Tilted Axis Press: 5 books

A woman arrives alone in Kolkata, taking refuge in a deserted apartment while she waits to undergo an unspecified surgery. In this disorienting city, everything seems new and strange: the pavement-dwellers outside her block, the collective displays of religiosity, the power cuts and alarming acts...

Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019 Named One of '10 Books to Read This Spring' by Tatler Online ‘My book of the year’ — Caroline Eden ‘A mesmerising — and terrifying — novel of tremendous range, energy and potency. This brilliant translation establishes Ismailov...

Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Winner of the Southeast Asian Write Award. Selected as a ‘book to look out for in 2017’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. Named #1 Best Beach Read of 2017 by Monocle Summer Weekly. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on...

Surreal and puncturing short stories from the Thai master of the form. In a pink-walled motel, a teenage prostitute brings a grown man to tears. A love-struck young boy holds the dismembered hand of his crush, only to find himself the object of a complex ménage à trois. A naked body falls...

‘India has found its Ferrante’ — Niven Govinden “And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair – for that is what makes good literature – while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son.” Ishwari has run away from home,...