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Two Lines Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Lion Cross Point, Masatsugu Ono

Lion Cross Point

Masatsugu Ono
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@PublishersWkly @ShelfAwareness @RachelSwearinge @ForewordReviews Let’s just say you need all the Masatsugu Ono books available in English RIGHT NOW. (Simply put: You do!) We’ve got you covered. Get LION CROSS POINT, ECHO ON THE BAY, and AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS for just $40. https://t.co/hvyhUrDayv

Paperback, 2019

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, Jazmina Barrera

Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

Jazmina Barrera
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OK, we talked it over. And we all agree. It really is time for you to read Jazmina Barrera. So! FLASH SALE. Now through Sunday, get LINEA NIGRA and ON LIGHTHOUSES (paperback) for just $25. https://t.co/vEXOs7FQfb

Paperback, 2023

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bliss Montage: Stories, Ling Ma

Bliss Montage: Stories

Ling Ma
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A vey nice shoutout to NDiaye’s ALL MY FRIENDS in @simplylovia’s review of BLISS MONTAGE in the @nybooks. She calls NDiaye’s book, the second we published (way back in 2013!), “a hypnotic collection about eccentricity and illusions.” https://t.co/viBVQMHnoE

Hardcover, 2022

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Visible: Text + Image, Marie Ndiaye

Visible: Text + Image

Marie Ndiaye
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👁️ VISIBLE 👁️ features work from: –@ambliopia, tr. Christina MacSweeney –Marie NDiaye, tr. Victoria Baena –Yi SangWoo, tr. Emily Yae Won –@mironesdepalo, tr. @robin_ep_myers –Monika Sznajderman, tr. Scotia Gilroy –Monchoachi, tr. Eric Fishman

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Harmada, João Gilberto Noll

Harmada

João Gilberto Noll
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@jaawlfins We’re 100% looking forward to João Gilberto Noll’s queer epic HUGS AND CUDDLES, out this October. Until then? We recommend HARMADA, also translated by @EdgarGarbelotto, an impulsive-as-ever introduction to the Brazilian novelist’s lurid, messy world. https://t.co/MwzBvSjTEe

Paperback, 2020

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami, David Karashima

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

David Karashima
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Register now for tomorrow night's event w/ Masatsugu Ono and David Karashima (author of WHO WE'RE READING WHEN WE'RE READING MURAKAMI) at @CommunityBkstr! They'll be in conversation about Ono's latest, AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS. https://t.co/GrXNkZnf3B

Paperback, 2020

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Light Room

Kate Zambreno
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When asked by @lithub who/what she recommends other writers read, Kate Zambreno (THE LIGHT ROOM) responds: MARIE NDIAYE. SELF-PORTRAIT IN GREEN. (and some other greats, too: Bhanu Kapil, Annie Ernaux, Renee Gladman...) Read the conversation here: https://t.co/NM3qtbtNKw

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Postcard for Annie, Ida Jessen

A Postcard for Annie

Ida Jessen
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We love @archipelagobks’s Ida Jessen books over here. Her latest, translated by Martin Aitken, A POSTCARD FOR ANNIE, “conveys the quiet, subversive joy of female friendship,” says Event Manager Leslie-Ann. Get it from our friends at @whitewhalebks: https://t.co/c0HZlBXVar

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: 1,000 Coils of Fear, Olivia Wenzel

1,000 Coils of Fear

Olivia Wenzel
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@NewDirections @dotapanjereh @etgrayjr @riffraffpvd Next you're off to @BrazosBookstore for some 1,000 COILS OF FEAR by Olivia Wenzel (tr. by @pdlayne, pubbed by @CatapultStory), which @kelseymcfaul describes as “a courageous, fragmented, sensitive character study.” https://t.co/fn2UcXn7Y4

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories, Franz Kafka

Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories

Franz Kafka
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“Few so-called Kafkaesque books ever manage to capture the banal yet hilarious procedural absurdity of the Czech master. NDiaye’s delightfully unsettling novella is a rare exception.” (tr. by @ProfStump!) https://t.co/kSxIxzojZk

Hardcover, 2018

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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