World Editions: 25 books

• 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...

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...

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...

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...

• 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...

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...

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...

‘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...

‘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...

“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...

“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...

“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,...

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...

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...