
Restless Books will be at the 2016 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2! Look out for Restless representatives at the book fair; we'll be at booth 722, right by Coffee House Press, Milkweed Editions, and Tin House, with all the below backlist and newly released titles available.
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than twelve thousand attendees join the community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature.
When: March 30 - April 2, 2016
Where:
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90015
JW Marriott Los Angeles
900 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
By Chris Abani
Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Books of 2016
“A fascinating meditation on identity that explores the novelist’s own mixed heritage and mixed feelings….[Abani is] a true citizen of the world….With great insight and compassion, Abani reveals that behind his—and every—face are unseen scars.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060433
Publication date: Mar 1, 2016
by Tash Aw
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
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam
“No one alive today, anywhere, has been able to demonstrate the sheer possibilities of artistic invention—and in so many disciplines—as powerfully as Alejandro Jodorowsky.… His new semi-autobiographical novel Where the Bird Sings Best is his magnum opus, a fantastical something that in many ways mirrors the author himself: It is brilliant, mad, unpredictable.”
—NPR, Best Books of 2015
"One of the most inspiring artists of our time.... A prophet of creativity."
—Kanye West
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060952
Hardcover • ISBN: 9781632060280
Publication date: Mar 31, 2015
Get all three novels by the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best: Alejandro Jodorowsky!
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by Yoss
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
“A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet Earth, and people are looking to flee the economically and socially bankrupt remains of human civilization. Yoss' smart and entertaining novel tackles themes like prostitution, immigration and political corruption. Ultimately, it serves as an empathetic yet impassioned metaphor for modern-day Cuba, where the struggle for power has complicated every facet of society”
—NPR, Best Books of 2015
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060365
Publication date: Jun 23, 2015
by Augustín de Rojas
Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
“Finally, we have the chance to read a landmark work from one of Cuba’s greatest science fiction writers…. If you like intensely psychological sci-fi that deftly piles on the suspense, this novel’s for you…. The boundaries between dream and reality, and then between human and machine, almost melt away as the story progresses. And it is de Rojas’s skillful manipulation of those boundaries that makes A Legend of the Future so addictive.”
—SF Signal
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060358
Publication date: Jun 23, 2015
by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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
by Hamid Ismailov
Translated from the Russian by Carol Ermakova
Named one of “the best Russian novels of the 21st Century” (Continent Magazine), The Underground is the unforgettable story of an abandoned mixed-race boy navigating the wondrous and terrifying city of Moscow before the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060440
Publication date: Sep 22, 2015
by Miguel de Cervantes
Translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby
Introduction and Video Lecture Series by Ilan Stavans
Illustrations by Eko
Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel—inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and an online video teaching series led by passionate experts.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060754
Publication date: October 6, 2015
by György Spiró
Translated from the Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson
Named one of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015
Winner of the Aegon Literary Award
“Captivity is a complex and fast-paced tale of Jewish life in the early first century, a sort of sword-and-sandals saga as reimagined by Henry Roth. The narrative follows Uri from Rome to Jerusalem and back, from prospectless dreamer to political operative to pogrom survivor—who along the way also happens to dine with Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate and get thrown into a cell with a certain Galilean rabble-rouser. Hungarian György Spiró’s deft combination of philosophical inquiry and page-turning brio should overcome that oft-mentioned American timidity toward books in translation.”
—The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of 2015
Paperback ISBN: 9781632061416
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632060495
Publication date: Nov 3, 2015
by Paquito D'Rivera
Translated from the Spanish by Rosario Moreno
A captivating memoir from one of jazz's most beloved practitioners, fourteen-time Grammy winner Paquito D’Rivera’s Letters to Yeyito is a fascinating tour of a life lived in music, and a useful guidebook for aspiring artists everywhere.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060198
Publication date: Nov 10, 2015
Fardwor, Russia! + Heartland + Checkpoint
Wildly funny and deadly serious: these novels serve you lesbian pulp noir in pre-apocalyptic America and razor-sharp critiques of war and Putin’s Russia.
by Carlos Velázquez
Translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas
"The Cowboy Bible will challenge readers to push beyond cultural stereotypes and rethink everything they know about northern Mexico and their homes."
—NBC News
“Playful and clever, inventive but familiar, this brief book is deeply satisfying, and warrants multiple readings.… In her translation, Obejas superbly amplifies Velázquez's style.”
—Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060228
Publication date: Jan 26, 2016
by Githa Hariharan
“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
by Juan Villoro
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer—and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires—from Juan Villoro, “Mexico's top fútbol expert” (NBC News).
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060587
Publication date: April 19, 2016
by Ruth Ozeki
The Face Series
“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