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Foreign Books
(not yet available in English)
reviewed at the complete review
Authors do write in languages other than English, and some do it quite well. Publishers -- American publishers, especially -- don't have wide horizons, and they often miss much of the important work being done abroad. There is a trickle of literary translations, but it is small.
At the complete review we want to make you aware of some of the things you are missing, as well as books that you are likely to hear about in the years to come. That is why we also offer reviews of books that are not yet available in English.
Foreign Books currently
under Review:
- Books in Bulgarian
- Books in Chinese
- Books in Czech
- Books in Dutch
- Books in Finnish
- Books in French
- Books in Georgian
- Books in German
- Books in Hungarian
- Books in Icelandic
- Books in Japanese
- Books in Norwegian
- Books in Persian
- Books in Portuguese
- Books in Romanian
- Books in Russian
- Books in Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian
- Books in Spanish
- Books in Swedish
- Books in Ukrainian
Books in Bulgarian under Review:
- Léa COHEN's novel:
- Alek POPOV's novel:
- Vladimir ZAREV's novel of Bulgaria's post-communist transition:
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Books in Chinese under Review:
- XU Xing's novel:
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- Michal VIEWEGH's novel:
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- Maarten ASSCHER's novels:
- Three novels by Arnon GRUNBERG:
- Four novels by A. F. Th. VAN DER HEIJDEN:
- Two of Willem Frederik HERMANS' novels:
- Marek VAN DER JAGT's 2002 boekenweekessay:
- Three by Harry MULISCH:
- His first novel, Archibald Strohalm
- His recent novel, Het theater, de brief en de waarheid
- His marvelous essay on a book he did not write, De toekomst van gisteren
- Four novels by Leon de WINTER:
- Charles DEN TEX's:
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Books in Finnish under Review:
- Two novels by Kari HOTAKAINEN:
- Three novels by Arto PAASILINNA:
- Hannu RAITTILA's Finlandia-Prize-winning novel:
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- Five works by Annie ERNAUX:
- Jean-Marie LACLAVETINE's tale of the dark world of publishing, and aspiring authors:
- Now quite a few books by Amélie NOTHOMB are available in English -- but some still aren't. Never fear, the complete review is here to show you what else you are missing:
- See the complete review's Amélie Nothomb page
- Cosmétique de l'ennemi
- Journal d'Hirondelle
- Mercure
- Péplum
- Le voyage d'hiver
- Jean-Michel PALMIER's massive monograph:
- Walter Benjamin: Le chiffonier, l'Ange et le Petit Bossu
- Most of Georges PEREC's works are available in translation, but not:
- Yasmina REZA's short:
- Eric-Emannuel SCHMITT's novel:
- Laurent SEKSIK's novel:
- The French version of Luan STAROVA's Balkan saga:
- Michel ZUMKIR's Portrait d'un monstre littéraire:
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Books in Georgian under Review:
- Tamta MELASCHWILI's
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- Philipp BLOM's novel:
- Poetry and fiction from Volker BRAUN:
- Auf die schönen Possen
- Berichte von Hinze und Kunze
- Hinze-Kunze-Roman
- Lustgarten, Preußen
- Das unbesetzte Gebiet
- Die Unvollendete Geschichte und ihr Ende
- Werktage
- Thomas BRUSSIG back in the GDR:
- Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER's:
- Paul FEYERABEND's correspondence with Hans ALBERT:
- Arno GEIGER's books:
- Five by Thomas GLAVINIC:
- Eight titles by Durs GRÜNBEIN:
- Erklärte Nacht
- Das erste Jahr
- Galilei vermißt Dantes Hölle
- Grauzone morgens
- Porzellan
- Schädelbasislektion
- Den Teuren Toten
- Vom Schnee
- Warum schriftlos leben
- See also the complete review's Durs Grünbein page
- Wolf HAAS' Simon Brenner-mysteries:
- Peter HANDKE's novel:
- Josef HASLINGER's tsunami-account:
- Christoph HEIN's recent novels:
- Quite a few books by Wunderkind Daniel KEHLMANN:
- Beerholms Vorstellung
- Der fernste Ort
- Mahlers Zeit
- Unter der Sonne
- Wo ist Carlos Montúfar ?
- See also the complete review's Daniel Kehlmann page
- Two novels by Radek KNAPP:
- Thomas LEHR's novels:
- Bestselling author Charlotte LINK's:
- Giwi MARGWELASCHWILI's:
- Two by Robert MENASSE:
- His new novel, Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle
- His essay collection, Erklär mir Österreich
- Michel METTLER's debut:
- Karl MICKEL's libretto:
- Libuse MONÍKOVÁ's posthumous novel:
- Martin MOSEBACH's German Book Prize shortlisted novel
- Oskar PASTIOR's Baudelaire-variations:
- Benjamin STEIN's dystopian novel:
- Wilfried STEINER's novels:
- Antje Rávic STRUBEL's critically acclaimed:
- Uwe TELLKAMP's 2008 German Book Prize-winning:
- Two novels by Ernst WEISS:
- Various works by Peter WEISS:
- Christa WOLF's novel:
- A collection of Brecht-criticism edited by Monika Wyss:
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Books in Hungarian under Review:
- ESTERHÁZY Péter's:
- Utazás a tizenhatos mélyére (available in German)
- Nobel laureate KERTÉSZ Imre's:
- K. dosszié (available in French and German)
- Valaki más (available in French and German)
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Books in Icelandic under Review:
- Hallgrímur HELGASON's Halldór Laxness-novel
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Books in Japanese under Review:
- OGAWA Yoko's
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Books in Norwegian under Review:
- Lars Saabye CHRISTENSEN's:
- Niels Fredrik DAHL's novel:
- Jon FOSSE's novel:
- One of Jan KJÆRSTAD's novels:
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Books in Persian (Farsi) under Review:
- Four novels by Mahmud DOULATABADI:
- Kelidar - I (available in German)
- Kelidar - II (available in German)
- Safar (available in German)
- Amir Hassan CHEHELTAN's
- آمریکایی کُشی در تهران (available in German)
- Fattaneh HAJ SEYED JAVADI's Iranian bestseller:
- بامداد خمار (available in German)
- Muhammad 'Ali NAQIB al-MAMALIK's Persian classic:
- Zoya PIRZAD's prize-winning novel:
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Books in Portuguese under Review:
- Luis Fernando VERISSIMO's:
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Books in Romanian under Review:
- M. BLECHER's
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Books in Russian under Review:
- Victor EROFEYEV's autobiographical novel:
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Books in Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian under Review:
- Muharem BAZDULJ's:
- Barbi MARKOVIĆ's Thomas Bernhard-remix:
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Books in Spanish under Review:
- Adolfo BIOY CASARES' mammoth record of:
- [Borges]
- Rosa CHACEL's early novel:
- Two novels by Rafael CHIRBES:
- 'Viscount' LASCANO TEGUI's novel:
- Álbum de familia (B+)
- Pablo DE SANTIS' novels:
- José Ángel MAÑAS':
- José Carlos SOMOZA's:
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Books in Swedish under Review:
- Per Olov ENQUIST's collection:
- Lars GUSTAFSSON's Austin novels:
- Björn LARSSON's thriller:
- One work by Peter WEISS:
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Books in Ukrainian under Review:
- Yuri ANDRUKHOVYCH's:
- Two novels by Любко ДЕРЕШ:
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