New from Periscope in 2015

Princess Bari

Hwang Sok-yong; translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell

‘The most powerful voice of the novel in Asia today.’ (Kenzaburō Ōe)

A young North Korean woman survives unspeakable dangers in search of a better life in London.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859641743 248pp £9.99

The Black Coat

Neamat Imam

Months after Bangladesh’s 1971 war, a simple migrant impersonates the country’s authoritarian ruler – with shocking results.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859640067 240pp £9.99

The Moor’s Account

Laila Lalami

‘Brilliantly imagined … feels very like the truth.’ (Salman Rushdie)

The fictional memoirs of a Moorish slave offer a new perspective on a notoriously ill-fated, real-life Spanish expedition in 1528.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859644270 336pp £9.99

Drinking and Driving in Chechnya

Peter Gonda

A disaffected Russian truck driver winds up at the centre of the brutal bombing of the Chechen capital, forced to engage with reality as never before.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859641057 240pp £9.99

The Gardens of the Imagination

Bakhtiyar Ali; translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman

A group of friends search for the bodies of two murdered lovers in this haunting allegory of modern Iraqi Kurdistan.

PB  202mm x 138mm 9781859641255 448pp £9.99

A Man with a Killer’s Face

Matti Rönkä; translated from the Finnish by David Hackston

A detective’s orderly life is upended when a missing-persons case draws him into the Russian–Finnish criminal underworld.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859641781 288pp £9.99

The Eye of the Day

Dennison Smith

‘Remarkable … beguiles and enchants on every page.’ (Ruth Ozeki)

A privileged boy and a hardened fugitive cross paths mysteriously beginning in the 1930s, across North America and on the battlefields of wartime Europe.

PB  204mm x 138mm 9781859640616 328pp £9.99