FICTION
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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... -
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...
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Paris. Gallimard. 2011. ISBN 9782070134601 Rue Darwin is Boualem Sansal’s fourth novel. His third, Le Village de l’Allemand (2008; Eng. The German Mujahid, 2009), r...
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Barcelona. Anagrama. 2011 (© 2010). ISBN 9788433972156 We are so accustomed to the proliferation of the detective novel in Latin America that in the last few years we have barely noticed that many of...
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Montréal. Lévesque. 2012. ISBN 9782923844824 With a title that automatically evokes Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, Amerika provides a jarringly absurd version of the traditional immigr...
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Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, and Nathan Englander, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-0374533335 Some stories are hard to get out of your head, and Etgar Keret writes...
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New York. Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793 The Orphan Master’s Son follows Jun Do, a man searching for identity while succumbing to the impulsive and oppressive whims of the North Kore...
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New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958310 In his second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Mohammed Hanif explores the relationships among caste, gender, and religion in modern Pakistan through...
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New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374222642 Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel adds to the growing body of literature expressing discontent with the social, economic, and political con...
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Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2012. ISBN 9781770460652 As the graphic novel has developed as a form globally over the twentieth century, one expectation it has rarely been able to shed is length. E...
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Paris. Gallimard. 2012. ISBN 9782070134816 Libar Fofana, whose father was imprisoned and tortured in one of Sékou Touré’s prisons, escaped from Guinea in 1976, when he was seventeen. After working in...
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Randall A. Major, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. ISBN 9781934824580 The Cyclist Conspiracy, Svetislav Basara’s second novel to be translated into English (expertly by Randall A....
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Imre Goldstein, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374229764 Péter Nádas’s monumental, labyrinthine novel, Parallel Stories, is the first of his works of fiction not wr...
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New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374108991 The Barbarian Nurseries is the Great American Novel for our “messy and complicated present.” The Torres-Thompson household live...
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Bogdan Rakić & John Jeffries, trs. Belgrade, Serbia. Geopoetika. 2011. ISBN 9788661450709 With Farewell Gift, Vladimir Tasić has written a concerto. Like a musical composition, his short...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf. 2012. ISBN 9781555976026 Already an established young talent in the United Kingdom for writing London and the South-East and The Innocent, David Sza...
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Montréal. XYZ. 2011. ISBN 9782892616040 In the early decades of the twentieth century, a number of devastating forest fires swept through northern Ontario, leaving behind a lasting legacy of loss, leg...
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Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609667 This is the third novel by the award-winning Moroccan writer Bensalem Himmich that Roger Allen has translated....
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New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958709 One of the most intriguing things about Nathan Englander’s stories is the element of surprise. Even if I think I know where the tale is going, it’s probably n...
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Helen Mitsios, ed. Pico Iyer, intro. Boston. Cheng & Tsui. 2011. ISBN 9780887277924 In 1991 the gods of publishing granted fiction lovers a boon: two anthologies of newly translated contemporary J...
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Jamie Bulloch, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374533298 “Walk, young lady, walk if you want to walk . . .” So begins the narrative journey of this elegant 2006 nov...
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Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. Easthampton, Mass. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520317 Since the publication in 1912 of its first tale of the fantastic, “La cena” by Alfonso Rey...
