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      Most recent additions to the complete review:

• Nobel laureate Patrick White's posthumously published The Hanging Garden, now also available in the US
  
  
• Two novels by Icelandic author Sjón, finally available in US editions:
  • The Blue Fox
  • The Whispering Muse
  
  
• A review-overview of Carlos Gamerro's The Islands
  
  
• Florence Noiville presents some Literary Miniatures
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Ohl's novel, The Lairds of Cromarty
  
  
• Ayesha Jalal on Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide, in The Pity of Partition
  
  
• Bulgarian author Angel Igov's A Short Tale of Shame, coming out from Open Letter
  
  
• Ian McEwan's recent novel, Sweet Tooth
  
  
• Georges Perec offers An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
  
  
• Tsutsui Yasutaka's Paprika, now also available in a US edition
  
  
• An early collection of Javier Marías' short stories, While the Women are Sleeping
  
  
• Mega-betselling French author Marc Levy's All Those Things We Never Said
  
  
• Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo's 1946 novel, Where There's Love, There's Hate, now available in English from Melville House
  
  
• Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol, now available in the Margellos World Republic of Letters-series from Yale University Press
  
  
• The second volume in Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-book series, My Struggle: Book Two, published in the UK as A Man in Love
  
  
• Amélie Nothomb's not-yet-translated (though you can sort of see why ...) 2009 novel, Le voyage d'hiver
  
  
• Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles, finally available in English
  
  
• Jacques Bonnet's Phantoms on the Bookshelves
  
  
• Teresa Solana's thriller, The Sound of One Hand Killing
  
  
• Massimo Carlotto's new noir, At the End of a Dull Day
  
  
• Hayashi Fumiko's 1951 novel, Floating Clouds, now out in paperback
  
  
• Yasmina Khadra's short, dark Cousin K
  
  
• A review-overview of Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
  
  
• Gareth J. Wood's study of Javier Marías's Debt to Translation: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov
  
  
• Elisabeth Horem's 1994 novel The Ring, now available (for some reason) in English

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