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March new releases

Happy March publication day! We have five brilliant new books this month, with speculations on life and society, a metafictional take on translation, and two new editions of books that have recently been adapted for the silver screen.⁠

The newest book by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Finkle, An American Dreamer explores deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbours⁠. Written by International Booker Prize–winning translator Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey is a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.⁠ Death as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás and Juan Luis Arsuaga offers sharp reflections on how evolution has treated us as a species, and also as individuals. Now the basis of a wondeerfully funny and moving TV series, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson is a charming and practical book that focuses on the importance of living — even through death cleaning.⁠ Tokyo Vice is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up; now a major TV series.⁠

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An American Dreamer

A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbours, in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers.

As this powerful book begins, Brent Cummings finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. An Iraq war veteran, raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect, Cummings is increasingly surprised by the behaviour and beliefs of others, and engulfed by the…

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.

Eight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their arrival, Irena disappears without a trace.

The translators, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author, begin to…

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Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal.

‘We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,’ Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in which science is intertwined with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and debates the advisability of transmitting his random vision of life to a dieting Millás, who discovers that old age is a country in which he still feels like a foreigner.

After…

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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions.

A charming approach to putting your life in order so your loved ones won’t have to. There’s a word for it in Swedish: döstädning, literally, ‘death cleaning’.

Swedish-born Margareta Magnusson is, in her words, ‘aged between 80 and 100’. When her husband died, she had to downsize her home. The experience forced her to recognise the power of ‘death cleaning’ and the concerns that must be addressed in order to do it with thought and care. Done well, the approach not only makes things…

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Tokyo Vice

Now a hit HBO Max TV series starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe & Rachel Keller

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At the age of nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquillity. What he got was a life of crime … crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shimbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour work weeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are…

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