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Every year Peirene publishes three novellas in translation and sends them directly to subscribers. We search high and low for the most exciting voices from around the world, and introduce them to English-language readers. Subscribe now to get our new books 6-8 weeks before publication and to support independent publishing. We offer two different types of subscription – our standard subscription and a one year gift subscription, perfect for that surprise gift for a loved one.
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Our books are sent out to subscribers 6-8 weeks before they hit the bookshops. Even better, subscribers get free UK shipping on every subscription book and 15% off all further purchases! New subscribers receive our latest release, followed by the next two books to be published. Our standard subscription renews annually unless cancelled.
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We select the best writers and stories from around the world and publish them in English translation for curious readers. We’ve published books from Uzbekistan, Chile, Iceland, Georgia and Lebanon, to name a few. Our books have been listed for the International Booker Prize seven times. We know a great novel when we see it.
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Your First Book
Body Kintsugi
by Senka Marić
Translated from Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an object’s past. In this powerful and personal novella, Senka Marić uses the concept of kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and recovery. Laced with a drive for life, sensuality and pleasure, Body Kintsugi is an intimate and optimistic book about a woman’s relationship with her body as it breaks and is put back together.
‘A raw and moving book, written in exquisite, taut prose, which explores illness and healing through an inventive, kaleidoscopic narrative.’
Sam Mills, author of Chauvo-Feminism and The Fragments of My Father
Coming Soon
History: A Mess
by Sigrún Pálsdóttir, translated by Lytton Smith
Coming December 2022