Michael F. Moore, tr. New York. Other Press. 2014. ISBN 9781590516812
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Doral, Florida. Alfaguara. 2014. ISBN 9781622639403 Jorge Franco studied filmmaking before turning his talents to fiction writing. He has produced six novels and a book of short stories. Although he…
Wien. Styria Premium. 2014. ISBN 9783222134081 In this year of memories, when historical studies and new evaluations of the circumstances leading to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 abound, a histo…
Budapest. Magvető. 2014. ISBN 9789631431964 László Darvasi (aka Ernő Szív) is a Hungarian prose writer whose fiction has entertained at least two generations of readers. His grand novel, Virágzabá…
Nice. Éditions Rod. 2014. ISBN 9791093467023 Mehdi Dadsetan’s semi-autobiographical second novel, La danse des ombres (The dance of shadows), tells the story of Saïd, an Iranian political re…
Anna Heath, tr. London. Berforts Information Press. 2014. ISBN 9781908616739 This anthology of contemporary Peruvian short fiction, beginning in the 1950s, is comprised of eight short stories by well…
Dublin. Liberties Press. 2014. ISBN 9781909718340 I love the ocean. I love the sea. I love the sounds, smells, and sights that abound when one sits on the beach looking out to sea. For a landlubber w…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Black Lawrence Press. 2014. ISBN 9781937854959 After publishing several novels, a volume of essays, and over two hundred short stories in literary journals and anthologies—wi…
Katy Derbyshire, tr. London. Seagull Books (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9780857421869 Dedicated to her husband on their anniversary, Christa Wolf’s final story tenderly relays the…
Ljouwert, Netherlands. Friese Pers. 2013. ISBN 9789033004223 The reader of this debut novel will be surprised to get two stories for the price of one. Author Ale S. Van Zandbergen is indeed off to an…
Madrid / Bogotá. Alfaguara. 2013. ISBN 9788420415574 / 9789587586008 Colombian author Fernando Vallejo (b. 1942, Medellín) is currently in a privileged position within the world of literature written…
Lima. Alfaguara. 2013. ISBN 9786123090999 Raúl Tola is one of Peru’s most respected print and television journalists; in addition, he is an accomplished fiction writer, as his third novel, Flores…
Budapest. Magvető. 2014. ISBN 9789631431667 László Szilasi’s novel Szentek hárfája (see WLT, Jan. 2011, 68) was largely about the history of his hometown, Békéscsaba, in southeastern…
Michael F. Moore, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177235 Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) is a writer who deserves to be more widely read than he is these days. The author of countl…
New York. Knopf. 2014. ISBN 9780307266385 The temptation to use the term “ripped from the headlines” is strong, but this remarkably moving novel about the kidnapping of thirty African girls predates r…
Sue Branford, tr. London. Latin American Bureau. 2013. ISBN 9781899365777 In Bernardo Kucinski’s novel K, an elderly man searches for his adult daughter, a political militant who vanishes at…
Michael M. Naydan, ed. London. Glagoslav. 2014. ISBN 9781909156012 The common thread that unites the diverse works of fiction presented in Herstories is that they were all written by Ukrainia…
Clarissa Botsford, tr. London / New York. And Other Stories. 2014. ISBN 9781908276346 Sworn Virgin, winner of the English PEN Award, highlights the consequences of a little-known cultural pr…
Paris. Gallimard. 2014. ISBN 9782070146284 In his third novel, Ousmane Diarra (who works as a librarian in Bamako) describes the disasters caused by the Islamic fundamentalists who have attempted to…
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France. Cheyne. 2014. ISBN 9782841161973 Marie Cosnay’s latest novel, like many of her other books, involves a quest for origins, as a young woman named Helen searches for her…
Iowa City. Rescue Press (SPD, distr.). 2013. ISBN 9780988587335 One aspiration of many writers is to maintain a comical thread throughout a serious work. Jonathan Blum is just such a writer. In his de…
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Algonquin. 2014. ISBN 9781616203214 Recently widowed A. J. Fikry seems the last person on Alice Island to whom one would entrust a toddler named Maya. But he owns a bookst…
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. After almo…
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 Regulation Insti…
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 Man…