Four Exciting Indie Press Releases for Spring

In this “original and deftly crafted novel” by the celebrated Angolan author of A General Theory of Oblivion, a cyclone brings chaos to a literary festival on the Isle of Mozambique, leaving a group of African writers stranded in this surreal tale that The Midwest Book Review hailed for its “imposing level of literary excellence.”

In the latest by the prize-winning Italian author of Farewell Ghosts, the lives of an 11-year-old boy and a desperate young woman are forever changed by a devastating 1908 earthquake. “It is quite simply magnificent," declared Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux, who also praised this historical novel “for how it is constructed and for its human depth, how the darkness coexists with generosity.”

The latest from the author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country follows a veteran Washington political commentator reflecting on a simmering scandal from his past. In its starred review, Kirkus hailed this “taut, uncomfortable look at a man forced into a reckoning that's much more personal than he'd like" while praising its “edgy, discomfiting look at the alpha males of journalism in the age of #MeToo.”