London. Istros Books. 2024. 360 pages.Andrea Tompa is a Transylvanian Hungarian writer living in Budapest whose novels often deal with Transylvanian themes and with the history of the…
FICTION
Madison, Wisconsin. Ji Wai Books. 2024. 666 pages.To Tune the Beast isn’t a debut speculative fiction novel. It’s a polemic. A gentle raging at what is not in balance set ami…
New York. Dutton. 2024. 512 pages.Hailed by the critics as the “king of Danish crime fiction,” a title he despises, Jussi Adler-Olsen earned an international reputation through his mo…
Paris. Lattès. 2024. 306 pages.Ces soleils ardents (These fiery suns) is the impressive first novel by a twenty-two-year-old writer who grew up in Côte d’Ivo…
New York. MCD. 2024. 464 pages.A decade ago Jeff VanderMeer published Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance, three novels telling one story about a strip…
New York. Archipelago Books. 2024. 208 pages.The title reverberates through each of the seven electrifying—mostly brief and one novella-length—selections in Maylis de Kerangal’s linke…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 360 pages.Rodrigo Fresán is skeptical about the merits of fiction featuring famed, long-dead authors. In a previous novel, his narrator describ…
New York. Hogarth. 2025. 112 pages.“Hunchback was my revenge,” the author Saou Ichikawa stated at the prestigious Akutagawa Prize award cere…
New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. 256 pages.Napalm in the Heart is an imaginative novel that provides a sketch of dystopia through letters, photographs, tally marks,…
London. Scribe. 2025. 480 pages.Located on the Austrian–Hungarian border, the eponymous village of Darkenbloom holds many secrets that over a few days in the summer of 1989 slowly beg…
New York. Knopf. 2024. 464 pages.After six years of eager anticipation, Haruki Murakami has finally delivered The City and Its Uncertain Walls. Picking up where Killing C…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2024. 223 pages. Angélica Lopes made a name for herself in Brazil as a journalist and soap opera screenwriter. She is also the author of a number of young a…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2024. 322 pages. Spanish writer Sergio del Molino won the Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2024 with Los alemanes. The title refers to Germans who had been living in Came…
Houston. Veliz. 2024. 146 pages. Late in Adriana Riva’s stirring debut novel, Ema, our narrator, arrives in her mother’s erstwhile hometown in provincial Argentina, where workers wil…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 272 pages. Ghostroots engages parallel worlds where one universe collapses into the other. The reader wanders the in-between, the liminal space where re…
New York. NRYB Classics. 2025. 162 pages. And now for something completely madcap. Or, how would you feel if a shower of heavy bolts from an ancient Soviet satellite fell at thirty…
Madrid. Alianza. 2024. 194 pages. Drawn in by its bright fuchsia façade, Pepa walks through the doors of Pasión Nails, a manicure salon in one of her hometown’s poor neighborho…
New York. New Directions. 2024. 194 pages. After winning the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose for the English translation of Chinatown, Nguyễn An Lý returns with a translatio…
Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2024. 174 pages. In this anthology, noted Choctaw scholar Devon A. Mihesuah offers a dozen tales combining people from history and legend as wel…
Brooklyn. Rossum Press. 2023. 194 pages. Shortlisted for the NIN literary award, among Serbia’s most prestigious, Milan Tripković’s postmodern mock-heroic skewers the corruption, vio…
New York. New Vessel Press. 2024. 199 pages. First published in France in 2023 and immediately nominated for the Goncourt, The Propagandist is a fist-in-your-face cautionary tale. A…
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2024. 352 pages. Billed as a postapocalyptic dystopian noir, Mevlido’s Dreams manifests flashes of multiple genres without ever fully comm…
San Antonio, Texas. Conocimientos Press. 2024. 168 pages. In Spanish there’s a well-known saying, Pueblo chico, infierno grande (Small town, large hell), a biting statement that appl…
London. Seagull Books. 2024. 160 pages. This extraordinary novel by fêted Haitian novelist and poet Makenzy Orcel is the second of his works to be translated into English by Haitian…
New York. World Editions. 2024. 228 pages. Dendrites marks Greek writer Kallia Papadaki’s third outing as a novelist but her first appearance in the anglophone world. Published in 20…