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- Sacha Naspini's Nives, just out in English from Europa Editions
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- Patricia Fara looks at Isaac Newton's London Career in Life After Gravity
- Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City, recently re-issued by New York Review Books
- Émile Zola's 1883 novel, The Ladies' Paradise
- A new novel by Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities !
- Danielle Mémoire's Public Reading Followed by Discussion, new from Dalkey Archive Press
- Dmitry Lipskerov's The Tool & the Butterflies, recently in English from Deep Vellum
- The first volume of Frédéric Pajak's large-scale illustrated project, Uncertain Manifesto
- Paul Theroux's latest novel, Under the Wave at Waimea
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- William Gaddis' (American) National Book Award-winning J R, recently re-issued by New York Review Books
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- Amélie Nothomb's Jesus-novel Thirst, now in English from Europa Editions
- Andrea Bajani's lovely little novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins
- Takamura Kaoru's Lady Joker (I), the first half of the epic crime novel, now in English from Soho Press
- Éric Chevillard's 1999 The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster, just out in English from Sublunary Editions
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- Edition 69, collecting works by Vítězslav Nezval, František Halas, and Jindřich Štyrský, in a new edition from Twisted Spoon Press
- Yaniv Iczkovits' The Slaughterman's Daughter, just out in the US, and winner of this year's Wingate Literary Prize
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- Serhiy Zhadan's The Orphanage, just out from Yale University Press in their Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
- Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's latest, Klara and the Sun
- Claude Ollier's 1988 novel of Disconnection
- Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello's 1915 film-milieu novel, The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio (also published as: Shoot !), just re-issued by Dedalus
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