WLT Book Reviews | March 2013

FICTION

VERSE

MISCELLANEOUS

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Chinua Achebe
The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009
Robert Adams
Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship
Rita Wilson & Leah Gerber, ed.
Writings from the Sand. Vol. 1 of Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt. Marie-Odile Delacour & Jean-Rene Huleu, ed.
The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity
Nyla Ali Khan, ed.

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Two Poems by André Naffis-Sahely

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WLT Book Reviews | March 2013

FICTION

This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz

God’s Horse and The Atheists’ School
Wilhelm Dichter. Madeline G. Levine, tr.

Le terroriste noir
Tierno Monénembo

Mudwoman
Joyce Carol Oates

Mitrova Amerika
Petar Sarić

Maidenhair
Mikhail Shishkin. Marian Schwartz, tr.

The Whispering Muse
Sjón. Victoria Cribb, tr.

Edge
Koji Suzuki. Camellia Nieh & Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, tr.

The Finno-Ugrian Vampire
Noémi Szécsi. Peter Sherwood, tr.

The Magic of Saida
M. G. Vassanji

Arrecife
Juan Villoro

The Method
Juli Zeh. Sally-Ann Spencer, tr.

VERSE

Trying to Say Goodbye
Adil Jussawalla

The Rule of Barbarism
Abdellatif Laâbi. André Naffis-Sahely, tr.

Winter Sun
Shi Zhi. Jonathan Stalling, tr.

Writers Writing Dying
C. K. Williams

MISCELLANEOUS

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Chinua Achebe

The Place We Live: A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009
Robert Adams

Creative Constraints: Translation and Authorship
Rita Wilson & Leah Gerber, ed.

Writings from the Sand. Vol. 1 of Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt. Marie-Odile Delacour & Jean-Rene Huleu, ed.

The Parchment of Kashmir: History, Society, and Polity
Nyla Ali Khan, ed.