HarperVia Books

🧡THE LOST SOLDIERS💙, the third installment of The Kyiv Mysteries series, is out now! From Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist Andrey Kurkov comes a riveting, “darkly comic mystery” () where detective Samson must investigate the sudden disappearance of soldiers in the heart of Kyiv. Read more about Kurkov’s writing behind this series in Publishers Weekly!

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It is VIOLENT PHENOMENA day❣️

The title of this searing collection comes from a Frantz Fanon quote as translated by Constance Farrington: “Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.” These essays, edited by and Kavita Bhanot, explore the idea of decolonizing translation—including interrogating not just who translates and what is being translated but also how, why, and for whom the translation is taking place.

Jeremy will be in conversation with our own editor Alexa Frank at on Thursday, and is hosting an event next month for the book for anyone in Seattle.

Today’s Friday is our pick for Jewish American Heritage Month: Max Gross’s “imaginative and philosophical, funny and sad, old and new” ( ⭐️) tale about a tiny Jewish village in the Polish village that’s so secluded no one knows it exists. No cars, no electricity, no indoor plumbing... until a marriage dispute spins out of control and the whole town comes crashing into the twenty-first century. First published in October 2020, it won the National Jewish Book Award from the AND the Jewish Fiction Award from 🏆🏆