Szabo’s ABIGAIL is a moral — though not moralizing — book.
Lake Like a Mirror – Ho Sok Fong
The business of dehumanizing people and pushing them off the part of the earth that can be shared with other humans, is mostly the pretty mundane.
Serotonin – Michel Houellebecq
Houellebecq’s aloof intensity remains paradoxical, provocative, and singular.
The Madwoman of Serrano – Dina Salústio
In a novel where speech and silence are linked to power, it feels important that this novel, the first English-language translation by a female author from Cape Verde, can now reach a wider audience.
Labyrinth is the mystery novel at its most existential, in which the person who has disappeared is the protagonist himself, in which the mystery is the greatest of them all.
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family – Yan Lianke
Yan is concerned with death in this arresting work, not only the death of loved ones, but of a whole moment in Chinese history that, for ever more young people, is incomprehensible and even non-existent.
Me & Other Writing – Marguerite Duras
Even for the French it is nearly impossible to pin down exactly how Duras does what she does.
The great news is that if you’re not looking for a cardigan in book form, then ALL MY CATS is an extraordinary, heartrending read.
Ríos develops the dream as a genre to itself — a real fiction, a fictional real.
Space Invaders – Nona Fernández
Fernández does something vitally important here, something rare in American narratives of collective protest: she does not equate uncertainty with foolishness.