Sultry, seductive Alexandria is filled with secrets, seething resentments, and hidden tensions, and the Egyptian Jews who live there, though enamored of the city’s charms, are coming to see that their lives are precariously balanced... Read More

Tiny San Nidro, nestled between forest and sea in southern Italy’s Puglia region, is a forgotten place, locked in the past and graced with wild beauty. Many of its young people have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere; the few... Read More

The mythical Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull creature condemned to wander a labyrinth until killed, serves as an organizing image for Georgi Gospodinov’s time-traveling, labyrinthine stories about himself and his family—tales of... Read More

In July of 1923, Franz Kafka, forty years old, is ill with tuberculosis and convalescing near the Baltic Sea, when he meets twenty-five-year-old Dora Diamant, a remarkable woman fifteen years his junior who seems to him the essence of... Read More

Eastern philosophy and romance converge in this novel that reads like a fable. Bhagwati Charan Verma’s novel "The Dancer, Her Lover and the Yogi" braids Eastern philosophy with a whirlwind romance and offers a satisfying if... Read More

Hareven’s brilliant writing is simply irresistible as she traces two sisters’ emotional journeys through recovering from a childhood trauma. In "Lies, First Person", by Gail Hareven (translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu), sisters... Read More

Gamerro navigates extreme situations of war and and crime with a practiced hand and plenty of humor. The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón details Ernesto Marroné’s quest to rescue his boss, Faust Tamerlán, who is kidnapped by the... Read More

Difficult to forget and oddly addictive, this tale of derangement deserves a high mark for keeping the answers hidden and the pages turning. Ritualized murders laced with symbolism terrorize the vineyards of Pomerol in "Deadly Tasting",... Read More