

A multigenerational family saga that chronicles Iran’s secular revolution, The Gardens of Consolation introduces us to a brilliant boy who—born in the early 1920s to illiter-ate shepherd parents living outside Tehran—becomes a fervent follower of reformer Mohammad Mosaddegh, participating in Iran’s political and social upheavals.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-1-60945-350-3 • $16.00

ALEXANDRE V IDAL PORTOSergio Y.TRANSLATED BY ALEX LADD

Set in São Paulo and New York, this work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” movement presents a story about gender, identity, and happiness.“With Sergio Y., Alexandre Vidal Porto makes clear why he is one of the essential writ-ers in Brazilian contemporary literature.”—Luiz RuffatoEUROPA PAPERBACK • 160 PAGES • 978-1-60945-327-5 • $16.00

N E W F R O M E U R O P A E D I T I O N S

OLGA GRUSHINForty RoomsA mysterious novel that explores women’s identity and choices through an imaginative con-ceit: the diverse “forty rooms” a modern woman inhabits over the course of her lifetime. “The reader’s impulse to grapple with the text, to wrestle it down and to raise objections or to attempt to identify her own place in the context of the story, is a sign…of Grushin’s genius….This novel reminds us that to pursue her dreams, a woman is working against the establishment, not with it.”—New York Times Book ReviewPUTNAM HARDCOVER • 352 PAGES • 978-1-101-98233-4 • $27.00

MONA AWAD13 Ways of Looking at a Fat GirlIn her brilliant debut, Awad skewers our body image-obsessed culture that values women exclusively for their physical appearance and delivers a moving depiction of a young wom-an whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.“With dark humor and heartbreaking honesty, Awad cuts away at diet culture and the pres-sure on women to make thinness and beauty their priority.”—San Francisco ChroniclePENGUIN PAPERBACK • 224 PAGES • 978-0-14-312848-9 • $16.00

LAUREN GROFFFates and Furies“Groff ’s story of a marriage in which neither partner truly understands the other uses a sophisticated technique to tell its simple story, subverting our expectations with a two-voice counterpoint as meaningful as it is dazzling.”—Time“Keenly probes the different ways that men’s and women’s creativity and human value are assessed.”—The GuardianRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 400 PAGES • 978-1-59463-448-2 • $16.002015 National Book Award Finalist

EL IZABETH McKENZ IEThe Portable Veblen“A smart charmer about a brainy off-center couple who face up to their differences—and their difficult, eccentric families—only after they become engaged….Ultimately, a morality tale about the values by which we choose to live.”—NPR.org“A literary novel with a squirrel subplot may sound improbable, yet McKenzie adroitly skirts the line between plausible and the absurd. Veblen, the book’s heart and spirit, wins us over with her sense of wonder about the natural versus the man-made world—a wonder that suffuses the entirety of this quirky, engaging novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 448 PAGES • 978-1-101-98159-7 • $16.00Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction

MARK BEAUREGARDThe Whale: A Love StoryThis captivating novel set amid the literary society of 1850s New England offers a new win-dow on Melville’s relationship with Hawthorne and how it transformed Moby-Dick.“The Whale is fiction, of course, although the author is careful to depart as little as possible from the historical record, but the accuracy of the premise is of less interest than Beaure-gard’s immense skill in rendering Melville’s inner voice—an impressive feat of authorly ven-triloquism. Beauregard has captured the true hide and grit of that God- and nature-haunted 19th-century mind in all its rough, baroque, oddly tender poetry.”—The Washington PostVIKING HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-56233-4 • $26.00

RICHARD GREENBERGThe Babylon LineA new play by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, this tale of Long Island in the late 1960s follows an adult-education creative writing class as they discover the power of storytelling.PLUME PAPERBACK • 144 PAGES • 978-0-399-57655-3 • $14.00

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LEOPOLD INE COREWhen Watched“Core’s [twenty] stories have a voyeuristic quality, like peering through the windows of a ground floor apartment as you walk by….Her narrative voice has earned her comparisons to Mary Gaitskill, Jane Bowles, and even William Burroughs, but these references don’t do justice to the intimacy and relative gentleness with which [she] treats her group of modern, often millennial drifters….She captures a precious slice of what it is to be human…[and] reaches moments of extraordinary grace.”—The New York Times Book ReviewPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-0-14-312869-4 • $16.00

LAUREN HOLMESBarbara the Slut and Other People“Sometimes painful, sometimes brilliantly funny, and most often both; Holmes can find the humor in the worst situations, and the tragedy in the most glorious moments. But it’s her characters that carry the [short] stories—imperfect, difficult, and defiantly human.”—NPR“[Holmes’] narrators are often women who are funny, imaginative, and yes, a little slutty. But…as Holmes’s Barbara quickly figures out, ‘slut’ is only a word. And Holmes’s collection dares us to treat it that way: in the pages of her book and beyond.”—The Washington PostRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-399-57603-4 • $16.00

REBECCA MAKKAIMusic for WartimeThese seventeen transporting, moving short stories—some inspired by Makkai’s own family history—confirm her as a master of the form. “Ricocheting from the war-torn twentieth century to the reality-show-rich present day, the stories in this impressive collection feature characters buffeted by fate—or is it mere hap-penstance?”—The New Yorker PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 256 PAGES • 978-0-14-310923-5 • $16.00

OTTESSA MOSHFEGHHomesick for Another WorldThe author of Eileen presents an impressive selection of short stories featuring characters who are unsteady on their feet in one way or another, yearning for connection and better-ment but getting tripped up by baser impulses and existential insecurities. “Expertly crafted….The author’s acute insight focuses obsessively, uncomfortably, humor-ously on excreta, effluvia, and human foible, drilling to the core of her characters’ existential dilemmas. Moshfegh is a force.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 304 PAGES • 978-0-399-56288-4 • $26.00

JOSHUA BENNETTThe Sobbing SchoolSELECTED BY EUGENE GLORIA

This debut poetry collection presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. “There are glimpses here of James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston where Bennett’s syn-tactical dexterity and feeling for language meet the rhythm and flow of dangerous music. His poems of identity are also poems of imagery and invention, and they testify to poetry’s endless mutability through story and song, lament and praise.”—Eugene GloriaPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 96 PAGES • 978-0-14-311186-3 • $18.00

ELENA FERRANTEFrantumaglia: A Writer’s JourneyTRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN

An intimate self-portrait of a writer honing her craft. In these pages, Ferrante medi-tates on a variety of topics: her decision to remain anonymous, her concerns about film adaptations of her novels, the joys and the struggles of writing, and her rela-tionship with psychoanalysis, the cities she has lived in, motherhood, feminism, and childhood. Includes over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews.EUROPA HARDCOVER • 400 PAGES • 978-1-60945-292-6 • $24.00

BOUALEM SANSAL2084: The End of the WorldTRANSLATED BY ALISON ANDERSON

In this tribute to George Orwell’s 1984, the award-winning Algerian writer tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate that forbids autonomous thought.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 240 PAGES • 978-1-60945-366-4 • $17.00AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 2017

PARISA REZAThe Gardens of ConsolationTRANSLATED BY ADRIANA HUNTER

A multigenerational family saga that chronicles Iran’s secular revolution, The Gardens of Consolation introduces us to a brilliant boy who—born in the early 1920s to illiter-ate shepherd parents living outside Tehran—becomes a fervent follower of reformer Mohammad Mosaddegh, participating in Iran’s political and social upheavals.EUROPA PAPERBACK • 208 PAGES • 978-1-60945-350-3 • $16.00

ALEXANDRE V IDAL PORTOSergio Y.TRANSLATED BY ALEX LADD

Set in São Paulo and New York, this work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” movement presents a story about gender, identity, and happiness.“With Sergio Y., Alexandre Vidal Porto makes clear why he is one of the essential writ-ers in Brazilian contemporary literature.”—Luiz RuffatoEUROPA PAPERBACK • 160 PAGES • 978-1-60945-327-5 • $16.00