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  • The Remembered Soldier

    by Anjet Daanje ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST—THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025—**THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF 2025 —THE NEW YORK TIMES"The Best Historical Fiction"—2026 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE FINALIST—REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE WINNER... ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • War and Turpentine

    A novel

    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • We Slaves of Suriname

    by Anton de Kom ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Convert

    A Novel

    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book AwardsIn this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy.In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Ascent

    A House Can Have Many Secrets

    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as a member of the Nazi police.In 1979 Stefan Hertmans became obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent. The previous owners were mentioned only in passing during the acquisition, and it wasn’t until the new millennium, long after he had sold the house, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Song of Stork and Dromedary

    A Novel

    by Anjet Daanje ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    A thrilling literary puzzle that explores the haunted life and mysterious afterlifes of a writer and her work.Who was Eliza May Drayden? Is she just the quiet, intensely private person she seems to all the world in her little village of Bridge Fowling in the shadow of the West Yorkshire hills—or is there more to her than meets the eye? It is only after her death that Haeger Mass, her one book—a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Euro Crisis

    The inside story

    by Jeroen Dijsselbloem ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    A lot has already been said and written about the euro crisis: about the causes and consequences of the collapsing economy, the costly rescue of banks, the rising debts, the predicted end of the euro, the imminent exit of Greece, the ongoing search for the guilty parties, the disagreement about solutions, and the big consequences for people across the eurozone. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of ... Read more

    $14.25 USD

  • Global Theatre from the Cherry Collective

    Six New Plays in Translation

    by Frédéric Sonntag, Jorgelina Cerritos, Freek Mariën, Gabrielle Chapdelaine, David Paquet, Rebekka Kricheldorf ...
    Translated by David Mckay, Anna Donko, Margaret Stanton, Neil Blackadder, Taylor Barrett Gaines, Leanna Brodie ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    The best contemporary plays from other countries can bring a strikingly fresh point of view to our English-language stages. Often, they can expand our sense of the playwriting form.For a decade, the Cherry Artists' Collective in Ithaca, NY, have sought out and developed new and unusual plays from across the globe that speak to English-language artists and audiences.This collection gathers together ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Max Havelaar

    Or, the Coffee Auctions of The Dutch Trading Company

    by Multatuli ...
    Translated by Ina Rilke, David McKay ...
    A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s.A brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max Havelaar tells the story of a renegade Dutch colonial administrator’s ultimately unavailing struggle to end the exploitation of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • From Under the Floors of Hell

    by Wannete Johnson ...
    From Under the Floors of Hell: A Memoir of Survival, Resilience, and Unwavering Faith by Wannetta Johnson is a story of survival and resilience, from experiencing severe childhood abuse to betrayal, chronic illness, and abandonment in adulthood. Through every dark chapter, she held on to what she calls her Blanket of Faith a deep, personal belief that she was never alone. From family betrayal to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Just

    how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

    by Jan Brokken ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century.In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul.In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Bold Ventures

    Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

    by Charlotte Van den Broeck ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor—the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure—through the stories of thirteen tragic architects.In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects—architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook