General & literary fiction Books

When Kurt Weber inherits his great-uncle's lakeside house, he finds traces of the dark secrets of his family's past. The early inhabitants of the house haunt his dreams nightly. And one day a ghostlike woman appears before him, hiding herself in a room...

'Of course I had to end up here...'Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat,...

Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprising - they finally begin to talk. Kuno had always regarded his father as a boring man without a history or a...

Any new book by poet, essayist, writer and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and Mr Zed's Reflections is no exception. Every afternoon for almost a...

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept...

Zurich Transit, a screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the centre of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no...

When this novel begins, the protagonist has just turned thirty, is engaged to be married and about to start work as a teacher. Frightened by the idea of settling down, he journeys to the Alps in a do-or-die effort to climb the unclimbed North Ridge, and...

August is Christa Wolf's last piece of fiction, written in a single sitting as an anniversary gift to her husband. In it, she revisits her stay at a tuberculosis hospital in the winter of 1946, a real-life event that was the inspiration for the closing...

This collection of four stories is, as long-time fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus;...

May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move, and communism is collapsing all around. And in a corner of old Calcutta,...

It's the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah - the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow - to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing a dangerous game of love, loyalty,...

Ava Simon designs storage boxes for STAEDA, a slick Brooklyn-based furniture company. She's hard-working, obsessive and heartbroken from a tragedy that killed her girlfriend and upended her life. It's been years since she's let...

It's a fine line between admiration and envy.Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter,...

In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's summer house on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family - her father takes his own life, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at...

Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of publication, it offers a chink of light - the hope of rescue...

A must-have collection of folktales for anyone interested in Korean literature and culture!Tales of Korea is a classic collection of Korea's best-known folktales - presenting all the imagination and wonder of Korean storytelling in a single...

This powerful, gritty, and vivid novel is the unforgettable story of Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Drug dealer, thief, and murdered, Carlito Brigante was once just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a...

Compared by Danzy Senna to "the young Philip Roth" for her "lashing, dark humor tinged with deep melancholy," Porochista Khakpour is one of her generation's most outrageously gifted new talents. Sons and Other Flammable Objects is at once a comedy and a...

In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece-a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish...

Chosen by the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Novels of 2005, Lily King's new novel is a story about an independent woman and her fifteen-year-old son, and the truth she has long concealed from him. Fifteen years ago Vida Avery...

Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue one of the classic novels by this acclaimed master of...

Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the story...

Four German Jews , all refugees from Nazi Germany, and all first-rate musicians, arrive in Palestine in the 1930s. There they join a symphony orchestra, which although made up of Europeans serves as a propaganda vehicle for the Zionist...

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into...

A national bestseller from the "prolific and exceptionally insightful" (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, Difficult Women is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. Difficult Women tells of...

The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut novel by a powerfulnew voice.A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to whichideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her...

A History of the Future is the third thrilling novel in Kunstler's "World Made By Hand" series, an exploration of family and morality as played out in the small town of Union Grove. Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century-the pandemics,...

"A thoughtful read perfect for this moody season." -Wall Street Journal"Karma of the Sun is a not-to-miss debut from a ridiculously talented newcomer." -Locus Magazine"Beautiful, moving, vast in its spiritual and emotional scope . . ." -Angela Mi Young...

From the international best-selling author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon comes a dazzling new work of historical fiction. According to the New Testament, Jesus resurrected his friend, but the Gospel of John omits details of how he achieved...

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. 'Darkness and Company' is an unflinching and morally complex historical novel about a Lithuanian photographer who agrees to record the murderous actions of the occupying SS and local militia in return for the...

'This story glows somewhere on the fringes of my consciousness, so close I can almost touch it.'Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. Estonian author Kai Aareleid's novel, 'Burning Cities', is a poetic historical saga, in which the fortunes of a...

'I want to throw a stone, hit my husband on the head you never know what a crazy person will do next, and, anyway, they can't be held accountable and you can't take offence at their actions.'Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics. A contemporary...

Six Gothic and uncanny stories from one of Europe's mostcelebrated contemporary writers of short fiction. In Nona'sRoom the everyday fantasies of women slowly turn intonightmare, delusion and paranoia.Cristina Fernandez Cubas takes us through a dark...

When Samuel receives a call out of the blue informing him thathis lover Clara is dead, he sees a way to escape a life short onintrigue, passion and excitement. Does it matter that henever knew her?Jos Ovejero's existential tale of stolen identity exposes...

Being the Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered Shipwreck and saw no Human Beings otherthan Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld Megatheria alive and made some notes of theirHabits. How he became a Sacred...

In the months following his wife's death, Mr. Preemby, a retired laundryman becomes convinced that he is the incarnation of Sargon, the ancient king of Sumeria, returned to save a world upturned by the First World War. Trying to make sense of Mr Preemby...

Duan arotar takes the reader on a deeply reflective yet kaleidoscopic journey from northernto southern Europe. In a manner reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, arotar supplements the narrativewith photographs, which help to blur the lines between fiction and...

 In 1990 two Bulgarian brothers, Ned and Ango, receive an unusual package from the USA: a black plastic box containing the ashes of their late father, a professor allowed out of communist Bulgaria to teach in the USA during the...

One of Jane Austen's most charming youthful "novels"-in-miniature-presented in a deluxe illustrated edition that will delight all Austen fansMost people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Fortunately for us, she wrote several others, though very...

A 2024 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist The stunning, new collection from the Ugandan master of Africanfuturism.A young teen, haunted by the ghost of his father, takes it upon himself to save his brother and his people from a warlord's marauding army. A...

Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History covers the history of China in an anecdotal fashion that makes each event come alive. Entertaining and informative, this ambitious narrative will enlighten all those who wish to know more about the chronicles of...

Tales from Five Thousand Years of Chinese History, consisting of two volumes, is a collection of stories arranged in chronological order, covering the period from ancient times to the pre-Opium-War Qing Dynasty. Open these pages to discover the great...

When Anthony Lammas, Kirk minister and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, sets off for business in London, little does he realise that he will soon be entangled in a web of conspiracy. But Anthony is no ordinary professor.Set during the...

After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as...

Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down...

In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of...

Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, the moving story unfolds of the peasant Pak and his family and friends, and the tragedy that is their shared fate...

An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval JapanThis celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the...