Hasan Azizul Huq is known for his stories that bring a powerful social consciousness to bear on the lives of ordinary people in contemporary Bangladesh – but doing so with surprising twists to what we think of as the typical grounds of realistic fict...

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was one of the greatest writers in modern Bengali literature, best known for his autobiographical novel "Pather Panchali", which, along with another of Bandyopadhyay's books, formed the basis for Satyajit Ray's classic "A...

This powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Leonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing –...

Musician Ann Hidden suspects her partner, Thomas, isn't telling her everything. So one dark night, she secretly follows him to an unfamiliar house in the Paris suburbs, where he disappears inside with an unknown woman. But before she can even begin t...

Banaphool – which means wildflower – was the pen name of beloved Bengali writer Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899-1979). "Wildfire" brings together forty-five short pieces by Banaphool that are brilliantly representative of his uncompromising, multifacet...

A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines – a beautiful, impetuous painter – who still lives there, soon appears and promptly asks for financial help. But the returning sister kn...

"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens". Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and ha...

Bengali writer Riza Rahman is the author of more than fifty novels, as well as countless short stories, set in Bangladesh and bringing to life the difficult, mostly forgotten lives of its poorest and most disadvantaged citizens. "Letters of Blood" is...

This gripping novel brilliantly straddles the divide between thrillers and literature. Moinul Ahsan Saber here tells the story of Kobej Lethel, a ruthless soldier of fortune employed by a corrupt village chief. Lethel has never had a problem with the...

Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people – with its exoticism – and see Japan as it...