Beijing. Beijing October Literature & Art Publishing House. 2023. 320 pages.
Fan Yusu’s literary journey transcends a mere tale of personal transformation; it represents a challen…
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New York. Other Press. 2023. 352 pages. The thirteen exemplary character-driven stories in Chilean author Antonio Skármeta’s The Names of the Things That Were There, curated by Juan V…
New York. W. W. Norton. 2024. 304 pages. Old King is basically a novel about two very different men, Duane Oshun and Ted Kaczynski, mostly about the former. The novel opens with Duane…
New York. Clarion Books. 2023. 240 pages. As a career evangelist for cross-reading, that magical practice in which adults allow themselves to gleefully devour books that are supposedl…
New York. Knopf. 2023. 272 pages. The definition of a literary-minded author, Joyce Carole Oates has achieved greatness throughout her illustrious career and holds a special place amo…
Edinburgh. Charco Press. 2023. 165 pages. The third of Martín Kohan’s novels translated into English, Confession is bookended by scenes from the life of one Mirta López, as narrated b…
Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2023. 425 pages. Oksana Lutsyshyna’s Ivan and Phoebe tells the story of Ukraine’s early independence through the eyes of a disillusioned romantic from the far we…
Sheffield, UK. And Other Stories. 2023. 128 pages. If “childhood is another country” (as Saint-Exupéry suggested), few writers have mapped its topography, culture, and hidden cave sys…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2023. 376 pages. Norman Manea’s Exiled Shadow comprises literary, philosophical, psychological, and metaphysical commentaries, memoi…
Hamilton, Ontario. Stelliform Press. 2023. 99 pages. Six recovered paintings of Mi’kmaw landscape artist Rita Francis serve as a framework for Tiffany Morris’s debut eco-horror novell…
Berlin. Kanon. 2023. 287 pages. As a former resident of Berlin, I was thrilled to see Tim Staffel’s Südstern, billed as the great Berlin novel, nominated for the 2023 German Book Priz…
New Haven. Yale University Press. 2024. 144 pages. A ruptured coming-of-age story, or an assemblage of retrospective fragments, Chronicles of a Village is narrated by an unnamed nativ…
New York. Europa Editions. 2024. 288 pages. Your sister knows you from before you have mastered the art of performance. That makes her dangerous, for she alone has seen you at your mo…
Madrid. Alfaguara. 2023. 312 pages. In Le dedico mi silencio, Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru to tell the story of Toño Azpilcueta, a schoolteacher, jou…
Paris. Grasset. 2023. 272 pages. The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, which is known for its ethnic and linguistic diversity, has produced three particularly notable novelists…
London. Pamenar Press. 2023. 99 pages. The prominent contemporary Mexican writer Alberto Chimal is known for a diverse, imaginative body of work that blurs the boundaries between the…
Windsor, Ontario. Biblioasis. 2024. 456 pages. This intricate and lyrical novel, newly translated into English by the experienced Philip Roughton, opens in a churchyard amid the disor…
New York. Bloomsbury. 2024. 313 pages. In Your Presence Is Mandatory, Sasha Vasilyuk delivers the riveting story of a Soviet veteran whose long-held personal secret…
New York. Scribner. 2023. 336 pages. To be publicly vilified, have your innocence questioned, and your life taken away is a scary position to be in. There’s a tension in the world tod…
Weston, Florida / Austin, Texas. Katakana Editores / Hablemos Escritoras. 2023. 297 pages. You may be excused for thinking Rosa Beltrán is the best novelist you hadn’t heard of—global…
Berkeley, California. Stone Bridge Press. 2023. 168 pages. Hiromi Kawakami’s most recent English release, Dragon Palace, separates itself from her previous renowned works, such as St…
London. Hogarth. 2023. 240 pages. Khashayar J. Khabushani’s debut novel, I Will Greet the Sun Again, takes its title from the title of a poem by the acclaimed twentieth-century Irania…
New York. Scribner. 2023. 368 pages. Based on the true story of a female doctor named Tan Yunxian in fifteenth-century China, Chinese American writer Lisa See’s latest work, Lady Tan’…
New York. New Directions. 2023. 96 pages. For those who are unfamiliar with Natalia Ginzburg’s distinctive style, her debut novel offers a vibrant preview. Published originally in Ita…
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2023. 312 pages. Readers familiar with Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s work may find The Naked Tree a departure from the frontline documentary realism of The Wa…