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• Tove Ditlevsen's The Copenhagen Trilogy, now also out in US editions:
  • Childhood
  • Youth
  • Dependency
  
  
• Another of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's early historical novel, Thebes at War
  
  
• Stefan Grabiński's tales of The Dark Domain
  
  
• Gina Apostol's The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, now also in a US edition
  
  
• Feng Jicai's 1986 novel, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus
  
  
• Jörg Später's Kracauer: A Biography
  
  
• The Apocalypse attributed to Pseudo-Methodius, along with An Alexandrian World Chronicle in a volume from the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
  
  
• Armenian author Narek Malian's Point Zero
  
  
• Another variation on the chess-novel by Paolo Maurensig, Game of the Gods
  
  
• A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn, The Employees
  
  
• Isabel Colegate's The Orlando Trilogy (recently re-issued in an omibus edition as Orlando King):
  • Orlando King
  • Orlando at the Brazen Threshold
  • Agatha
  
  
• H.R.F. Keating's mystery-in-verse, Jack, the Lady Killer
  
  
• Ermanno Cavazzoni's 1994 collection of Brief Lives of Idiots, just out in English from Wakefield Press
  
  
• A transcreation by Douglas Robinson of Volter Kilpi's Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia, recently out from Zeta Books
  
  
• A 2013 Jack Reacher thriller, Lee Child's Never Go Back
  
  
• André Gide's Marshlands, coming in a new translation, from New York Review Books
  
  
• Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale, now also in a US edition from Open Letter
  
  
• Erik Fosnes Hansen's Lobster Life, recently out in English from Norvik Press
  
  
• Walter Kempowski's Homeland, which also came out earlier this year in the US as Marrow and Bone
  
  
• Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, The Golden Child
  
  
• The two dialogues in the new I Tatti Renaissance Library collection of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano's Dialogues (III):
  • Aegidius
  • Asinus
  
  
• The second in Ken MacLeod's The Corporation Wars-trilogy, Insurgence
  
  
• Dominique Fortier's Emily Dickinson-novel, Paper Houses -- awarded the prix Renaudot (essai) just last week
  
  
• Gesualdo Bufalino's stab at a mystery novel, Qui pro quo
  
  
• José Donoso's 1981 novel, The Garden Next Door
  
  
• Antti Tuomainen's thriller, The Healer
  
  
• Tine Høeg's novel New Passengers, recently out in English from Lolli Editions
  
  
• The second volume in Julien Green's Dixie-trilogy, The Stars of the South
  
  
• Dương Thu Hương's 1988 novel Paradise of the Blind -- billed as "the first novel from Vietnam ever published in the United States" when it came out here in 1993
  
  
• Nobel laureate William Golding's 1984 novel, The Paper Men

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