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June 2021 Published: May 2021 Ed for the Booksellers’ Prize We’re delighted to introduce the wonderful books gracing our list in the first half of 2021. Featuring an epic debut of the legacies of migration and the CONTENTS tangled bonds of family (Little Gods), a moving and witty graphic novel about the life of a real ten- New Titles year-old girl (Esther’s Notebooks 1) and an unset- tling psychological thriller about a woman with Pushkin Vertigo multiple personalities (The Eighth Girl), there is New Editions truly something here for every reader. Pushkin Collection From a heartstopping memoir spanning Liberia Recent Highlights and the United States (The Dragons, the Giant, the Women) to a beguiling mystery set in foggy 1990s Prague (The Ghost of Frederic Chopin), from a pacy Israeli crime novel about a serial killer targeting women without children (The Others) to a poignant animal fable by the greatest living Tamil author (The Story of a Goat), this is a list of the world’s best stories, to be read and read again. MY BROTHER KARIN SMIRNOFF Pushkin Press new titles A publishing phenomenon from Sweden: a novel about new titles NEW uncovering family secrets, abuse, trauma and resilience Jana is returning to see her twin brother Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse in the TITLES rural north of Sweden. It’s decrepit and crum- bling, and Bror is determinedly drinking him- self to an early grave. They’re both damaged by horrific childhood experiences, buried deep in the past, but Jana cannot keep running. Alive with the brutality and beauty of the landscape, My Brother is a novel steeped in darkness and violence – about abuse, love, complicity, and coming to terms with the past. It’s the story of a homecoming without a home: a story of forgiveness. ‘The year’s best novel... Impossible to put down’ Expressen Translated from the Swedish by Karin Smirnoff (born 1964) lives in Piteå, Anna Paterson Sweden. She worked as a journalist be- Cover design by Jo Walker fore quitting her job to buy a wood facto- ry. After a couple of years she longed to get back to writing and wrote her debut ISBN: 9781782275695 novel: My Brother. Price: £12.99 Published: February 2021 Extent: 224pp Format: Demy Trade PB new titles THE GHOST OF FREDERIC CHOPIN THE PASSENGER ÉRIC FAYE ULRICH ALEXANDER BOSCHWITZ The third book in the Walter Presents Library: a bewitching The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of new titles Prague-set mystery Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in Germany, November 1938: Otto Silbermann her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the receives a knock on his door and realises he ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. must flee. A respected German-Jewish busi- What’s more, she declares that Chopin has nessman, he has managed to evade the esca- dictated dozens of compositions to her, to lating brutality of the Nazi regime. But now, allow the world to hear the sublime music as he and his wife plan to leave, all avenues he was unable to create in his own short life. are shut down and he is forced to abandon Many dismiss her story as a ridiculous hoax, his home amid the untrammelled violence of while others swear that the music has the Kristallnacht. same beauty and refinement as the work of With all the money he can gather stuffed the dead master. into a suitcase, Otto takes train after train Ludvik Slany, a secret police agent-turned-tel- across Germany, desperately seeking to cross evision journalist, is assigned to make a doc- the border, every moment terrified a fellow umentary debunking Vera’s claims. He arrives passenger will discover his Jewish identity. ‘A noir novel imbued with in Prague ready to uncover a scam, but the ‘A chronicle of An unbearably tense rediscovered classic, The mystery and elegance’ more he subtly tries to trick her into giving dehumanisation with the Passenger is an unparalleled depiction of the ActuaLitté herself away, the more he begins to think he pace of a thriller’ El País terrifying atmosphere of Nazi Germany. may be witnessing a genuine miracle... Translated from the French by Éric Faye is a journalist and prize-winning Translated from the German by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was born into Sam Taylor author of over twenty books of fiction, Philip Boehm a German-Jewish family in Berlin in 1915. Cover design by Nathan Burton essays and travel writing. For his fiction Cover design by Anna Morrison He trained for a business career, but with he has been awarded the Deux-Margots the rise of the Nazis he and his mother Prize and the Grand Prix du roman from had to flee Germany. They went to Brit- ISBN: 9781782277224 ISBN: 9781782275381 the Académie Française. The Ghost of ain, where they were arrested in 1940 and Price: £9.99 Price: £14.99 Frederic Chopin is his eleventh novel. held in an internment camp; Boschwitz Published: May 2021 Published: April 2021 was then deported to Australia. He died Extent: 272pp Extent: 256pp when the ship returning him to Europe Format: B-format PB Format: B-format HB was destroyed by a German submarine. new titles LITTLE GODS THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, MENG JIN THE WOMEN WAYÉTU MOORE An epic, heartbreaking novel about the legacy of migration, with A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by new titles a tangled family mystery at its heart the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King On the night of the Tiananmen Square mas- When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her sacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing father and grandmother throw her a big party hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she from America to China with her mother’s can think about is how much she misses her ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences mother, who is working and studying in fara- and contradictions that she inherited from way New York. Before they can be reunited, that night onwards. war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced As Liya seeks to untangle her family history, to flee their home on foot, along a dangerous we travel through Shanghai and Beijing, and road, heading for the relative safety of their deep into the past, uncovering an unexpected remote family village. Here they will hide until love triangle whose repercussions reach up to a remarkable rescue by a rebel soldier who the present moment. smuggles them across the border. Ambitious, multifaceted yet intimate, Little Spanning this journey in Moore’s early child- Gods is a gripping story of migrations both hood, her years adjusting to life in the USA ‘Enthralling’ C Pam Zhang, ‘Immersive, exhilarating... as a black woman and an immigrant, and her Guardian literal and emotional and of the tragic impact an essential voice’ New of history on individual lives. eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the York Times Giant, the Women is an unforgettable story of the search for home amidst upheaval. Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa Meng Jin’s narrative prose has appeared Cover design by Anna Morrison Wayétu Moore is the founder of One in the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Moore Book and is a graduate of Howard Bare Life Review, Vogue, and is forthcom- University, Columbia University, and ing in Best American Short Stories 2020. A the University of Southern California. Kundiman Fellow, she has an MFA from She teaches at the City University of ISBN: 9781911590439 ISBN: 9781911590361 Hunter College, and received the David New York’s John Jay College and lives in Price: £12.99 Price: £16.99 TK Wong Fellowship at the University of Brooklyn. Published: February 2021 Published: March 2021 East Anglia. Jin was born in Shanghai and Extent: 288pp Extent: 272pp has lived in the UK and the US. Format: Demy Trade PB Format: Demy Hardback new titles GROWN UPS ON LOVE AND TYRANNY: THE MARIE AUBERT LIFE AND POLITICS OF HANNAH ARENDT ANN HEBERLEIN A compact, funny, devastating novel about sibling rivalry and new titles modern motherhood, from one of Norway’s rising stars A timely biography tracking how Arendt’s life shaped her work Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and Hannah Arendt dedicated her life to thinking struggling with a feeling of panic as she real- through the most fundamental and difficult ises her chances of motherhood are rapidly of human problems: totalitarianism, exile, the falling away from her. She’s navigating Tinder nature of love and the moral problem of evil. and contemplating freezing her eggs – but But these were not only philosophical con- tries to put a pause on these worries as she cerns for Arendt – they were also personal. heads out to the seaside family cabin for her In this immersive new biography, Ann Heber- mother’s 65th birthday. That is, until some lein shows how Arendt’s groundbreaking work supposedly wonderful news from her sister was intimately formed by turbulence in both sets old tensions simmering, building to an the wider world and her own personal expe- almighty clash between Ida and her sister, her rience. Tracing Arendt’s flight from Hitler’s mother, and her entire family. Germany and then occupied France, as well as Exhilarating, funny, and unexpectedly devas- the intensity of her friendships and loves, On tating, Grown Ups gets up close and personal Love and Tyranny develops a sharply detailed, ‘Sharp and intimate... with a dysfunctional modern family. complex portrait of Arendt as an involved wit- astonishingly good’ Borås ness to the crises of her time and an essential Tidning thinker for all time.
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