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Moving Parts

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Translated by Mui Poopoksakul ...

Winner, English PEN Translates Award Selected by Asymptote for September World Book Club Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls from the window of a ... Read more

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Winner, English PEN Translates Award Selected by Asymptote for September World Book Club Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls from the window of a
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The Sad Part Was

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Winner, English PEN Translates Award Winner, Southeast Asian Write Award. Selected as a ‘Book to Look Out For in 2017’ by the Guardian and BuzzFeed. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of ... Read more

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Winner, English PEN Translates Award Winner, Southeast Asian Write Award. Selected as a ‘Book to Look Out For in 2017’ by the Guardian and BuzzFeed. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with punctuation, flirts with sci-fi and, in a metafictional twist, mocks his own position as omnipotent author. Highly literary, his narratives offer an oblique reflection of
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A Good True Thai

by Sunisa Manning ...

In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results.Det has just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to his best friend Chang, a smart boy from the slums, as they go to college; while there, Det falls for Lek, a Chinese immigrant with radical ideals. Longing for glory, Det journeys into his friends’ political circles, and then into the Thai jungle to ... Read more

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In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results.Det has just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to his best friend Chang, a smart boy from the slums, as they go to college; while there, Det falls for Lek, a Chinese immigrant with radical ideals. Longing for glory, Det journeys into his friends’ political circles, and then into the Thai jungle to
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Walking Practice

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“Min’s novel is shocking and horrifying and hilarious and intimate. A real antidote.” – Bryan Washington, bestselling author of Memorial and PalaverSquid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecra. ... Read more

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“Min’s novel is shocking and horrifying and hilarious and intimate. A real antidote.” – Bryan Washington, bestselling author of Memorial and PalaverSquid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecra.
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My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! Volume 7

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Series Book 7 - My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me!
With the culture festival behind them, it’s finally time for some rest and relaxation! Or it would be, were it not for the two-mom tag team ambush being sprung on Akiteru. With both mothers keen on interrogating Akiteru about his relationship with their daughters, there’ll be no time for relaxing at all! While Aki deals with them and tries to figure out what happened between his aunt and uncle, a ... Read more

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With the culture festival behind them, it’s finally time for some rest and relaxation! Or it would be, were it not for the two-mom tag team ambush being sprung on Akiteru. With both mothers keen on interrogating Akiteru about his relationship with their daughters, there’ll be no time for relaxing at all! While Aki deals with them and tries to figure out what happened between his aunt and uncle, a
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A Little Daylight Left

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by Sarah Kay ...

“[A] vulnerable collection about facing the good, the bad and the ugly of our humanity with grace and curiosity.”—USA Today (New Must-Read Poetry)“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of There’s Always This Yearfrom somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks / What if you aren’t as bad as you ... Read more

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“[A] vulnerable collection about facing the good, the bad and the ugly of our humanity with grace and curiosity.”—USA Today (New Must-Read Poetry)“This is a book that will make you feel simultaneously alive and less alone.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times bestselling author of There’s Always This Yearfrom somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks / What if you aren’t as bad as you
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Optional Practical Training

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*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2025 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE *An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America**Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a degree in physics. Her student visa ... Read more

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*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2025 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE *An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America**Told as a series of conversations, Optional Practical Training follows Pavitra, a young Indian woman who came to the US for college from Bangalore, India, and graduates in 2006 with a degree in physics. Her student visa
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It's a Big Big World

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‘The world was against me.’ As up-and-coming writer John Kaliba anticipates the publication of his first book – which he thinks will propel him to literary fame – he also faces the challenges of making it in a foreign country. As John contemplates the day-to-day hustle that comes with integrating a new system, he must manage between preserving his love for Diane, fending off his relentless ... Read more

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‘The world was against me.’ As up-and-coming writer John Kaliba anticipates the publication of his first book – which he thinks will propel him to literary fame – he also faces the challenges of making it in a foreign country. As John contemplates the day-to-day hustle that comes with integrating a new system, he must manage between preserving his love for Diane, fending off his relentless
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Me, Men, Menopause - A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To 50

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Laugh your way from "suddenly single" despair to "blissfully you" repairSuddenly single, newly you? Life curious and bio-available? Attitude and humour are everything when it comes to online dating, buying condoms, getting naked and being single at 50. Sex and the City goes on a blind date with Carl Jung and Jerry Springer, then Godzilla shows up when you least expect him.Laugh your way to awkward ... Read more

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Laugh your way from "suddenly single" despair to "blissfully you" repairSuddenly single, newly you? Life curious and bio-available? Attitude and humour are everything when it comes to online dating, buying condoms, getting naked and being single at 50. Sex and the City goes on a blind date with Carl Jung and Jerry Springer, then Godzilla shows up when you least expect him.Laugh your way to awkward
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Spent Bullets

by Terao Tetsuya ...

Translated by Kevin Wang ...

Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered on the short life and long shadow of an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder.The hard-working geniuses of Spent Bullets are the crème de la crème of the meritocracy. Educated in the best schools ... Read more

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Set in Taiwan and the Silicon Valley, a collection of linked stories that explore the meaning of success and the purpose of existence, centered on the short life and long shadow of an engineering genius who descends deeper into despair while rising higher on the professional ladder.The hard-working geniuses of Spent Bullets are the crème de la crème of the meritocracy. Educated in the best schools
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Unspeakable Home

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From award-winning writer Ismet Prcic, a “brutal and tender and beautiful” (Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars) novel that is “part existential cry…part anguished confession…a transfiguring of personal memory to obscure the terrible cost of exile” (The New York Times).Having fled his war-torn hometown of Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a teenager, our narrator, Izzy, found love and a measure ... Read more

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From award-winning writer Ismet Prcic, a “brutal and tender and beautiful” (Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars) novel that is “part existential cry…part anguished confession…a transfiguring of personal memory to obscure the terrible cost of exile” (The New York Times).Having fled his war-torn hometown of Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a teenager, our narrator, Izzy, found love and a measure
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Walking with Basho

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by Jerry Lagadec ...

I dont claim to have any profound answers or life changing insights; Ill leave that to others. But I do believe that we need to make an effort to be more present, particularly now when we are becoming so increasingly distracted. This value judgment is about as arrogant as I get, but thats what I notice in so many people today. I did try to be as truthful as possible about how wonderful, ironic, ... Read more

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I dont claim to have any profound answers or life changing insights; Ill leave that to others. But I do believe that we need to make an effort to be more present, particularly now when we are becoming so increasingly distracted. This value judgment is about as arrogant as I get, but thats what I notice in so many people today. I did try to be as truthful as possible about how wonderful, ironic,
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