André Alexis Days by Moonlight Coach House Books  From the winner of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize, Days by Moonlight offers an unflinching account of the intrinsic…

Jokha Alharthi Celestial Bodies Trans. Marilyn Booth Sandstone Press Celestial Bodies is the story of three sisters whose lives stretch across a period of great soci…

Rae Armantrout Wobble Wesleyan University Press Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and California native Rae Armantrout’s provocative collection of poetry, Wobble, was a no…

100 Great Indian Poems Ed. Abhay K. Bloomsbury Abhay K., a poet whose work has been published and translated into over thirty different languages, curates a literary tour of cultural values a…

Ahilan Then There Were No Witnesses Trans. Geetha Sukumaran Mawenzi House The Tamil poetry of Sri Lanka is a blend of past and present, telling of the cruelties and splendors of modernity and…

Shaheen Akhtar The Search Trans. Ella Dutta Zubaan Awarded the Prothom Alo literary prize in 2004, this novel of the struggles, traumas, and survival of Bangladeshi women ask…

Nathacha Appanah Waiting for Tomorrow Trans. Geoffrey Strachan Graywolf Press While Anita waits for her husband to get out of prison, she reexamines the idyllic marriage they used to lead in…

Kazim Ali Inquisition Wesleyan University Press Kazim Ali’s collection of eclectic poems examines the many facets of identity expected to arise during such a reflective eponymous activity. Bo…

Guido Maria Brera & Edoardo Nesi Everything Is Broken Up and Dances Trans. Antony Shugaar Other Press Brera, an investment banker, and Nesi, a former business owner turne…

Rana Abdulfattah   Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments Palewell Press   Tiger and Clay: Syria Fragments combines poetry and prose to tell the story of Rana Abdulfattah,…

Tamim Al-Barghouti In Jerusalem and Other Poems Trans. Radwa Ashour Interlink Books A Palestinian-Egyptian poet whose readings have drawn crowds by the thousands and filled the screens of Ta…

David Bergen Stranger The Overlook Press Canadian writer David Bergen’s Stranger follows a Guatemalan woman who carves a path to the United States through a hostile…

Diane Glancy The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East Resource A volume that can be read as an expansion of The World Is One Place (see bel…

Alfred H. Mendes: Short Stories, Articles and Letters Ed. Michèle Levy The University of the West Indies Press This volume provides a crucial glimpse into the literary development of one of T…

Best European Fiction 2017 Ed. Nathaniel Davis Dalkey Archive Press Prefaced by an explanatory essay by Eileen Battersby, Best European Fiction 2017 offers readers a one-stop tour of…

Marjorie Agosín The White Islands / Las Islas Blancas Trans. Jacqueline Nanfito Swan Isle Press  This bilingual edition of verse is a triumph of the imagination as Chilean-born Marjorie Agosí…

João Almino Enigmas of Spring Trans. Rhett McNeil Dalkey Archive Press Enigmas of Spring follows a young Brazilian man’s journey from his home to Spain where his restlessness and lac…

Aharon Appelfeld Adam and Thomas Trans. Jeffrey M. Green. Illus. Philippe Dumas Seven Stories Press Two nine-year-old Jewish boys survive alone in the forest during the harsh last winter of W…

Raif Badawi 1,000 Lashes: Because I Say What I Think Trans. Ahmed Danny Ramadan Greystone Books Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, winner of the 2015 PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage Award,…

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On Diane Oatley, tr. Seagull Books This tragic novel follows the traumas and joys of a family torn apart by the death o…

The Distant Marvels Chantel Acevedo Europa Editions  Steeped in the history and culture of Cuba, this novel is a story within a story. Set in 1963, during the danger of Hurri…

Learning Cyrillic David Albahari. Ellen Elias-Bursac, tr. Dalkey Archive David Albahari’s collection of twenty short stories detailing the experience of living as an immigran…

Be the First to Like This Colin Waters, ed.  Vagabond Voices An eclectic collection of the zany and wonderful, Be the First to Like This explores the diverse array o…

Kei Erni Aladjai. Nurhayat Indriyatno Mohamed, tr. Dalang The lives of two people from opposing backgrounds on the Indonesian island of Kei intertwine during the vi…

A Country in Mind Saskia Beudel UWA Publishing The Australian Outback is depicted with such gorgeous language in Beudel’s book that it almost feels as though you’re seeing it…