WLT Book Reviews | July 2013

FICTION

VERSE

Sky Ward
Kazim Ali
Début et Fin de la Neige / Beginning and End of the Snow
Yves Bonnefoy. Emily Grosholz, tr. Farhad Ostovani, ill.
pH Neutral History
Lidija Dimkovska. Ljubica Arsovska & Peggy Reid, tr.
Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes
Pablo Neruda. William Pitt Root, tr.
Don’t Mention This to Anyone: Poems and Prose Fragments of Life in the Punjab and Rug of a Thousand Colours
Tessa Ransford. Jila Peacock, ill.
Diaries of Exile
Yannis Ritsos. Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, tr.
Time of Grief: Mourning Poems
Jeffrey Yang, ed.

MISCELLANEOUS

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Fiction

“Le Suicide de Monsieur F” by Farzad Salamifar
“The Cities of the Ordered Chain” by Alberto Chimal

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WLT Book Reviews | July 2013

FICTION

The Sultan of Byzantium
Selçuk Altun. Clifford Endres & Selhan Endres, tr.

Las segundas criaturas
Diego Cornejo Menacho

I Hadn’t Understood
Diego De Silva. Antony Shugaar, tr.

House of Earth
Woody Guthrie. Douglas Brinkley, ed. Johnny Depp, intro.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid

Birds of Paradise Lost
Andrew Lam

Madrid Tales
Helen Constantine, ed. Margaret Jull Costa, tr.

LoveStar
Andri Snær Magnason. Victoria Cribb tr.

A Marker to Measure Drift
Alexander Maksik

Love Hotel
Christine Montalbetti

Ladivine
Marie NDiaye

In Partial Disgrace
Charles Newman. Ben Ryder Howe, ed. Joshua Cohen, intro.

It’s Fine by Me
Per Petterson. Don Bartlett, tr.

Jagannath
Karin Tidbeck

Two or Three Years Later: Forty-Nine Digressions
Ror Wolf. Jennifer Marquart, tr.

VERSE

Sky Ward
Kazim Ali

Début et Fin de la Neige / Beginning and End of the Snow
Yves Bonnefoy. Emily Grosholz, tr. Farhad Ostovani, ill.

pH Neutral History
Lidija Dimkovska. Ljubica Arsovska & Peggy Reid, tr.

Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes
Pablo Neruda. William Pitt Root, tr.

Don’t Mention This to Anyone: Poems and Prose Fragments of Life in the Punjab and Rug of a Thousand Colours
Tessa Ransford. Jila Peacock, ill.

Diaries of Exile
Yannis Ritsos. Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, tr.

Time of Grief: Mourning Poems
Jeffrey Yang, ed.

MISCELLANEOUS

Anthology of Galician Literature, 1981–2011 / Antoloxía da literatura Galega, 1981–2011
Jonathan Dunne, ed.

Letting It Go
Miriam Katin

The Summer My Father Died
Yudit Kiss. George Szirtes, tr.

P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed.