Maureen Freely & John Angliss, tr. New York. Bloomsbury. 2015. ISBN 9781632860613Reckless is the latest novel by the award-winning Turkish writer Hasan Ali Toptas and the first of his boo…
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Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Sylvia Maizell, & Mariya Bashkatova, trs. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2015. ISBN 9781941920039 Mikhail Shishkin is a major figure in contemp…
Nurhayat Indriyatno Mohamed, tr. San Mateo, California. Dalang. 2014. ISBN 9780983627326.This English translation of popular Indonesian author Ahmad Tohari’s Bekisar Merah (2011) te…
Hanover, New Hampshire. Steerforth Press. 2015. ISBN 9781586422332.Katja Rudolph’s Evergreen Award–nominated first novel follows the Serb-Croat Andric family—journalist father, pianist mothe…
Don Bartlett, tr. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press. 2014. ISBN 9781555976996.I Refuse begins with the chance meeting of former best friends Jim and Tommy after thirty-five years. T…
New York. Little, Brown. 2015. ISBN 9780316338370Set amid the political instability of 1990s Nigeria, Chigozie Obioma’s first novel depicts the traumatic events that befall an Igbo family living…
Stanford, California. Redwoods Press. 2015. ISBN 9780804793254Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s third novel, The Woman Who Read Too Much, retells the life and martyrdom of the nineteenth-century Per…
Paris. Gallimard. 2015. ISBN 9782070148271.Le Méridional, Henri Lopes’s ninth novel, presents a fine portrayal of the life of an African long residing in France, narrated by a writer whose li…
New York. HarperCollins / Amistad. 2015. ISBN 9780062348135In his debut novel, God Loves Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger uses the 2010 earthquake in Haiti as the backdrop for a love triangle. A fl…
Daniel Bowles, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374175245The “imperium” of the title refers, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to Germany at the “global zenith of [its] influence…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374174248Throughout his work, Amitav Ghosh considers the ramifications of commercial, political, historical, and personal networks that span…
Ljouwert, Netherlands. Afûk. 2014. ISBN 9789062733910Some stories bring us up close to the wonder of the ordinary and enrich our sense of humanity. Some help us discover the peculiarities of bein…
David Brookshaw, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374129231.Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness tac…
New York. Scribner. 2015. ISBN 9781476784960There has always existed a need for a literature of important historical events, social movements, and political tragedies, and from it we hope to disc…
New York. HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 9780062409850Jean Louise (aka Scout) Finch is twenty-six years old and returns to Maycomb, Georgia, for her fifth annual jaunt home from New York City. Her father,…
Mbarek Sryfi & Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780815633693Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most noted writers of Morocco. He authored se…
Sara Khalili, tr. New York. W. W. Norton. 2015 (© 2013). ISBN 9780393063332 Goli Taraghi, a renowned Iranian female author, now in her seventies, has lived in Iran, the US, and France and ha…
Gorredijk, Netherlands. Bornmeer. 2014. ISBN 9789056153359 Friesland’s best-selling author has done it again; this time a collection of stories from survivors of the ill-advised and ill-fated att…
Paul Warham, tr. New York. Columbia University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780231171168.Nagasaki’s historical significance as a locus of Christianity in Japan and as the site of the second atomic bombing on Au…
Paris. Éditions du Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782021116199 In the fall of 2014, Lydie Salvayre’s novel Pas pleurer (Don’t cry) received the Prix Goncourt, winning in a field that included K…
Ari Larissa Heinrich, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177259.One cannot be qualified to make a specialist judgment on a work and also have no preconceptions about it. To be…
London / New York. And Other Stories. 2015. ISBN 9781908276445The Alphabet of Birds is a collection of seven short stories: four of them stand-alone narratives and the other three somewhat re…
Barcelona. Seix Barral. 2014. ISBN 9788432224157 In his ambitious new book, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina recounts two brief visits to Lisbon. One was his own, in the 1980s, researchin…
Ken Liu, tr. New York. Tor Books. 2014. ISBN 9780765377067In its opening pages, The Three-Body Problem plunges us into the Cultural Revolution. It is 1967. Ye Zhetai, a professor of theoretic…
Paris. Sabine Wespieser Éditeur. 2014. ISBN 9782848051178Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune chronicles the history of a family in rural Haiti over four-plus generations. Tertulian Mésidor’s ar…