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Their list showcases the best in fiction and non-fiction writing, addressing themes of great variety with commercial appeal.’ Matthew Bates, former Head Fiction Buyer, WH Smith Travel Spring 2021_Cover.indd 2 27/08/2020 13:53 INSIDE PRINTING FICTION There’s something for everyone in our new crop of literary fiction titles. We’re delighted to bring you two novels that have wowed this year’s Booker judges. Diane Cook’s longlisted debut novel, The New Wilderness, is a prescient, passionate story about parental love pushed to the brink, soon to be a Warner Bros. TV series, while Samanta Schweblin’s chilling take on the dark side of our online world, Little Eyes, was longlisted for the Booker International prize. Family ties take centre stage in the propulsive, freewheeling prose of Mauro Javier Cárdenas’ Aphasia, while in The Wild Laughter we have a taut exploration of patriarchy and betrayal from Irish rising star Caoilinn Hughes. And in Peace Adzo Medie’s hilarious comedy-of-manners set in Ghana, His Only Wife, you will find a sharply realised Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa – an emotional rollercoaster of family conflict and female empowerment. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost is a stunning new addition to our translated fiction list, while award-winning Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s English-language debut, The Mountains Sing, is a sweeping, lyrical story of human resilience in the most challenging circumstances. There’s never been a better time to dive into the pages of an immersive novel, and Oneworld’s fiction is the perfect place to start. 1 POINTONEWORLD BLANK | NEW| NEW IN PAPERBACK ONEWORLD | NEW OCTOBERJANUARY FEBRUARYJULY Aphasia Voices of the Lost Mauro Javier Cárdenas Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2019 Hoda Barakat Translated from the Arabic by Prof. Marilyn Booth Nostalgia and regret collide in this propulsive A powerful tale of war and longing second novel from a daring new literary talent In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six Antonio’s sister is on the run. After threatening to strangers are compelled to share their darkest shoot her neighbours and claiming that Antonio, secrets. Taking pen to paper, each character Obama and the Pentagon are conspiring against attempts to put in writing what they can’t bring her, she’s disappeared. Antonio, however, is doing themselves to say to the person they love – his best to think of anything but his sister or, mother, father, brother, lost love. Their words for that matter, any of his problems, for fear of form a chain of dark confessions, none of which destabilising his precarious middle-class existence. reaches the intended recipient. Turning his back on his present-day woes, Antonio Profound, troubling and deeply human, Voices of submerges himself in the past, writing about his the Lost tells the moving story of characters living mother’s troubled life in Colombia; his ex-wife’s on the periphery, battling with displacement, idyllic childhood in Europe; the past relationships devastating poverty and the demons within that still haunt him... themselves. From one of today’s most talented Arabic writers, Voices of the Lost is an urgent story of lives intimately woven together in a society This boldly original, luminous novel sparkles with Fiction, Translated Fiction Fiction that is tearing itself apart. January 2021 life as it captures the irresistible pull of the past, February 2021 £14.99 and the immensity of the present moment. It £12.99 192pp 208pp cements Cárdenas’ place as one of today’s most ‘Voices of the Lost…stands out for its condensed Short Royal Hardback economy of language, narrative structure, and Trade Paperback with Flaps ISBN: 9780861540099 innovative, daring literary voices. ISBN: 9781786077226 eISBN: 9780861540105 capacity to convey the inner workings of human eISBN: 9781786077233 Territories: UK/BC ex Can ‘Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s Aphasia batters at beings.’ Charafdine Majdouline, Chair of Judges, Territories: UK/BC ex Can the limits of guilt, of masculinity, of love and International Prize for Arabic Fiction promiscuity.’ Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark ‘Original, richly felt, deftly written.’ Kirkus Mauro Javier Cárdenas was born and brought up in Guayaquil, Ecuador and studied Economics at Stanford University. He is the author of The Hoda Barakat was born in Beirut and moved to Paris with her family Revolutionaries Try Again (2016). He was awarded the 2016 Joseph in 1989. She has published five novels, which have received numerous Henry Jackson Prize and in 2017 was included in the Hay Festival prestigious prize nominations. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Man anthology Bogotá39 (Oneworld), a selection of the best young Latin Booker International Prize (at the time awarded in recognition of an © Victoria Smith American novelists working today. author’s body of work). 2 3 POINTONEWORLD BLANK | NEW| NEW IN PAPERBACK ONEWORLD | NEW ONEWORLD IN PAPERBACK | NEW OCTOBERFEBRUARY FEBRUARY/MARCHJULY Little Eyes The Edge Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, 2020 Jamie Collinson Samanta Schweblin Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell How do you stay high, when endless gratification has lost its sheen? A visionary novel about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted ‘Collinson’s gimlet eye is keen and unrelenting. The Edge is master of the spine-tingling tale a scathing portrait of the music industry, and a love letter to Los Angeles... Modern and mordant.’ They’ve infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Janelle Brown, author of Watch Me Disappear Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, bedrooms in Indiana. They’re not pets, they’re not robots: they’re ‘Insightful and true, The Edge is the real deal.’ real people. But how can a person living in Berlin Alan Parks, author of Bloody January walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without you knowing? Especially when these Fiction | February 2021 | B Format Paperback | £8.99/US $15.95/CAN $21.95 | 352pp people are completely anonymous, unknown, ISBN: 9781786078407 | eISBN: 9781786076915 | Territories: World untraceable. The characters in Samanta Schweblin’s wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, reveal the You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here Fiction, Translated Fiction beauty of connection between far-flung souls – but Frances Macken February 2021 they also expose the ugly truth of our increasingly £8.99 linked society. Schweblin has created a dark and 256pp A captivating, dark portrayal of youth, friendship, and the B Format Paperback complex world that is both familiar but also ISBN: 9781786078612 strangely unsettling, because it’s our present and fine line that separates admiration from envy eISBN: 9781786077936 we’re living it – we just don’t know it yet. Territories: UK/BC ex Can ‘A debut bursting with heart.’ Irish Independent ‘Ingenious.’ Guardian ‘Looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but ‘Masterfully uneasy reading.’ Daily Telegraph it’s cleverer, darker, more unreliable.’ Daily Mail ‘A slim volume as expansive and ambitious ‘A fresh, clever look at the intricacies and jealousies of female as an epic.’ New York Times friendship. This debut reads like a modern, mysterious version of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls.’ Irish Examiner Samanta Schweblin is the author of three story collections that have