About At the End of the Matinee Hardcover: 316 Pages Publisher: Amazon Crossing (April 15, 2021) Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel. Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes […]
Yamen Manai, author of THE ARDENT SWARM, on tour April 2021
About The Ardent Swarm Publisher : Amazon Crossing (February 1, 2021) Hardcover : 192 pages From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved “girls” on the outskirts of […]
Mortada Gzar, author of I’M IN SEATTLE, WHERE ARE YOU?, on tour April 2021
About I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? Hardcover: 332 Pages Publisher: Amazon Crossing (April 1, 2021) An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love. As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, […]
Katerina Tucková, author of GERTA, on tour December 2020
About Gerta: A Novel Paperback: 459 Pages Publisher: Amazon Crossing (February 1, 2021) The award-winning novel by Czech author Katerina Tucková—her first to be translated into English—about the fate of one woman and the pursuit of forgiveness in a divided postwar world. 1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother […]
Connie Palmen, author of YOUR STORY, MY STORY, on tour December 2020
About Your Story, My Story Hardcover : 206 pages Publisher : Amazon Crossing (January 1, 2021) From the award-winning author of The Friendship comes a shattering, brilliantly inventive novel based on the volatile true love story of literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was […]
Daniel Speck, author of ANYWHERE BUT HOME, on tour December 2020
About Anywhere But Home Paperback : 477 pages Publisher : Amazon Crossing (August 11, 2020) The English-language debut of the acclaimed international bestseller—Anywhere but Home crosses continents, cultures, and generations to tell a sweeping story of self-discovery, finding your own place in a new world, and the revelatory mysteries of being a family. Milan, 2014. Julia, a young […]
Rosa Ventrella, author of A DECENT FAMILY, on tour December 2020
About A Decent Family Paperback : 271 pages Publisher : Amazon Crossing (June 1, 2020) For fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series comes a captivating family saga focused on a willful young woman’s struggles against her oppressive small town by acclaimed Italian author Rosa Ventrella. In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as “Malacarne,” the bad […]
Zhang Ling, author of A SINGLE SWALLOW, on tour December 2020
About A Single Swallow Hardcover : 291 pages Publisher : Amazon Crossing (October 1, 2020) The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast—in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s […]