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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction
Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060242 • Mar 3, 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632061836 • Apr 9, 2019
“Ruth Ozeki, a Zen Buddhist priest, sets herself the task of staring at her face in a mirror for three full, uninterrupted hours; her ruminations ripple out from personal and familial memories to wise and honest meditations on families and aging, race and the body.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060525
Publication date: Mar 1, 2016
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
“Tash Aw’s The Face, so wise and so well done, made me wish it were much longer than it is.”
—Chimamanda Adichie, The Guardian's Best Books of 2016
From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060457
Publication date: Mar 1, 2016
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers
One of the world’s oldest and best-loved tales, now retold and illustrated in thrilling detail for readers of all ages.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632061775
Publication date: May 8, 2018
From “one of Iran's most important living fiction writers” (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who’s searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061287
Publication date: Apr 24, 2018
A finalist for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize
"The book works like an ache in the heart.... A story that purports to be about decay resounds with the stuff of life. This is a book to be savored like a fine single malt."
"A crisp and elegiac novel….Farooqi’s atmospheric prose is spare and lucid."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Paperback • 9781632060372
Publication date: Sep 8, 2015
The Israeli Republic “suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism and the West. That a writer such as Al-e Ahmad, guru to the ayatollahs, liked Israel now seems touching. What he liked about Israel seems cautionary."
—Bernard Avishai, Foreign Affairs
"My intellectual hero."
—Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and No god but God
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061393
Publication date: Jan 31, 2017
“In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.”
—J. M. Coetzee
Read an excerpt on Literary Hub
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060617
Publication date: Mar 22, 2016
“This is a gem of a book and the author is a real find. At last the subcontinent can rejoice in having acquired its own avatar of the iconic Jane Austen...Here is the same keen observation of social mores, the sympathy for human foibles, the rapier-like wit that makes one laugh aloud and the simple, elegant prose in which it is all expressed.”
—India Today
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060167
Publication date: Feb 17, 2015
eBook available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo
by Juan Pablo Iglesias Yacher
Illustrations by Alex Peris
Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans
Translated into Hebrew by Eliezer Nowodworski and Frieda Press-Danieli
Translated into Arabic by Randa Sayegh
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers | Ages 3–6
A one-of-a-kind picture book about an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy who bond on the soccer field—translated into English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632061560
Publication date: Aug 20, 2019
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063793
Paperback publication date: May 7, 2024