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NURUDDIN FARAHHiding in Plain SightWhen, after years of absence, the mother of Bella’s teenage niece and nephew resurfaces following the murder of their father by political extremists, Bella must decide how far she will go in the name of sisterly responsibility. This is a profound exploration of ten-sions between freedom and obligation, the ways gender and sexual preference define us, and the paths by which the political disrupts the personal.“[Farah] writes evocatively about everything from Nairobi traffic to Kenyan game re-serves to, importantly, how Somalis are seen not just through the eyes of others, but through their own.”—USA TodayRIVERHEAD PAPERBACK • 352 PAGES • 978-1-59463-410-9 • $17.00

MO YANFrogTRANSLATED BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT

The author of Red Sorghum returns with his first major work since winning the Nobel Prize: a history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s one-child policy. “An anarchic, brutal book about the inhumanity of servants of the Communist state...and the moral vacuum at the heart of post-Mao China.”—New York Times Book ReviewVIKING HARDCOVER • 480 PAGES • 978-0-525-42798-8 • $27.95

DANIEL GALERABlood-Drenched BeardTRANSLATED BY ALISON ENTREKIN

From Brazil’s acclaimed novelist comes the story of how a troubled young man’s restor-ative seaside journey becomes a violent struggle with his family’s history. “Spooky, superbly executed....Superstition, rumor, and illusion filter into reality in a way reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez.”—The Wall Street JournalPENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 384 PAGES • 978-1-59420-574-3 • $26.95

JUAN GABR IEL VÁSQUEZLovers on All Saints’ DayTRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN

In these seven stories, the author of The Sound of Things Falling tackles themes of love and memory. Set in Europe—the site of Vásquez’s sixteen-year self-imposed exile from his native Columbia—this collection features work never before published in English. “A testimony to the early, dark brilliance of Vásquez’s writing.”—Sunday Times (UK)RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-1-59463-426-0 • $27.95

ELENA FERRANTEThe Story of the Lost ChildTRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN

In this fourth and final book of Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan Novels, bookish Elena and fiery Lila are adults; their friendship, examined in detail over the course of three previous novels, plays out against the backdrop of a Naples as seductive as it is perilous.“Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time.”—New York Times Book ReviewEUROPA EDITIONS PAPERBACK • 464 PAGES • 978-1-60945-286-5 • $18.00

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKYCrime and PunishmentTRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY OLIVER READY

“This vivid, stylish, and rich rendition…compels the attention of the reader in a way that none of the others I’ve read comes close to matching. Using a clear and forceful mid-20th-century idiom, Ready gives us...[a] new kind of access to Dostoyevsky’s singular, self-reflexive, and at times unnervingly comic text.”—John Gray, New Statesman (UK)PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 608 PAGES • 978-0-14-310763-7 • $20.00

HENRIK IBSENThe Master Builder and Other PlaysTRANSLATED BY BARBARA HAVELAND AND ANNE-MARIE STANTON-IFEEDITED BY TORE REM; INTRODUCTION BY TORIL MOI

Offers the best available English editions of Ibsen’s plays—all newly translated and based on the recently published, definitive Norwegian texts—under the general editorship of Ibsen scholar Tore Rem. Features Ibsen’s last four plays: Little Eyokf, John Gabriel Bork-man, and When We Dead Awaken, in addition to the title work.PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 368 PAGES • 978-0-14-119459-2 • $14.00

APOLLONIUS OF RHODESJason and the ArgonautsTRANSLATED BY AARON POOCHIGIANINTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BENJAMIN ACOSTA-HUGHES

The full account of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece—in an accessible verse translation. “At every turn, Poochigian…improves on every English-language translation of the Argonautica that’s come before him.”—Open Letters MonthlyPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-310686-9 • $15.00

HERODOTUSThe HistoriesTRANSLATED BY TOM HOLLAND INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY PAUL CARTLEDGE

With an array of tools to guide new readers and experts alike, this translation features an introduction, notes, a translator’s preface, maps, and an index of people and places.“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.”—The Times Literary Supplement (UK)PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 880 PAGES • 978-0-14-310754-5 • $23.00

VICTOR HUGOLes MisérablesTRANSLATED WITH NOTES BY CHRISTINE DONOUGHERINTRODUCTION BY ROBERT TOMBS

“Donougher’s translation is a magnificent achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, and Hugo’s narrative power is never let down….[An] almost flawless translation, which brings the full flavour of one of the greatest novels of the 19th century to new readers in the 21st.”—The Times Literary Supplement (UK)PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 1,456 PAGES • 978-0-14-310756-9 • $25.00

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NGUGI WA TH IONG ’OThe River Between50th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY UZODINMA IWEALA

This legendary work of African literature explores life in Kenya during the early days of white settlement, capturing the drama of a people whose world has been overturned. “Takes its reader on a journey out of the colonial matrix and into the world of the real, showing us life reclaimed in all its complexity from the simplifying template of colonial-ism….It has an undeniable power.”—Uzodinma Iweala, from the introductionPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 176 PP. • 978-0-14-310749-1 • $15.00

IPPOL ITO N IEVOConfessions of an ItalianTRANSLATED BY FREDERIKA RANDALL; INTRODUCTION BY LUCY RIALL

“A wonderful blend of wit, political perspicuity, and exuberant comic invention….Ran-dall’s admirable new translation now makes [this classic] available in all its…glory….This is a humane piece of fiction, funny and wise, but it is also a candid, astute account of what it feels like to combine lofty patriotic illusions about a People with a realistic view of how ignoble and mistaken people generally are.”—The Times Literary Supplement (UK)PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 928 PAGES • 978-0-14-139166-3 • $25.00

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L IMA BARRETOThe Sad End of Policarpo QuaresmaTRANSLATED BY MARK CARLYON; INTRODUCTION BY LILIA MORITZ SCHWARCZ

This Brazilian masterpiece about a quixotic, patriotic civil servant presents a satirical portrayal of a country caught in a violent clash between sanity and madness. Full of schemes to improve his homeland, Policarpo Quaresma petitions for Brazil’s national language to be changed and offers to help suppress a military revolt. Yet somehow each of his ventures ends in ridicule and disaster, and his dreams lead to his undoing. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 272 PAGES • 978-0-14-139570-8 • $18.00

FYODOR SOLOGUB The Little DemonTRANSLATED BY RONALD WILKS; INTRODUCTION BY PAMELA DAVIDSON

Arguably the finest Russian novel to emerge from the Symbolist movement, this blackly comic classic about a provincial schoolteacher’s descent into sadism, arson, and murder paints a grotesque portrait of a spiritually bankrupt society. PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 336 PAGES • 978-0-14-139293-6 • $16.00

CONFUCIUSThe AnalectsTRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY ANNPING CHIN

A vibrant translation that draws on newly excavated texts and recent research to place Confucius’s teachings in a historical context. Includes the English and Chinese texts.“Astonishingly lucid….Serene insight pervades the commentaries.”—Harold Bloom, Yale “Unlock[s]...new...meaning for English-language readers.”—Orville Schell, UC-BerkeleyPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 256 PAGES • 978-0-14-310685-2 • $16.00

JOHN MINFORD , t r ans la to r I Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Oracle and Book of WisdomINTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY THE TRANSLATOR

This new translation, over a decade in the making, is informed by archaeological dis-coveries and features a codex of divination signs—the I Ching’s 64 Tarot-like hexagrams. “Consistently eloquent and erudite, this rendition…will endure as a classic of the 21st century and beyond.”—Anthony C. Yu, University of ChicagoVIKING HARDCOVER • 960 PAGES • 978-0-670-02469-8 • $36.00

MALCOLM C . LYONS, t r ans la to rTales of the Marvellous and News of the StrangeThe First English Translation of a Medieval Arab Fantasy CollectionINTRODUCTION BY ROBERT IRWIN

Although some of these earliest-known Arabic short stories found their way into The Arabian Nights, most appear here—for the very first time—in English. “Offers a gateway to a different world of language and ideas; florid, wildly descriptive and…a powerful reminder of the human need for story.”—The Independent (UK) PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER • 496 PAGES • 978-0-14-139503-6 • $30.00

N. J . DAWOOD, t r ans la to rThe KoranINTRODUCTION AND A CHRONOLOGY BY THE TRANSLATOR

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RA YESHÉ SENGÉThe All-Pervading Melodious DrumbeatThe Life of Ra LotsawaTRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY BRYAN J. CUEVAS

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FRANZ XAVER VON SCHÖNWERTHThe Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy TalesEDITED WITH A FOREWORD BY ERIKA EICHENSEER TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY MARIA TATARILLUSTRATED BY ENGELBERT SÜSS

For the first time, Schönwerth’s Bavarian fairy tales, lost until a few years ago when his manuscripts were discovered in a German municipal archive, are available in English. Recorded with minimal literary embellishment, these more than seventy stories bring us closer to the oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted. “Schönwerth’s tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gath-ered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault.”—The New YorkerPENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310742-2 • $17.00

DAVID ATTWELLJ. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-to-Face with TimeHaving worked closely with Coetzee on Doubling the Point, a collection of personal essays and interviews, David Attwell was given early access to his archive. In this insightful biog-raphy and literary study, Attwell draws on Coetzee’s manuscripts, notebooks, and research papers to explore the creative processes behind the Nobel Laureate’s novels, illuminating the autobiographical and self-reflective nature of his work. VIKING HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-0-525-42961-6 • $27.95

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