There is motive to this movement, if difficult female narrators can be called a movement.
The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
That there should be such ambiguity between perpetrator and victim is, it seems, part of the tragedy of totalitarianism: one can fully escape neither victimhood nor complicity.
Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water – António Lobo Antunes
This new book demonstrates Lobo Antunes’ trajectory as a novelist, which could be described as a gradual broadening of scope, an attempt to incorporate more and more diverse voices into his fictions.
Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini – Miyó Vestrini
Poems are too little, too. That’s why we need grenades, it would seem.
Human Matter: A Fiction – Rodrigo Rey Rosa
The Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa might have invented a new way for metafiction to feel.
Mouthful of Birds – Samanta Schweblin
The dark suggestion at the heart of MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS is that perhaps the surreal and the strange is in fact the ordinary.
Read in the broadest terms, in the context of literary modernism, INTIMATE TIES seems especially concerned with the psyche, sexuality, and repression.
All My Goodbyes – Mariana Dimópulos
Dimópulos works directly against one of the age-old creative writing workshop adages: don’t lose your reader in time.
Max Havelaar or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company – Multatuli
No anti-colonial tract more effectively debunked the, by then, three-century-old system which—tweaked and window-dressed to pacify the progressives of each generation—had enriched Europe while shredding colonized societies everywhere.
The Skin is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body – Bjørn Rasmussen
Rasmussen has managed to stretch the soul in the way a butcher might stretch flesh, asking us to consider the roots of our desires and the depths of our longings.