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• Virus-fiction ! -- René Barjavel's 1973 novel, The Immortals
  
  
• Iris Murdoch's 1963 novel, The Unicorn
  
  
• Bertrand Laverdure's Readopolis
  
  
• A Novel of Sihanouk's Cambodia by Suon Sorin, his 1961 novel A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land -- a rare translation from the Khmer, now out from NUS Press
  
  
• Antti Tuomainen's The Man Who Died
  
  
• Marlen Haushofer's 1963 ultimate-lockdown novel, The Wall
  
  
• Sofia Kovalevskaya's Nihilist Girl
  
  
• Subandhu's Vāsavadattā: A Sanskrit Romance
  
  
• The long first volume in Julien Green's 'Dixie'-trilogy, The Distant Lands
  
  
• The second in Walter Satterthwait's trio of Pinkerton novels, Masquerade
  
  
• Devanoora Mahadeva's two-time Sahitya Akademi Award-winning (for both the Kannada original and this English translation) novel, Kusumabale
  
  
• Guy P. Raffa on How a Poet Invented Italy, in Dante's Bones
  
  
• Endo Shusaku's 1986 novel, Scandal
  
  
• Georges Simenon' s Maigret and the Ghost
  
  
• The quartet of Xenophon's Socratic works, in one Loeb Classical Library volume:
  • Memorabilia
  • Oeconomicus
  • Symposium
  • Apology
  
  
• Thai author Veeraporn Nitiprapha's The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth
  
  
• Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen's novel, Secret Passages in a Hillside Town
  
  
• A Novel from North Korea (!) by Paek Nam-nyong, Friend, now in English, from Columbia University Press
  
  
• Wendy Lesser goes In Pursuit of a Mystery, in Scandinavian Noir
  
  
• Polish author Aleksandra Lun's written-in-Spanish debut, The Palimpsests, now in English
  
  
• The first in Walter Satterthwait's trio of Pinkerton novels, Escapade
  
  
• Edmondo De Amicis' 1892 novella Love and Gymnastics
  
  
• The latest from Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
  
  
• The second in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt-series, The Trench
  
  
• A new translation of Alexander Griboedov's classic nineteenth-century comedy, Woe from Wit, just out in Columbia University Press' Russian Library-series
  
  
• Ruth Rendell's 2011 (retired-)Inspector Wexford mystery, The Vault
  
  
• Frédéric Beigbeder's novel about looking for A Life Without End
  
  
• Kawakami Mieko's eagerly-anticipated Breasts and Eggs
  
  
• Max Barry's latest, Providence
  
  
• Alberts Bels' long-banned novel, Insomnia, now in English, from Parthian
  
  
• Part two of Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes, A Bond Undone, now also out in the US

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