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• The second volume in Julien Green's Dixie-trilogy, The Stars of the South
  
  
• Dương Thu Hương's 1988 novel Paradise of the Blind -- billed as "the first novel from Vietnam ever published in the United States" when it came out here in 1993
  
  
• Nobel laureate William Golding's 1984 novel, The Paper Men
  
  
• Walter Satterthwait's 2003 police procedural, Perfection
  
  
• Ignacy Krasicki's classic The Mouseiad and other Mock Epics, recently from Glagoslav
  
  
• The latest collection from Dubravka Ugrešić, The Age of Skin, just out from Open Letter
  
  
• The third installment in Jin Yong's Legends of the Condor Heroes-saga, A Snake Lies Waiting
  
  
• Two fifteenth-century dialogues by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano:
  • Charon
  • Antonius
  
  
• An Inspector De Vincenzi Mystery by Augusto De Angelis from 1936, Death in a Bookstore
  
  
• The final installment in Ricardo Piglia's The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life, now out in English from Restless Books
  
  
• Éric Vuillard's slim book on Thomas Müntzer, The War of the Poor, just out in English
  
  
• Kao Ming's classic 14th-century play, The Lute, a 1981 National Book Award for Translation finalist
  
  
• Katia Moskvitch on The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos, in Neutron Stars
  
  
• John O'Hara's slim 1938 Hollywood-novel, Hope of Heaven
  
  
• Louis Couperus' classic Eline Vere: A Novel of the Hague
  
  
• Classic pulp from Harry Whittington, his 1958 novel Web of Murder
  
  
• Jonas Lüscher's 2017 Swiss Book Prize-winning novel, Kraft, now available in English
  
  
• Cyrille Martinez's fantastical tale of The Dark Library, now out in English, from Coach House Books
  
  
• The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the highly-anticipated The Perfect Nine
  
  
• Jasper Fforde's new novel, The Constant Rabbit
  
  
• Giannozzo Manetti's fifteenth century work On Human Worth and Excellence
  
  
• Lars Mytting's international bestseller The Bell in the Lake, now also in a US edition
  
  
• Derek Marlowe's classic 1966 double-agent thriller, A Dandy in Aspic
  
  
• The third in ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munif's City of Salt-series, Variations on Night and Day
  
  
• David Diop's acclaimed At Night All Blood Is Black
  
  
• Murata Sayaka's Earthlings, just out in English
  
  
• Guillermo Saccomanno's The Clerk, just out from Open Letter
  
  
• Eshkol Nevo gives The Last Interview in his new novel
  
  
• A Nicaraguan Noir by Sergio Ramírez, The Sky Weeps for Me
  
  
• Oyamada Hiroko's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, The Hole, now out in English
  
  
• The first in Derek Raymond's Factory-series, the 1984 novel, He Died with His Eyes Open
  
  
• Michel Butor's 1960 novel, Degrees
  
  
• Yun Ko-eun's The Disaster Tourist
  
  
• Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 novel, The Bookshop

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