Results for "Harvey, Rosalind"

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).Alina and Laura are independent and career-drive... Read More about Still Born

"A comparison can be made to Richard Scarry's famous Busytown books; there's always something going on in each corner of the picture." --School Library Journal Welcome to the Village of Villa Verde where there are always little adventures. Join Coco as he falls madly in love with his new pet lady... Read More about Most Delicious Soup and Other Stories

Juan Pablo Villalobos's fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer absurdity. In an unnamed city, colonised by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gast n makes hi... Read More about Invasion of the Spirit People

The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is ... Read More about Here Be Icebergs