Adios Muchachos
More Cuban noir from Akashic! (Following the success of Outcast by José Latour—nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Firecracker awards.)
Subject: Caribbean Interest
Featured Caribbean Interest Titles
All or Nothing
What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.
Anna In-Between
Trade paperback reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business
An inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the founder of the most successful Caribbean business ever established in the US.
Black Marks
A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
Boundaries
A powerful immigrant story of family, love, assimilation, and a provocative look inside the contemporary book business.
Curse the Names
Robert Arellano, author of the Edgar-nominated crime novel Havana Lunar, returns with another spine-tingling noir from Akashic Books.
Dog War
The highly anticipated new novel and debut US publication from the legendary Jamaican author of The Lunatic and The Duppy.
The Duppy
Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.
How funny is this social satire? Akashic Books’s pledge to our readers: Laugh out loud at least once or your money back. Seriously.
The Eye of Cybele
The Ancient Greek thriller from the author of Adios Muchachos, winner of an Edgar Award.
The Family Mansion
An illuminating and unflinching novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica.
Fast Eddie, King of the Bees
Fast Eddie is a convoluted Oedipal adventure blending low-brow scenarios with high-art diction, reminiscent of Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Edmund White.
The Girl with the Golden Shoes
A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.
God Carlos
A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early 16th-century Jamaica.
Gomer’s Song
Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.
The Gospel According to Cane
After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell’s marriage fails. Years later, could a mysterious, lurking young man be her long-lost son?
Haiti Noir
Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Havana Lunar
A literary crime novel on the last island of socialism, during a period of intense depseration.
Havana Noir (Cuba)
In the stories of Havana Noir current and former residents of the city uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria.
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop
Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.
Jamaican Digit
Excerpts from The Baker’s Son by Lowell Hawthorne, Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer, and God Carlos by Anthony C. Winkler.
John Crow’s Devil
The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.
Kingston Noir (Jamaica)
Following in the Caribbean footsteps of Haiti Noir and Trinidad Noir, now come dark stories from Jamaica’s capital city.
The Lesser Tragedy of Death
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection from the best-selling author of Dreaming in Cuban.
Limbo
An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway.
The Lunatic
The first-ever US publication of the Caribbean comic classic that is also a major motion picture.
Makeda
The debut title from Akashic’s Open Lens imprint: a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind, from the nationally best-selling author Randall Robinson.
May Digit
Excerpts from our three May releases: Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen, The Family Mansion by Anthony C. Winkler, and the second installment in the Open Lens imprint, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave.
The Roving Tree
A powerful debut novel illuminating how adoptees struggle to recapture their personal histories and cultural legacy, part of Akashic’s Open Lens imprint.
A Simple Distance
A provocative debut that masterfully fuses issues of culture, race, sexuality, and family.
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.
Trinidad Noir
The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series.
Forthcoming Titles
Among the Bloodpeople: Politics & Flesh
Forthcoming: 7/2/13
Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.
As Flies to Whatless Boys
Forthcoming: 9/3/13
Tragedy and humor meet in an adventure-packed, historical novel about a British incursion into the island of Trinidad in 1845.
The Night of the Rambler
Forthcoming: 9/3/13
A gorgeously written and highly entertaining debut novel about a small island’s struggle for independence from Britain.
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics
Forthcoming: 1/7/14
The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.
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