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• Lebanese author Jabbour Douaihy's novel, Printed in Beirut
  
  
• Yasmina Reza's 2016 prix Renaudot-winning novel, Babylon, now in English
  
  
• The final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's epic work, My Struggle: Book Six (to be published in the UK as The End)
  
  
• A collection of essays by Alain Mabanckou, The Tears of the Black Man, just out in English from Indiana University Press
  
  
• Amélie Nothomb's latest, Strike Your Heart, just about out from Europa Editions
  
  
• Argentine author Norah Lange, finally in English, with her 1950 novel, People in the Room
  
  
• Adam Tooze on How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, in Crashed
  
  
• Jon Fosse's Nordic Council Literature Prize-winning Trilogy -- and its three separate parts, Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams, and Weariness
  
  
• Two early, forgotten novels by bestselling author Johannes Mario Simmel:
  • Der Mörder trinkt keine Milch
  • Man lebt nur zweimal
  
  
• Hubert Haddad's head-transplant novel, Desirable Body
  
  
• Lutz Seiler's 2014 German Book Prize-winning novel, Kruso
  
  
• François Blais' amusing Document 1
  
  
• Alain Guiraudie's prix Sade-winning novel, Now the Night Begins
  
  
• Two works by Dutch great Willem Frederik Hermans:
  • An Untouched House, just out in English (in the UK, from Pushkin Press, a US edition coming from Archipelago in October)
  • Onder professoren
  
  
• Someone was finally up to the challenge of rendering Georges Perec's Wishes in English ...
  
  
• Imraan Coovadia does science fiction, in A Spy in Time
  
  
• An Account of the Sultanate and Its People: Muḥammad al-Tūnisī travels In Darfur, now in a bilingual edition in the Library of Arabic Literature-series
  
  
• Philip Roth's novella, The Prague Orgy
  
  
• Gustave Flaubert's classic, Sentimental Education
  
  
• Roberto Arlt's 1926 novel, Mad Toy
  
  
• Ōhara Mariko's 1990 novel, Hybrid Child, just out in English from the University of Minnesota Press
  
  
• Hindi poet Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala''s 1939 work, A Life Misspent
  
  
• Xiao Hong's 1941 novel Ma Bo’le’s Second Life, now in English -- in a more-than-just-translated-by Howard Goldblatt version, from Open Letter
  
  
• Serhiy Zhadan's Mesopotamia, just out in English from Yale University Press, in their Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
  
  
• Wolfgang Herrndorf's Sand, now also in a US edition, from New York Review Books
  
  
• William Haggard's 1959 thriller, Venetian Blind
  
  
• Ismail Kadare's The Traitor's Niche, now also out in a US edition
  
  
• Norman Mailer's 1962 collection of poetry, Deaths for the Ladies (and other disasters)
  
  
• Christoph Ransmayr's Man Booker International Prize-longlisted novel-in-(almost-)verse, The Flying Mountain
  
  
• Carlos Rojas' 1978 Goya novel, The Valley of the Fallen, finally available in English, in Edith Grossman's translation

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