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      What's new at the complete review ? Find out here. Below you'll find the reviews most recently added to the complete review. You can also:

• See our most recent review-overviews -- all the links and review-summaries, but of titles not yet reviewed by us
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      Most recent additions to the complete review:

• Danilo Kiš' first novel, Mansarda, now finally available in English
  
  
• Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter
  
  
• Amin Zaoui's Banquet of Lies -- in a bilingual edition !
  
  
• Tove Jansson's classic The Summer Book, recently re-issued in both the US and UK
  
  
• Walter Veltroni's The Discovery of Dawn
  
  
• Kirino Natsuo's Real World
  
  
• Six Stories of Love in Edo by Kitahara Aiko, The Budding Tree
  
  
• Bilgé Karasu's Night, which won the 1991 Pegasus Prize for Literature
  
  
• The final volume (well, the second, but the final one to be translated into English ...) of Leonardo Padura's 'Havana quartet', Havana Gold
  
  
• Catherine O'Flynn's Costa First Novel Award-winning What Was Lost, finally also available in the US
  
  
• Enrique Serna's Fear of Animals, now available in English
  
  
• Abdelilah Hamdouchi's The Final Bet, which his publishers are calling: "The first Arabic detective novel to be translated into English"
  
  
• Margarita Karapanou's Kassandra and the Wolf
  
  
• Alberto Fuguet's novel, The Movies of My Life
  
  
• Deon Meyer's Devil's Peak
  
  
• Jean Teulé's bestselling (in France) comic trifle, The Suicide Shop
  
  
• A small collection of essays by Mario Vargas Llosa, Wellsprings
  
  
• Yamada Taichi's novel, I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While
  
  
• Two newly-translated novels by Naguib Mahfouz, written four decades apart:
  • Cairo Modern
  • Morning and Evening Talk
  
  
• David Markson's The Last Novel
  
  
• Yasmina Reza's account of A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy, Dawn, Dusk or Night
  
  
• Mehmet Murat Somer's Turkish transvestite mystery, The Prophet Murders
  
  
• Simon Winchester's The Man Who Loved China (forthcoming in the UK as Bomb, Book and Compass), The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, Joseph Needham
  
  
• Our review-overview of Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
  
  
• Olivier Adam's Cliffs
  
  
• Shahrnush Parsipur's Women without Men
  

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