Boston. Mariner Books. 2022. 400 pages.
MAI AL-NAKIB’S debut novel, An Unlasting Home, circles around the complicated family legacy of her main character, Sara, an academic w…
FICTION
New York. Ballantine Books. 2022. 319 pages. ISABEL ALLENDE OPENS her novel Violeta with a quote from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and…
New York. Riverhead Books. 2022. 192 pages. MOHSIN HAMID’S The Last White Man “spent two decades in gestation.” Written in response to Hamid’s experiences after the attacks o…
New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 2021. 226 pages. TOM MCCARTHY’S FIFTH novel can be seen as a sequel to his 2015 novel, Satin Island. The narrative of the new book is driven from t…
Lima. Seix Barral. 2021. 357 pages. A PROLIFIC FICTION writer, Karina Pacheco Medrano (b. 1969, Cuzco, Peru) is an important name in present-day Peruvian letters. The author of acclai…
Paris. Philippe Rey. 2021. 448 pages. THE WINNER OF the 2021 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, is dedicated to Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017), the Malian writer wh…
Oakland. Transit Books. 2021. 120 pages. MARIANA DIMÓPULOS’S NEW novel, set in her native Buenos Aires, prods the reader to consider what it means to be a woman. The story opens with…
Tel Aviv. Zion. 2021. 434 pages. WHEN ZION’S FICTION was published in 2018, that groundbreaking anthology of Israeli speculative fiction in English was part of a wave of spec…
Cologne. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. 2021. 224 pages. CHRISTIAN KRACHT’S EUROTRASH features the same narrator from his 1995 debut novel, Faserland, and in fac…
Taipei. Rye Field. 2020. 315 pages. WANG ANYI IS one of China’s major contemporary novelists. Her novels span a wide range of themes, with the most notable being depicting the ordinar…
New York. Europa. 2021. 176 pages. TRUST, DOMENICO STARNONE’S sleek novel of confidentiality and incipient blackmail, traces the lifelong consequences of the conflict of wills between…
Asheville, North Carolina. Orison Books. 2022. 188 pages. THIS STORY COLLECTION, Christopher Linforth’s third, powerfully probes the pain of those scarred by the Croat/Bosnian Serb Wa…
Gibsons, British Columbia. Nightwood Editions. 2021. 224 pages. EDMONTON HAD ANOTHER name for 118 Avenue, forgotten when the Albertan city shifted to a grid system; others call it the…
Brooklyn. Archipelago Books. 180 pages. IT’S HARD NOT to become hooked by Ida Jessen’s stubbornness; her refusal to tidy things up for us. This sixty-year-old Danish author harbors no…
New York. HarperVia. 2021. 208 pages. SOSUKE NATSUKAWA’S lighthearted fantasy is a simple tale about a talking cat who challenges a bereaved teenager in Japan to find self-confidence…
New York. Turtle Point Press. 2022. 173 pages. EDUARDO SÁNCHEZ RUGELES has had the misfortune of watching his country of origin, Venezuela, descend into an endless nightmare of politi…
Seattle. Amazon Crossing. 2022. 447 pages. AT THE TOP of the tallest mountain in the country, two women hold each other tight. Auður, the widowed housewife, is a prodigious mountain w…
St. Louis. Dorothy Project. 2022. 280 pages. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE readers finally have the chance to enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mexico’s…
Paris. Minuit. 2021. 140 pages. YVES RAVEY HAS been writing well-received novels and plays since 1989. His seventeenth novel demonstrates once again that he is one of the best living…
Barcelona. Alfaguara. 2021. 246 pages. PILAR QUINTANA HAS won the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize for 2021 with Los abismos (The abysses). This highly coveted literary reco…
Toronto. Rare Machines. 2022. 286 pages. THE AWARD-WINNING Chinese Canadian author Xue Yiwei’s novel Celia, Misoka, I tells a story of immigrants in this great, globalized ag…
Guangzhou. Flower Town Publishing. 2021. 306 pages. LIU ZHENYUN IS one of the more influential writers in contemporary Chinese literary circles. Along with Mo Yan, Yu Hua, and Su Tong…
Oakland, California. PM Press. 2021. 320 pages. NAZARÉ IS AN incantation, an allegory, and a prophecy. With imaginative and ornate linguistic skills, and a brutal naturalism…
New Delhi. Fourth Estate. 2021. 185 pages. IN HER FIRST collection of fiction, The House Next to the Factory, Sonal Kohli brings us very close to her characters. They are so…
London. Scribe. 2021. 323 pages. FROM THE FIRST PAGE of this beguilingly strange, darkly comic novel, we are plunged into a destabilized realm of fiction where the laws of rationality…