Arcade Publishing imprint: 222 books

A musician navigates the politics and passions of World War II Russia—and beyond—in this acclaimed novel from the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers.   May 24, 1941: Alexeï Berg, a classical pianist, is set to perform his first solo concert in Moscow. But just before his début, his parents—his...

The acclaimed author of Dreams of My Russian Summers and Requiem for a Lost Empire delivers the final novel in his epic literary trilogy.   In present-day France, a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s, and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales...

Shakespeare’s beloved comic figure spins his own outrageous tell-all, in an award-winning novel by the author of Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize William Shakespeare’s bawdy knight, irascible and still lecherous...

“An extraordinary portrait of tyranny” from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize and author of A Girl in Exile (The New York Times). Psychologically incisive and impeccably crafted, Agamemnon’s Daughter tells the crushing story of passion shattered by a heartless regime. Once...

“In 16 interconnected stories, Forbes presents a 360-degree view of the enigmatic Ayela Garzón Linde and her life in a sleepy Texas border town” (Booklist).   From an O. Henry Prize–winner, this dazzling novel in stories marks the arrival of a powerfully original and beguiling new voice in...

From a Man Booker Prize nominee comes this “extraordinarily poignant” novel of growing up in post-WWII England from the author of The Soldier’s Return (The Sunday Telegraph). Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows young Joe Richardson, the son of a British World War II veteran,...

The exiled Cuban author of Thine Is the Kingdom brings to life the mysterious, broken down city of Havana on the eve of the new millennium.   Victorio, a lonely, middle-aged gay man, awakes to the news that the ancient Havana palace where he rents a tiny apartment is scheduled to be demolished, leaving...

Two Irish friends set out to see the world—only to endure the horrors of WWI, in “the best novel of love in the time of war since Cold Mountain” (Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom).   In 1913, before any rumors of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel—lifelong...

The chief translator and only American to speak with all Nazi defendants at Nuremberg shares his personal encounters with evil in this stirring memoir. At age twenty-two, Richard Sonnenfeldt was appointed the chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals during the Nuremberg...

A small German town edges into fascism in a novel by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin: **“**So terribly genuine, it is frightening.”—Kurt Tucholsky It is the summer of 1929, and in Altholm, Germany, a storm is brewing—a local political resistance that could be valuable to Max...

“A very interesting account of the incredibly hard life of a peasant and his family living under the mezzadria system . . . A thoroughly worthwhile book” (Italy Magazine). Growing up under Mussolini’s Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, Pietro Pinti and his family lived under conditions...

An intimate journey through the mind of one of history’s most notorious, scandalous, and still relevant literary figures.   Over two centuries after his death, the writings of the Marquis de Sade remain as controversial as ever. His unceasing championing of absolute freedom, unchecked by laws,...

The author of the international bestseller Becoming Human examines happiness in contemporary life through the ancient philosophy of Aristotle. Jean Vanier has devoted his life to improving the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities. Winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize,...

The author of Europa—shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize—delivers “a dense, intriguing novel, prickly and strange” (Financial Times).   Why would a man who has it all suddenly turn his back on the world at the height of his power? A celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker,...