A white dwarf rabbit brings a refugee family together in Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman’s novel "Mishka". Roya and her family are refugees from Afghanistan. When they learn that they have been permitted to stay in the... Read More

A woman navigates life and death in a post-apocalyptic world in Manuela Draeger’s literary novel "Kree". Long after wars and famine decimate the world, new creatures, religions, and autocracies arise to carve out places of power among... Read More

Spanning decades, including China’s Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War, the historical novel "Wu Lou" is both poignant and tragic. In Lu Xinhua’s affecting, ultimately hopeful historical novel "Wu Lou", love, philosophy, and joy... Read More

In Cécile Desprairies’s disquieting historical novel "The Propagandist", a woman reflects on her mother’s experiences as a World War II collaborator. Coline, Lucie’s youngest daughter, contrasts her mother’s duplicitous past... Read More

Misogyny and religious conviction are vicious bedfellows in Eduardo Sangarcía’s horrifying, humbling literary novel "The Trial of Anna Thalberg", based on the Würzburg witch trials that tore through poor populations with their... Read More

A fairy tale with an edge, Stefanie vor Schulte’s "Boy with a Black Rooster" explores a vast land afflicted by cruelty and ill fortune. Martin is a kindhearted orphan whose father went insane and killed the rest of his family. Looked... Read More

In Vigdis Hjorth’s powerful novel "If Only", a playwright develops an obsession with an older professor that spirals into an all-consuming love affair. At thirty years old, Ida is married with two children. She has a successful career... Read More

Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More