Norwegian author Kjell Askildsen’s story collection "Everything Like Before" delves into tales of marital unhappiness, conflicts between parents and children, and the struggles of the elderly. In the collection’s thirty-six stories,... Read More

A lonely boy befriends a charming but dangerous robot in Giacomo Sartori’s science fiction novel "Bug". After a horrible car accident leaves his mother in a coma, a disabled boy is left to fend for himself among relatives and teachers... Read More

A woman stands on a platform, suspended between two high-rise buildings. Then she is falling, somersaulting, creating beautiful sharp lines with her body. At the last possible moment, her arms open. She shoots into the sky, carried aloft... Read More

Kateřina Tučková’s "Gerta" is a startling, significant historical novel set during and after the violent postwar expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. At the end of WWII, Gerta—the daughter of a disrespected Czech mother whom... Read More

In Anton Korenev’s layered translation of "The Seagull", lovestruck elites banter against a struggling landscape that evinces beauty and elicits criticism of Russian art and politics. Anton Korenev’s refreshing translation of Anton... Read More

French Azerbaijani writer Banine’s memoir of her childhood, Days of the Caucasus, is an entertaining early twentieth-century account. Banine was born in 1905 to parents of new wealth. Her mother died from complications following her... Read More

First published in 1995, Minae Mizumura’s "An I-Novel" was Japan’s “first bilingual novel;” this translation maintains its original tone and cross-cultural resonance. In the mid-1980s, the narrator, Minae, sips whiskey while... Read More

Two hardened men seek to relive their grisly pasts in Sergei Lebedev’s thriller, "Untraceable". A former Soviet agent who’s living in exile is murdered with an untraceable poison. This sets off a chain of events, altering the lives... Read More