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Subscribe now to get our 2021 list! This subscription includes five books we'll publish in 2021: new fiction by Hamid Ismailov and Norman Erikson Pasaribu, the debut novel by Korean star of queer fiction Sang Young Park, Geetanjali Shree’s polyvocal novel about the legacy of Partition translated from Hindi, and our first non-fiction book, Shiori Ito’s memoir/exposé about rape culture. We had planned to publish a sixth title this year, but covid had other plans, so the bundle will also include our first book of 2022 - a collection of Dalit feminist stories by Gogu Shyamala.

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Black Box by Shiori Ito, translated from Japanese by Allison Markin Powell: Ito's personal story is the kernel of a searing journalistic exposé, exposing how Japan’s relatively low official rates of sexual assault mask a culture of victim-shaming and institutional failure on the part of the police, law and media to bring perpetrators to justice. (24 June)

Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov, translated from Uzbek and Russian by Donald Rayfield: in Ismailov's latest tragicomedy, a former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and healers reciting Manas – the longest human epic, consisting nearly of a million verses. Instead, he witnesses the full scale of the epic’s wrath on his life. (July)

Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell: an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. She travels back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist. (August)

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated from Korean by Anton Hur: a novel of queers and Catholicism, women, abortion, STDs, and the socio- economic class divide in contemporary South Korea. Featuring a variety of love stories with a diverse cast of characters, Park mingles humour and pathos to great effect in chronicling the emptiness that so many modern urbanites feel in their everyday lives. (October)

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu, translated from Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao: a collection of ten stories that queer the norm, blending science fiction, absurdism, and alternative-historical realism. Inspired by Simone Weil’s concept of “decreation,” and drawing on Batak and Christian cultural elements, the stories put queer characters in situations and plots conventionally filled by straight characters. (December)

Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But… by Gogu Shyamala, translated from Telugu by various translators: a collection of Dalit feminist stories of a south Indian village that dissolve the borders of realism, allegory and political fable. (March 2022)