Sandorf Passage Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Sandorf Passage is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency. Distributed in North America and UK by @ipgbooknews.

Initial Coordinates
Monika Herceg
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more dynamic list of new poetry books than this one featuring @CLMPorg members, including Monika Herceg's Initial Coordinates and John Durak's Condiments & Entrails. https://t.co/1Bq3NjTdGq
Hardcover, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The President Shop
Vesna Maric
Many great titles on this list, including The President Shop by Vesna Maric, the first book we published. "[A] marvelous, timeless book that sweeps between the personal and the panoramic . . ." @_catherinelacey https://t.co/A4oxnBZtyp
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Window-Giraffe
Péter Zilahy
In September we’re releasing the first US edition of Peter Zilahy’s The Last Window-Giraffe (with a new foreword by Marina Abramović!), a book about the Belgrade protests in 1996. https://t.co/4pB4V7ov4Y
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Neon South
Marko Pogacar
If you like travelogues that truly impart a sense of place while also reading like, in the words of @asymptotejrnl, "poetry that has gotten lost in fiction" pick up Neon South by Marko Pogačar (tr. Mirza Purić). https://t.co/3dk6UMTwZq https://t.co/qOovM3fY27
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Strangers of Braamfontein
Onyeka Nwelue
@FriendJeff is right. @onyeka_nwelue The Strangers of Braamfontein is a gritty, shockingly unforgettable novel about Nigerian immigrants struggling to get by in Johannesburg. https://t.co/vpKLvq7HYo
Paperback, 2022
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Horror and Huge Expenses
Robert Perisic
Prepare for next week's release of Horror and Huge Expenses, Robert Perišić's career-spanning story collection (translated by Will Firth), by reading this excellent @asymptotejrnl review: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2021/10/11/whats-new-in-translation-october-2021/#more-27742
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Cat at the End of the World
Robert Perisic
Katarina Gadže on A Cat at the End of the World in @asymptotejrnl Fortnightly Airmail: "The heartbeat of an entire civilization pulses through Robert Perišić’s newly published work as he lends his voice to the world in Vesna Marić’s magnificent English translation." https://t.co/NkmH37m9r0
Paperback, 2022
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Call Me Esteban
Lejla Kalamujic
The first Fall title, Call Me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujić, drops next week, so we updated the site. Check out the four Fall books, and the Spring ones for that matter. Backlist, schmacklist. All books available to order from booksellers and @IPGbooknews. https://sandorfpassage.org/
Paperback, 2021
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Journey to Russia
Miroslav Krleza
Out on Tuesday: the first-ever English-language translation of modernist masterpiece Journey to Russia. Here's what Nell Zink has to say about it: "Miroslav Krleža's Journey to Russia is a book that ought to be some kind of immortal classic." https://t.co/L0hDtqhLEV
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
Great to see @rodel_angela's translation of Time Shelter by @Gospodinov68 on this list. In 2024, we'll publish Angela's translation of The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva, an epic novel charting the divisions between East and West that the world still struggles with today. https://t.co/klFPNeXXWV
Paperback, 2024
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book