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Verso Fiction: Uncompromisingly Intelligent & Beautiful

Read the latest Verso Fiction, ranging from new editions of revolutionary classics to subversive thrillers.

28 November 2025

Verso Fiction: Uncompromisingly Intelligent & Beautiful

Verso Fiction offers uncompromisingly intelligent and beautiful books from international and revolutionary voices. These books experiment with style and form, telling stories that are not often heard. 

The perfect gift for the literary lover in your life!

The Verso End of Year Sale

  • 20% off when you buy 2 books
  • 30% off when you buy 3 books
  • 40% off when you buy 4 books
  • 50% off when you buy 5 books

Sale ends at 11:59pm EST on January 2nd 2026. 

We bundle the ebook editions of our books with all print purchases, so you can gift the print copy and start reading the ebook yourself straight away!

If you'd like to receive your order in time for the holidays, please take note of the ordering cutoff dates.

Stephanie LaCava: Interested in What is Never Obvious

“Reading her, I never know what to expect. She investigates unique undergrounds, interested in what is never obvious. She takes chances, risks, and never chooses the safe way.” —  Lynne Tillman, author of Thrilled to Death

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Ghassan Kanafani: The Great Palestinian Writer

“One of Palestine’s foremost intellectuals and leaders. Kanafani’s universalism and commitment to Palestine will eternally serve as a model.” — Ilan Pappe

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Tariq Mehmood: Award-Winning Novelist & Documentary Filmmaker

“The author’s and the characters’ acute self-awareness of the familiarity of the plot make for a compelling read.” —  Kohl Journal

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Georges Perec: An unrivalled mastery of language

“One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.” — Italo Calvino

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Vigdis Hjorth: A Literary Sensation

“Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.” — Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?

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The Surreal, The Magical, The Intoxicating 

The first English translations from the Japanese countercultural icon Izumi Suzuki, cult classics from artist and musician Jenny Hval, and a contemporary Brazilian masterpiece from Itamar Vieira Junior.

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Histories, Archives and Resistance

Meditations on those who might not find a place in history books but without whom history could not be written.

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  • If Only

    If Only

    A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the m...
  • Is Mother Dead

    Is Mother Dead

    **Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed a...

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  • Hit Parade of Tears

    Hit Parade of Tears

    A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of t...
  • Terminal Boredom

    Terminal Boredom

    On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently int...

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