World Editions imprint: 17 books

by Esther Gerritsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2020

• Second book by Esther Gerritsen, whose book Craving was one of World Editions inaugural lead titles. • Craving was praised by the NYT as “Droll and horrific and incredibly moving,” and received national review coverage as well as much love from booksellers • Craving was the #2 bestseller...
by Renate Dorrestein
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019

Beautiful, happy people? No. Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood becomes an ordeal of constant, vicious bullying. After...
by Johannes Anyuru
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019

P’s greatest dream is to fly. He sets out to become a Ugandan fighter pilot, training in an academy in Greece. When the 1971 Idi Amin coup in his homeland disrupts his plans, he defects and becomes a man on the run. In this extraordinary novel based on his own father’s fate, Anyuru evokes P’s...
by Marente De Moor
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019

Germany, 1936. Nazism is taking hold. Janna, a young Dutch girl, has been sent to the embittered aristocrat Egon von Bötticher to train as a fencer. Bötticher is as eccentric as his training methods, yet the pupil soon finds herself falling for her master—a man tormented by a wartime past in which...
by Tom Lanoye
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019

• A literary rock-’n’-roll version of the age-old doppelganger motif • Two Belgian exiles, Tony and Tony have the same name and the same appearance, but beyond that they have little in common. In Buenos Aires, to pay off his debts, one of the Tony Hanssens – a former cruise director on the...
by Sisonke Msimang
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Lead title with 100,000 AFP South African author Sisonke Msimang is one of the most exciting contemporary female black voices in literature. Her work frequently appears in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian and the Huffington Post . Her TED Talk “If a story...
by Tom Lanoye
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

Humor, pain and copious amounts of love run throughout this critically acclaimed novel by Tom Lanoye that sold almost 135,000 copies in Holland and Belgium alone. Both brave and honest, Speechless is a poignant homage to Lanoye’s late mother, Josée. Flamboyant, proud and dominant, Josée...
by Annelies Verbeke
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

‘Verbeke has written a bold, busy, textured novel. Read it once and you may well read it twice.’—The Irish Times With a sharp and observational eye, Annelies Verbeke takes a funny, imaginative and perceptive look at the realities and absurdities of human interactions, relationships and...
by Jaap Robben
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

‘You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and the ability to confront the darkest areas of experience with...
by Bert Wagendorp
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

“Wagendorp’s book manages to be funny, shrewd, and moving, with a complex structure that never feels cumbersome, and a finale so intense that you want to read it very slowly, almost one word at a time.” —The Guardian “A wonderful blend of humor, suspense, and poignancy, which will...
by Saskia de Coster
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

“We and Me is a novel that will haunt me for a long time. Excellent and unforgettable.” Herman Koch, author of The Dinner In this spellbinding novel, which has been compared to the work of Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and Jeffrey Eugenides, Saskia de Coster provides a uniquely European...
by Paolo Maurensig
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

“Maurensig has created a gripping short novel that is critical of the realities of publishing, a hybrid of at least two genres, highly imaginative, and involving even beyond the final page.” —Critica Letteraria “Biblical, oblique, and lying somewhere between thriller, fantasy, and legend,...
by Jan Vantoortelboom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

Flanders, 1915. David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before the firing squad and looks back on his short life. As a young man, David was sent away by his parents, after a tragic accident in the family, to become a schoolteacher in a remote village. There he develops a special bond...
by Charles Den Tex
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019

Mr. Miller is watching you Michael Bellicher is working for a successful consultancy agency and has everything going for him. During a night spent at work, he witnesses something he should never have seen. Attempting to flee the tightening stranglehold of the conspirators, Michael finds himself tailed...
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