FICTION
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Paris. Gallimard. 2015. ISBN 9782070147557 Gaston-Paul Effa, of Cameroonian origin, has lived for many years in France, where he teaches philosophy. He has published more than ten books, several on at... -
Marilyn Booth, tr. San Francisco. City Lights Books. 2014. ISBN 9780872866232 Hassan Daoud, a prominent Lebanese short-story writer and novelist, was born in 1950 in southern Lebanon and moved as a ch... -
Calvin McMillin, ed. Honolulu. University of Hawai`i Press. 2015. ISBN 9780824838928 As Calvin McMillin notes, and as longtime readers of Frank Chin’s work will realize, The Confessions of a Numbe... -
Jonathan Reeder, tr. New York. Hogarth. 2014. ISBN 9780553417852 Do we control our fate or do the fates control us? That is the question that Dutch author Peter Buwalda examines in his entertaining no... -
Toronto. Coach House Books. 2015. ISBN 9781552453056 Canadian writer André Alexis invents a modern Greek mythology in his 2015 novel Fifteen Dogs, bringing together prose and poetry, consciou... -
Toronto / Berkeley, California. Random House Canada / Soft Skull Press. 2014. ISBN 9780307356345 / 9781593766139 In her second novel, Padma Viswanathan takes on a difficult subject—the 1985 bombing of... -
Tess Lewis, tr. London. Haus (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781908323491 For a writer born in Israel, living in Austria, and writing in German, it is not surprising that themes suc... -
Tiina Nunnally, tr. London. Serpent’s Tail. 2015. ISBN 9781781254882 I’m seldom sad to have finished a book. The Winter War is one of those rare novels that leave you wishing there could have... -
Mayra Santos-Febres, ed. Mexico City. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2014. ISBN 9786070252914 Since 2009, the National Autonomous University in Mexico has been publishing the series Sólo cue... -
Istanbul. Yapı Kredi Yayınları. 2014. ISBN 9789750830884 Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s ninth novel, Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık (A Strangeness in My Mind, forthcoming in English tra... -
Tess Lewis, tr. London. Seagull Books / University of Chicago Press. 2015. ISBN 9780857422125 As this autobiographical bildungsroman, winner of the Swiss and German Book Awards in 2010, traces the jou... -
Anne Mathai & Marie-Louise Naville, tr. New York. Europa Editions. 2014. ISBN 9781609452278 A multinational corporation controls much of Asia, Muslim insurgents are battling occupiers from the We... -
New York. Random House. 2014. ISBN 981400065677 The Bone Clocks initially seems more conventional than Cloud Atlas—in short, a real novel. It begins in the mid-1980s and moves forwa... -
Stephen Snyder, tr. New York. Mulholland Books / Little, Brown. 2014. ISBN 9780316200929 Confessions, the debut novel from Minato Kanae (b. 1973), is a sobering indictment of current Japanese... -
Zoltán Hafner, ed. Budapest. Magvető. 2014. ISBN 9789631427738 The Nobel Prize–winning writer Imre Kertész always focused his writing on two broad themes: the Holocaust and his own experience of post-... -
London. Oneworld. 2014. ISBN 9781780744940 Like many publishers, Oneworld sends out its review copies accompanied by publicity materials. From these we learn that Claire Hajaj inherits a shared Pales... -
New York. Europa Editions. 2014. ISBN 9781609452346 Arctic Summer is the title of an unfinished novel by E. M. Forster about the tension between marriage and friendship that results when a ma... -
Dick Cluster, tr. San Francisco. City Lights Books. 2014. ISBN 9780872866225 A Corner of the World is a love story with a sad ending. The ending is predictable from the beginning, expected as... -
Paris. Gallimard. 2014. ISBN 9782070146314 Eugène Ébodé, of Cameroonian origin but having lived and worked in France for many years, was one of ten African writers invited by Fest’Africa to go to Rwa... -
Belgrade. Laguna. 2014. ISBN 9788652117499 Over the past decade, several excellent post-Yugoslavia novels have been published on genocide and the Holocaust. This indicates a strong writers’ need for r... -
David Kurnick, tr. Los Angeles. Semiotext(e)/MIT Press. 2014. ISBN 9781584351344 In 1975 Argentine writer Julio Cortázar returned home to Paris from Brussels, where he had been participating in a meet... -
Angela Rodel, tr. New York. Black Balloon (Consortium, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781936787135 Virginia Zaharieva is a Bulgarian author, journalist, and psychotherapist. She has written three books of poetr... -
Salar Abdoh, ed. & tr. Brooklyn, New York. Akashic Books. 2014. ISBN 9781617753008 Tehran Noir is one of the new books in the Akashic Books noir series, which was launched in 2004. It has... -
Pasadena, California. Red Hen Press. 2014. ISBN 9781597099592 With her timely first novel, The Meaning of Names, Karen Gettert Shoemaker presents us with two unique main conflicts: the great... -
Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone, ed. Faridoun Farrokh & Sara Khalili, tr. New York. Feminist Press at CUNY. 2014. ISBN 9781558618688 The Shipwrecked: Contemporary Stories by Women from Iran emph...
