spring 2019 Catalog

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I Am God

17.99

by Giacomo Sartori

Translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall

Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.

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Paperback List Price: $17.99 • ISBN: 9781632062147 • Publication: Feb 5, 2019 • 5" x 7.125" • 224 pages • Fiction—Religious Satire / Italian • General Trade • Territory: World English • eBook ISBN: 9781632062154

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The Boy

22.99

By Marcus Malte

Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan and Tom Roberge

With a Preface by Julie Orringer

Winner of the prestigious Prix Femina, The Boy is an expansive and entrancing historical novel that follows a nearly feral child from the French countryside as he joins society and plunges into the torrid events of the first half of the 20th century.

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Paperback List Price: $22.99 • ISBN: 9781632061713 • Publication: Mar 26, 2019 • 6” x 9” • 448 pages • Fiction: Historical—early 20th Century / Coming of Age / War Novel / Love Story / France • Territory: World English • eBook ISBN: 9781632061720

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The Casket of Time

17.99

By Andri Snær Magnason

Translated from the Icelandic by Björg Arnadóttir and Andrew Cauthery

Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers | Ages 10 and up

An entrancing adventure for today’s troubled planet, The Casket of Time is a fantastical tale of time travel and environmental calamity from celebrated Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason.

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Hardcover List Price: $17.99 • ISBN: 9781632062055 • Publication: Apr 9, 2019 • 5.5" x 8.25" • 240 pages • Middle Grade Fiction: adventure / fairy tale • Ages: 10 and up • Territory: World • eBook ISBN: 9781632062062

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The Body Papers

22.99

By Grace Talusan

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

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.

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Hardcover List Price: $22.99 • ISBN: 9781632061836 • Publication: Apr 9, 2019 • Paperback List Price: $17.99 • ISBN: 9781632060242 • Publication: Mar 3, 2020 • 5" x 7.125" • 272 pages • Nonfiction: Memoir—Family / Trauma / Immigration / Filipino Culture / Survival Stories • Territory: World • eBook ISBN: 9781632061843

Also available as an audiobook: Tantor Media