Barcelona. Galaxia Gutenberg. 2015. ISBN 9788416252206
París D.F., Roberto Wong’s first novel, won the Premio Dos Passos first novel prize in October 2014. The thirty-two-year-old Mexican-bor…
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New York. W.W. Norton. 2015. ISBN 9780393077803. When someone who holds a reputation as a literary writer publishes a crime novel, mystery writers grimace. Too often the novel originated in a misbegot…
Mary Kitroeff, tr. New York. Europa Editions. 2015. ISBN 9781609452452 In her English-language debut, Greek novelist Fotini Tsalikoglou explores the spaces between the past and the future through an i…
Maureen Freely & John Angliss, tr. New York. Bloomsbury. 2015. ISBN 9781632860613 Reckless is the latest novel by the award-winning Turkish writer Hasan Ali Toptas and the first of his bo…
Marian Schwartz, Leo Shtutin, Sylvia Maizell, & Mariya Bashkatova, trs. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2015. ISBN 9781941920039 Mikhail Shishkin is a major figure in contemporary Russian literature…
Nurhayat Indriyatno Mohamed, tr. San Mateo, California. Dalang. 2014. ISBN 9780983627326. This English translation of popular Indonesian author Ahmad Tohari’s Bekisar Merah (2011) tells the s…
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 mother, teenag…
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. The n…
New York. Little, Brown. 2015. ISBN 9780316338370 Set amid the political instability of 1990s Nigeria, Chigozie Obioma’s first novel depicts the traumatic events that befall an Igbo family living in t…
Stanford, California. Redwoods Press. 2015. ISBN 9780804793254 Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s third novel, The Woman Who Read Too Much, retells the life and martyrdom of the nineteenth-century Persian…
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 l…
New York. HarperCollins / Amistad. 2015. ISBN 9780062348135 In his debut novel, God Loves Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger uses the 2010 earthquake in Haiti as the backdrop for a love triangle. A f…
Daniel Bowles, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374175245 The “imperium” of the title refers, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, to Germany at the “global zenith of [its] influence” ar…
New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374174248 Throughout his work, Amitav Ghosh considers the ramifications of commercial, political, historical, and personal networks that span the…
Ljouwert, Netherlands. Afûk. 2014. ISBN 9789062733910 Some stories bring us up close to the wonder of the ordinary and enrich our sense of humanity. Some help us discover the peculiarities of being hu…
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 tackles large iss…
New York. Scribner. 2015. ISBN 9781476784960 There has always existed a need for a literature of important historical events, social movements, and political tragedies, and from it we hope to discover…
New York. HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 9780062409850 Jean 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 9780815633693 Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most noted writers of Morocco. He authored severa…
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 has written…
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 attempt…
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 A…
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 Kamel Daou…
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 fra…
London / New York. And Other Stories. 2015. ISBN 9781908276445 The Alphabet of Birds is a collection of seven short stories: four of them stand-alone narratives and the other three somewhat r…