SUMMER/ FALL 2020 Letter from the Publisher
ear Restless Reader, D The world is at a vortex. A virus that has spread across the globe has com- restlessbooks.org promised the health of millions, brought all but essential endeavors to a halt, and ignited resentment within and across nations. In the United States, the electoral moment is once again revitalizing our democracy. In this atmosphere, literature Mission might seem irrelevant. In truth, it is just the opposite. Reading is thinking, and Restless Books is an independent, nonprofit publisher devoted to championing essential voices from around the world whose stories speak to us across linguistic and cultural borders. We seek reading wisely is thinking deeply. Our lineup of upcoming titles is a reminder of extraordinary international literature for adults and young readers that feeds our restlessness: our why writers are irreplaceable chroniclers of our time. hunger for new perspectives, passion for other cultures and languages, and eagerness to explore It is fitting that our first title to be published into the teeth of the catastrophe is beyond the confines of the familiar. about regeneration and new life. Gabriela Wiener’s Nine Moons, out in May 2020, Through cultural programming, we aim to celebrate immigrant writing and bring literature to is more than simply a chronicle of her pregnancy. It is a fierce and irreverent dis- underserved communities. We believe that immigrant stories are a vital component of our cultural quisition on our contorted attitudes toward human procreation and a woman’s tra- consciousness; they help to ensure awareness of our communities, build empathy for our neigh- bors, and strengthen our democracy. ditional role as mother. It is very different in tone from Yishai Sarid'sThe Memory Monster, a meditation on memory and terror that takes the form of a report to the Board of Directors director of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem’s memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A Annette Hochstein, Chair Alison Gore, Secretary bestseller in Israel and a prize-winner in Germany, it is, on the one hand, an in- Alison Sparks, Treasurer dictment of the younger generation’s disconnection from Nazi atrocities, and on Ilan Stavans the other, a reflection on the effects of Israeli military power over the Palestinians. Steven G. Kellman I am also delighted to be publishing The Way Out, a thriller by the late Argentine Advisory Board literary critic and novelist Ricardo Piglia (1940-2017). Arguably his best work, it Stephanie Anderson, Assistant Director of Selection for BookOps (NYPL & BPL) brings back his best-loved characters. We are publishing it along with the third and Jeff Deutsch, Director of Seminary Co-op Bookstore last volume of Piglia's autobiographical epic, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi. Cristina García, Author Galit Hasan-Rokem, Author Yonder, our children's-book imprint, features Ellie’s Voice, an inspiring look at David Bruce Smith, Author difference from Estonian author Piret Raud. Plus, we are bringing out a retelling Norton Juster, Architect, Author, and Professor of the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Maya people, lavishly illustrated by Salva- Mitchell Kaplan, Owner of Books & Books and Co-Founder of The Miami Book Fair Mario Vargas Llosa, Author doran folk artist Gabriela Larios. It offers a lesson on resistance and resourceful Ruth Ozeki, Author storytelling from which we might learn much. David L. Ulin, Author Indeed, it is during soul-searching periods like this one when it is most crucial to turn to literature. The answers to our crises are in the messages other cultures Support Us As a nonprofit organization, Restless Books relies on the generosity of our readers and partners to send us across space and time. achieve our mission. Your support enables us to discover and promote extraordinary authors from around the world, to champion perspectives from outside the confines of the familiar, and to take Un saludo, risks in our editorial choices, always emphasizing literary value over the concerns of the market. Ilan Stavans, Publisher Please contribute at restlessbooks.org/donate
Cover illustration © Gabriela Larios, from Popol Vuh: A Retelling, by Ilan Stavans (Oct 2020)
Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 1 Nine Moons And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Gabriela Wiener Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Translated from the Spanish by Jessica Powell Edited by Ilan Stavans
Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career writers offer a powerful antidote to the confines of isolation: by infiltrating Peru’s most dangerous prison, going all in at a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward from the last line of Dante’s Inferno, when the poet and his to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the precipitous peak. heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, poems, and artwork in this collection—from beloved authors including Jhumpa La- With a scientist’s curiosity and a libertine’s unbridled imagina- hiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee tion, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more—de- misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her tail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while Hardcover List Price: $22 pregnancy and holds up to the light the infinity of choices and pointing toward a less isolated future. Together they comprise Paperback List Price: $22 ISBN: 9781632062239 contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one a profound global portrait of the defining moment of our time, ISBN: 9781632063021 Publication: 5/26/2020 amplified to a life-and-death decision. and send a clarion call for solidarity across borders. Publication: 8/26/2020 5" x 7.125" • 240 pages 6" x 9" • 400 pages Memoir: Motherhood / Childbirth / While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as Our literary culture depends on bookstores—and those General Trade—Anthology Women / Feminism political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, irreplaceable sources of conversation and community, of Rights Held: World, Audio, Film / TV Rights Held: World English Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and inspiration and solace, have been decimated by the lockdown. eBook ISBN: 9781632063014 eBook ISBN:9781632062246 breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, Net proceeds from And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, Again will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, In this rich, eye-opening, and Also by Gabriela Wiener: uplifting digital anthology, Sexographies and paradoxes of the propagation of the species. which helps the passionate booksellers we readers depend upon. dozens of esteemed writers, From the daring Peruvian • A bold, unflinching, and hilarious take on motherhood poets, and artists from more essayist and provocateur from the acclaimed author of Sexographies • With authors from 34 countries as diverse as Kazakhstan, than thirty countries send behind Sexographies comes a literary dispatches from life • Thrillingly explodes the stereotypes and proprieties Sudan, Palestine, Taiwan, Cuba, Italy, Kuwait, Chile, fierce and funny exploration during the pandemic. Net surrounding pregnancy and motherhood Mauritius, and more, And We Came Outside and Saw of sex, pregnancy, and the Stars Again is a truly global portrait of the global proceeds benefit booksellers motherhood. • The perfect pick for book clubs that love bold essay pandemic. in need. collections and memoirs by boundary-pushing authors like Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, and Leslie Jamison • Beloved authors offer a cornucopia of essays, stories, poems, artwork, journalism, polemics, and parables Authors include: about how life changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas © Paul Vallejos © Paul • A portion of proceeds go to the Book Industry Charitable Gabriela Wiener is the acclaimed author six collections of Llosa, Rivka Galchen, Daniel Foundation, which gives financial support to booksellers crónicas, including Sexographies (2018), her first to be trans- Alarcón, Gabriela Wiener, in crisis. lated into English. She writes regularly for the newspapers El Jon Lee Anderson, Chloe País (Spain), La República (Peru), and others in the US and Eu- • And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes Aridjis, Eavan Boland, Chris rope. In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition its hopeful title from the last line of Dante’s Inferno, in Abani, Lynne Tillman, Juan of Marie Claire. She lives in Madrid. which the poet and his guide emerge from their journey Villoro, Claire Messud, through hell to see the beauty of the heavens once again. Andrés Neuman, Francine Prose, and many more
2 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 3 DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: TWO CUBAN SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS Red Dust Yoss Spiral
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye Agustín de Rojas Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Hebe Powell On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have The long-awaited capstone to the landmark trilogy that began bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the with A Legend of the Future and The Year 200 by Agustín de aliens, kindly allow them to do business through properly Rojas, “one of Cuba’s greatest science fiction writers” —SF controlled channels. Signal
Enter our hero, Raymond. As part of the android police force, • The first two books in Agustín de Rojas’s science fiction this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human trilogy have been heralded with praise and compared and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. to the work of everyone from Isaac Asimov to Stanislaw eBook ISBN: 9781632060716 List Price: $14.99 Lem to Philip K. Dick. Publication: 7/7/2020 But nothing in Raymond's experience prepares him for a • Agustín de Rojas is heralded in the Cuban science fiction 352 pages new nemesis who uses psi powers to alter the shape of the community as the one who started it all. A fascinating Science Fiction—Cuba / Classics / Gaussian bell curve of statistical probability—making it rain figure, he spent the last years of his life trying to Communism Paperback List Price: $17 indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in Rights Held: World English convince the world that Fidel Castro did not exist. ISBN: 9781632062468 the face. He'll need all his training—and all his careful study of Publication: 7/7/2020 Chandler’s hardbitten cops—to outmaneuver his quarry. 5.5" x 8.25" • 208 pages Science Fiction—Cuban / Space Opera Red Dust is another brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction / Detective satire from Yoss that makes the familiar strange and the Rights Held: World All Languages eBook ISBN: 9781632062475 strange familiar, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above The Journey Also by Yoss:: the laws of physics. Condomnauts Miguel Collazo Super Extra Grande • Cuban science fiction at its finest from the beloved Translated from the Spanish by David Frye A Planet for Rent author of A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts Introduced by beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss as one of the foundational novels of the genre, Miguel Collazo’s A bitingly funny space- • Yoss is not only the most decorated and prolific science 1960s classic The Journey is a mind-opening parable of social opera homage to Raymond fiction writer in Cuba, he is a literal rock star in a local progress, prophets and reluctant masses, and humanity’s Chandler, about a positronic heavy metal band metaphysical voyage inward. robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous • An irresistible space opera homage to Raymond Chandler • Yoss provides not just an engaging introduction to one extraterrestrial criminals. • Crossover appeal among readers of science fiction, of what Cuban science fiction great Daína Chaviano calls eBook ISBN: 9781632060204 mysteries, and international lit the “hexagon of top-notch, almost inimitable Cuban List Price: $14.99 Publication: 7/7/2020
© Les éditions Mnémos Mnémos éditions © Les books of the genre,” but also to the vibrant tradition of Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1969, Yoss is one of Cuba's most 224 pages SF in that unique island country. iconic literary figures—as the author of more than twenty ac- Science Fiction—Cuba / Classics claimed books and as the lead singer of the heavy metal band • The Journey is a rewarding slow burner that challenges Rights Held: World All Languages Tenaz. His four novels translated into English are A Planet for the traditional tropes of science fiction to deliver a Rent, Super Extra Grande, Condomnauts, and Red Dust. reflective tale of community building.
4 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 5 Ellie’s Voice YONDER: RESTLESS BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS Piret Raud
Translated from the Estonian by Adam Cullen
On the sandy shore of a big sea lived a bird named Ellie who had no voice.
“Everything else has a voice,” Ellie thought sadly. “The trees rustle. The waves crash.
Even the rain sings when it falls.” Daniel and Ismail Juan Pablo Iglesias “I’m the only one who can’t make a sound.” The Mermaid in the Rat Rule 79 Rivka Galchen Illustrations by Alex Peris Bathtub Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans Illustrations by Elena Megalos Ellie felt tears well up in her eyes—that’s how sad she was Nurit Zarchi Translated into Hebrew by Eliezer to be voiceless. Illustrations by Rutu Modan Nowodworski and Frieda Press-Danieli Translated from the Hebrew by Translated into Arabic by Randa Sayegh Tal Goldfajn Hardcover List Price: $19.99 Ellie’s life is turned upside down when she finds a curious Hardcover List Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781632060990 Hardcover List Price: $19.99 Hardcover List Price: $18 instrument on the shore that makes the most amazing sound ISBN: 9781632062116 Publication: 9/24/2019 ISBN: 9781632061560 ISBN: 9781632061911 when she blows into it: Trööömmmpffff! Creatures come from Publication: 10/15/2019 5.5” x 8.25” • 256 pages • Middle Publication: 8/20/2019 Publication: 8/4/2020 near and far to hear Ellie’s magnificent new voice. But when 9” x 11.5” • 34 pages • Cultural Grade Fiction / Fantasy / Adventure 8.5” x 8.5” • 38 pages • Children's Fiction / Coming of Age • Ages 10 and up • 6.75" x 9" • 40 pages Ellie learns that the horn actually belongs to Duke Junior who Children's Fiction / Israeli / Friendship / / Chilean / Hebrew / Arabic / Diversity / Fantasy / Accepting Differences • Territory: North America • eBook Children's Picture Book: Ages 3 - 6: Cultural Acceptance / Soccer • Ages 3–6 is desperately unhappy without it, she goes on an adventure to Ages 5–10 • Territory: World English ISBN: 9781632061003 Estonian / Friendship / Difference / • Territory: World English, Hebrew, and return the horn to its rightful owner. After days and nights of Arabic Animals / Music searching, she finds Duke Junior on an island in the middle of Rights Held: World English the water. To her surprise and delight, Duke Junior doesn’t just toot Tröömmmpfffon the horn… he plays the most beautiful music! Ellie is so happy that Duke Junior has his horn back and can produce such lovely sounds that she’s content listening to A touching and profound his tunes and being herself. tale of friendship, differences, and acceptance • Internationally acclaimed Estonian author and illustrator from renowned Estonian children’s author and • A tale of self-acceptance and understanding illustrator Piret Raud. • A lesson in selflessness • Unique illustrations and fascinating detail • Children's literature in translation at its best The Casket of Time Run for Your Life Who Left the Light On? Andri Snær Magnason Silvana Gandolfi Richard Marnier Translated from the Icelandic by Björg Translated from the Italian by Lynne Illustrations by Aude Maurel Piret Raud was born in 1971 in Tallinn, Estonia. She has stud- Árnadóttir and Andrew Cauthery Sharon Schwartz Translated from the French by ied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since gradu- Emma Ramadan ating in 1995 she has been living and working in Tallinn as a Hardcover List Price: $17.99 Paperback List Price: $15.99 Hardcover List Price: $21.99 graphic artist, book illustrator and author. She has illustrated ISBN: 9781632062055 ISBN: 9781632061652 ISBN: 9781632061898 approximately fifty books, written nineteen books for children Publication: 4/9/2019 Publication: 6/12/2018 Publication: 11/20/2018 5.5” x 8.25” • 240 pages • Middle 5.5” x 8.25” • 288 pages • Young and two novels for adults. 9” x 9” • 30 pages • Children’s Grade Fiction—Adventure / Adult Fiction—Thriller / Mafia • Ages Picture Book—Diversity • Ages 3–6 Fairy Tale • Ages 10 and up • 12–18 • Territory: World English • • Territory: World English Territory: World • eBook ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781632061669 9781632062062
6 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 7 The Way Out The Diaries of Emilio Ricardo Piglia Renzi: A Day in the Life Ricardo Piglia Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves behind his life in Argentina The final installment of Ricardo Piglia’s lifelong compilation of to take a position at a university in New Jersey. Settling in for journals completes the seemingly impossible project of a semester of academic quietude, he is surprised to be swept documenting the entire life of a writer. A Day in the Life picks up in a secret romance with his colleague, the brilliant and up the thread of Piglia’s life in the 1980s until his death from enigmatic Ida Brown. Their clandestine relationship comes to ALS in 2017. Emilio Renzi, Piglia’s literary alter ego, navigates an abrupt end when Ida is killed in what appears to be a tragic the tumultuous ups and downs of a post-Peronist Argentina car accident. Discontented with the police’s lackluster inquiries filled with political unrest, economic instability, and a bur- and troubled by the inexplicable burn found on her hand, Renzi geoning literary scene ready to make its mark on the rest of begins his own investigation. the world and escape the shadows of legendary authors Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Arlt. His suspicions are piqued as details emerge about a bizarre string of attacks targeting scientists and researchers. A Renzi’s peripatetic, drinking, philandering ways don’t abate as Hardcover List Price: $18 radical manifesto appears in the press threatening continued he grows older, and we’re exposed to the intrinsic insecurities Paperback List Price: $22 ISBN: 9781632062208 violence, and the killer's identity is revealed. Renzi discovers that continually plague him even as fate tips in his favor and ISBN:9781632060471 Publication: 8/18/2020 Publication:10/13/2020 a link between Ida and the terrorist that sets him on a path he goes on to win international literary prizes and becomes 5.5" x 8.25" • 288 pages 5.5" x 8.25" • 368 pages of no return: he must discover once and for all whether her Fiction: Mysteries & Thrillers / Latin professor emeritus of Princeton University. His literary suc- Fiction: Autofiction / Latin American / American / Detective / Academic Thriller death was part of a larger pattern and, if so, whether she was a cess is marred only by the tragedies of his personal life as he Literary Autobiography Rights Held: World English victim or accomplice. deals with the death of friends and family, failed relationships, Rights Held: World English eBook ISBN:9781632062215 and the constant pecuniary struggles of a writer trying to live eBook ISBN: 9781632060488 A bracing critique of American culture and an exploration of solely on his ability to produce art. The crowning achievement privacy and politics in an era of rapid technological advance- of a prolific, internationally acclaimed author, this third ment, The Way Out is Piglia’s intriguing metafictional twist on volume cements Ricardo Piglia’s position as one of the most the detective novel. Emilio Renzi, literary alter influential Latin American authors of the last century. The final volume of the ego of legendary Argentine autobiographical trilogy from • The final novel by a legendary international author author Ricardo Piglia, returns • One of Latin America's greatest authors the author who is considered in The Way Out, an academic • Award-winning author with global appeal • Award-winning author with global appeal Borges’ heir and the vanguard thriller that relentlessly of the Post-Boom generation • A campus novel with a dark twist • The culmination of a monumental career questions the lengths we go of Latin American literature. to hide our own truths and to • The Secret History meets the Unabomber • Autofiction before it was cool uncover the secrets of others. • An outsider's perspective on the post-Cold War U.S • A literary diary in the tradition of Kafka, Pessoa, and Woolf
Ricardo Piglia (Buenos Aires, 1940–2017), professor ALSO AVAILABLE: emeritus of Princeton University, is unanimously considered Vol. 1: Vol. 2: THE HAPPY YEARS a classic of contemporary Spanish-language literature. FORMATIVE YEARS Paperback List Price: Paperback List Price: $19.99 $21.99 ISBN: 9781632061621 ISBN: 9781632061980 Pub: 11/14/17 Pub: 11/20/18 5.5” × 8.25” • 464 pages 5.5” × 8.25” • 512 pages eBook ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781632061638 9781632061997
8 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 9 The Memory Monster Popol Vuh: A Retelling Yishai Sarid Ilan Stavans Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan Illustrated by Gabriela Larios Foreword by Homero Aridjis Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed nar- began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid-six- rator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a historian, he soon teenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at were being threatened with destruction by European concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. members of the K’iche’ nobility in what is today Guatemala. In 1701, that text was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. He resents and ethnographer before vanishing mysteriously. the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, Hardcover List Price: $22 not expressing sufficient outrage at the genocide committed Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popol Vuh ISBN:9781632062406 by the Nazis. In fact, he even begins to detect a hint of offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being Publication: 10/20/2020 6" x 6" • 224 pages admiration for the murderers—their efficiency, audacity, and decimated by colonization—their code of ethics, their views Fiction: Myth / Classics / Latin on death and the afterlife, and their devotion to passion, cour- determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes American / Retelling Hardcover List Price: $20 to think, and one must be prepared to kill. age, and the natural world. Popol Vuh: A Retelling is a one-of- Rights Held: World All Languages, ISBN: 9781632062710 a-kind prose rendition of this essential classic. Award-winning Audio, Film Publication: 9/8/2020 Propulsive and searing, The Memory Monster confronts scholar of Latin American literature Ilan Stavans brings a fresh eBook ISBN: 9781632062413 5" x 7.125" • 176 pages difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the creative energy to the Popol Vuh, giving a new generation of Fiction: Israeli / Holocaust / Jewish / world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes readers the opportunity to connect with this timeless story Also featuring Ilan Stavans: Literary Fiction us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honor the memory and with the plight of the indigenous people of the Americas. And We Came Outside and Saw the Rights Held: World English Stars Again eBook ISBN:9781632062727 of horror without becoming consumed by it? • A too-little-known world creation story that is as seminal How Yiddish Changed America, and • A bold look at the legacy of the Holocaust exploring how as the Bible and the Quran, the Ramayana and the How America Changed Yiddish the younger generation can preserve its memory without Odyssey Daniel and Ismail it becoming a commodity, a nationalistic war cry, or a • An accessible and engaging retelling Don Quixote of La Mancha: 400th The controversial English- museum piece language debut of celebrated • A timely reckoning with the legacy of the European and Anniversary Edition Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid • A timely, high-concept parable of human brutality in the Christian conquest of the Americas An inspired prose retelling is a harrowing, ironic parable tradition of The Trial, Slaughterhouse Five, and The Tin of the Maya myth of of how we reckon with human Drum • A clarion call against environmental destruction creation by renowned Latin horror without losing our own • Winner of the International Literature Prize in Germany • A celebration of indigenous art and literature American author and scholar humanity. Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios.
Yishai Sarid was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books, the Lewis- © Kevin Gutting son of senior politician and journalist Yossi Sarid. Sarid was Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and recruited to Israeli Army and served for 5 years. He finished Latino Culture at Amherst College, the award-winning author the IDF’s officers school and served as an intelligence officer. of dozens of books, and the host of the NPR podcast "In Sarid has an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government Contrast." at Harvard University and is an active lawyer and arbitrator. Alongside his legal career, Sarid writes literature and has published five novels. He is married with three children.
10 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 11 RESTLESS CLASSICS 1,001 Creatures Laura Merz and Aino Järvinen Translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah
Have you ever wondered how a crocodile keeps its teeth clean? Or why herons like to sit on the backs of water buffalo? What exactly does a giant blue whale eat to get so big? In 1,001 Creatures, Aino Järvinen and Laura Merz playfully investigate the complex and awe-inspiring world of twenty-six fascinating insects, reptiles, and mammals. Night and Day Frankenstein The Souls of Black Folk Virginia Woolf Mary Shelley W. E. B. Du Bois With fun facts and captivating illustrations, 1,001 Creatures explores the diversity of the animal world and its ecosystems. Interactive questions allow readers to take their curiosity and Introduction by Lauren Groff Introduction by Francine Prose Introduction by Vann R. Newkirk II Illustrations by Kristen Radtke Illustrations by Eko Illustrations by Steve Prince imagination off the page and into the real world with prompts Paperback List Price: $22.99 Paperback List Price: $19.99 Paperback List Price: $19.99 to create their own artwork, imitate a camel’s unique walk, and ISBN: 9781632060327 ISBN: 9781632060785 ISBN: 9781632060976 Hardcover List Price: $20 discover the ways in which all creatures are connected in the Pub: 7/9/19 • 6” × 9” • 480 pages Pub: 6/14/16 • 5.5” x 8.25” • 336 Pub: 2/14/17 • 5.5” x 8.25” • 272 ISBN: 9781632062680 world. Järvinen’s humorous style and Merz’s unique watercolor Fiction: Classics / Victoria / English pages • Fiction: Classics / Gothic / pages • Sociology: African-American Publication: 9/29/2020 Literature • Territory: World • Horror / Science Fiction / English Studies / Discrimination and Race illustrations painted from memory using non-traditional 9.8" x 12" • 62 pages eBook ISBN: 9781632060334 Literature • Territory: World English • Relations • Territory: World • Children's Nonfiction Picture Book: materials, enhance the central message that we’re all in this eBook ISBN: 9781632060792 eBook ISBN: 9781632060983 Animals together—human, squid, and penguin alike. Rights Held: World English • An intriguing, experimental art style • Interactive narration that promotes curiosity From the dung beetle to the blue whale, no creature • A positive climate awareness message is too humble or huge for • A perfect blend of fun and educational Finnish author and illustrator duo Laura Merz and Aino Järvinen in 1,001 Creatures, a gorgeously illustrated, interactive exploration of our natural world.
Chekhov: Stories for Passing Robinson Crusoe Our Time Nella Larsen Daniel Defoe Anton Chekhov Laura Merz is a visual artist, illustrator, and textile designer. Introduction by Darryl Pinckney Introduction by Jamaica Kincaid Aino Järvinen is a retired Finnish language teacher. Their Introduction by Boris Fishman Illustrations by Maggie Lily Illustrations by Eko Paperback List Price: $19.99 Paperback List Price: $19.99 debut book, 1,001 Creatures, received The Most Beautiful Illustrations by Matt McCann Paperback List Price: $22.99 ISBN: 9781632062024 ISBN: 9781632061195 Books of 2016 prize from by the Finnish Book Art Committee. ISBN: 9781632061805 Pub: 10/16/18 • 5.5" x 8.25" • 192 Pub: 8/27/19 • 5.5" x 8.25" • 384 pages Pub: 7/24/18 • 5.5” x 8.25” • 384 pages • Fiction: Classics / African • Fiction: Classics / World Literature / pages • Classics: Russian Literature / American / Harlem Renaissance / Caribbean / Adventure / Postcolonial © Lauren Moffat © Minna Kurjenluoma Short Stories • Territory: World • Race Relations • Territory: World • Studies • Territory: World English • eBook ISBN: 9781632061812 eBook ISBN: 9781632062031 eBook ISBN: 9781632061201
12 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 Restless Books | Summer and Fall 2020 13 RECENTLY PUBLISHED PROGRAMS
lassics Behind Bars is a ten-week program focusing on one classic work of literature, which has been approved by the participating How Yiddish Changed The Body Papers Silence of the Chagos C America and How America Grace Talusan Shenaz Patel prison and the incarcerated individuals selected to participate in the Changed Yiddish Winner of the 2017 Restless Books program. Participants receive a copy of the book, provided by Restless Edited by Ilan Stavans Prize for New Immigrant Writing Books free of charge, and meet weekly with an experienced instructor and Josh Lambert Paperback List Price: $17.99 Paperback List Price: $17.99 to discuss the text. These discussions will encourage participants to ISBN: 9781632060242 ISBN: 9781632062345 Hardcover List Price: $29.99 connect their own life stories to the texts, in order to illuminate how ISBN: 9781632062628 Publication: 3/3/2020 Publication: 11/5/2019 Publication: 1/21/2020 5” x 7.125” • 288 pages • Nonfiction / 5” x 7.125” • 178 pages • Fiction: the past remains relevant and consequential today. Discussions will 6” x 9” • 512 pages • Cultural Memoir: Family / Trauma / Immigration Mauritian / Geopolitics / Indigenous History: Jewish / Yiddish / Anthology / Filipino Culture / Survival Stories Peoples / Family / Immigration / Activist address themes and topics like race, self-awareness, family, commu- • Territory: World • eBook ISBN: • Territory: World • eBook ISBN: • Territory: World English • eBook nity, and morality. 9781632062635 9781632061843 ISBN: 9781632062352
I Am God My Part of Her The Boy Giacomo Sartori Javad Djavahery Marcus Malte Translated from the Italian by Translated from the French by Translated from the French by Frederika Randall Emma Ramadan Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge ree writing classes to inspire immigrants to tell their own im- Paperback List Price: $17.99 Preface by Dina Nayeri Preface by Julie Orringer migrant stories. The workshops involve reading, responding to ISBN: 9781632062147 Paperback List Price: $17.99 Paperback List Price: $22.99 F Publication: 2/5/2019 ISBN: 9781632062437 ISBN: 9781632061713 short immigrant narratives, and writing exercises led by experienced 5” x 7.125” • 224 pages • Fiction: Publication: 2/11/2020 Publication: 3/26/2019 Religious Satire / Italian • Territory: 5” x 7.125” • 240 pages • General 6” x 8” • 448 pages • Fiction: Histor- teachers. Classes are conducted in English and meet weekly for five World English • eBook ISBN: Trade • Fiction: Iran / France / ical, early 20th Century / Coming of 90-minute sessions. 9781632062154 Revolution / Coming of Age / Friend- Age / War Novel / Love Story / France • ship • Territory: World English • eBook Territory: World English • eBook ISBN: ISBN: 9781632062444 9781632061720
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