Knowledge is a form of both escape and imprisonment, in this intricate and prismatic novel. In beautifully detached prose, Carlos Fonseca Suárez’s "Colonel Lágrimas" weaves the past and present together in an intricate web of memory.... Read More

This gorgeous, complex, and heartbreaking Brazilian masterpiece is full of lurid turns and surprising reveals. Lúcio Cardoso’s lurid and voluminous masterpiece "Chronicle of the Murdered House" follows the unraveling of the Meneses... Read More

Noiville’s novel is a sharp, taut thriller, both thought-provoking and terrifying. Florence Noiville’s "A Cage in Search of a Bird" is an engrossing psychological thriller that examines the emotional depths of obsession. The book is... Read More

"The Castrato" is an enjoyable portrait of post-Renaissance Italy told from a fresh and original point of view. Florence in 1698 is the backdrop for Joyce Pool’s "The Castrato", a sensitive tale of the joys and sorrows of life as a... Read More

With its masterful writing and epic scope, it is certain to find its own footing as an enduring work of world literature. Late in the novel "A Spare Life", by Lidija Dimkovska, a character asserts that “every pain is both local and... Read More

These stories deserve a cherished place in the canon of Jewish literature. Oedipus in Brooklyn gathers stories and personal essays from Blume Lempel, a Yiddish-speaking refugee who escaped the Holocaust in America but who never stopped... Read More

An egregious murder in a beloved church initiates a compelling whodunit in this energetic and original crime novel. How do you catch a killer in one of the world’s most celebrated churches, particularly during the Feast of the... Read More

Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger’s Life is an impressive, attention-grabbing account of undermining corrupt and murderous governments. The Nazi occupation of France forced Adolfo Kaminsky, a brilliant young student fascinated by chemistry and... Read More