New York. Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793
The Orphan Master’s Son follows Jun Do, a man searching for identity while succumbing to the impulsive and oppressive whims of the North Kore…
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- New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958310 In his second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Mohammed Hanif explores the relationships among caste, gender, and religion in modern Pakistan through…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374222642 Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel adds to the growing body of literature expressing discontent with the social, economic, and political con…
- Montréal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2012. ISBN 9781770460652 As the graphic novel has developed as a form globally over the twentieth century, one expectation it has rarely been able to shed is length. E…
- Paris. Gallimard. 2012. ISBN 9782070134816 Libar Fofana, whose father was imprisoned and tortured in one of Sékou Touré’s prisons, escaped from Guinea in 1976, when he was seventeen. After working in…
- Randall A. Major, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2012. ISBN 9781934824580 The Cyclist Conspiracy, Svetislav Basara’s second novel to be translated into English (expertly by Randall A.…
- Imre Goldstein, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374229764 Péter Nádas’s monumental, labyrinthine novel, Parallel Stories, is the first of his works of fiction not wr…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374108991 The Barbarian Nurseries is the Great American Novel for our “messy and complicated present.” The Torres-Thompson household live…
- Bogdan Rakić & John Jeffries, trs. Belgrade, Serbia. Geopoetika. 2011. ISBN 9788661450709 With Farewell Gift, Vladimir Tasić has written a concerto. Like a musical composition, his short…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf. 2012. ISBN 9781555976026 Already an established young talent in the United Kingdom for writing London and the South-East and The Innocent, David Sza…
- Montréal. XYZ. 2011. ISBN 9782892616040 In the early decades of the twentieth century, a number of devastating forest fires swept through northern Ontario, leaving behind a lasting legacy of loss, leg…
- Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609667 This is the third novel by the award-winning Moroccan writer Bensalem Himmich that Roger Allen has translated.…
- New York. Knopf. 2012. ISBN 9780307958709 One of the most intriguing things about Nathan Englander’s stories is the element of surprise. Even if I think I know where the tale is going, it’s probably n…
- Helen Mitsios, ed. Pico Iyer, intro. Boston. Cheng & Tsui. 2011. ISBN 9780887277924 In 1991 the gods of publishing granted fiction lovers a boon: two anthologies of newly translated contemporary J…
- Jamie Bulloch, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. ISBN 9780374533298 “Walk, young lady, walk if you want to walk . . .” So begins the narrative journey of this elegant 2006 nov…
- Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. Easthampton, Mass. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520317 Since the publication in 1912 of its first tale of the fantastic, “La cena” by Alfonso Rey…
- Samuel Salter, Zahra Jishi, and Rafah Abuinnab, trs. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780815609919 A prolific writer with nearly thirty novels and short-story collections to…
- Easthampton, Massachusetts. Small Beer Press. 2011. ISBN 9781931520294 Look on the back cover of Maureen F. McHugh’s new collection of stories, After the Apocalypse, and you’ll find a list of…
- Minneapolis, Minnesota. Coffee House. 2012. ISBN 9781566892957 The Last Warner Woman features compelling settings, masterful story-tellers, a mystery, colorful characters, and language that r…
- Shaun Whiteside, tr. New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 9780307273550 Like many recent thrillers, Sorry weaves a lurid tale of multigenerational pedophilia and consequences that include two grotesqu…
- OsamaHornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631922 Gorel and the Pot-Bellied GodHornsea, England. PS Publishing. 2011. ISBN 9781848631588 Cloud PermutationsHo…
- New York. Vertigo. 2011. ISBN 9781401229696 Daytripper is the rarest of graphic novels—a work meeting all the expectations of great literature that somehow emerged from the grinding gears of the Amer…
- José Francisco Fernández, ed. New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0547550404 The fourteen stories in A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman are arranged chronologically from 19…
- Karen Gernant & Chen Zeping, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2011. ISBN 9781934824375 In just a few short years, Open Letter Books, based out of the University of Rochester, has quite impre…
- New York. Black Lawrence. 2009 (rel. 2010). 191 pages. $16. isbn 978-0-9815899-5-4 "The link between butterflies and dreams is poorly understood." So begins the title story of this wry and witty coll…