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Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our new imprint: @transitchildrenseditions #⛵️📚
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❄️ A VERY COLD WINTER in @nybooks! ❄️ Caroline Moorehead looks at Fausta Cialente and her postwar classic, translated from the Italian by Julia Nelsen (@juliaintranslation), with an introduction by Claudia Durastanti (@claudia.durastanti), for the new issue:
"[Cialente's] fiction is filled with a precise and intimate sense of place, complete with colors, smells, and sounds, the textures of buildings and rooms, the weather’s cycles and extremes, all weighing on the characters, shaping their decisions and behavior. Nowhere is the feeling of immediacy that this creates stronger than in her 1966 novel A VERY COLD WINTER, which was published in English for the first time this year... A VERY COLD WINTER is full of rich details, and the physical world is described with loving, yet sometimes dark, precision."
Read the full review at the link in our bio 🪑 💌
13 Nov 2026
Jacqueline Harpman's WE WERE FORBIDDEN (tr. Ros Schwartz) and Rebecca Perry's Booker-shortlisted MAY WE FEED THE KING are Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year 🎉
⭐️ "Stunning… [Harpman] reveals herself to be one of the major writers of the twentieth century, comparable to Gogol and Kafka but with a style and outlook entirely her own."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review of WE WERE FORBIDDEN
⭐️ "[Perry's characters] leap from the pages with an unusual freshness—then again, we're following the imagination of a pair who understand the difference between something fake made to look real, and something authentic reproduced as memorabilia. Whose version is real, and whose provides the most meaning? ... Astonishingly layered, [a] quietly witty and compassionate debut."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review of MAY WE FEED THE KING
12 Nov 2026
What an amazing night celebrating these Booker finalists! Thank you to the Booker Foundation (@thebookerprizes) and to all the judges for their many months of reading, and congratulations to the winner, M. John Harrison, to all the finalists, and to our incredible Rebecca (@poorsasquatch). We can’t wait to keep sharing her work with readers back at home 💐💚🥂
09 Nov 2026
Yasushi Inoue's "The Death of a Certain Woman" (tr. J. Martin Holman) appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker ✨✨✨
"We had heard rumors about Omitsu for some ten days before I met her. Every child in the village knew about Omitsu and had learned the unfamiliar word 'mistress.' Sometimes on the road or in the rice fields we would shout 'There’s the mistress!' and scramble off, pretending to be pursued by her. We imagined that a mistress would look something like an ogre, and though a mistress was not as powerful as an ogre, we considered it a creature of greater treachery and evil."
Link to read the full story in bio 🔗
Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) worked as a journalist and literary editor for many years, beginning his prolific career as an author in 1949 with the novel Bullfight. He went on to publish fifty novels and 150 short stories, both historical and contemporary. In 1976 Inoue was presented with the Order of Culture, the highest honor granted for artistic merit in Japan.
09 Nov 2026
Coming next May 🤸 ON TRAMPOLINING, an essay from 2026 Booker finalist Rebecca Perry (@poorsasquatch) about the pursuit of success, the pain and pressure to get there, and failure—of the body, of the mind's ability to steer it, and of memory itself. Cover design by @__anna__morrison__ 🙏
"A short, taut master class in poetic memoir."—Max Porter (@maxmaxporter), author of GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
🤸 At age ten, Rebecca Perry was the eleventh best trampolinist in the world. At fifteen, she retired her leotard. ON TRAMPOLINING asks what it means to be "very good but not the best," how years of training and competing live on in an adult body, and how to rebuild a sense of self.
🤸 A trampolining competition must be neat and clean and silent, save for the rhythmic creaking of springs. A slight shift on the way down, a landing that is even slightly off the mark, can ricochet the body at unknown angles, magnify the mistake, and throw off the next landing. But the landing must inevitably happen. Trampolining, Perry writes, is complete exposure.
🤸 In adulthood, Perry recounts an athlete’s attempt at mastery of the body, reaching toward the limits of language, memory, and the physical self. Drawing on memories that range from the distorted to the piercingly vivid, she pieces together her lived experience of a body moving, and transforming, through time and space: How do athletes—especially young women—maintain autonomy over bodies demanded to perform? How do we master "the art of control when there is nothing to hold on to"?
ON TRAMPOLINING is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.
Available for preorder at the link in our bio 🔗
04 Nov 2026
Yasushi Inoue's "marvelous," "intriguing," "unerring" collection THE DEATH OF A CERTAIN WOMAN, brilliantly translated by J. Martin Holman, arrives in January 🌾
Set in a rural Japan in the 1920s depicted with remarkable clarity and tenderness, THE DEATH OF A CERTAIN WOMAN collects ten stories by Yasushi Inoue—one of Japan's foremost literary figures—that speak to a moment of childhood when the world of adults is as seductive as it is forbidden and as brutal as it is full of pleasures unknown.
In the collection’s eponymous story, gossip spreads when the mistress of an out-of-town construction contractor arrives in the village. Thirty years later, the narrator recalls the allure and mystery of this young woman—and the mystery around her death. A father’s affair is first revealed to his son in the audience of a local play. A brother fights tirelessly to keep his older sister from losing herself to her first love. A group of young village boys form a lovers’ suicide patrol and stumble upon different illicit activities instead.
Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) worked as a journalist and literary editor for many years, beginning his prolific career as an author in 1949 with the novel BULLFIGHT, which won Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize. He went on to publish fifty novels and one hundred and fifty short stories, both historical and contemporary, becoming one of Japan’s major literary figures. In 1976, Inoue was presented with the Order of Culture, the highest honor granted for artistic merit in Japan.
Available for preorder at the link in our bio 🔗
02 Nov 2026
Coming next April 🌀 PILGRIMAGE OF ALPHA, a hallucinatory frontier novel about the uneasy alliance between art and empire, by Juan Cárdenas—one of the most lauded voices in contemporary Latin American literature—translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis (@lizzie_davis_ ), with an introduction by Catherine Lacey (@catherinelacey_). Cover design by @jaredbartmandesign 🙏
🌀 "PILGRIMAGE OF ALPHA will blow your mind."—Jazmina Barrera (@jaztronomia), author of THE QUEEN OF SWORDS
🌀 In 1850, amid rising political tensions, the Republic of New Granada commissions an expedition to document its land and people. Among its members are Manuel Ancízar, whose book Pilgrimage of Alpha will help invent Colombia’s myth of itself, and English painter Henry Price, who hopes only to adequately depict the glaciers and jungles he sees—and, by night, to murmur his clumsy Wordsworth translations to the botanist with whom he shares a tent. When Price encounters the paintings of a reclusive local artist, his faith in his own vision begins to falter.
🌀 Nearly two centuries later, a writer reads Ancízar while looking out on the violence and ecological devastation of the present. As he lets his mind stray in “irresponsible fantasy,” he enacts and reenacts the historical drama of seeing, continually shuffling symbols: jungle, river, plains; dandy, madman, lover; machete, captive, king.
🌀 Disrupting history with a botanist's eye for detail and an art critic's sensitivity for visual language, Cárdenas constructs a novel like a nineteenth-century diorama, in which the subtlest shift in light can dramatically alter a scene. By the National Book Award–nominated author and translator of THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES, PILGRIMAGE OF ALPHA—as precise as an optical illusion and as vertiginous as a dream—asks what we think we’re seeing when we look at the Americas.
Now available for preorder at the link in our bio 🔗
30 Oct 2026
Thank you to the amazing crowd of friends and new faces—over 300 of you!—who made Our Party in the Forest so special. It was a magical night of floral prints, fox masks, feathers, and greenery of every variety.
Proceeds from the evening support the publication of 20 new books in 2027, including works from Japan, Georgia, Colombia, Turkey, Italy, Finland, and more. Thank you again to all those who contributed 💚 If you'd like to support our work, you still can via the donate link in our bio.
Special thanks to @ayabrackett for these brilliant photos with which to remember this evening. And once more to @marahruby, for the excellent music; @alicemedrich, whose desserts were to die for; @laurenemarkham, our delightful emcee; @lisabrowndraws and @asgreer, for presiding over the costume contest; @luciasberkeley for the delicious pizza; and @donkeyandgoat for their wonderful space and wine. We are so grateful!
We're already dreaming up next year's theme 🌳🌳🌳
29 Oct 2026
Jeyamohan's THE ABYSS, translated from the Tamil by Suchitra, is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2026!
"In this gritty novel about the dehumanizing horse-trading of modern-day slavery and arranged marriage, the protagonist puts deformed people to work as beggars on the steps of Hindu temples while scheming to marry off his oldest daughter. Jeyamohan's depictions of grotesque behavior evoke the surreally ecstatic mood of such dark-hearted classics as José Donoso's THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT."—Publishers Weekly, "Best Fiction of 2026"
Find more about THE ABYSS at the link in our bio 🥳
27 Oct 2026
Rebecca Perry's MAY WE FEED THE KING in this week's @newyorkermag!
"This poetic début novel, a finalist for the Booker Prize, is narrated largely by an unnamed curator who specializes in reconstructing scenes from the past. Her 'guiding rule' is to make viewers feel as if those who would've inhabited her installations 'have just left the room.' At the story's outset, she begins a commission at a medieval palace, and decides to re-create a room that would have housed a particular king, whose reign has been reduced to just a single page in the historical record. Soon, the curator is transported into that king's world, but it remains unclear whether the narrative that unfolds is a figment of her imagination. Such is the novel's own guiding rule, to refute 'the idea that we owe anyone the answers they seek—for they are theirs alone to find.'"
Get your copy at the link in our bio 🕯️
26 Oct 2026
👁️ Bay Area and Seattle 👁️ Join us to celebrate the publication of HOW TO MAKE A WOMAN and OUR LIFE IN THE FOREST with the brilliant Marie Darrieussecq and friends 💙🩷🖤
👁️ Berkeley, 11/17, 6:30 pm at Transit Books with Adam Levy
👁️ Stanford, 11/18, 12:15 pm at Stanford University (Pigot Hall, Rm 216) with Cécile Alduy
👁️ San Francisco, 11/18, 7 pm at City Lights with @ritabullwinkel
👁️ Seattle, 11/20, 11/20, 7 pm at Third Place Books (Ravenna) with @annedemarcken
All events are open to the public—RSVP at the links in our bio 🔗
HOW TO MAKE A WOMAN, tr. Penny Hueston
Funny, brutal, and "profoundly original" (Libération), HOW TO MAKE A WOMAN narrates, in Darrieussecq's relentless prose, the coming-of-age of two young women from a small town in the Basque Country against the backdrop of the final decades of the twentieth century: scenes and subcultures, the AIDS epidemic, the end of history. Rose goes to nearby Bordeaux to study psychology, maintaining an equivocal relationship with her childhood sweetheart; Solange shakes off old attachments to pursue a life on the stage and in pulsing city centers. In Bordeaux, Paris, London, and Hollywood, as they pass in and out of each other’s lives, each makes use of, and makes, the other in this bold, mischievous novel about sexuality, self-knowledge, and "what is done to women in the world."
OUR LIFE IN THE FOREST, tr. Penny Hueston
In an imminent future, a former psychoanalyst is writing the story of her foreshortened life—it's not clear for whom. She's down an eye and a kidney; she's lost the use of one hand; she know she won't live to read what she writes here. In some nearby clearing is her hapless clone, recently reanimated after a full lifetime in a coma (she was incubating organs for our narrator). The conditions of their lives and the world they fled for the forest are mysterious, and revealed piecemeal in a torrential narrative that takes us careening through her strange doubled childhood, her encounters with patients and lovers, struggling toward an elusive truth in a world where meaning is actively collapsing—a wild and wryly funny dystopia for our particular end times.
23 Oct 2026
Coming in 2028! A new translation from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri of Grazia Deledda's THE MOTHER, about a priest torn between spiritual duty and a passionate love affair in a remote Sardinian village. Deledda was the 1926 Nobel Laureate in Literature and the only Italian woman to ever win the prize.
Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) was born in Nuoro, Sardinia, and published her first novel at the age of twenty-one. In her long writing career, which lasted until her death, she published over sixty books, including her celebrated novels REEDS IN THE WIND and THE MOTHER. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general."
Jhumpa Lahiri, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her debut collection of stories, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES, received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her novel THE NAMESAKE, a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, was adapted into a motion picture directed by Mira Nair. Her other books include UNACCUSTOMED EARTH, winner of the Frank O'Connor Prize, THE LOWLAND, finalist for both the Booker Prize and the National Book Award, and TRANSLATING MYSELF AND OTHERS, finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is the author of five books in Italian. She received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2014, and in 2019 was named Commendatore of the Italian Republic by President Sergio Mattarella. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.
With many thanks to Eric Simonoff (@jazzeric) @wmc 🙏
21 Oct 2026
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