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## Products
- [Splendor](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/splendor): Introducing readers to five trans and nonbinary poets Splendor is an ode to queer bodies, with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec. From the irreverent and irresponsible to the quiet and meditative these poems decentralize our ideas of trans experience and poetics.
- [Before I Forget](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/before-i-forget): An offbeat novel for anyone who’s ever loved a monster.
- [Blood Is Dripping onto the Courtyard](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/blood-is-dripping-onto-the-courtyard): From the National Book Award longlisted author of Rabbit Island comes a new collection of stories that straddle the line between the horrific and the fantastic.
- [The Resistance](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-resistance): In a cabin deep in the Cameroonian forest, two young lovers meet in secret.
- [And How Have You Been?](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/and-how-have-you-been): A definitive collection of all the late stories of the Portuguese master of the short form, Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated into English for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa.
- [The Queen of Swords (paperback)](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-queen-of-swords-paperback): In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916–1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.
- [Swell](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/swell): The stories in Swell are told by often-unreliable documentarians, novelists, storytellers, gossips.
- [Night Train](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/night-train): Looking to take a vacation before settling in for to his PhD studies and hoping to swindle a little traveling money from his father, Chen Munian made up a story about killing someone and needing to flee. 
- [Exemplary Humans](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/exemplary-humans): Juliana Leite makes her English-language debut with a novel about one woman's past and all of our futures.
- [I Was Alive Here Once](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/i-was-alive-here-once): Ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania, and Thailand.
- [White Nights](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/white-nights): In a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland, it’s as if poverty and brutality emanate like mist from the cursed dirt.
- [The Week of Colors](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-week-of-colors): Short stories from the “cursed mother of magical realism” (El Mundo), now in English for the first time.
- [The Queen of Swords](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-queen-of-swords): In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916–1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.
- [Sea Now](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/sea-now): What happens when the delicate balance of nature tips in favor of the sea.
- [Hair on Fire](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/hair-on-fire): Five female Afghan poets wield language to combat the loneliness, absurdity, and claustrophobia of life in a war-torn country and its diaspora.
- [Grace Period](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/grace-period): Mateus Silva is at a crossroads, but too paralyzed to change direction in a life that he no longer seems to control.
- [Backlight](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/backlight): Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can’t decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts.
- [Sleep Phase](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/sleep-phase): After seven years in prison, Warif is released to a changed Cairo.
- [Mending Bodies](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/mending-bodies): For readers of Ling Ma and Sayaka Murata, Hon Lai Chu’s dystopian exploration of body autonomy, relationships, and late capitalism defies and then reassembles dark realities.
- [Unusual Fragments](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/unusual-fragments): Composing a fuller picture of the literary era that brought us Osamu Dazai and Kōbō Abe, Unusual Fragments foregrounds stories of alienation with surprising humor and imagination. 
- [The Voices of Adriana](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-voices-of-adriana): A thrilling metafiction about grief, the internet, and the difficulty of knowing others, The Voices of Adriana combines the psychological acuity of Marguerite Duras with the creative possibility of One Thousand and One Nights.
- [Lowest Common Denominator](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/lowest-common-denominator): For readers of Eileen Myles and Patti Smith, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia Prize–winning author of The Red Book of Farewells.
- [Ixelles](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/ixelles): A thrilling literary novel about the inescapability of the past and the power of fiction for fans of Jeff Vandermeer and Colson Whitehead, Anyuru’s latest examines contemporary city life with a cool eye and brilliant imagination, casting its characters in a heartrending drama of possibility.
- [Celebration](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/celebration): With Celebration, Croatian journalist and novelist Damir Karakaš relays an epic in village miniature: the story of a father, a son, a farm, a family dog, and a nation’s descent into fascism.
- [Cigarettes Until Tomorrow](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/cigarettes-until-tomorrow): “There are poems here I would print, fold, and tuck into every English-speaking pocket… As our planet shudders beneath the ruthless techne of absolute truths and billionaire-driven economics, Romanian poetry grounds its visions in uncertainty, tenderness, the relationship between longing and belonging, and doubt.” —Alina Stefanescu
- [Under the Neomoon](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/under-the-neomoon): An electric collection that evokes the works of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingeborg Bachmann, Under the Neomoon is a neon-tinged mediation on humanity’s violent folly and the importance of storytelling from below.
- [Through the Night Like a Snake](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/through-the-night-like-a-snake): Latin American Horror Stories
- [Woodworm](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/woodworm): For fans of Samanta Schweblin and Fernanda Melchor, Layla Martínez’s debut novel with its grisly, mystical vision of justice for an unjust world, announces a terrifying new voice in international horror.
- [Off-White](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/off-white): A stunning, expansive chronicle of Suriname from Astrid Roemer, whose On a Woman's Madness is a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award.
- [About Uncle](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/about-uncle): “Wry and funny and rich in strange new forms of discomfort…a slim volume that cuts deep.” —Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun
- [Self-Portrait in Green (Anniversary Edition)](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/self-portrait-in-green-anniversary-edition): “One of the most mysterious, spectral, appealing, and uncategorizable books I’ve ever read.” —Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night
- [Cross-Stitch](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/cross-stitch): It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing. 
- [So Many People, Mariana](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/so-many-people-mariana): “A definitive collection of stories by a Portuguese master of the form…united by their quiet intensity, their commitment to internal turmoil, and their enduring interest in the lives, hopes, and miseries that are unique to women.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
- [Elektrik](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/elektrik): “These extraordinary translations of Caribbean voices surge with defiance and music. Each ‘I’ asserts itself among the topography of memory and inhabiting, navigating the presence of the past within homelands and female bodies…radical and reclamatory.” —Alina Stefanescu
- [Beijing Sprawl](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/beijing-sprawl): Stories of friendship, failure, and survival from Xu Zechen, author of “some of the most exciting and energized writing coming out of China now.” (Paul French)
- [The Red Book of Farewells](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-red-book-of-farewells): For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.
- [Out of the Sugar Factory](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/out-of-the-sugar-factory): Elmiger’s breakout novel is a staring contest with History: an effort to map the resonances and frictions introduced to the world by the sugar industry. But can any writing project contain such devastation?
- [No Edges](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/no-edges): Swahili is the future.
- [On a Woman’s Madness](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/on-a-womans-madness): Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature
- [Visible](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/visible): Brimming with enigmatic photographs, future memes, and mud drawings, Visible showcases six genre-defying works from around the world that raise questions about the relationship between how we see, how we read, and how we write in “the age of the calligram.”
- [Hugs and Cuddles](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/hugs-and-cuddles): “Wild, singular, and unapologetically original, this is a perfect read for anyone who wants to step off the beaten path into something unfamiliar and unforgettable.” —BuzzFeed (Best New Books of October)
- [Days Come and Go](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/days-come-and-go): “One of the most powerful books I've read this year.” —Jennifer Martin, Tattered Cover Bookstore
- [At the Edge of the Woods](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/at-the-edge-of-the-woods): In an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling into a house at the edge of the woods. But something is off. A sound, at first like coughing and then like laughter, emanates from the nearby forest. An allegory for alienation and climate catastrophe unlike any other, At the Edge of the Woods is a psychological tale where myth and fantasy are not the dominion of childhood innocence but the poison fruit borne of the paranoia and violence of contemporary life.
- [This Is Us Losing Count](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/this-is-us-losing-count): “The poems in this volume are bold and forthright yet bracingly controlled, vivid in their imagery and visionary in their imaginative reach. Taken together, they testify to a new efflorescence of Russian poetry—a blossoming that was seasons in the the making, like the January flowers in one of Alla Gorbunova’s lyrics, translated by Elina Alter: ‘white at first glance, but then / a thousandfold colors.’” —Boris Dralyuk, author of My Hollywood and Other Poems and editor-in-chief of Los Angeles Review of Books
- [Linea Nigra](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/linea-nigra): “A beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons sheds light on the complex and contradictory nature of gestation.” —Fernanda Melchor, The Guardian
- [The Interim](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/the-interim): “Comic and terrifying and profound.” —Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books 2021)
- [Empty Wardrobes](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/empty-wardrobes): “Executed as precisely and without sentiment as an autopsy… There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision and the originality and severity of her voice, as scathing and pitiless in her depiction of ‘empty’ women as in her depiction of oafish swaggering machismo.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
- [Kaya Days](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/kaya-days): “This is no night for theater. All the drama’s outside.”
- [Cuíer](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/calico-series/cuier): For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro’s emboldened far-right regime, Brazil’s legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation.
- [Slipping](https://www.twolinespress.com/shop/books/slipping): “A partly real, partly fantastical depiction of post-revolutionary Cairo and Alexandria as seen through the stories of a struggling journalist, a former exile and a difficult love affair. Featuring giant flowers bigger than people and episodes of walking on water, the fantastical in this novel feels as true to the Cairo of today as the parts that are lifted from life.” —Yasmine El Rashidi, The New York Times