Hangzhou. China. Zhejiang Literature & Art Publishing House. 2022. 559 pages.WANG JIANG NAN (Memories of Jiang Nan) is claimed by Wang Xufeng, the laureate…
FICTION
New York. Dottir Press. 2022. 264 pages. QUAKE, THE FIRST of Icelandic author Auður Jónsdóttir’s novels to be translated into English, is an absorbing and disquieting j…
New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2022. 208 pages. THE NINE BLISTERING, sometimes fantastical short stories in exiled Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour’s first collection to appea…
Boston. Mariner Books. 2022. 400 pages. MAI AL-NAKIB’S debut novel, An Unlasting Home, circles around the complicated family legacy of her main character, Sara, an acad…
New York. Ballantine Books. 2022. 319 pages. ISABEL ALLENDE OPENS her novel Violeta with a quote from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2022. 192 pages. MOHSIN HAMID’S The Last White Man “spent two decades in gestation.” Written in response to Hamid’s experiences after the att…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2021. 226 pages. TOM MCCARTHY’S FIFTH novel can be seen as a sequel to his 2015 novel, Satin Island. The narrative of the new book is driven…
Lima. Seix Barral. 2021. 357 pages. A PROLIFIC FICTION writer, Karina Pacheco Medrano (b. 1969, Cuzco, Peru) is an important name in present-day Peruvian letters. The author of…
Paris. Philippe Rey. 2021. 448 pages. THE WINNER OF the 2021 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, is dedicated to Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017), the…
Oakland. Transit Books. 2021. 120 pages. MARIANA DIMÓPULOS’S NEW novel, set in her native Buenos Aires, prods the reader to consider what it means to be a woman. The story opens…
Tel Aviv. Zion. 2021. 434 pages. WHEN ZION’S FICTION was published in 2018, that groundbreaking anthology of Israeli speculative fiction in English was part of a wave o…
Cologne. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 2021. 224 pages. CHRISTIAN KRACHT’S EUROTRASH features the same narrator from his 1995 debut novel, Faserland, and…
Taipei. Rye Field. 2020. 315 pages. WANG ANYI IS one of China’s major contemporary novelists. Her novels span a wide range of themes, with the most notable being depicting the o…
New York. Europa. 2021. 176 pages. TRUST, DOMENICO STARNONE’S sleek novel of confidentiality and incipient blackmail, traces the lifelong consequences of the conflict of wills b…
Asheville, North Carolina. Orison Books. 2022. 188 pages. THIS STORY COLLECTION, Christopher Linforth’s third, powerfully probes the pain of those scarred by the Croat/Bosnian Serb W…
Gibsons, British Columbia. Nightwood Editions. 2021. 224 pages. EDMONTON HAD ANOTHER name for 118 Avenue, forgotten when the Albertan city shifted to a grid system; others call…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 180 pages. IT’S HARD NOT to become hooked by Ida Jessen’s stubbornness; her refusal to tidy things up for us. This sixty-year-old Danish author harb…
New York. HarperVia. 2021. 208 pages. SOSUKE NATSUKAWA’S lighthearted fantasy is a simple tale about a talking cat who challenges a bereaved teenager in Japan to find self-confi…
New York. Turtle Point Press. 2022. 173 pages. EDUARDO SÁNCHEZ RUGELES has had the misfortune of watching his country of origin, Venezuela, descend into an endless nightmare of polit…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 447 pages. AT THE TOP of the tallest mountain in the country, two women hold each other tight. Auður, the widowed housewife, is a prodigious mountain…
St. Louis. Dorothy Project. 2022. 280 pages. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE readers finally have the chance to enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mex…
Paris. Minuit. 2021. 140 pages. YVES RAVEY HAS been writing well-received novels and plays since 1989. His seventeenth novel demonstrates once again that he is one of the best living…
Barcelona. Alfaguara. 2021. 246 pages. PILAR QUINTANA HAS won the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2021 with Los abismos (The abysses). This highly coveted literar…
Toronto. Rare Machines. 2022. 286 pages. THE AWARD-WINNING Chinese Canadian author Xue Yiwei’s novel Celia, Misoka, I tells a story of immigrants in this great, globalized a…
Guangzhou. Flower Town Publishing. 2021. 306 pages. LIU ZHENYUN IS one of the more influential writers in contemporary Chinese literary circles. Along with Mo Yan, Yu Hua, and Su Ton…