By Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, translated from Spanish (Ecuador) by Madeleine Arenivar

Carnaval Fever is a luminous and defiant portrait of Afro-Ecuadorian identity, music, and resistance, set within a fiercely protective matriarchal household.

Sheltered within her grandmother's fiercely protective household, Ainhoa blossoms under the guidance of her constellation of aunts—women who become her teachers, guardians, and spiritual anchors. Through Ainhoa's keen observant eyes, readers experience how music and dance – particularly during the explosive energy of Carnaval – don't merely entertain but form the very heartbeat of existence, a pulsing testament to Afro-Ecuadorian identity and resistance.

Yet beneath this tapestry of warmth and celebration, Carnaval Fever fearlessly confronts the shadows: crushing economic hardship, the heartbreak of migration, and the ever-present threat of male violence hovering at the community's edges. At its luminous core, however, this novel stands as a defiant celebration of women's resilience, collective power, and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood that sustain communities through generations.

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By Kalyani Thakur Charal, translated from Bengali by Asit Biswas

From Kalyani Thakur Charal, one of India’s most vital voices for Dalit women, comes this evocative novel about displacement, resilience, and rebuilding.

In 1947 and again in 1971, entire communities in the South Asian subcontinent crossed newly drawn borders, seeking refuge as partitions divided and reshaped nations. Kalyani Thakur’s evocative novel tells the story of her people, Dalits of the Matua sect, who settled around Andhar Bil, a local water body, in a newly formed country. This new bil, a reflection of the one they left behind, becomes a place where refugees slowly and painfully rebuild their lives.

Children play in and around the bil, the novel’s central character, while people fish and cook in ways that evoke the flavours of home. Festivals and boat races unfold, jute is harvested and sold, floods push people to higher ground, and marriages are arranged amidst property disputes. The still waters of the bil hold these stories, with the boroi tree standing in the centre, a silent witness to it all.

At the heart of this episodic, loosely woven narrative is the story of Kamalini, a young girl who will one day leave her beloved Andhar Bil for the city – just as her parents’ generation left their villages and their cherished bil for a new land.

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By Astrid Roemer, translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott and David Mckay

A stunning, expansive chronicle of Suriname from Astrid Roemer, whose On a Woman’s Madness is a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award.

In 1966 Suriname, the Vanta family, an intricate blend of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish heritage, is led by Grandma Bee, a proud, cigar-smoking matriarch facing her final days. As she reflects on her scattered family and the loss of her favourite granddaughter, Heli, exiled to the Netherlands for an affair with her white teacher, Bee grapples with one question: What truly binds a family? Off-White offers a moving exploration of Bee’s legacy amid themes of male violence, colonialism, and the dismantling of racial identity, marking the return of a celebrated Surinamese author after two decades.

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by Park Seolyeon, translated from Korean by Anton Hur

Winner of Hankyoreh Literature Award 

Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space for working-class women in a world determined to silence them. Echoing the unflinching narratives of Alias Grace and the sweeping historical vision of Pachinko, this feminist historical novel balances raw grit with unexpected tenderness and a defiant streak of dark humour.

A stirring portrait of resistance from below: fierce, funny, and full of fight.

By Khairani Barokka, translated from the painting Annah La Javanese.

This is an escape story.

In Annah, Infinite, the dominant narratives surrounding Paul Gauguin’s famous painting Annah la Javanaise (1893-94) are turned upside down. The book argues a simple point: what if the portrait is not one of a consenting muse, but a child in pain?

Annah, Infinite questions the colonial power that has defined the infamous subject’s unknown history. Through the mythology of Annah, Okka draws attention to the systems of ablenormativity, racism, and sexism that shape what we learn of art history and what we see on museum walls.

Alongside her critique, the author engages with Annah la Javanaise through poetry, fiction, and visual art. A work of emotional heft, Okka asks us to acknowledge the possibility of pain in every single portrait, as well as the possibility of escape.

Winner, English PEN x SALT Award 2025

From the International Booker Prize-winning author–translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society.

A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A looming silence grips the public.

Against this backdrop, Shruti, a writer paralysed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans. And there’s Daddu, Sharad’s father, a beacon of hope in the growing darkness. As they each grapple with thoughts of speaking the unspeakable, an unnamed narrator takes on the urgent task of bearing witness.

First published in Hindi in 1998, Our City That Year is a novel that defies easy categorisation. It’s a time capsule, a warning siren, and a desperate plea. Geetanjali Shree’s shimmering prose, in Daisy Rockwell’s nuanced and consummate translation, takes us into a fever dream of fragmented thoughts and half-finished sentences, mirroring the disjointed reality of a city under siege. Readers will find themselves haunted long after the final page, grappling with questions that echo far beyond India’s borders

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