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• A new translation of Eduard von Keyserling's Waves, just out from Dedalus
  
  
• Two works about the classic Persian epic:
  • Hamid Dabashi on The Persian Epic as World Literature, The Shahnameh
  • Sheila R. Canby on the classic edition of The Persian Book of Kings, The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
  
  
• The Last of Evadne Mount by Gilbert Adair, And Then There Was No One
  
  
• Maurice Roche's wild 1966 novel, Compact
  
  
• Peter Mendelsund's novel, Same Same
  
  
• The second in Martin Suter's series, Allmen and the Pink Diamond
  
  
• The Tale of an Authentic Human Being by Olga Slavnikova -- her 2001 novel, The Man Who Couldn't Die, now in English in Columbia University Press' Russian Library-series
  
  
• Simon Pulleyn's translation of and commentary on Homer: Odyssey, Book I
  
  
• The second of Scarlett Thomas' Lily Pascale-mysteries, from 1999, In Your Face
  
  
• Joost de Vries' The Republic
  
  
• Roberto Bolaño's early but only posthumously published novel, The Spirit of Science Fiction, now also in English
  
  
• Two by Róbert Gál, from Dalkey Archive Press:
  • On Wing
  • Agnomia
  
  
• A new translation of Georges Simenon's Maigret and the Old People, in the Penguin Classics series
  
  
• Estonian author August Gailit's 1928 classic, Toomas Nipernaadi, finally in English, from Dedalus
  
  
• Gébé's Letter to Survivors, just out in a translation from New York Review Comics
  
  
• A new translation of Alphonse de Lamartine's classic, Graziella
  
  
• Han Kang's The White Book, now also in a US edition
  
  
• Hattie Pond's unusual novel, On Wandsworth Bridge
  
  
• Marc Fernandez's political thriller, Mala Vida
  
  
• Tamil-writing author Perumal Murugan's bestselling One Part Woman, now also in a US edition, and coming to the UK
  
  
• Ernst Jünger's A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945, finally available in English, from Columbia University Press
  
  
• More by Ogawa Yoko (that isn't yet available in English ...), やさしい訴え
  
  
• Svetislav Basara's novel, The Mongolian Travel Guide
  
  
• Matias Faldbakken's recent novel, The Waiter
  
  
• The Tuareg Epic by Ibrahim al-Koni, The Fetishists, finally in English
  
  
• Kitakata Kenzo's 1982 novel, City of Refuge
  
  
• The second in Gilbert Adair's Evadne Mount trilogy, A Mysterious Affair of Style
  
  
• A Reader for Grownups by Bán Zsófia, Night School, just (about) out from Open Letter
  
  
• Roberto Ransom's collection of stories, Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists
  
  
• A new translation of Georges Simenon's 1960 novel, Maigret in Court
  
  
• Pyun Hye-Young's dark novel, City of Ash and Red

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