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Penguin Publishing Group NEW TITLES • CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE NEW TITLES • CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE KARAN MAHAJAN ZADIE SMITH The Association of Small Bombs Swing Time PAID “An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Presort Std Exploring the depth of friendship, the power of music, and the stubbornness of roots, this U.S. Postage Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from Permit No. 169 contemporary new novel from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty moves from North-West London Staten Island, NY the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan’s piercing gaze…[as] he shows us how by- to West Africa to tell the story of two girls who dream of becoming dancers. stander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground.” “A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land —Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son mines….Smith is dazzling in her specificity, evoking predicaments, worldviews, and per- PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310927-3 • $16.00 sonalities with a camera-vivid precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) Shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award literature PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 464 PAGES • 978-1-59420-398-5 • $27.00 ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA BRIT BENNETT Multiple Choice The Mothers TRANSLATED BY MEGAN McDOWELL Set within a contemporary small-town black community in Southern California, an emo- The celebrated Chilean author presents a bold new reading experience: a novel written in tionally perceptive novel about a teen pregnancy and the life-altering decisions that follow. the form of a standardized test that invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exer- “Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel—moving, thoughtful. Stun- cises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions. 2017 ning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.” “Latin America’s new literary star.”—The New Yorker —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 128 PAGES • 978-0-14-310919-8 • $15.00 “[A] much-needed new voice in literature.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-18451-2 • $26.00 Reputations HELEN OYEYEMI TRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours From the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling comes a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist that examines the weight of the past, how public per- PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, A playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both sona intersects with private history, and the burdens and surprises of memory. literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. “Vásquez is a penetrating force and the most pressing Colombian writer today….Reputa- tions is a powerful, concentrated achievement. It makes clear that our memories, and even “Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the the things we’ve forgotten, can come back to haunt us.”—NPR line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-1-59463-347-8 • $25.00 at all….Transcendent.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00 ÁLVARO ENRIGUE NAOMI JACKSON Sudden Death TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER The Star Side of Bird Hill A postmodern tale about a 16th-century clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis “From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo. writers have produced an exquisite literature of diaspora and affirmation….Now Naomi “Has both great entertainment value and intellectual appeal, especially as a corrective to Jackson joins their ranks with…a serious yet effervescent debut that showcases three gener- a Eurocentric view of history....[This is Mexican author] Enrigue’s fifth novel, but only the ations of women as they grapple with conflict and loss during the fateful summer of 1989…. first to be translated into English...and beautifully so by Natasha Wimmer....A splendid in- new titles More than a coming-of-age novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill evokes the intractable forces troduction to Enrigue’s varied body of work.”—The New York Times that tear at families and cultures.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 272 PAGES • 978-1-59463-346-1 • $27.00 PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 304 PAGES • 978-0-14-310916-7 • $16.00 KRYS LEE for courses CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT How I Became a North Korean Pond “Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain: the desperate and tenuous realms This debut collection of stories from the young Irish writer captures the interior reality of defectors are forced to inhabit after escaping North Korea. With heart and passion, [she] its protagonist, a young woman living a singular life on the outskirts of a coastal village. forges a world no other writer could create, one where the only response to longing and loss “What moves the reader forward is the sense the stories convey of a real-time psychological is learning to trust and hope again.”—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son fabric: the reader experiences the narrator’s world at the same pace she does….Like Lydia “Terrifying, poetic, and precise….Captures the crushing human cost of fleeing a dictator- PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Davis, Bennett…takes a state of mind closely associated with madness and places it in set- our College Faculty Information Service (CFIS) at: ship.”—Blaine Harden, author of Escape from Camp 14 WWW.PENGUIN.COM/FACINFO tings that are utterly domestic, mundane.”—The New Yorker For complimentary examination copies and personalized For complimentary examination copies and personalized VIKING HARDCOVER • 256 PAGES • 978-0-670-02568-8 • $26.00 assistance in selecting titles for your courses, sign up WWW.PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-0-399-57589-1 • $26.00 NEW TITLES • CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE NEW TITLES • CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE KARAN MAHAJAN ZADIE SMITH The Association of Small Bombs Swing Time PAID “An exploded-view of a small bomb that goes off in a minor market in a corner of South Presort Std Exploring the depth of friendship, the power of music, and the stubbornness of roots, this U.S. Postage Delhi. Like shrapnel, themes of suffering, dislocation, and redemption radiate from Permit No. 169 contemporary new novel from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty moves from North-West London Staten Island, NY the blast, and none will be spared Mahajan’s piercing gaze…[as] he shows us how by- to West Africa to tell the story of two girls who dream of becoming dancers. stander, bomber, victim, and survivor will forever share a patch of scorched ground.” “A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land —Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son mines….Smith is dazzling in her specificity, evoking predicaments, worldviews, and per- PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 288 PAGES • 978-0-14-310927-3 • $16.00 sonalities with a camera-vivid precision.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) Shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award literature PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER • 464 PAGES • 978-1-59420-398-5 • $27.00 ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA BRIT BENNETT Multiple Choice The Mothers TRANSLATED BY MEGAN McDOWELL Set within a contemporary small-town black community in Southern California, an emo- The celebrated Chilean author presents a bold new reading experience: a novel written in tionally perceptive novel about a teen pregnancy and the life-altering decisions that follow. the form of a standardized test that invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exer- “Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel—moving, thoughtful. Stun- cises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions. 2017 ning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.” “Latin America’s new literary star.”—The New Yorker —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming PENGUIN PAPERBACK • 128 PAGES • 978-0-14-310919-8 • $15.00 “[A] much-needed new voice in literature.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 288 PAGES • 978-0-399-18451-2 • $26.00 Reputations HELEN OYEYEMI TRANSLATED BY ANNE McLEAN What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours From the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling comes a powerful novel about a legendary political cartoonist that examines the weight of the past, how public per- PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, A playful, ambitious collection of intertwined stories built around the idea of keys, both sona intersects with private history, and the burdens and surprises of memory. literal and metaphorical. These nine enchanting tales span time and landscapes, teasing boundaries between coexisting realities. “Vásquez is a penetrating force and the most pressing Colombian writer today….Reputa- tions is a powerful, concentrated achievement. It makes clear that our memories, and even “Oyeyemi so expertly melds the everyday, the fantastic and the eternal, we have to ask if the the things we’ve forgotten, can come back to haunt us.”—NPR line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ is murkier than we imagined—or to what extent a line exists RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 208 PAGES • 978-1-59463-347-8 • $25.00 at all….Transcendent.”—The New York Times Book Review RIVERHEAD HARDCOVER • 336 PAGES • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00 ÁLVARO ENRIGUE NAOMI JACKSON Sudden Death TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER The Star Side of Bird Hill A postmodern tale about a 16th-century clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis “From Maryse Condé to Edwidge Danticat to Tiphanie Yanique, contemporary Caribbean match between Italian artist Caravaggio and Spanish poet Quevedo.
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