Anastasia Maximova & Peter Bush, tr. London. MacLehose. 2013. ISBN 9780857051585
Russian Stories is a collection of twenty-one short stories supposedly written by authors who, according t…
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Shaun Whiteside, tr. New York. Bloomsbury. 2014. ISBN 9781620403389 Inge Lohmark teaches biology at a “gymnasium” in a backwater town in the remotest former East Germany, which, even more than most of…
Edward Gauvin, tr. Christophe Blain, ill. London / New York. SelfMadeHero / Abrams. 2014. ISBN 9781906838782 Weapons of Mass Diplomacy demonstrates indisputably that a graphic novel can provi…
New York. Dr. Cicero Books. 2014. ISBN 9780615917061 John 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 l…
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 Wild…
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 nongovernmen…
Lanham, Maryland. Hamilton Books / Rowman & Littlefield. 2013. ISBN 9780761861744 The secret of Rose-Anne Riley was that she had been raped in her youth by Philip Arlington, the brash only son of…
New York. Hogarth. 2014. ISBN 9780804139090 Ruby is a cluster of arresting stories and savory exchanges among the black inhabitants of a town named Liberty in East Texas. The stories create a…
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 other in c…
New York. Riverhead. 2013. ISBN 9781594631719 In 2008 the New Yorker published “The Idiot President,” a story unpublished in English that, according to Daniel Alarcón, had as a source the the…
Barcelona. Anagrama. 2014. ISBN 9788433997715 If “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 School, w…
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 riots escal…
Bridgend, Wales. Seren Books. 2013. ISBN 9781781720516 Inspired by the author’s family history, The Rice Paper Diaries recounts the experiences of Elsa, a Welsh woman in 1930s Hong Kong at th…
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 novel: a ser…
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, a book f…
Frankfurt am Main. S. Fischer Verlag. 2013. ISBN 9783100488213 In a new novel laced with autobiographical allusions, Monica Maron combines two highly distinct subjects into a successful work of though…
Paris. Albin Michel. 2013. ISBN 9782226249678 The 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 i…
Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink. 2014. ISBN 9781566569705 First published in India in 2012, Tabish Khair’s latest novel—alive with wit and style from beginning to end—is set in Århus, Denmark. I…
Tomoko Aoyama & Paul McCarthy, tr. Fukuoka, Japan. Kurodahan Press. 2014. ISBN 9784902075670 Oh, Tama! is a study of parallel lives. At its center is the character Natsuyuki, an erstwhile…
Lima / Madrid. Alfaguara. 2013 (©2012). ISBN 9786123090739 / 9788420414140 Jorge Eduardo Benavides is a Peruvian writer who, like Santiago Roncagliolo and Fernando Iwasaki, left his homeland in the ea…
Camilla Stein, ed. Jim Dingley, tr. London. Glagoslav. 2013. ISBN 9781782670766 Natalka Babina’s Down Among the Fishes has all the charm of a bad adventure novel. Any aspirations of literary…
New York. Knopf. 2013. ISBN 9780307961716 Moving among the sensuous gardens, Christian and Muslim schools, contested mosques and villages, and scarred battlefields of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where j…
New York. Henry Holt / Macmillan. 2013. ISBN 9780805097450 “But did any of it make him an asshole?” That is the question. Notably, it is the question posed by protagonist Nate Piven to Nate Piven. I s…
Rosalind Harvey, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2014. ISBN 9780374533953 Continuing the exploration of Mexico that began in Down the Rabbit Hole, Quesadillas searches for…