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A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos has been shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019. Huge congratulations to Christelle and all the shortlisted authors!
Disoriental and Trick in the shortlist for National Book Awards in Translated Literature
Négar Djavadi's Disoriental (translated by Tina Kover) and Domenico Starnone's Trick (translated by Jhumpa Lahiri) make the shortlist for National Book Awards in Translated Literature.
Compass
Europa Launches Compass, a New Nonfiction Imprint
Europa Editions has launched Europa Compass, a new nonfiction imprint featuring titles on travel, contemporary culture, popular science, history, philosophy, and politics.
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Discover Europa’s titles & authors by continent
Europa Editions is dedicated to bridging cultural divides by introducing fresh international voices into the American and British marketplaces. Explore our diverse catalogue by region and take in what the world has to offer.
The Neapolitan Novels
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, £ 12.99A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, £ 12.99The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, £ 12.99In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 464, £ 12.99This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
News
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A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos has been shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019. -
Europa launches non-fiction imprint, Compass
Europa Editions has launched Europa Compass, a new nonfiction imprint featuring titles on travel, contemporary culture, popular science, history, philosophy, and politics. -
International Dublin Literary Award 2019
Two Europa titles are included in the nominees: Santiago Gamboa, Return to the Dark Valley and Nicola Lagioia, Ferocity.
Recent reviews
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Neither sad nor quiet, though, is Pascale Pujol’s Little Culinary Triumphs (Europa, £12.99), a rompy comedy set in Montmartre, Paris, deftly translated by Alison Anderson. The formidable Sandrine Cordier is an employment officer who delights in striking “parasites” off...— The Telegraph, Jan 14 2019![]()
Love and politics in the shadow of tyranny … The imprisoned Turkish writer’s historical novel has clear parallels with the present day— The Guardian, Dec 19 2018![]()
An admirable tale about the hardships and challenges of the immigrant experience manages to be engaging yet determinedly unsentimental— Financial Times, Dec 15 2018![]()
Jailed novelist Ahmet Altan is ‘living what he wrote’ in this tale of repression set in Ottoman Turkey— The Observer, Dec 2 2018![]()
Finally, a glowing example of the rare thing that is the YA novel in translation: Christelle Dabos’s A Winter Promise (Europa Editions, £12.99, trans. Hildegarde Serle), the first in a quartet, has already been a runaway success in its native France. Ophelia is not a typical...— The Irish Times, Nov 24 2018![]()
Teen readers can also set out into weird new terrain with Christelle Dabos’ A Winter’s Promise (Europa), translated by Hildegarde Serle. Abstruse and sprawling, with hints of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast and Game of Thrones, it follows dowdy, quiet Ophelia, who can intuit...— The Guardian, Nov 24 2018![]()
Has your tween already devoured JK Rowling’s entire output, and started watching films with subtitles and drinking strong espresso? The first book in the Mirror Visitor series by the French author Christelle Dabos would be the perfect present. Although dubbed the French Harry...— The Times, Nov 23 2018![]()
The television adaptation Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is a reminder of Italy’s strong tradition in the coming-of-age genre, from Life Is Beautiful to Cinema Paradiso— The Guardian, Nov 19 2018
Previews
World Noir
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Alex Beer
The Second Rider
2018, pp. 336, £ 12.99First in historical crime series by “the new star of Austrian crime fiction.”—( Kronen Zeitung) -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
The Night of Rome
2018, pp. 320, £ 12.99In the night of Rome, nothing is what it seems -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Chourmo
2018, pp. 256, £ 11.99Book two in the Marseilles trilogy. His cousin's disappearance drags Montale back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Nameless Serenade
2018, pp. 416, £ 12.99A long, rainy, deadly Autumn in Naples. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Total Chaos
2018, pp. 256, £ 11.99In Jean-Claude Izzo’s “Mediterranean noir” mysteries, the city of Marseilles is explosive, breathtakingly beautiful, and deadly. -
Karin Brynard
Weeping Waters
2018, pp. 512, £ 12.99“The Afrikaans Stieg Larsson.”— Rooi Rose (South Africa)