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  • Panics

    by Barbara Molinard ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921–1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics.These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pretty Things

    by Virginie Despentes, Emma Ramadan ...
    A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it’s like to wear the daily drag of femininity—and then pressing down, slowly and calmly, right where it hurts" (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Husband

    A Novel

    by Maud Ventura ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel of domestic suspense, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband—but can their marriage survive her passionate love?A Belletrist Book Club Pick • An Amazon UK Best Book of the Year • Winner of France’s First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Vogue • theSkimm • Oprah Daily • The MillionsAt forty ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Revenge of the Translator

    by Brice Matthieussent ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    The work of a novelist and translator collide in this visionary and hilarious debut from acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent. Revenge of the Translator follows Trad, who is translating a mysterious author’s book, Translator’s Revenge, from English to French. The book opens as a series of footnotes from Trad, as he justifies changes he makes. As the novel progresses, Trad begins to take ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Port of Beirut

    by Lamia Ziadé ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    “Magical...Lamia Ziadé tells the story of the explosion as she experienced it: from afar but in the heart. A book of love, mourning and anger”-- ElleOn the evening of August 4, 2020, an explosion tore through Beirut, leaving nearly 200 people dead, 6,000 injured, and 300,000 homeless. The blast was caused by storing thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate alongside a stash of fireworks—a deadly ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fortress of Tears

    by Abdellah Taïa ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    In his sixth novel to be published into English, Abdellah Taïa explores the dissonance of one man’s homecoming marred by the memory of his tragic past and grief-filled present.Upon his mother's death, Youssef—a Moroccan teacher who has lived in exile in France for a quarter of a century—returns to his hometown, Salé, at his sisters' request to settle the family estate.In Salé, voices from Youssef ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Easy Life

    A Novel

    by Marguerite Duras ...
    Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...
    For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sphinx

    by Anne Garréta ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notes to a Black Woman

    by Francoise Ega ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    The extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice and defend the dignity of migrant workersIn the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonies in the West Indies to become domestic workers for white families in France. Lured by the French government with the false promise of economic opportunity, these women instead found themselves ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Country for Dying

    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    by Abdellah Taïa ...
    **An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE**Paris, Summer 2010.Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her.Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Curious Case of Dassoukine's Trousers

    by Fouad Laroui ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    "A striking metaphor for our times."—Le FigaroThis long-awaited English-language debut from Morocco's most prominent contemporary writer won the Prix Gouncourt de Nouvelles, France's most prestigious literary award, for best story collection. Laroui uses surrealism, laugh-out-loud humor, and profound compassion across a variety of literary styles to highlight the absurdity of the human condition, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Worth

    by Emma Tholozan ...
    Translated by Emma Ramadan ...
    True love or easy money — which would you choose?Fresh from graduating with her master’s in philosophy, Anna is shocked when a career counsellor tells her she has ‘no special skills’. Desperate for work and financial independence, she accepts a thankless job at a TV talk show. She might be making minimum wage, but at least she has her boyfriend Lulu, the love of her life, to come home to at night ... Read more

    $24.59 USD