New York. Grove. 2011. 350 pages. $24. isbn 978-0-8021-1981-0In July 2007 Aura Estrada, a promising Mexican writer studying in New York, sustained fatal neck injuries from bodysurfing off the Pacific…

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 978-2-8180-1337-3In a rural and agreeably timeless Japan, an uncle disappears—or rather evaporates—from his brother's home. Many years later, his nephew goes i…

Cairo. The American University in Cairo Press. 2011. xv + 433 pages. $39.95. ISBN 978-977-416-390-6Samia Mehrez has chosen to portray the literary life of Cairo in the last one hundred years by select…