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Two Lines Press Catalog

  • Cigarettes Until Tomorrow

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Romanian by Multiple Translators
    $16.95
    “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…
    Forthcoming
  • Under the Neomoon

    By Wolfgang Hilbig
    Translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole
    16.95
    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…
    Forthcoming
  • Woodworm

    By Layla Martínez
    Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott
    $21.95
    For fans of Samanta Schweblin and Fernanda Melchor, Layla Martinez’s debut novel with its grisly, mystical vision of justice for an unjust world, announces a…
    Forthcoming
  • Off-White

    By Astrid Roemer
    Translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott & David McKay
    $18.95
    A stunning, expansive chronicle of Suriname from Astrid Roemer, whose On a Woman's Madness is a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award.
  • Through the Night Like a Snake

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Spanish by Multiple Translators & Megan McDowell
    $16.95
    A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink… A sex worker discovers a…
  • About Uncle

    By Rebecca Gisler
    Translated from French by Jordan Stump
    $16.95
    “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
  • Cross-Stitch

    By Jazmina Barrera
    Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
    $17.00 | $24.00
    “Reflections on youth, the passage of time, and the meaning of female friendship.…[Jazmina Barrera] blend[s] Sally Rooney-esque interpersonal chaos with a clean, graceful prose style.”…
  • So Many People, Mariana

    By Maria Judite de Carvalho
    Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
    $19.95
    “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…
  • Elektrik

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from French by Multiple Translators
    $16.95
    “Elektrik is translation operating as good translation should: as a megaphone for writers who might otherwise remain unheard in the Western canon.” —Barrelhouse These extraordinary…
  • Self-Portrait in Green (Anniversary Edition)

    By Marie NDiaye
    Translated from French by Jordan Stump
    $16.95
    “One of the most mysterious, spectral, appealing, and uncategorizable books I’ve ever read.” —Amina Cain, author of A Horse at Night “This novel not only…
  • Beijing Sprawl

    By Xu Zechen
    Translated from Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen & Jeremy Tiang
    $17.95
    “The protagonists of Beijing Sprawl aren’t running to get ahead; they’re running so they don’t go insane…subtle, swift, and humorous.” —4Columns “Like my favorite fiction,…
  • Out of the Sugar Factory

    By Dorothee Elmiger
    Translated from German by Megan Ewing
    $16.95
    “Out of the Sugar Factory is W. G. Sebald meets Agatha Christie, with a remarkable touch all Elmiger's own.” —Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The…
  • The Red Book of Farewells

    By Pirkko Saisio
    Translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg
    $24.95
    “A beautifully rendered portrait of a strikingly queer life—Saisio troubles any distinction we might try to draw between the personal and the political, the remembered…
  • No Edges

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Swahili by Multiple Translators & Idza Luhumyo
    $16.95
    A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 (Nylon) A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 (Open Country Mag) “An absorbing sampler of the literary feast available in…
  • On a Woman’s Madness

    By Astrid Roemer
    Translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott
    $18.00 | $24.95
    FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE “Astrid Roemer’s writing, in Lucy Scott’s new translation, is lush and sinuous, turning quiet domestic…
  • Days Come and Go

    By Hemley Boum
    Translated from French by Nchanji Njamnsi
    $24.95
    “One of the most powerful books I've read this year.” —Jennifer Martin, Tattered Cover Bookstore “A bold, beautiful, and breathtaking accomplishment of a book.” —Anna…
  • Hugs and Cuddles

    By João Gilberto Noll
    Translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto
    $14.95
    “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.”…
  • Visible

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Various Languages by Multiple Translators
    $19.95
    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…
  • Linea Nigra

    By Jazmina Barrera
    Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
    $15.95 | $21.95
    “A strange, slim, hybrid book…disarmingly fresh and provocative’” —New York Review of Books “A beautiful and lucid essay about the journey across motherhood seasons [that]…
  • At the Edge of the Woods

    By Masatsugu Ono
    Translated from Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
    $16.95
    “An eerie allegory of climate apocalypse and unnatural nature…full of dark laughter, figures that appear and disappear, sounds of violence and gnashing teeth.” —The Millions…
  • This Is Us Losing Count

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Russian by Multiple Translators
    $16.95
    “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…
  • The Interim

    By Wolfgang Hilbig
    Translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole
    $15.95 | $22.95
    “Comic and terrifying and profound.” —Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books 2021) “A genuinely maverick author whose distinctive literary style is marked by visions of oozing, secreting, spilling,…
  • Empty Wardrobes

    By Maria Judite de Carvalho
    Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
    $14.95
    “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,…
  • Cuíer

    By Multiple Authors
    Translated from Portuguese by Multiple Translators
    $16.95
    “A concise and enlightening overview of the last fifty years of LGBTQ literature from South America’s largest country. Spanning Brazil’s regional boundaries and including legends…
  • Kaya Days

    By Carl de Souza
    Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
    $14.95
    “Kaya Days is a novella designed to be read in one gulp, and Jeffrey Zuckerman’s prose is propulsive enough to make the book nearly impossible…