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Authors - K:

• KADARE, Ismail:
  • The Accident (B-)
  • The Fall of the Stone City (B+)
  • A Girl in Exile (B+)
  • The Successor (A-)
  • The Traitor's Niche (A-)
  • Twilight of the Eastern Gods (B+)
• KADDOUR, Hédi: Little Grey Lies (B+)
• KAKAR, Sudhir:
  • The Ascetic of Desire (B)
  • Ecstasy (C)
• KALDER, Daniel:
  • The Infernal Library (UK title: Dictator Literature) (B)
  • Lost Cosmonaut (B+)
• KALIDASA:
  • The Birth of Kumára (B+)
  • The Lineage of the Raghus (B+)
  • Meghaduta:
    • as The Cloud-Messenger, (B) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
    • as The Cloud Messenger, (B) (trans. F. and E.Edgerton)
    • as The Transport of Love, (B) (trans. Leonard Nathan)
  • Sakuntala:
    • Abhijnanasakuntalam (B) (trans. Chandra Rajan)
    • The Recognition of Sakuntala (B+) (trans. Arthur W. Ryder)
    • The Recognition of Shakúntala (B+) (trans. Somadeva Vasudeva)
    • Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection (B+) (trans. B.S.Miller)
    • See also: Translating the Orient (B+), D.M.FIGUEIRA
• KALLIFATIDES, Theodor: Another Life (B+)
• KAMBAR, Chandrasekhar: Karimayi (B)
• KAMEL, Adel: The Magnificent Conman of Cairo (B)
• KANE, Cheikh Hamidou: Ambiguous Adventure (B)
• KANEHARA Hitomi: Snakes and Earrings (B-)
• KAO Ming: The Lute (B+)
• KAPITÁŇOVÁ, Daniela: Samko Tále's Cemetery Book (B)
• KAPLAN, Philip J.: F'd Companies (B-)
• KAPPACHER, Walter: Palace of Flies (B+)
• KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun (A-)
• KARAPANOU, Margarita: Kassandra and the Wolf (C)
• KARÁSEK ZE LVOVIC, Jiří: A Gothic Soul (B)
• KARASHIMA David: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B)
• KARASU, Bilgé: Night (B)
• KARINTHY Ferenc: Metropole (B+)
• KARLSSON, Jonas:
  • The Circus (B)
  • The Invoice (B-)
  • The Room (B)
• KARUNATILAKA, Shehan:
  • Chinaman (US title: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew) (B+)
  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (B)
• KASHIMADA, Maki:
  • Love at Six Thousand Degrees (B)
  • Touring the Land of the Dead (B+)
• KASHIN, Oleg: Fardwor, Russia ! (B)
• KASHUA, Sayed: Second Person Singular (B) (UK title: Exposure)
• KAT, Otto de: The Figure in the Distance (B)
• KATCHADJIAN, Pablo:
  • Thanks (B)
  • What to Do (B)
• KAVAN, Anna: Ice (A-)
• KAWABATA Yasunari:
  • Beauty and Sadness (B+)
  • Dandelions (B+)
  • The Lake (B)
  • The Rainbow (B)
  • Snow Country (A-)
  • The Sound of the Mountain (B+)
  • Thousand Cranes (A-)
• KAWAKAMI Hiromi:
  • The Briefcase (B+) (UK title: Strange Weather in Tokyo)
  • Dragon Palace (B+)
  • Manazuru (B)
  • The Nakano Thrift Shop (B+)
  • Parade (B)
  • People from My Neighborhood (B+)
  • Record of a Night too Brief (B)
  • The Ten Loves of Nishino (B+)
  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird (B+)
• KAWAKAMI Mieko:
  • All the Lovers in the Night (B+)
  • Breasts and Eggs (B+)
  • Heaven (B+)
  • Ms Ice Sandwich (B+)
• KAWAMATA Chiaki: Death Sentences (B+)
• KAYAMA Shigeru:
  • Godzilla (B-)
  • Godzilla Raids Again (B-)
• KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos: Zorba the Greek (B+)
• KEATING, H.R.F.: Jack, the Lady Killer (C+)
• KEATS, Jonathon:
  • Forged (B)
  • Virtual Words (B)
• KEENE, Day: Home is the Sailor (B)
• KEENE, Donald: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B)
• KEHLMANN, Daniel:
  • See the complete review's Daniel Kehlmann page
  • Beerholms Vorstellung (B)
  • The Director (B)
  • F (B+)
  • Fame (B+)
  • Der fernste Ort (B+)
  • Ghosts in Princeton (B+)
  • Mahlers Zeit (B+)
  • Me and Kaminski (B)
  • Measuring the World (A-)
  • Tyll (B+)
  • Unter der Sonne (B)
  • Wo ist Carlos Montúfar ? (B)
  • You Should Have Left (B)
• KEILSON, Hans: Comedy in a Minor Key (B)
• KELLMAN, Steven G. (ed.): Switching Languages (B)
• KELLY, Katherine (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard (-)
• KELLY, Stuart: The Book of Lost Books (B-)
• KEMPOWSKI, Walter: Homeland (US title: Marrow and Bone) (A-)
• KENEALLY, Thomas: The Tyrant's Novel (B+)
• KENNEDY, Margaret: The Feast (B+)
• KEOGH, Brian: Le Fanu's Angel (B+)
• KEPLER, Lars:
  • The Hypnotist (B-)
  • The Nightmare (B)
• KERANGAL, Maylis de:
  • Birth of a Bridge (B+)
  • The Heart (UK title: Mend the Living) (A-)
• KERN, Adam L.: Manga from the Floating World (A-)
• KERR, Philip:
  • Dark Matter (B)
  • If the Dead Rise Not (B+)
  • The One from the Other (B+)
  • A Quiet Flame (B)
  • The Second Angel (B-)
• KERTÉSZ, Imre:
  • See the complete review's Imre Kertész page.
  • Detective Story (B+)
  • Dossier K. (A-)
  • Fatelessness (B+)
  • Fiasco (A-)
  • The Holocaust as Culture (B+)
  • Kaddish for an Unborn Child (A)
  • Liquidation (A-)
  • The Pathseeker (B+)
  • The Union Jack (A-)
  • Valaki más (A-)
• KESHAVARZ, Fatemeh: Jasmine and Stars (B-)
• KESSEL, Joseph: Belle de Jour (B)
• KESSEL, Martin: Mr. Brecher's Fiasco (A)
• KEUN, Irmgard:
  • [The Artificial Silk Girl]
  • [Child of All Nations]
• KEYSERLING, Eduard von:
  • Fürstinnen (B+)
  • Waves (A)
• KHADRA, Yasmina:
  • The Attack (B)
  • Autumn of the Phantoms (B)
  • Cousin K (B)
  • Dead Man's Share (B+)
  • Double Blank (B)
• KHALED, Mai: The Magic of Turquoise (B-)
• KHALED TOWFIK, Ahmed: Utopia (B)
• KHAMISSI, Khaled Al: Taxi (B)
• KHASAVOV, Arslan: Sense (B)
• KHAYYAM, Omar:
  • The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (trans.: Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs) (B-)
  • The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (trans.: Edward FitzGerald) (A)
• KHEMIRI, Jonas Hassen: Montecore (B)
• KHIDER, Abbas: The Village Indian (B)
• KHUDAYYIR, Mohammed: Basrayatha (B)
• KHVOSHCHINSKAYA, Sofia: City Folk and Country Folk (B+)
• KIDD, Chip: The Cheese Monkeys (B-)
• KIKODZE, Archil: სამხრეთული სპილო (B)
• KILGARRIFF, Catheryn: The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs (-) (with Rebecca Gillieron)
• KILITO, Abdelfattah:
  • Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language (B+)
  • The Tongue of Adam (B+)
• KILLEWALD, Alexandra A.: Is American Science in Decline ? (-) (with Yu Xie)
• KILPI, Volter: Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia (B+)
• KIM In-Suk: The Long Road (B)
• KIM Man-jung: The Nine Cloud Dream (B+)
• KIM Sagwa: Mina (B)
• KIM Un-su:
  • The Cabinet (B)
  • The Plotters (B+)
• KIM Young-ha:
  • Diary of a Murderer (B)
  • I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (B+)
  • I Hear Your Voice (B+)
  • Photo Shop Murder (B)
  • Your Republic is Calling You (B)
• KING, Daren: Manual (B)
• KING, Stephen:
  • The Colorado Kid (B)
  • Joyland (B)
• KIRINO Natsuo:
  • [The Goddess Chronicle]
  • Grotesque (B)
  • Out (B)
  • Real World (B-)
• KIRSCH, Adam: The Global Novel (B)
• KIŠ, Danilo:
  • Garden, Ashes (B+)
  • Mansarda (B)
  • A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (B+)
• KISHI Yusuke: The Crimson Labyrinth (B)
• KITAHARA Aiko: The Budding Tree (B+)
• KITAKATA Kenzo:
  • Ashes (B+)
  • The Cage (B)
  • City of Refuge (B+)
  • Winter Sleep (B)
• KITANO Yusaku: Mr. Turtle (B)
• KIUCHI Kazuhiro:
  • A Dog in Water (A-)
  • Shield of Straw (B)
• KIVI, Aleksis: Seven Brothers (B)
• KJÆRSTAD, Jan:
  • Berge (B+)
  • The Conqueror (A-)
  • The Discoverer (A)
  • Normans område (B)
  • Rand (B)
  • The Seducer (A-)
• KLÍMA, Ivan: Between Security and Insecurity (B-)
• KLÍMA, Ladislav:
  • Glorious Nemesis (B+)
  • The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (B+)
• KLINE, David: Rembrandts in the Attic (with Kevin G. Rivette) (B)
• KNAPP, Radek:
  • Herrn Kukas Empfehlungen (A-)
  • Papiertiger (B+)
  • Reise nach Kalino (B)
• KNAUSGAARD, Karl Ove:
  • The Morning Star (B+)
  • My Struggle (UK title: A Death in the Family) (A-)
  • My Struggle: Book Two (UK title: A Man in Love) (A-)
  • My Struggle: Book Six (UK title: The End) (A-)
  • The Third Realm (B+)
  • [A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven (US title: A Time for Everything)]
  • The Wolves of Eternity (B+)
• KNIGHT, Renée: Disclaimer (B)
• KO Un:
  • The Three Way Tavern (B+)
  • Traveler Maps (B+)
• KOBAYASHI Erika: Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (B)
• KOCH, Ariane: Overstaying (B+)
• KOCH, Herman:
  • Dear Mr. M (B-)
  • The Dinner (B)
  • Summer House with Swimming Pool (B)
• KOFLER, Werner: At the Writing Desk (B)
• KOHAN, Martín: Seconds Out (B)
• KOJIMA Nobuo: Embracing Family (B+)
• KOLÁŘ, Jiří:
  • A User's Manual (B+)
  • Responses • Kafka's Prague (B+)
• KONG Shangren: The Peach Blossom Fan (B+)
• KONGOLI, Fatos: The Loser (A-)
• al-KONI, Ibrahim:
  • The Fetishists (A-)
  • Gold Dust (B+)
  • The Night Will Have Its Say (B)
• KONKKA, Anita: A Fool's Paradise (A-)
• KONSTANTINOU, Lee: The Last Samurai Reread (B)
• KORBJITTI, Chart: Time (B)
• KORDA, Michael:
  • Another Life (B+)
  • Making the List (C)
• KORNELIUSSEN, Niviaq: Crimson (B) (US title: Last Night in Nuuk)
• KOSZTOLÁNYI Dezső:
  • Anna Édes (B+)
  • Kornél Esti (A-)
  • Skylark (B+)
• KOUMANDAREAS, Menis: Koula (B)
• KOUROUMA, Ahmadou:
  • See the complete review's Ahmadou Kourouma page
  • Allah is not obliged (B+)
  • Monnew (B+)
  • The Suns of Independence (B+)
  • Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals (A-)
• KOVALEVSKAYA, Sofya: Nihilist Girl (B)
• KOVÁLY, Heda Margolius: Innocence (B)
• KOYAMA, Michael S.: The Shanghai Intrigue (B-)
• KRABBÉ, Tim:
  • The Cave (B+)
  • Delay (B)
  • The Rider (A-)
  • The Vanishing (B+)
• KRACHT, Christian:
  • The Dead (B)
  • Imperium (B)
• KRAJEWSKI, Marek: The End of the World in Breslau (B)
• KRÁL, Petr: Working Knowledge (B)
• KRAMER, Pascale: The Child (B)
• KRASICKI, Ignacy: The Mouseiad (B+)
• KRASZNAHORKAI László:
  • Animalinside (-)
  • Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens (B+)
  • Satantango (B+)
• KRAUSSER, Helmut: Eros (B)
• KREČIČ, Jela: None Like Her (B)
• KŘESADLO, Jan: GraveLarks (A-)
• KRISTENSEN, Tom: Havoc (B+)
• KRISTÍN Ómarsdóttir: Children in Reindeer Woods (B+)
• KRITSKY, Gene: The Tears of Re (B)
• KRLEŽA, Miroslav: The Banquet in Blitva (B+)
• KRÜGER, Michael: The Executor (B+)
• KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund:
  • Countries That Don't Exist (B)
  • The Letter Killers Club (A-)
  • Memories of the Future (A-)
  • The Return of Munchausen (A-)
  • Seven Stories (A-)
• KUBIN, Alfred: The Other Side (B+)
• KUBO Misumi: Mikumari (B)
• KUEHN, Manfred: Kant (B+)
• KUMAR, Amitava: A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of his Arm a Tiny Bomb (B)
• KUNDERA, Milan:
  • The Curtain (B+)
  • The Festival of Insignificance (B+)
  • Identity (B)
  • See also: François Ricard's Agnès's Final Afternoon
• KUNENE, Mazisi: Emperor Shaka the Great (B+)
• K'UNG Shang-jen: The Peach Blossom Fan (B+)
• KUNZRU, Hari: Transmission (B+)
• KUO, Alex: The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze (B-)
• KURAHASHI Yumiko: The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q (B)
• KURBJUWEIT, Dirk: Fear (B)
• KURKOV, Andrey:
  • The Case of the General's Thumb (B)
  • Death and the Penguin (A-)
  • Grey Bees (B+)
  • Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv (B)
  • A Matter of Death and Life (B)
  • Penguin Lost (B+)
• KURNIAWAN, Eka:
  • Beauty is a Wound (A-)
  • Man Tiger (B)
• KURUMATANI Choukitsu: The Paradise Bird Tattoo (B+)
• KURZWEIL, Allen: The Grand Complication (B)
• KUTZENBERGER, Stefan: Jokerman (B-)
• KWEE Tek Hoay: The Rose of Cikembang (B+)
• KWON Yeo-sun: Lemon (B+)
• KYOKUTEI Bakin: Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden" (B+)
• KYOMUHENDO, Goretti: Waiting (B)

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