FICTION
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Paris. Albin Michel. 2012. ISBN 9782226242969 Feminist revisionist mythmaking has often seized on the legend of Bluebeard, supposedly inspired by the fifteenth-century Breton serial killer Gilles de R... -
John Fletcher, tr. London. MacLehose Press. 2012. ISBN 9780857050564 With Three Strong Women, Marie NDiaye became the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt. This intricately st...
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Noha Radwan, tr. Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2012. ISBN 9781566568821 Shagara, a minor employee in the shipyards of Alexandria and the first-person narrator of The House of Jasmine...
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Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2012. ISBN 9781555976118 Shehan Karunatilaka’s first novel brilliantly exemplifies the best capacity of contemporary literature to make the stuff of local lives absolutely...
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Artarmon, New South Wales / Marietta, Georgia. Giramondo / Top Shelf. 2012. ISBN 9781603091534 The Australian comics scene has historically been a parenthetical description added to anglophone comics...
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Diego Trelles Paz, ed. Janet Hendrickson, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. ISBN 9781934824641 The Future Is Not Ours compiles twenty-three stories from fifteen Latin American coun...
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Hornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2012. ISBN 9781848634541 Synth is a drug, able to induce full sensory hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But Synth is new, of uncertain provenance, its lon...
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Marina Harss, tr. New York. Other Press. 2012. ISBN 9781590515112 Writer and filmmaker Cristina Comencini’s 2009 novel Quando la notte was a hit in Italy, as was her film based on the book,...
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Paris. Gallimard. 2012. ISBN 9782070136186 Rewritings of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe have been numerous, especially among Caribbean writers. Robinson Crusoe presumably landed on the island of To...
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New York. Ecco / HarperCollins. 2013. ISBN 9780062198792 Rilla Askew’s fourth novel is a brilliant evocation of Heraclitus’s axiom that character is fate—an ironic evocation she both confirms and turn...
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Barcelona. Anagrama. 2011. ISBN 9788433972279 Formas de volver a casa, Alejandro Zambra’s third novel, is the logical continuation of his two previous works: Bonsái (2006) and La...
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Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. New Directions. 2012. ISBN 9780811219617 Enrique Vila-Matas is a consistently rich and challenging contemporary Spanish-language novelist. Revered in...
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Athens. Metaihmio. 2011. ISBN 9789605014940 Vasia Tzanakari’s first novel, Tzoni kai Loulou (Johnny and Loulou), is a love story set in contemporary Athens during a time of crisis, unemploym...
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Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky. Roadside Picnic. Olena Bormashenko, tr. Ursula K. Le Guin, intro. Chicago. Chicago Review Press. 2012. ISBN 9781613743416 Geoff Dyer. Zona: A B...
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New York. Hogarth. 2012. ISBN 9780307955890 At the beginning of The Watch, Nizam, a young woman from a mountain village in Afghanistan, arrives in a clearing outside a US outpost, using her h...
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Lytton Smith, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. ISBN 9781934824351 In the opening scene of Children in Reindeer Woods, Rafael and some fellow soldiers come across a farm. The soldie...
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Max Weiss, tr. Cairo. American University in Cairo Press (Oxford University Press, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9789774164804 Set on the eve of the Iraq War, A Tunisian Tale reveals a westernized elit...
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Daniel Bowles, tr. Las Vegas, Nevada. AmazonCrossing. 2011. ISBN 9781611090574 Vivian Atkinson, the eponymous protagonist of Thomas Meinecke’s 1998 novel, is the child of a German mother and an Americ...
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Francesco Leggio, tr. Rome. Edizioni e/o. 2011. ISBN 9788866320128 World Literature Today readers have met Algerian-born novelist Amara Lakhous before and may recall the lead character in his...
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New York. Bloomsbury. 2012. ISBN 9781608198108 When an astronaut who has experienced weightlessness returns to an almost empty home, afflicted by earth’s gravity, the reader can hardly be surprised th...
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Thomas Lamarre & Kazuko Y. Behrens, tr. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2012. ISBN 9780816654550 Paris, 1948. In local cafés, surrealists “ruined by the war” gather regularly around vi...
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Helge Dascher, tr. Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2012. ISBN 9781770460713 Guy Delisle is comics’ travelographer du jour, a restless Quebecois whose thoughtful graphic narratives of extend...
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New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307594167 Since its release in May, Toni Morrison’s recent novel Home has been criticized for its brevity. With only 145 pages to boast, it departs from such m...
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New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307594167 Toni Morrison’s tenth novel, Home, focuses on a Korean War veteran, Frank Money, and his sister Ycindra (Cee) Money, whom he leaves behind in Lotcus,...
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Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. isbn 9780374119393 Andrés Neuman’s Traveler of the Century reflects Latin America’s “total novel,” brutally...
