Paris. Gallimard. 2011. ISBN 9782070134601
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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Samuel Salter, Zahra Jishi, and Rafah Abuinnab, trs. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609919 A prolific writer with nearly thirty novels and short-story collections to…
- Easthampton, Massachusetts. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520294 Look on the back cover of Maureen F. McHugh’s new collection of stories, After the Apocalypse, and you’ll find a list of…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2012. ISBN 9781566892957 The Last Warner Woman features compelling settings, masterful story-tellers, a mystery, colorful characters, and language that r…
- Shaun Whiteside, tr. New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 9780307273550 Like many recent thrillers, Sorry weaves a lurid tale of multigenerational pedophilia and consequences that include two grotesqu…
- OsamaHornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631922 Gorel and the Pot-Bellied GodHornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631588 Cloud PermutationsHo…