God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels. London. Zed Books. 2016. 494 pages.
The Hidden Face of Eve. London. Zed Books. 2015. 368 pages.
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Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2016 (©2015). 256 pages. In this third novel, Anuradha Roy explores the lingering trauma of childhood sexual abuse in the psyche of a young Nomita. Nomi, a child victim of…
New York. Europa Editions. 2016. 370 pages. Given that Francesca Melandri’s novel Eva Sleeps has received such critical acclaim in Italy, it is no surprise that a narrative with such far-reac…
New York. Hogarth. 2016. 320 pages. Eimear McBride’s first novel, 2014’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, immediately established the Irish writer as one of the most ambitious and unique voices…
Rochester, NY. Open Letter. 2016. 260 pages. If one of us is sleeping, is the other one awake? Might Danish author Josefine Klougart’s English-language debut be a luminous waking dream? The cryptic…
London. OneWorld (distr. Publishers Group West/Canada). 2016. 288 pages. The English translation of Umami, by Laia Jufresa, is a thoughtful, eccentric, and heart-wrenching interwoven story to…
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 2016. 145 pages. In “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers, the performer sings “I know” a remarkable one hundred-plus times. Surprisingly, the repetition of these l…
Madrid. Hispabooks. 2016. 200 pages. Landing is a multifaceted book, written under two simple chapter headings, “Her” and “Him,” alternately throughout the book. These chapters develop the in…
San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2016. 532 pages. Zlata, a Siamese twin conjoined at the head to her sister, Srebra, is the unlikely protagonist of Macedonian writer Lidija Dimkovska’s remarkable novel…
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 160 pages. When tourists visit the island of Mauritius, located off the east coast of Africa, they see gorgeous beaches and luxury hotels and not the hopelessness and…
New York. The Feminist Press. 2016. 248 pages. An aging punk named Gloria comes face to face with her own past in Virginie Despentes’s latest novel, Bye Bye Blondie, but her destructive roman…
New York. Archipelago Books. 2016. 494 pages. In The First Wife, Paulina Chiziane, the first Mozambican woman to publish a novel, writes from the perspective of Rami, who is Tony’s only wife—…
New York. Anchor Books. 2016. 379 pages. Eileen Chang is undoubtedly one of the most influential writers in modern Chinese literature. Born in Shanghai in 1920, she later moved to America and passed a…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2016. 128 pages. A Greater Music is another addition to a growing body of literature that explores the idea that human sexuality is more pliable and fluid th…
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 176 pages. One Hundred Twenty-One Days, the debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin, is truly the sum of its parts. Each of the chapters…
Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2016. 248 pages. Can horrific psychic wounds from wartime ever really heal? Can one merely will oneself to forget? These are the major themes explored in this ne…
Oakland, California. PM Press. 2016. 274 pages. It is said that historians provide accuracy while artists provide truth, which can be best illustrated by the novel Damnificados. According to…
Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press. 2016. 338 pages. The Mexican Flyboy reads like a surrealist dream: it is a fairy tale for adults, a novel where clairvoyant superheroes (Mandra…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2016. 314 pages. Mario Vargas Llosa’s latest novel is as much a psychological thriller as it is a compelling portrait of power and corruption in Peru’s recent political history. Set…
New York. Verso Books. 2016. 164 pages. Zeno Hintermeier is named for the founder of Stoicism, a central tenet of which is that we should live in accord with nature and that we should promote moral pr…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2016. 177 pages. On March 30, 1924, on what was known in England as Mothering Sunday—the day servants were given off to visit their mothers—Jane Fairchild, an orphan and hou…
Dingwall, UK. Sandstone Press. 2016. 307 pages. In 1947 India and Pakistan gained their independence from England and from each other. Millions fled from one side to the other to escape the violence;…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uncivilized Books. 2016. 186 pages. Through a series of vignettes depicting the personal life and sexual escapades of Julius Mordecai Pincas (Pascin), French cartoonist Joann S…
London. Istros Books. 2016. 193 pages. When a trauma as perverse, crushing, and searing as the extended, violent breakup of one’s nation occurs, it can take the most sensitive of souls a generation or…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2015. 493 pages. When news stories of low wages and mounting student debt are reported side-by-side with reality TV stars and wealthy elites, it almost seems that we are i…