Date: 2012 Author: Dan Rhodes Rhodes’ early novels were gifted with eccentric narrators, including a wayward dog (“Timoleon Vieta Come…

Date: 2008 (2010) Author: Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer Middle-aged Helmer van Wonderen lives on a…

Date: 2011 Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Moya’s novel is set in 1944 and…

Date: 2000 (1947) Author: Carlo Levy, translated from the Italian by Frances Freneye For decades, well-meaning reviewers of Levi’s masterpiece…

Date: 2007 Author: Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein Ferrante’s narrator, an English literature teacher named Leda,…

Date: 2011 Author: Caitlin Horrocks Caitlin Horrocks’ best stories possess a pterodactyl’s promising wingspan. The first ones are mostly melancholy…

Date: 1981 (1933) Author: Ignazio Silone, translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher On a June day in the 1920s…

Date: 2007 Author: Jesse Ball Jesse Ball’s first novel sees James, not Alice, in Wonderland. But Ball’s wormhole, unlike Lewis…

Date: 2011 Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Udo Berger, a 25-year-old World War II war-games…

Date: 1983 Author: Dino Buzzati, translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti Buzzati’s short fiction pushes the Tartar steppes into…

Date: 2011 Author: Raffaele Carcano Raffaele Carcano, who heads the UAAR, Italy’s association of atheists, has written a vademecum on…

Date: 2010 Author: Magnus Mills If a novel can masquerade as a ditty, then the dry-witted Mills knows how to…