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• Valery Larbaud's 1911 novel, Fermina Márquez
  
  
• Chan Koonchung's novel of (almost) contemporary China, The Fat Years
  
  
• Ana María Shua's novel, Death as a Side Effect
  
  
• A.S.Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, from The Myths-series
  
  
• Irène Némirovsky's novel of All Our Worldly Goods
  
  
• Svetislav Basara spins The Cyclist Conspiracy
  
  
• Yan Geling's story of the 1937 Nanking Massacre, The Flowers of War -- 'now a major motion picture'
  
  
• Raymond Queneau's 1947 novel, We Always Treat Women Too Well
  
  
• William Patry argues How to Fix Copyright
  
  
• Tomás Eloy Martínez's final novel, Purgatory
  
  
• Johanna Sinisalo's Birdbrain
  
  
• Mariama Bâ's classic So Long a Letter
  
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot
  
  
• Mário de Sá-Carneiro decadent 1913 classic, Lúcio's Confession
  
  
• Iosi Havilio's novel, Open Door
  
  
• A reference work -- the new, ninth edition of the Chambers Biographical Dictionary
  
  
• Torgny Lindgren's clever novel of life and art, In Praise of Truth
  
  
• Bestselling German writer Charlotte Link's Die Täuschung
  
  
• Ernest Poole's 1915 novel, The Harbor, out in a new edition from Penguin Classics
  
  
• Jan-Philipp Sendker's Burmese love story, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
  
  
• Claudia Piñeiro's Argentine noir, All Yours
  
  
• Michel Houellebecq's prix Goncourt-winning The Map and the Territory
  
  
• Ladislav Klíma's fantastical Glorious Nemesis, now available in English
  
  
• Abdourahman A. Waberi's novel of contemporary Djibouti, Passage of Tears
  
  
• Popular Egyptian author Reem Bassiouney's Professor Hanaa

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