Date: 1999 (2006) Author: Elena Ferrante, translated by Deborah Silver Ferrante is sublimely gifted in portraying emotional claustrophobia. Her contaminated…

Date: 2004 Author: David Bezmozgis This fine debut collection ends with a story in which the narrator’s grandfather decides to…

Date: 2009 (2010) Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Full appreciation of Moya requires an…

Date: 2010 Author: Jennifer Egan Apool table quivers when the rack breaks. All eyes focus on tangents. But when the…

Date: 1987 (2006) Author: David Markson Encourage the last person on earth, a painter named Kate, “curator of all the…

Date: 2011 Author: Téa Obreht The most intriguing figure in Obreht’s filling Balkan stew is “the deathless man,” Gavran Gailé,…

Date: 2008 (2009) Author: Siegfried Lenz, translated from the German by Anthea Bell The German title of this novella, “Schweigeminute,”…

Date: 2010 Author: Paul Auster “Sunset Park” lacks the subversive originality that made Auster a key figure on the New…

Date: 2000 Author: Aleksandar Hemon Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon was plowing his way through the United States to visit a…

Date: 2004 (2009) Author: Cees Nooteboom, translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty An author flying to Berlin on small…

Date: 2010 (2008) Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson Kadare’s novel gallops into life. A car…

Date: 2009 (2006) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Could you be that hard-luck translator and…