New York. Other Press. 2015 (© 2011). 384 pages.This edition is a movie tie-in re-release of the 2011 translation and features artwork on the cover with the faces of Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and…
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New York. Europa Editions. 2016. 160 pages.How do we make sense of changes in others that upset the ways we understand ourselves? This question hangs over Sergio Y., a slim novel from Brazil…
New York. SoHo Press. 2016. 208 pages.In Fuminori Nakamura’s The Gun, this master of Hitchcockian noir builds on the style and plotting that made his recent The Thief and Evil an…
New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2015. 148 pages. Thirty years after it happened, the protagonist of this haunting novel recounts how, one winter night, when he was not quite twenty…
Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2016. 157 pages. Seeing Red, by Chilean writer Lina Meruane, is an exemplary autobiographical novel. At a party in New York City, the main character, Lina, su…
Montreal. Mémoire d’encrier. 2015. 299 pages.Tout ce qu’on ne te dira pas, Mongo (Everything they won’t tell you, Mongo) is Dany Laferrière’s first new book since his induction into the Acadé…
London. Glagoslav. 2015. 335 pages. Jewish Ukrainian author Margarita Khemlin’s final novel, The Investigator, was released in English translation just months before her untimel…
Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2016. 163 pages.A writer once told me that each work of fiction teaches you how to read its world. The novel A Contrived World is at once a world and no…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2016. 250 pages. Christos Ikonomou’s award-winning second collection, Something Will Happen, You’ll See, is a thoughtful glimpse into the flawed a…
New York. Hogarth. 2016. 192 pages. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a taut novel that tells the story of two sisters—Yeong-hye and In-hye—and their marriages. Told in three parts, each a no…
New York. Europa Editions. 2016. 133 pages. The Man Who Snapped His Fingers tells the story of a colonel from the inner circle of the Iranian supreme commander who now lives in another c…
Miami. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. 2015. 250 pages. Chilean writer Carla Guelfenbein’s Contigo en la distancia is the 2015 winner of the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize. The…
Los Angeles. Unnamed Press. 2015. 133 pages.Well known for The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner(1976), a magnificent novel about identity and belonging, Peruvian novelist Isaac…
New York. Europa Editions. 2015. 210 pages. In her latest book, French novelist Anna Gavalda brings together two novellas exploring the young, restless, and downtrodden on the edge of a breakthro…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2016. 272 pages.The present, in part, is the continuous rewriting of past and future—the modification of historical narratives to suit a particular message or goal. In his n…
Manchester. Comma Press. 2015. 218 pages. A collection of nine short stories, Points of Origin is the first volume of Shenyang writer Diao Dou’s work to appear in English. Born…
Paris. Grasset. 2015. 396 & 382 pages.As if she were a manic, female counterpart to Michel Houellebecq, Virginie Despentes’s novels overflow with violence, second-wave feminism, and restlessness t…
Montreal. Lévesque éditeur. 2015. 141 pages.Xavier-Nicolas, the narrator of this idiosyncratic novel, used to be a district attorney in French-speaking Canada. When he prosecutes top-ranking members o…
Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2015. 235 pages.Jordanian author Hisham Bustani has a new book adeptly translated from Arabic into English—a set of fascinating experimental works that N…
Brooklyn. Melville House. 2016. 196 pages.Serge Brussolo is largely unknown in the English-speaking world; The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome is the first of his books to be translated into Englis…
Paris. Grasset. 2015. 494 pages.In 2010 Laurent Binet published a very promising first novel, HHhH, which recounted the 1942 assassination of Nazi general Reinhard Heydrich by Czech resistanc…
Ljouwert, Netherlands. Elikser Uitgeverij. 2015. 311 pages.In 2010 Koos Tiemersma intimated that Under Water would be his last published novel. Fortunately, and to the delight of his apprecia…
New York. New Directions. 2015. 220 pages.This “novel” is published in tandem with A Brief History of Portable Literature, the 1985 prose work that brought Enrique Vila-Matas sustained p…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 2016. 250 pages. Mattis, the protagonist of Norwegian Tarjei Vesaas’s 1957 novel The Birds, surely deserves a place among the cadre of unforgettable characte…
New York. Simon & Schuster. 2015. 359 pages. “Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope—but not for us.” This quote from Franz Kafka kicks off Australian Steve Toltz’s Quicksand…