Peirene Press: 21 books

Cover of Shatila Stories
by Omar Khaled Ahmad, Nibal Alalo, Safa Khaled Algharbawi
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018

Most novels are written by professional writers using second hand material. Not this one. Peirene commissioned nine refugees to tell their ‘Shatila Stories’. The result is a piece of collaborative fiction unlike any other. If you want to understand the chaos of the Middle East – or you just...
Cover of Dance by the Canal
by Kerstin Hensel
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

A tragicomic satire from the heart of East Germany. Gabriela grows up in the East German town of Leibnitz. Her father is a famous surgeon, her mother a respected society hostess. The girl, however, struggles to fulfil their expectations. She shows no talent as a violinist and, worse, she fails...
Cover of The Cut
by Anthony Cartwright
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017

The Cut is a Brexit novel. The story offers a fictional response to a complex issue. It is also a plot-driven page-turner by one of the most exciting novelists in the country. Cairo Jukes, a boxer from Dudley, supports himself on zero-hour contracts. He has grown up among the canals – or...
Cover of The Mussel Feast
by Birgit Vanderbeke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation. A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family...
Cover of The Man I Became
by Peter Verhelst
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016

An impressively entertaining tale about the frailty of human civilisation by the leading Flemish writer Peter Verhelst, now for the first time in English. Warning: This story is narrated by a gorilla. He is plucked from the jungle. He learns to chat and passes the ultimate test: a cocktail...
Cover of Breach
by Annie Holmes, Olumide Popoola
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

breach - noun: An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct. A gap in a wall, barrier, or defence, especially one made by an attacking army. breach - verb: Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence). (Of a whale) rise and break through the...
Cover of Mr Darwin's Gardener
by Kristina Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013

A postmodern Victorian novel about faith, knowledge and our inner needs. The late 1870s, the Kentish village of Downe. The villagers gather in church one rainy Sunday. Only Thomas Davies stays away. The eccentric loner, father of two and a grief-stricken widower, works as a gardener for the...
Cover of Soviet Milk
by Nora Ikstena
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018

The literary bestseller that took the Baltics by storm now published for the first time in English. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived...
Cover of The Last Summer
by Ricarda Huch
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

A psychological thriller by the pioneering German writer Ricarda Huch. A novel of letters from the last century – but one with an astonishingly modern feel. Now for the first time in English.. Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. To counter student unrest, the governor of St Petersburg...
Cover of Maybe This Time
by Alois Hotschnig
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2011

A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria’s most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds...
Cover of Stone in a Landslide
by Maria Barbal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

The Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th edition, for the first time in English. The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa leaves her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hardship she finds love with Jaume - a love...
Cover of The Dead Lake
by Hamid Ismailov
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The...
Cover of The Looking-Glass Sisters
by Gøhril Gabrielsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

A tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The older needs nursing and the younger keeps house. Then, one day, a...
Cover of Her Father's Daughter
by Marie Sizun
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

A taut and subtle family drama from France. A little girl lives happily with her mother in war-torn Paris. She has never met her father, a prisoner of war in Germany. But then he returns and her mother switches her devotion to her husband. The girl realizes that she must win over her father...
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