Date: 1954 (2008) Author: Jean Giono, translated from the French by Peter Doyle While Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince”…

Date: 2013 Author: Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Alison Anderson Amélie Nothomb’s slender fiction presents itself as the…

Date: 2013 Author: Jamie Quatro Jamie Quatro’s outstanding debut collection is spiritual without being religious, mystical without straying from daily…

Date: 1998 (2013) Author: Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Frank Wynne Imagine a suspension bridge dividing existentialism, an…

Date: 1948 (2012) Author: Ernesto Sabato, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden Though far less well-known, Sabato’s unsettling…

Date: 2012 Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson In 1943, as World War II turns against…

Date: 2003 (2011) Author: Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Ann McClean The “fictional” narrator — Vila-Matas of course…

Date: 2012 Author: Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky and others The Italian word pimpante means full of life…

Date: 1998 (2013) Author: W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Jo Catling German author W.G. Sebald died in 2001…

Date: 1978 (1992) Author: Thomas Bernhard, translated from the German by Ewald Osers “Ja” is a remarkable car wreck, metaphorical…

Date: 2013 Author: Roberto Saviano Italian journalist Robert Saviano’s 2006 “Gomorra,” an exposé of the Naples underworld group known as…

Date: 1998 (2007) Author: Anthony Beevor The details of the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad are unfathomable in 21st-century terms. Yes,…