New York. Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793The Orphan Master’s Son follows Jun Do, a man searching for identity while succumbing to the impulsive and oppressive whims of the North Korea…
FICTION
- New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958310In 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 9780374222642Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel adds to the growing body of literature expressing discontent with the social, economic, and political cond…
- Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2012. ISBN 9781770460652As the graphic novel has developed as a form globally over the twentieth century, one expectation it has rarely been able to shed is lengt…
- Paris. Gallimard. 2012. ISBN 9782070134816Libar 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 E…
- Randall A. Major, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. ISBN 9781934824580The Cyclist Conspiracy, Svetislav Basara’s second novel to be translated into English (expertly by Randall A. M…
- Imre Goldstein, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374229764Péter Nádas’s monumental, labyrinthine novel, Parallel Stories, is the first of his works of fiction not wri…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374108991The Barbarian Nurseries is the Great American Novel for our “messy and complicated present.” The Torres-Thompson household lives…
- Bogdan Rakić & John Jeffries, trs. Belgrade, Serbia. Geopoetika. 2011. ISBN 9788661450709With Farewell Gift, Vladimir Tasić has written a concerto. Like a musical composition, his short n…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf. 2012. ISBN 9781555976026Already an established young talent in the United Kingdom for writing London and the South-East and The Innocent, David Szal…
- Montréal. XYZ. 2011. ISBN 9782892616040In the early decades of the twentieth century, a number of devastating forest fires swept through northern Ontario, leaving behind a lasting legacy of loss, legi…
- Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609667This is the third novel by the award-winning Moroccan writer Bensalem Himmich that Roger Allen has translated. L…
- New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958709One 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 no…
- Helen Mitsios, ed. Pico Iyer, intro. Boston. Cheng & Tsui. 2011. ISBN 9780887277924In 1991 the gods of publishing granted fiction lovers a boon: two anthologies of newly translated contemporary Ja…
- 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 novel…
- Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. Easthampton, Mass. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520317Since the publication in 1912 of its first tale of the fantastic, “La cena” by Alfonso Reye…
- Samuel Salter, Zahra Jishi, and Rafah Abuinnab, trs. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609919A prolific writer with nearly thirty novels and short-story collections to h…
- Easthampton, Massachusetts. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520294Look 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 9781566892957The Last Warner Woman features compelling settings, masterful story-tellers, a mystery, colorful characters, and language that re…
- Shaun Whiteside, tr. New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 9780307273550Like many recent thrillers, Sorry weaves a lurid tale of multigenerational pedophilia and consequences that include two grotesque…
- Osama Hornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631922Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God Hornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631588Cloud Permutations…
- New York. Vertigo. 2011. ISBN 9781401229696Daytripper is the rarest of graphic novels—a work meeting all the expectations of great literature that somehow emerged from the grinding gears of the Americ…
- José Francisco Fernández, ed. New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0547550404The fourteen stories in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman are arranged chronologically from 1964…
- Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2011. ISBN 9781934824375In just a few short years, Open Letter Books, based out of the University of Rochester, has quite impress…
- New York. Black Lawrence. 2009 (rel. 2010). 191 pages. $16. isbn 978-0-9815899-5-4"The link between butterflies and dreams is poorly understood." So begins the title story of this wry and witty collec…