Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Algonquin. 2014. ISBN 9781616203214Recently widowed A. J. Fikry seems the last person on Alice Island to whom one would entrust a toddler named Maya. But he owns a bo…
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New York. The New Press. 2014. ISBN 9781595589620 Mercia Murray has been abandoned. Disposed of and dumped by her lover of twenty-four years. She attempts to make sense of a senseless act. A…
Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe, tr. New York. Penguin. 2013. ISBN 9780143106739 “The privilege I most treasured as a child was that of freedom,” says Hayri İrdal in The Time Re…
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky. Hard to Be a God. Olena Bormashenko, tr. Hari Kunzru, intro. Chicago. Chicago Review Press. 2014. ISBN 9781613748282———. Definitely Maybe: A…
Anastasia Maximova & Peter Bush, tr. London. MacLehose. 2013. ISBN 9780857051585Russian Stories is a collection of twenty-one short stories supposedly written by authors who, accordi…
Shaun Whiteside, tr. New York. Bloomsbury. 2014. ISBN 9781620403389Inge Lohmark teaches biology at a “gymnasium” in a backwater town in the remotest former East Germany, which, even more than mos…
Edward Gauvin, tr. Christophe Blain, ill. London / New York. SelfMadeHero / Abrams. 2014. ISBN 9781906838782Weapons of Mass Diplomacy demonstrates indisputably that a graphic novel can p…
New York. Dr. Cicero Books. 2014. ISBN 9780615917061John M. Keller’s The Box and the Briefcase, the Moleque and the Old Man and the First Coming of the Second Son of God is the latest in a lo…
Michelle Hartman, tr. Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2014. ISBN 9781566569620 Iman Humaydan is a Lebanese writer with two acclaimed novels to her credit, B as in Beirut and W…
Dhaka, Bangladesh. Daily Star Books. 2013. ISBN 9789849027195 Explicitly aware of Farah Ghuznavi’s famed pedigree and background as a development consultant for over two decades with the non…
Lanham, Maryland. Hamilton Books / Rowman & Littlefield. 2013. ISBN 9780761861744The secret of Rose-Anne Riley was that she had been raped in her youth by Philip Arlington, the brash only son…
New York. Hogarth. 2014. ISBN 9780804139090Ruby is a cluster of arresting stories and savory exchanges among the black inhabitants of a town named Liberty in East Texas. The stories crea…
Ann Goldstein, tr. San Francisco. McSweeney’s Books. 2014. ISBN 9781938073960 There are two novellas in this volume, either of which might easily stand on its own. Yet they complement each o…
New York. Riverhead. 2013. ISBN 9781594631719In 2008 the New Yorker published “The Idiot President,” a story unpublished in English that, according to Daniel Alarcón, had as a source the thea…
Barcelona. Anagrama. 2014. ISBN 9788433997715If “publish or perish” is an academic creed, Alejandro Zambra abides by “polish or perish.” The eleven narratives included under an ingenious title, which…
Brussels. Éditions M.E.O. 2014. ISBN 9782930702773 Twenty years ago, church historian Martin Marty and his accomplice Jerald C. Brauer, the late dean of the University of Chicago’s Divinity Schoo…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2013. ISBN 9781608199563 “In the land where Orwell was born, 1984 was never imaginary. In India it was real.” That year, Indira Gandhi was assassinated and anti-Sikh ri…
Bridgend, Wales. Seren Books. 2013. ISBN 9781781720516Inspired by the author’s family history, The Rice Paper Diaries recounts the experiences of Elsa, a Welsh woman in 1930s Hong Kong a…
Barcelona. Planeta. 2013. ISBN 9788408019619 Hot Sur, the latest book by Colombian novelist Laura Restrepo, contains all the ingredients of what could be considered a successful nov…
Craig Cravens, tr. New York. Bellevue Literary Press. 2014. ISBN 9781934137703 Czech author Magdaléna Platzová has written poems, two collections of short stories, three well-received plays,…
Frankfurt am Main. S. Fischer Verlag. 2013. ISBN 9783100488213In a new novel laced with autobiographical allusions, Monica Maron combines two highly distinct subjects into a successful work of thought…
Paris. Albin Michel. 2013. ISBN 9782226249678The title of Au revoir là-haut (Goodbye until we meet in heaven) comes from a letter written by a soldier just before his execution for treason in…
Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2014. ISBN 9781566569705First published in India in 2012, Tabish Khair’s latest novel—alive with wit and style from beginning to end—is set in Århus, Denmark. It…
Tomoko Aoyama & Paul McCarthy, tr. Fukuoka, Japan. Kurodahan Press. 2014. ISBN 9784902075670Oh, Tama! is a study of parallel lives. At its center is the character Natsuyuki, an erstwhile…
Lima / Madrid. Alfaguara. 2013 (©2012). ISBN 9786123090739 / 9788420414140Jorge Eduardo Benavides is a Peruvian writer who, like Santiago Roncagliolo and Fernando Iwasaki, left his homeland in th…