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Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2026!
“Packed full of plot twists, this is storytelling at its best.“
INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES
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Foundry Editions was founded in 2023 out of a love of three things - a love for discovering and sharing new voices, a love for the Mediterranean and the people and lands that surround it, and a love of internationalism and reading across borders.
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A powerful examination of grief, family lies and the postcolonial condition in one woman’s attempt to repatriate her father’s body to France.
Annabella Morelli is twenty-three years old, dreams of becoming a poet and lives in Lyon, far from Congo-Brazzaville where she was born. The daughter of a Franco-Italian worker, and a Congolese girl who became a mother too young, Annabella remembers a happy childhood until one Christmas, at the age of seven, her father's anger exploded, and her mother left the family home.
When she learns of his death in Cameroon, her world collapses for the second time and in her desperate attempt to repatriate her father’s body to France, Annabella is forced to confront the family secrets, lies and deep trauma at the heart of her existence. This stunning debut explores grief, family relationships, personal truths and the post-colonial condition with beautiful, urgent writing. It was the winner of the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the 2024 Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Premier Roman.
“Her beautiful language nimbly blends romantic description, dramatic prose and poetry and abolishes the boundaries between sounds and words, inner dialogue and conversations.” LE MONDE DES LIVES
“Form Old Lyon to the forests of Gabon, from the Atlantic coast to Douala, Ève Guerra weaves a dazzling first novel, marked by exile and unspoken words, like the painful poetry of a verse by Baudelaire.” LIVRES HEBDO
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Stylish, philosophical literary noir against a burning Athenian background
Washed-up writer and wanderer of Athens’ nightlife, Michalis Krokos is happier watching the Johnny Depp trial than getting down to his next book. But a visit from a mysterious prosecutor with news that his friend Rebecca, s sharp-tongued trans sex worker is in trouble with a violent far-right group shakes him out of his apathy. Krokos agrees to go undercover as a fake news copywriter inside the group’s inner circle: write a few lines, steal a few secrets. But what begins as a rescue mission soon spirals into sinister blackmail plots and political paranoia.
Darkly comic literary noir and portrait of post-crisis Greece, Deepfake explores truth, loyalty and the absurd theatre of modern politics, against the background of a sweltering, sleepless, high-summer Athens.
Deepfake was shortlisted for the 2025 European Union Prize for Literature
“Malafekas’ book has already managed to become a literary event, if we are to judge by its continued presence at the top of the charts. It deserves this success because it is an enjoyable and thought-provoking read” PANAGIOTIS SOTIRIS, IN
“The novel’s main them is the exploration of repressed desires and fantasies, that intersects with the contemporary possibility of creating a deep fake, a profound falsehood, in which it is no longer possible to detect the falsity” FREAR MAGAZINE
“A reflection on a generation whose time has come to govern in a world where you don’t know who’s who.” THE PRESS PROJECT
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“Wonderful… Please don’t miss out on reading this book” EL PAÍS
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Translation by Katherine Gregor
“Full of soul, with characters who are real, relatable and flawed. I loved Just a Little Dinner.” THE TIMES
“In the cinema and the theatre, feasts that descend into disaster are a distinctly French speciality. Cécile Tlili manages to reinvent this tradition with her first novel.” PARIS MATCH
Shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman
Winner 2023 Prix Littéraire Gisèle Halimi for women’s writing.
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“This is, quite simply, one of the most powerful books ever to come out of our island” CYPRUS MAIL
2023 Cyprus National Book Prize Winner
“It powerfully conveys the anxiety, chaos, and disillusionment of a world hurtling towards collapse” Julià Guillamon, LA VANGUARDIA
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Longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by EL PAÍS