Transit Books: 12 books

Axiomatic is Tumarkin's fourth book of nonfiction, and her most pioneering. Her three previous books have all been shortlisted for major prizes in Australia, but this is the book best positioned to break her out in the US market. Axiomatic is a boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling,...

Kirkus Best Books of 2018 "Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single,...

A Guardian Best Book of 2017 “Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”-Edmund...

"A magnificent novel."—The New Yorker "This is a book to relish."—The Guardian A woman moves to a London suburb near the River Lea, without knowing quite why or for how long. Over a series of long, solitary walks she reminisces about the rivers she has encountered...

•Longlisted for 2018 Man Booker International Prize •Autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy. •A fragmented narrative told in a compulsively readable style.

A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to play the piano like Margarita, the teacher’s cruel and beautiful niece. In stories filled with violence and tenderness, love and disconnection, Carlos Yushimito’s debut shines.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize “Achieves a form of literary alchemy that mesmerizes.”—The New York Times In this celebrated debut from prize-winning poet Wioletta Greg, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit, agricultural community in 1980s Poland. Her...

Longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Debut African Fiction Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize "Kintu is a masterpiece, an absolute gem, the great Ugandan novel you didn’t know you were waiting for."-Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry First published in Kenya...

“All My Goodbyes is a virtuoso performance. A love story told in razor sharp fragments, the novel lies at the intersection of memory, violence and trauma.”—Katie Kitamura A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned,...

•For readers of Joanna Walsh, Eimear McBride, Max Porter, and Ben Lerner, these fictions are gorgeously written and the mark of a huge new talent. Hayden subverts the form into his own genre of storytelling. •Early, passionate advocates in Kevin Barry and Eimear McBride, who called Hayden...

How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s collection attempt to measure that distance. Centered around the lives of Ugandans in Britain, Let's Tell This Story Properly features characters both hyper-visible and unseen—they take on jobs...

Saudade is the long-awaited follow-up to Peres da Costa's bestselling debut, Homework, which was published by Bloomsbury when she was only 23. We had the same feeling reading Saudade as we did with Wioletta Greg's Swallowing Mercury, with prose that's lyrical in its evocation of childhood and...