New York. Bloomsbury. 2023. 320 pages.
Tan Twan Eng’s third work of historical fiction gathers a cast of characters in 1920s Malaya: there is Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert; Wi…
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- New York. New Vessel. 2023. 147 pages. Stênio Gardel’s widely acclaimed debut novel, in Bruna Dantas Lobato’s brilliant translation, won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Li…
- New York. Catapult. 2023. 240 pages. This autobiographical Russian novel received the NOS Prize in 2021. The wounds referred to in the title are several—her mother’s breast removed f…
- New York. Random House. 2023. 256 pages. Tremor is the first novel in twelve years by Nigerian American author Teju Cole, following the widespread acclaim of Open City (2011; see WLT,…
- New York. Columbia University Press. 2023. 289 pages. The risk of misunderstanding looms in Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa, Yao-Chang Chen’s second historical novel of five an…
- New York. Open Letter. 2023. 173 pages. From acclaimed Spanish writer Sara Mesa, Un Amor is a slim, provocative novel about love—adoring and reverential, tempestuous and pernicious. W…
- Edinburgh. Charco Press. 2024. 202 pages. Looking at the contents page of The Dark Side of Skin for the first time, I was drawn to the title of the book’s third section, “Back to St P…
- New York. HarperVia. 2023. 144 pages. In her first novel to be translated into English, Ia Genberg delivers a lesson on how to effectively tackle the primordial questions about human…
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- New York. Mariner Books. 2024. 400 pages. Paul Theroux’s Burma Sahib opens with a breeze-rumpled view of young Eric Blair, standing on the bow deck of the Herefordshi…
- New York. Archipelago Books. 2024. 485 pages. Sixty-eight-year-old Paulina Chiziane doesn’t write for your approval but rather to protect the sanctity of her people’s memories. She do…
- New York. Mulholland Books. 2024. 325 pages. A major distinction between the classic or English mysteries, most popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and the hard-boiled American or noir cr…
- New York. Overlook Press. 2024. 308 pages. Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is the strange, visceral story of Zhenia, a Russian American living in Los Angeles, whose marriage crumbles afte…
- New York. Penguin Random House. 2024. 142 pages. En agosto nos vemos is Gabriel García Márquez’s long-awaited posthumous novella, published ten years after the author’s death in 2014.…
- New York. Knopf. 2024. 352 pages. “My mom died for nothing. . . . My dad died anonymous after spending decades cleaning chicken shit on some corporate farm. I want my life—my death—t…
- Beijing. Beijing October Literature & Art Publishing House. 2023. 320 pages. Fan Yusu’s literary journey transcends a mere tale of personal transformation; it represents a challen…
- New York. Other Press. 2023. 352 pages. The thirteen exemplary character-driven stories in Chilean author Antonio Skármeta’s The Names of the Things That Were There, curated by Juan V…
- New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 304 pages. Old King is basically a novel about two very different men, Duane Oshun and Ted Kaczynski, mostly about the former. The novel opens with Duane…
- New York. Clarion Books. 2023. 240 pages. As a career evangelist for cross-reading, that magical practice in which adults allow themselves to gleefully devour books that are supposedl…
- New York. Knopf. 2023. 272 pages. The definition of a literary-minded author, Joyce Carole Oates has achieved greatness throughout her illustrious career and holds a special place amo…
- Edinburgh. Charco Press. 2023. 165 pages. The third of Martín Kohan’s novels translated into English, Confession is bookended by scenes from the life of one Mirta López, as narrated b…
- Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2023. 425 pages. Oksana Lutsyshyna’s Ivan and Phoebe tells the story of Ukraine’s early independence through the eyes of a disillusioned romantic from the far we…
- Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2023. 128 pages. If “childhood is another country” (as Saint-Exupéry suggested), few writers have mapped its topography, culture, and hidden cave sys…
- New Haven. Yale University Press. 2023. 376 pages. Norman Manea’s Exiled Shadow comprises literary, philosophical, psychological, and metaphysical commentaries, memoi…
- Hamilton, Ontario. Stelliform Press. 2023. 99 pages. Six recovered paintings of Mi’kmaw landscape artist Rita Francis serve as a framework for Tiffany Morris’s debut eco-horror novell…