New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374174248
Throughout his work, Amitav Ghosh considers the ramifications of commercial, political, historical, and personal networks that span the…
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Ljouwert, Netherlands. Afûk. 2014. ISBN 9789062733910 Some stories bring us up close to the wonder of the ordinary and enrich our sense of humanity. Some help us discover the peculiarities of being hu…
David Brookshaw, tr. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. ISBN 9780374129231. Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness tackles large iss…
New York. Scribner. 2015. ISBN 9781476784960 There has always existed a need for a literature of important historical events, social movements, and political tragedies, and from it we hope to discover…
New York. HarperCollins. 2015. ISBN 9780062409850 Jean Louise (aka Scout) Finch is twenty-six years old and returns to Maycomb, Georgia, for her fifth annual jaunt home from New York City. Her father,…
Mbarek Sryfi & Roger Allen, tr. Syracuse, New York. Syracuse University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780815633693 Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most noted writers of Morocco. He authored severa…
Sara Khalili, tr. New York. W. W. Norton. 2015 (© 2013). ISBN 9780393063332 Goli Taraghi, a renowned Iranian female author, now in her seventies, has lived in Iran, the US, and France and has written…
Gorredijk, Netherlands. Bornmeer. 2014. ISBN 9789056153359 Friesland’s best-selling author has done it again; this time a collection of stories from survivors of the ill-advised and ill-fated attempt…
Paul Warham, tr. New York. Columbia University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780231171168. Nagasaki’s historical significance as a locus of Christianity in Japan and as the site of the second atomic bombing on A…
Paris. Éditions du Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782021116199 In the fall of 2014, Lydie Salvayre’s novel Pas pleurer (Don’t cry) received the Prix Goncourt, winning in a field that included Kamel Daou…
Ari Larissa Heinrich, tr. New York. New York Review Books. 2014. ISBN 9781590177259. One cannot be qualified to make a specialist judgment on a work and also have no preconceptions about it. To be fra…
London / New York. And Other Stories. 2015. ISBN 9781908276445 The Alphabet of Birds is a collection of seven short stories: four of them stand-alone narratives and the other three somewhat r…
Barcelona. Seix Barral. 2014. ISBN 9788432224157 In his ambitious new book, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina recounts two brief visits to Lisbon. One was his own, in the 1980s, researching th…
Ken Liu, tr. New York. Tor Books. 2014. ISBN 9780765377067 In its opening pages, The Three-Body Problem plunges us into the Cultural Revolution. It is 1967. Ye Zhetai, a professor of theoreti…
Paris. Sabine Wespieser Éditeur. 2014. ISBN 9782848051178 Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune chronicles the history of a family in rural Haiti over four-plus generations. Tertulian Mésidor’s ardent…
New York. Hogarth. 2015. ISBN 9780553418521 Our imagination “takes what it knows from one set of experiences and sinks them into another to create some semblance of truth, bridge time.” This is exactl…
Arabella Spencer, tr. New York. New Vessel Press. 2014. ISBN 9781939931139 In an interview about her most recent novel, Ukrainian-born German-language author Marjana Gaponenko explained her authorial…
Ian Barnett, tr. London. And Other Stories. 2015. ISBN 9781908276506 Argentine political history is replete with truths stranger than most fictions. From the almost-religious populism of Perón, to a m…
Paris. Gallimard. 2015. ISBN 9782070147557 Gaston-Paul Effa, of Cameroonian origin, has lived for many years in France, where he teaches philosophy. He has published more than ten books, several on at…
Marilyn Booth, tr. San Francisco. City Lights Books. 2014. ISBN 9780872866232 Hassan Daoud, a prominent Lebanese short-story writer and novelist, was born in 1950 in southern Lebanon and moved as a ch…- Calvin McMillin, ed. Honolulu. University of Hawai`i Press. 2015. ISBN 9780824838928 As Calvin McMillin notes, and as longtime readers of Frank Chin’s work will realize, The Confessions of a Numbe…
Jonathan Reeder, tr. New York. Hogarth. 2014. ISBN 9780553417852 Do we control our fate or do the fates control us? That is the question that Dutch author Peter Buwalda examines in his entertaining no…
Toronto. Coach House Books. 2015. ISBN 9781552453056 Canadian writer André Alexis invents a modern Greek mythology in his 2015 novel Fifteen Dogs, bringing together prose and poetry, consciou…
Toronto / Berkeley, California. Random House Canada / Soft Skull Press. 2014. ISBN 9780307356345 / 9781593766139 In her second novel, Padma Viswanathan takes on a difficult subject—the 1985 bombing of…
Tess Lewis, tr. London. Haus (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9781908323491 For a writer born in Israel, living in Austria, and writing in German, it is not surprising that themes suc…