A man who escaped childhood poverty in Malmö to become a writer is forced to return to a job he held in his youth at a harbor export hub in this excerpt from Kristian Lundberg’s autobiographical novel detailing the collapse of Sweden’s welfare state…

I could see her white hands and long, thin fingers among the green stems and huge leaves of the cucumber plants.

In this genre-blending crime story, Alia Trabucco Zerán explores class, connection, and human cruelty in Chile.