Ahmed Taibaoui’s literary novel "The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody" is about the crime and poverty-ridden underside of Algeria. The novel is split into two parts. Its first half follows an unnamed, impoverished, reclusive man, Mr.... Read More

In Angela Woodward’s ruminative surrealist novel "Ink", everyday life is juxtaposed with testimonies related to war crimes. The skill most appreciated in a typist is accuracy. All Marina and Sylvia know about their new job is that they... Read More

An unhappy housewife learns to cope with loss and trauma in Maki Kashimada’s novel "Love at Six Thousand Degrees". One day, for no apparent reason, a woman leaves her child at the neighbor’s and runs away. Her morbid fascination with... Read More

In Mirza Waheed’s novel "Tell Her Everything", a father prepares to tell his only daughter the truth about his life. Kaiser hasn’t seen his daughter Sara since her mother died and he sent her to boarding school. Now that she is... Read More

A frustrated piano teacher gains some much-needed clarity and perspective in An Yu’s novel "Ghost Music". Song Yan lives with her husband and mother-in-law, but family secrets and thwarted ambitions prevent her from developing a close... Read More

In Oindrila Mukherjee’s novel "The Dream Builders", the inhabitants of a developing Indian city seek happiness and prosperity in all the wrong places. Despite everything she has accomplished since high school—a PhD, a professorship... Read More

In the aftermath of six nuclear explosions, the world is in a state of devastation. In Brandon Ying Kit Boey’s science fiction novel "Karma of the Sun", the threat of a seventh explosion looms—unless the reincarnated Lama child can... Read More

"On the Waterfront" is an earthy novel in which a boy’s life is changed by a swimming-centered relationship. In Mike McCoy’s coming-of-age novel "On the Waterfront", the youngest staff member at a Boy Scout camp matures through hard... Read More