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This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2017, by month and in reverse chronological order.      Note that books received are only recorded in the first instance; a finished copy will not be registered if an ARC of the same title has previously been received. - last updated: 5 February 2020 - December, 2017 November, 2017 October, 2017 September, 2017 August, 2017 July, 2017 June, 2017 May, 2017 April, 2017 March, 2017 February, 2017 January, 2017 See also archives: Books received and acquired (2023) Books received and acquired (2022) Books received and acquired (2021) Books received and acquired (2020) Books received and acquired (2019) Books received and acquired (2018) Books received and acquired (2016) Books received and acquired (2015)      Links to reviews provided where applicable (and added as reviews become available)      Links to publishers publicity pages where available (often not when ARC/copy first received -- and not later added, sorry)      Key: [requested]: specifically requested title* [catalogue]: title requested via catalogue/checklist [un+]: unsolicited title we would have requested* [un]: unsolicited title** [solicited]: pitched title that we've agreed to consider [ARC]: advanced review copy/galley*** [e-book]: e-version of text [library]: borrowed from the library [$]: purchased + price [gift]: gifted    * Note that very many publishers with a focus on fiction in translation regularly send all relevant titles, and so these are not explicitly 'requested' (though we would ask for them if we didn't get them automatically); these are marked "un+"    ** Titles marked "un" are ones it wouldn't have occurred to us to request (some of which are, however, nevertheless welcome and prove to be of interest)    *** Note that only the first acquisition of a text is recorded; if/when a finished copy follows it will not be recorded here -- except in the case of e-copies: any print edition automatically supplants (and is far more likely to be reviewed than) the abomination that are e-books.

December, 2017

Books received/acquired in December, 2017
    [52 books / 14 reviewed to date]

• New Waw, Saharan Oasis, by Ibrahim al-Koni (University of Texas Press) [requested]
• The Scarecrow, by Ibrahim al-Koni (University of Texas Press) [requested]
• The Puppet, by Ibrahim al-Koni (University of Texas Press) [requested]
• The Juniper Tree, by Barbara Comyns (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, by François-René de Chateaubriand (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Holy Ceremony, by Harri Nykänen (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
• A Taste for the Beautiful, by Michael J. Ryan (Princeton University Press) [un]
• The Endless Summer, by Madame Nielsen (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• The Translator's Invisibility, by Lawrence Venuti (Routledge) [solicited]
• Falling Walls, by Upendranath Ashk (Penguin India) [gift]
• Hats and Doctors, by Upendranath Ashk (Penguin India) [gift]
• Tamas, by Bhisham Sahni (Penguin India) [gift]
• Die Obstdiebin, by Peter Handke (Suhrkamp Verlag) [gift]
• Mademoiselle Bambù, by Pierre Mac Orlan (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Using Life, by Ahmed Naji (University of Texas Press) [solicited]
• Sisyphean, by Dempow Torishima (Haikasoru) [e-book; un+]
• A Foot in the River, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Oxford University Press) [un+]
• The Hatred of Literature, by William Marx (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• In Black and White, by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• On the Ocean, by Barry Cunliffe (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Athenian Women, by Alessandro Barbero (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Aviator, by Eugene Vodolazkin (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Armand V, by Dag Solstad (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• T Singer, by Dag Solstad (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy (Oxford University Press) [$1.00]
• Kalpa Imperial, by Angélica Gorodischer (Small Beer Press) [$1.00]
• The Truth About the Savolta Case, by Eduardo Mendoza (Pantheon) [$2.00]
• Packing My Library, by Alberto Manguel (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
• Fools and Mortals, by Bernard Cornwell (Harper) [un]
• Woman of the Ashes, by Mia Couto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Years, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories Press) [library]
• The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, by Stephen Collins (Picador) [library]
• Familiar Things, by Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe) [un+]
• Anna, by Niccolò Ammaniti (Canongate) [un+]
• Little Reunions, by Eileen Chang (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Life Among the Walkies, by Lorenzo Wilson Milam (Mho & Mho Works) [ARC; un]
• Exact Thinking in Demented Times, by Karl Sigmund (Basic Books) [requested]
• Secularism, by Andrew Copson (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Petty Business, by Yirmi Pinkus (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• Essays on World Literature, by Ismail Kadare (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• Moon Brow, by Shahriar Mandanipour (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Construction of the Tower of Babel, by Juan Benet (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Found Life, by Linor Goralik (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Sisters of the Cross, by Alexei Remizov (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, by Konstantin Batyushkov (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Third-Millennium Heart, by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Action Books) [solicited]
• Mughal Arcadia, by Sunil Sharma (Harvard University Press) [ ]
• Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters, by Maria José Silveira (Open Letter) [un+]
• Fox, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• The Bottom of the Sky, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Jesus in Asia, by R.S.Sugirtharajah (Harvard University Press) [ARC; un]
• The Greek Wall, by Nicolas Verdan (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]

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November, 2017

Books received/acquired in November, 2017
    [38 books / 17 reviewed to date]

• The Dark Tunnel, by Ross Macdonald (Bantam) [$1.25]
• The Beekeeper, by Dunya Mikhail (New Directions) [ARC; un]
• The Ascent of John Tyndall, by Roland Jackson (Oxford University Press) [ARC; un]
• Special Envoy, by Jean Echenoz (The New Press) [library]
• Three Days and a Life, by Pierre Lemaitre (MacLehose Press) [library]
• Trick, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
• The Writer & The Ghostwriter, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
• The Last Judgement, by Iain Pears (Berkley) [$1.00]
• Four Cut-Ups, by David Lespiau (Burning Deck) [$1.00]
• The Lamentations of Zeno, by Ilija Trojanow (Verso) [$1.00]
• The Joy of Being Awake, by Hector Abad (Lumen Editions) [$1.00]
• Saturnin, by Zdeněk Jirotka (Karolinum Press) [library]
• Men Without Women, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
• Nightmare in Berlin, by Hans Fallada (Scribe) [un+]
• The Affair, by Lee Child (Dell) [library]
• Religion vs. Science, by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Christopher P. Scheitle (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, by Dorthe Nors (Pushkin Press) [$1.00]
• The Kingdom of this World, by Alejo Carpentier (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
• Arabian Satire, by Hmedan al-Shwe'ir (NYU Press) [un+]
• The Chandelier, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (II), by Giovanni Boccaccio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Bergeners, by Tomas Espedal (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Together Still, by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Mokusei !, by Cees Nooteboom (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Uit talloos veel miljoenen, by Willem Frederik Hermans (De Bezige Bij) [$1.00]
• Laura, by Vera Caspary (Vintage) [$1.00]
• The Knack of Doing, by Jeremy M. Davies (David R. Godine) [gift]
• Baking with Kafka, by Tom Gauld (Drawn & Quarterly) [library]
• There’s a Carnival Today, by Indra Bahadur Rai (Speaking Tiger) [e-book; requested]
• Abandon, by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Tilted Axis Press) [solicited]
• Affections, by Rodrigo Hasbún (Simon & Schuster) [library]
• Out of Their Minds, by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (Cinco Puntos Press) [library]
• Beowulf, tr. by Stephen Mitchell (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Miranda, by Geoff Nicholson (The Unnamed Press) [library]
• Low Heights, by Pascal Garnier (Gallic Books) [requested]
• The Brahmadells, by Jóanes Nielsen (Open Letter) [un+]
• The Book of Mordechai / Lazarus, by Gábor Schein (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Marriage as a Fine Art, by Julia Kristeva and Philippe Sollers (Columbia University Press) [library]
• Greetings from Angelus, by Gershom Scholem (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Promise at Dawn, by Romain Gary (New Directions) [un+]

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October, 2017

Books received/acquired in October, 2017
    [51 books / 15 reviewed to date]

• Concerto al-Quds, by Adnis (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Hotel Silence, by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Black Cat) [ARC; un+]
• Lion Cross Point, by Ono Masatsugu (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Kites, by Romain Gary (New Directions) [catalogue]
• Neapolitan Chronicles, by Anna Maria Ortese (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Portobello, by Ruth Rendell (Arrow) [$1.00]
• Commonplace Book, by Daniel Aaron (Printed Wafer) [$1.00]
• Talk, by Linda Rosenkrantz (New York Review Books) [$1.00]
• News from Berlin, by Otto de Kat (MacLehose Press) [$1.00]
• Once a Peacock, Once an Actress, by Haribhaṭṭa (University of Chicago Press:) [library]
• theMystery.doc, by Matthew McIntosh (Grove) [library]
• Beeronomics, by Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• A Good Comb, by Muriel Spark (New Directions) [ARC; un]
• The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
• Exquisite Corpse, by Pénélope Bagieu (First Second) [library]
• Мова, by Viktor Martinowitsch (Voland & Quist) [e-book; requested]
• Quelling the Demons' Revolt, by Luo Guanzhong (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• City Folk and Country Folk, by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit, ed. by R. Parthasarathy (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
• The Tiger and the Acrobat, by Susanna Tamaro (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Acropolis, by Stanisław Wyspiański (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Goodbye, Bird, by Aram Pachyan (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Shining Light, by Galymkair Mutanov (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Bestseller, by Beka Adamaschwili (Voland & Quist) [e-book; requested]
• The Unmapped Country, by Ann Quin (And Other Stories) [un+]
• Blue Pearl, by Lesley Harrison (New Directions) [un+]
• Sea, Land, Shadow, by Shiraishi Kazuko (New Directions) [un+]
• 21 Poems, by George Oppen (New Directions) [un+]
• Across the Vapour Gulf, by Will Alexander (New Directions) [un+]
• Euler's Pioneering Equation, by Robin Wilson (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Apothecary's Shop, by Roberto Tiraboschi (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Die Verschleppung, by Josef Winkler (Suhrkamp) [gift]
• Geoffrey Chaucer, by David Wallace (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Last Librarian, by Osdany Morales (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Dust, by Adrián N. Bravi (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Boathouse, by Jon Fosse (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Malacqua, by Nicola Pugliese (And Other Stories) [un+]
• Monday Starts on Saturday, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Chicago Review Press ) [library]
• The Safe House, by Christophe Boltanski (University of Chicago Press:) [un+]
• The Farm, by Héctor Abad (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
• Forever and a Death, by Donald E. Westlake (Hard Case Crime) [library]
• Four Later Novels, by Ross Macdonald (Library of America) [library]
• Literary Translation and the Making of Originals, by Karen Emmerich (Bloomsbury) [library]
• The Diamond Setter, by Moshe Sakal (Other Press) [ARC; un]
• District, by Tony Duvert (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Odd Jobs, by Tony Duvert (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• What You Did Not Tell, by Mark Mazower (Other Press) [un]
• Petite Fleur, by Iosi Havilio (And Other Stories) [un+]
• The People of Godlbozhits, by Leyb Rashkin (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• Patrick Leigh Fermor A Life in Ltters, by Patrick Leigh Fermor (New York Review Books) [un]
• The Book of Whispers, by Varujan Vosganian (Yale University Press) [un+]

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September, 2017

Books received/acquired in September, 2017
    [28 books / 10 reviewed to date]

• Invisible Countries, by Sylvia Brownrigg (Cahiers Series) [un+]
• Sweet Potato, by Kim Tongin (Honford Star) [solicited]
• Confessions, by Jaume Cabré (Arcadia Books) [library]
• Temple of the Scapegoat, by Alexander Kluge (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
• Oriana Fallaci, by Cristina de Stefano (Other Press) [un]
• A Generous Vision, by Cathy Curtis (Oxford University Press) [un]
• Is Capitalism Obsolete ?, by Giacomo Corneo (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Blood Dark, by Louis Guilloux (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Heavens on Earth, by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Moonbath, by Yanick Lahens (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Ms Ice Sandwich, by Kawakami Mieko (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• Political Violence in Ancient India, by Upinder Singh (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Pearls on a Branch, by Najla Jraissaty Khoury (Archipelago Press) [ARC; un+]
• Love, by Hanne Ørstavik (Archipelago Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Animal Gazer, by Edgardo Franzosini (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• As Lie Is to Grin, by Simeon Marsalis (Catapult) [un]
• Ferocity, by Nicola Lagioia (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Book of Imaginary Journeys, by Xabier P. DoCampo (Small Stations) [catalogue]
• Cox, by Christoph Ransmayr (S.Fischer) [library]
• How to Be a Dictator, by Mikal Hem (Arcade) [library]
• An Animal Called Mist, by Ledicia Costas (Small Stations) [catalogue]
• The Golden Bowl, by Henry James (Oxford World's Classics) [$1.00]
• The Eight, by Katherine Neville (Ballantine) [$1.00]
• Jottings under Lamplight, by Lu Xun (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Childhood Years, by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (University of Michigan Press) [un+]
• Such Small Hands, by Andrés Barba (Transit Books) [library]
• Uncertain Glory, by Joan Sales (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Fear, by Dirk Kurbjuweit (Harper) [ARC; catalogue]

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August, 2017

Books received/acquired in August, 2017
    [36 books / 11 reviewed to date]

• A Difficult Death, by Morten Høi Jensen (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Influence Peddlers, by Hédi Kaddour (Yale University Press) [un+]
• A River in Darkness, by Ishikawa Masaji (AmazonCrossing) [un]
• The Strange World of Willie Seabrook, by Marjorie Worthington (Spurl Editins) [un]
• Sundays in August by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press ) [un+]
• Such Fine Boys, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press ) [un+]
• Theory of Shadows, by Paolo Maurensig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• Cheap Sex, by Mark Regnerus (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Return to the Dark Valley, by Santiago Gamboa (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Long Deception, by Mary McCluskey (Little A) [un]
• Ulysses, by Benjamin Fondane - (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• I Hear your Voice, by Kim Young-ha (Mariner Books) [library]
• The Communist, by Guido Morselli (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Soul Cage, by Honda Tetsuya (Minotaur Books) [library]
• The Secret Life of Saeed, by Emile Habiby (Interlink) [$1.00]
• Anima, by Wajdi Mouawad (Talonbooks) [un+]
• Zora, by Philippe Arseneault (Talonbooks) [un+]
• Perla, by Frédéric Brun (University of Nebraska Press) [un+]
• The Unruly Bridal Bed, by Mynona (Wakefiled Press) [un+]
• My Papa and the Maid of Orléans, by Mynona (Wakefiled Press) [un+]
• The Woman Who Had Two Navels, by Nick Joaquin (Penguin Classics) [requested]
• Old Demons, New Deities, ed. by Tenzin Dickie (OR Books) [requested]
• Mass, by Jim Baggott (Oxford University Press) [catalgue]
• They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen! (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• A Loving, Faithful Animal, by Josephine Rowe (Catapult) [un+]
• The Linden Tree, by César Aira (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Solitary Twin, by Harry Mathews (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Desert and Its Seed, by Jorge Barón Biza (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Emissary, by Yoko Tawada (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Book of Emma Reyes, by Emma Reyes (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
• The 120 Days of Sodom, by the Marquis de Sade (Penguin Classics) [requested]
• Karimayi, by Chandrasekhar Kambar (Seagull Books) [un+]
• The Big Heat, by William P. McGivern (Penguin Books) [$1.25]
• Melville, by Jean Giono (New York Review Books) [un+]
• PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, ed. by Yuka Igarashi (Catapult) [un]
• Kintu, by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Transit) [library]
• The Gist, by Michael Marshall Smith (Subterranean Press) [library]

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July, 2017

Books received/acquired in July, 2017
    [34 books / 8 reviewed to date]

• Best European Fiction 2018, ed. by Alex Andriesse (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Montpelier Parade, by Karl Geary (Catapult) [un]
• Glory Days, by Melissa Fraterrigo (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
• Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, by Venita Blackburn (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
• American Niceness, by Carrie Tirado Bramen (Harvard University Press) [un]
• Edisto, by Padgett Powell (Catapult) [un]
• Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine by Quentin Mouron (Bitter Lemon Press) [library]
• The Forensic Records Society, by Magnus Mills (Bloomsbury) [library]
• Bullseye !, by Tsutsui Yasutaka (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
• Phantom Africa, by Michel Leiris (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan, by Brian Steininger (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• King Goshawk and the Birds, by Eimar O'Duffy (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• The Temptation to Be Happy, by Lorenzo Maron (Oneworld) [un]
• The Hole, by Pyun Hye-young (Arcade) [library]
• The Adventures of John Blake, by Philip Pullman (Scholastic) [library]
• Triste Tristan, by Paol Keineg (Burning Deck) [un+]
• The Up and Down of Feet, by Elke Erb (Burning Deck) [un+]
• The Half-Drowned King, by Linnea Hartsuyker (Harper) [un]
• The Federal Judiciary, by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Arithmetic, by Paul Lockhart (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• From the Berlin Journal, by Max Frisch (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Safe, by Ryan Gattis (MCD) [un]
• Madness Treads Lightly, by Polina Dashkova (AmazonCrossing) [ARC; un+]
• A Man of Shadows, by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) [e-book; requested]
• In Search of New Babylon, by Dominique Scali (Talon Books) [un+]
• A Very French Christmas (New Vessel Press) [un]
• The Reef, by Juan Villoro (George Braziller) [library]
• Into Sūr’s Ocean, by John Stratton Hawley (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Old Rendering Plant, by Wolfgang Hilbig (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• Leona, by Jenny Rogneby (Other Press) [un+]
• The Gurugu Pledge, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (And Other Stories) [un+]
• If I Were a Suicide Bomber, by Per Aage Brandt (Open Letter) [un+]
• Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov, ed. by Robert Golla (University Press of Mississippi) [requested]
• Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood, by Anthony Kaldellis (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]

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June, 2017

Books received/acquired in June, 2017
    [46 books / 19 reviewed to date]

• Drilling through Hard Boards, by Alexander Kluge (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Like a Fading Shadow, by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
• Infinity, by Ian Stewart (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Late Fame, by Arthur Schnitzler (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Magus, by John Fowles (Dell) [$1.25]
• Priest of Nature, by Rob Iliffe (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Beyond the Rice Fields, by Naivo (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry (Custom House) [catalogue]
• Glass Souls, by Maurizio de Giovanni (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Proust and His Banker, by Gian Balsamo (University of South Carolina Press) [library]
• Happy Dreams, by Jia Pingwa (AmazonCrossing) [ARC; requested]
• The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again !, by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg (Harper) [un]
• The House by the River, by Lena Manta (AmazonCrossing) [un]
• History is Our Mother, by Alice Goodman (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Knots, by Gunnhild Øyehaug (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
• Le Belle Roumaine, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Part of Me That Isn’t Broken Inside, by Shiraishi Kazufumi (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Monsterhuman, by Kjersti Skomsvold (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Selected Stories, by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Who Reads Poetry, ed. by Fred Sasaki and Don Share (University of Chicago Press) [ARC; un]
• Sunset, by Ch'ae Manshik (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland (William Morrow) [library]
• Spring Garden, by Shibasaki Tomoka (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• Moving Kings, by Joshua Cohen (Random House) [un+]
• Where the Light Falls, by Allison and Owen Pataki (The Dial Press) [un]
• Dandelions, by Kawabata Yasunari (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Concluding, by Henry Green (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The World Goes On, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Dying Detective, by Leif GW Persson (Pantheon) [library]
• The Sacred Era, by Aramaki Yoshio (University of Minnesota Press) [library]
• Letters of Light, by J.R. Osborn (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Blumenberg, by Sibylle Lewitscharoff (Seagull Books) [un+]
• One Day a Year: 2001-2011, by Christa Wolf (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Into English, ed. by Martha Collins and Kevin Prufer (Graywolf Press) [ARC; un+]
• A Working Woman, by Elvira Navarro (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Zoo, by Christopher Wilson (Faber) [e-book; requested]
• The King in the Golden Mask, by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Madeleine Project, by Clara Beaudoux (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Boundary, by Andrée A. Michaud (Biblioasis) [un+]
• Poetry and Photography, by Yves Bonnefoy (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Is That Kafka ?, by Reiner Stach (New Directions) [un+]
• Viruses, by Michael G. Cordingley (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Jerzy, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [library]
• The Burning Girl, by Claire Messud (W.W.Norton) [ARC; requested]
• Number 11, by Jonathan Coe (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]

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May, 2017

Books received/acquired in May, 2017
    [47 books / 17 reviewed to date]

• To Die in Spring, by Ralf Rothmann (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Latin Orgy, by Félicien Champsaur (Snuggly Books) [ARC; solicited]
• Uselessness, by Eduardo Lalo (University of Chicago Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao, by Martha Batalha (Oneworld) [ARC; un+]
• Beasts Head for Home, by Abe Kōbō (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Bear, by Marian Engel (David R. Godine) [library]
• Pioneers, by S. An-sky (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
• The Story of Be, by David Crystal (Oxford University Press) [un]
• Making Sense, by David Crystal (Oxford University Press) [un]
• Island of Point Nemo, by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès (Open Ltter) [ARC; un+]
• North Station, by Bae Suah (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
• Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, by Eka Kurniawan (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Gourmet Club, by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (University of Michigan Press) [requested]
• Class, by Francesco Pacifico (Melville House) [un+]
• Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
• Suzanne, by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (Coach House Books) [un+]
• Scar, by Sara Mesa (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• A Perfect Disharmony, by Sébastien Brebel (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Dear Cyborgs, by Eugene Lim (FSG Originals) [un+]
• Scents and Flavors, ed. by Charles Perry (NYU Press) [un+]
• ME, by Hoshino Tomoyuki (Akashic) [catalogue]
• Gaslight, by Joachim Kalka (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Hymns & Qualms, by Peter Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
• Strange Bird, by Michele K. Troy (Yale University Press) [library]
• The Woman Priest, by Sylvain Maréchal (University of Alberta Press) [library]
• Geoffrey Chaucer, by David Wallace (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Salki, by Wojciech Nowicki (Open Letter) [un+]
• Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, by Guðbergur Bergsson (Open Letter) [un+]
• Aberrant, by Marek Šindelka (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
• Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, by Ben Blatt (Simon & Schuster) [ibrary]
• Red Roofs and Other Stories, by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (University of Michigan Press) [library]
• Arabia Felix, by Thorkild Hansen (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Behind the Moon, by Madison Smartt Bell (City Lights) [un]
• Penance, by Minato Kanae (Mulholland Books) [library]
• Rapture, by Iliazd (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Magnetic Point, by Ryszard Krynicki (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Belladonna, by Daša Drndić (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• In the Name of the Father, by Balla (Jantar) [un+]
• Hitler, My Neighbor, by Edgar Feuchtwanger (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Kingdom Cons, by Yuri Herrera (And Other Stories) [un+]
• Living with the Living Dead, by Greg Garrett (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Gravity, by Timothy Clifton (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Hypatia, by Edward J. Watts (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• Madonna in a Fur Coat, by Sabahattin Ali (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Great Derangement, by Amitav Ghosh (University of Chicago Press) [library]
• Pragmatism as a Way of Life, by Hilary and Ruth Anna Putnam (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]

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April, 2017

Books received/acquired in April, 2017
    [53 books / 22 reviewed to date]

• The Boy in the Earth, by Nakamura Fuminori (Soho Press) [library]
• Oishinbo: Fish, Sushi and Sashimi, by Kariya Tetsu (Viz) [library]
• The 7th Function of Language, by Laurent Binet (Vintage) [e-book; requested]
• Three Floors Up, by Eshkol Nevo (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Hammers on Bone, by Cassandra Khaw (Tor.com) [library]
• Literary Criticism, by Joseph North (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Mother Land, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [requested]
• Paper Boats, by Dee Lestari (AmazonCrossing) [requested]
• Cruising the Library, by Melissa Adler (Fordham University Press) [catalogue]
• The Exploded View, by Ivan Vladislavić (Archipelago Books) [library]
• Three Envelopes, by Nir Hezroni (Thomas Dunne Books) [library]
• The King of Fools, by Frédéric Dard (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• Mikumari, by Kubo Misumi (Strangers Press) [requested]
• The Transparent Labyrinth, by Hirano Keiichiro (Strangers Press) [requested]
• Time Differences, by Tawada Yoko (Strangers Press) [requested]
• Spring Sleepers, by Yoshida Kyoko (Strangers Press) [requested]
• The Girl Who Is Getting Married, by Matsuda Aoko (Strangers Press) [requested]
• Mariko / Mariquita, by Ikezawa Natsuki (Strangers Press) [requested]
• At the Edge of the Wood, by Ono Masatsugu (Strangers Press) [requested]
• Friendship for Grown-Ups, by Yamazaki Nao-Cola (Strangers Press) [requested]
• The Consequences, by Niña Weijers (DoppelHouse Press) [ARC; un+]
• Us & Them, by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani (Redwood Press) [un+]
• P.S. from Paris, by Marc Levy (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
• The Global Novel, by Adam Kirsch (Columbia Global Reports) [requested]
• Die Haltlosen, by Oğuz Atay (Binooki Verlag) [€27,85]
• Attentat, by Amélie Nothomb (Diogenes) [€4,66]
• Schwarzes Licht, by Harry Mulisch ( Verlag Klaus Wagenbach) [€9,25]
• Remains of Life, by Wu He (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Therapiestation, by Ôe Kenzaburô (Fischer) [€9.30]
• The Disappearance of Signora Giulia, by Piero Chiara (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Durarara!! (1), by Narita Ryohgo (Yen Press) [library]
• Made to Kill, by Adam Christopher (Tor) [library]
• The Table, by Francis Ponge (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• The Arthritic Grasshopper, by Gisèle Prassinos (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• To the Back of Beyond, by Peter Stamm (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Air & Light & Time & Space, by Helen Sword (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Inventing Love, by José Ovejero (Peter Owen) [solicited]
• Nona's Room, by Cristina Fernández Cubas (Peter Owen) [solicited]
• Wolf Moon, by Julio Llamazares (Peter Owen) [solicited]
• Down Below, by Leonora Carrington (New York Review Books) [un+]
• The Impossible Fairy Tale, by Han Yujoo (Graywolf Press) [library]
• Doomi Golo, by Boubacar Boris Diop (Michigan State University Press) [library]
• In Search of the Grail, by Svetislav Basara (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• An Egyptian Novel, by Orly Castel-Bloom (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Nothing But Waves and Wind, by Christine Montalbetti (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Inner Immigrant, by Mihkel Mutt (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• City of Ulysses, by Teolinda Gersão (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Life of a Bishop's Assistant, by Viktor Shklovsky (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Excellence of the Arabs, by Ibn Qutaybah (NYU Press) [ ]
• Your Caius Aquilla, by John Andrew Fredrick (Rare Bird Books) [un]
• The Magician of Vienna, by Sergio Pitol (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• The Outlaw, by Jón Gnarr (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• A Long Saturday, by George Steiner (University of Chicago Press) [library]

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March, 2017

Books received/acquired in March, 2017
    [54 books / 22 reviewed to date]

• Avant le polar, by Paul Fournel (éditions Dialogues) [€11,58]
• Le crime du Comte Neville, by Amélie Nothomb (Le Livre de Poche) [€7,47]
• La nostalgie heureuse, by Amélie Nothomb (Le Livre de Poche) [€7,47]
• Mörikes Schlüsselbein, by Olga Martynova (btb) [€10,27]
• Löwenstern, by Adolf Muschg (dtv) [€12,06]
• Der Trost des Nachthimmels, by Dževad Karahasan (Suhrkamp) [€25,19]
• Der Herr der kleinen Vögel, by Ogawa Yoko (Aufbau) [€9,34]
• Schwimmen mit Elefanten, by Ogawa Yoko (Aufbau) [€9,34]
• Unter Professoren, by Willem Frederik Hermans (Aufbau) [€21,45]
• For Two Thousand Years, by Mihail Sebastian (Other Press) [un+]
• The Great Passage, by Miura Shion (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
• Turkish Delight, by Jan Wolkers (Tin House) [library]
• Meeting with My Brother, by Yi Mun-yol (Columbia University Press) [un+]
• Endgame, by Ahmet Altan (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Pioneer Girl Perspectives, ed. by Nancy Tystad Koupal (South Dakota Historical Society Press) [ARC; un]
• Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Dispelling the Darkness, by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Thupten Jinpa (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Incest, by Christine Angot (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• The Execution Channel, by Ken MacLeod (Tor) [library]
• Writings from Ancient Egypt, ed. by Toby Wilkinson (Penguin Classics) [library]
• Arthur Koestler, by Edward Saunders (Reaktion Books) [un]
• The Return of Munchausen, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books) [library]
• Checkpoint, by Jean-Christophe Rufin (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin (New York Review Books) [un=]
• Mikhail Bulgakov, J.A.E. Curtis (Reaktion Books) [un]
• The Invented Part, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
• Exes, by Max Winter (Catapult) [un]
• Thinks ..., by David Lodge (Penguin) [$1.00]
• Fires, by Marguerite Yourcenar (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$3.00]
• Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead) [library]
• Elle, by Philippe Djian (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• Tsunami, by Anatoly Kurchatkin (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Girls, be Good, by Bojan Babić (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• Time of the Octopus, by Anatoly Kucherena (Glagoslav) [solicited]
• The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping, by Higashino Keigo (Vertical, Inc.) [library]
• Scratches, by Michel Leiris (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Scraps, by Michel Leiris (Yale University Press) [un+]
• The Awkward Squad, by Sophie Hénaff (MacLehose Press) [e-book; requested]
• Slow Boat, by Furukawa Hideo (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
• I Don't Like Where This Is Going, by John Dufresne (W.W.Norton) [un]
• Private Novelist, by Nell Zink (Ecco) [library]
• Blameless, by Claudio Magris (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Moor, by Gunther Geltinger (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Fibrils, by Michel Leiris (Yale University Press) [un+]
• Selected Letters (vols. 1 and 2), by Francesco Petrarca (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• Humanism and the Latin Classics, by Aldus Manutius (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• A New Literary History of Modern China, ed. by David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• Ernesto, by Umberto Saba (New York Review Books) [un+]
• Gondwana, by Nathaniel Tarn (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Swimmer Among the Stars, by Kanishk Tharoor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
• The Loving Husband, by Christobel Kent (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un]
• Orbital Cloud, by Taiyo Fujii (Haikasoru) [requested]
• You Should Have Left, by Daniel Kehlmann (Pantheon) [e-book; requested]
• The End, by Fernanda Torres (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]

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February, 2017

Books received/acquired in February, 2017
    [48 books / 21 reviewed to date]

• Autopsy of a Father, by Pascale Kramer (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
• Heretics, by Leonardo Padura (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
• The Postman's Fiancée, by Denis Thériault (Oneworld) [un]
• Map Drawn by a Spy, by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Archipelago) [un+]
• Nest in the Bones, by Antonio Di Benedetto (Archipelago) [un+]
• The Book of the Dead, by Orikuchi Shinobu (University of Minnesota Press) [library]
• Stigmata of Bliss, by Klaus Merz (Seagull Books) [un+]
• The Red Sofa, by Michèle Lesbre (Seagull Books) [un+]
• The End of Eddy, by Édouard Louis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; catalogue]
• Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction, by Karam Nayebpour (ibidem) [un]
• Before Orthodoxy, by Shahab Ahmed (Harvard University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Crucible of Islam, by G.W.Bowersock (Harvard University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Parthenon Bomber, by Christos Chrissopoulos (Other Press) [ARC; un+]
• What We See When We Read, by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage) [library]
• The Last Days of New Paris, by China Miéville (Del Rey) [library]
• The Snow Kimono, by Mark Henshaw (Text Publishing) [library]
• The Nakano Thrift Shop, by Kawakami Hiromi (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
• The Shanghai Intrigue, by Michael S. Koyama (Seagull Books) [un+]
• Angel Station, by Jáchym Topol (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Beauty Looks Down on Me, by Eun Heekyung (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Irish Sea, by Carlos Maleno (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Sovereign, by Andrew Elias Colarusso (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Our Dead World, by Liliana Colanzi (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• Piece of Mind, by Michelle Adelman (W.W.Norton) [un]
• Ties, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Kzradock the Onion Man, by Louis Levy (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Adua, by Igiaba Scego (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Dirt Road, by James Kelman (Catapult) [un]
• Powers of Darkness, by Bram Stoker/Valdimar Ásmundsson (The Overlook Press) [library]
• Beauty and the Beast, ed. by Maria Tatar (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• The Invention of Angela Carter, by Edmund Gordon (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Reconstruction, by Rein Raud (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• No Harm Done, by Jean McGarry (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Dogs of Inishere, by Alannah Hopkin (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• How To Tie Your Shoes, by Nikola Petković (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
• The Principle, by Jérôme Ferrari (Europa Editions) [un+]
• In Praise of Litigation, by Alexandra Lahav (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• The Accusation, by Bandi (Grove Press) [un+]
• Quicksand, by Malin Persson Giolito (Other Press) [un+]
• The History of Akbar (vol. 3), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Killing of Shishupala, by Magha (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• In Praise of Annada (vol. 2), by Bharatchandra Ray (Harvard University Press) [requested]
• The Life of Harishchandra, by Raghavanka (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
• The Certificate, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Plume) [$1.00 ]
• Pandora's Star, by Peter F. Hamilton (Pan) [$1.25]
• Glasshouse, by Charles Stross (Ace) [$1.25]
• Accelerando, by Charles Stross (Ace) [$1.25]
• Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross (Orbit) [$1.25]

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January, 2017

Books received/acquired in January, 2017
    [54 books / 14 reviewed to date]

• Milena, by Jorge Zepeda Patterson (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• History of a Disappearance, by Filip Springer (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
• My Heart Hemmed In, by Marie NDiaye (Two Lines Press) [ARC; un+]
• Four Crises of American Democracy, by Alasdair Roberts (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
• I Am the Brother of XX, by Fleur Jaeggy (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• These Possible Lives, by Fleur Jaeggy (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• For Isabel, by Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Wolf Hunt, by Ivailo Petrov (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
• Letters to His Neighbor, by Marcel Proust (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Impossible Stories II, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [un+]
• Treatise on Toleration, by Voltaire (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• Shrinking Violets, by Joe Moran (Yale University Press) [un]
• How Bad Writing Destroyed the World, by Adam Weiner (Bloomsbury) [library]
• Glaxo, by Hernán Rosino (Melville House) [library]
• Das kalte Blut, by Chris Kraus (Diogenes) [e-book; requested]
• The Redemption of Galen Pike, by Carys Davies (Biblioasia) [ARC; un+]
• The Revolution of the Moon, by Andrea Camilleri (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
• Crimes of Winter, by Philippe Georget (Europa Editions) [un+]
• The Kingdom, by Emmanuel Carrère (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [catalogue]
• Large Animals, by Jess Arndt (Catapult) [ARC; un]
• Nights as Day, Days as Night, by Michel Leiris (Spurl) [ARC; un+]
• The Lost Stradivarius, by John Meade Falkner (Oxford University Press) [$1.00]
• Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker (Grove) [$1.00]
• The DADA Caper by Ross H. Spencer (Diversion Books) [$1.00]
• Out of the Line of Fire, by Mark Henshaw (Text) [library]
• Savage Theories, by Pola Oloixarac (Soho) [library]
• Conversations, Volume 1, by Osvaldo Ferrari (Seagull Books) [library]
• Killing Floor, by Lee Child (Jove Books) [$1.50]
• Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross (Orbit) [$1.00]
• The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love, by Per J. Andersson (Oneworld) [un]
• Generation Revolution, by Rachel Aspden (Other Press) [un]
• Moving the Palace, by Charif Majdalani (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
• Ghachar Ghochar, by Vivek Shanbhag (Penguin Books) [un+]
• The Sun King Conspiracy, by Yves Jégo and Denis Lépée (Gallic Books) [un+]
• Peer Gynt and Brand, by Henrik Ibsen (Penguin Classics) [un+]
• City Gate, Open Up, by Bei Dao (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Walks with Walser, by Carl Seelig (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
• Job-Boj, by Jorge Guzmán (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
• Not One Day, by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• The Golden Cockerel, by Juan Rulfo (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
• The Gray House, by Mariam Petrosyan (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
• Trail of Miracles, by Smadar Herzfeld (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
• 2084, by Boualem Sansal (Europa Editions) [un+]
• Spells, by Michel de Ghelderode (Wakefield Press) [un+]
• Recitation, by Bae Suah (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Of Darkness, by Josefine Klougart (Deep Vellum) [un+]
• Mirage, (anonymous) (NYRB/Calligrams) [library]
• The Mystery of the Three Orchids, by Augusto De Angelis (Pushkin Press) [library]
• Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre, by Clemens J. Setz (Suhrkamp) [library]
• Yukikaze, by Kambayashi Chōhei (Haikasoru) [$1.00]
• Chemmeen, by Thakazi Sivasankara Pillai (Seagulll Books) [un+]
• Kaveena, by Boubacar Boris Diop (Indiana University Press) [e-book; library]
• The Problem with Me, by Han Han (Simon & Schuster) [library]

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