Adriana Hunter, tr. New York. Other Press. 2011. 231 pages. $11.95. isbn 978-1-59051-399-6
There are many things to like in this smart, droll, finely crafted novel—and not least the sleek narrative s…
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- Thomas Teal, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2011. 120 pages. $14. isbn 978-1-59017-378-7 Were it possible to measure novels in decibels, as though the action left some sonic footprint on the wo…
- Kim Thompson, tr. Seattle, Washington. Fantagraphics (W. W. Norton, distr.). 2010. 96 pages, ill. $24.99. isbn 978-1-60699-382-8 Caught somewhere on the structural continuum between the comic book an…
- Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi & Victoria Offredi Poletto, tr. Bloomington. Indiana University Press. 2011. 264 pages. $22.95. isbn 978-0-253-22296-1 Cristina Ali Farah, born of a Somali father and a…
- Arthur B. Evans et al., eds. Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. 2010. xviii + 767 pages. $39.95. isbn 978-0-8195-6955-4 Readers who know science fiction (sf) largely from movies, tel…
- Munich. Carl Hanser. 2010. 331 pages. €21.90. isbn 978-3-446-23562-5 The title of Was davor geschah refers to the narrator's response to his new girlfriend's question, "What went on before I…
- Peter Bush, tr. Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2011. ISBN 9781934824191 In "Family Life," the opening story to Quim Monzó's newly translated collection of stories, a little boy—fearing a ritual di…
- New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2011. ISBN 9780374174231 Throughout his work, Amitav Ghosh writes with a global perspective, evident not only in the range of locations and variety of character…
- Edward Gauvin, tr. Atlanta, Georgia. Top Shelf. 2011. ISBN 9781603090735 Ludovic Debeurme's Lucille is an entrancing addition to the library of contemporary bande dessinée available to Engli…
- New York. Knopf. 2011. ISBN 9780307957122 When it comes to contemporary British fiction, I've always been more of a Martin Amis man than a Julian Barnes one. However, after reading Barnes's latest Ma…
- William M. Hutchins, tr. Cairo. The American University in Cairo Press (Oxford University Press, distr.). 2011. ISBN 9789774164620 Fadhil al-Azzawi (b. 1940), an Iraqi author of several novels and po…
- New York. Grove. 2011. 350 pages. $24. isbn 978-0-8021-1981-0 In July 2007 Aura Estrada, a promising Mexican writer studying in New York, sustained fatal neck injuries from bodysurfing off the Pacifi…
- The Ghostwriter. Alice Copple-Tošić, tr. Belgrade, Serbia. Zavod za udžbenike. 2009. 892 pages. RSD1895. isbn 978-86-17-16436-0 The Five Wonders of the Danube…
- Paris. P.O.L. 2011. 329 pages. €19. ISBN 978-2-8180-1337-3 In a rural and agreeably timeless Japan, an uncle disappears—or rather evaporates—from his brother's home. Many years later, his nephew goes…
- Cairo. The American University in Cairo Press. 2011. xv + 433 pages. $39.95. ISBN 978-977-416-390-6 Samia Mehrez has chosen to portray the literary life of Cairo in the last one hundred years by sele…