Date: 1974 (2001) Author: Kobe Abe, translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders “Passion,” writes Abe, “is the urge…

Date: 1997 Author: Martin Amis Amis got around to the torment of urban homicide when it was still postmodern society’s…

Date: 2006 Author: Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews In the story “Dentist,” the narrator is suddenly…

Date: 2018 Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson Albanian playwright Rudian Stefa sees ghosts. They are…

Date: 2006 Author: Andreï Makine, translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan Paris-resident Makine sets his wispy novel in a…

Date: 2007 Author: Graham Swift “From the start,” says 49-year-old narrator and art dealer Paula Hook in a ruminative confession…

Date: 2001 Author: David Malouf Australian Malouf is an author and poet of breathtaking gifts whose place outside the mainstream…

Date: 2003 (2006) Author: Philippe Claudel, translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers Claudel’s novel is slow-dissolving hard candy with…

Date: 2006 Author: Etgar Keret, translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston One story title all but…

Date: 2005 Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Leave it to Ishiguro to effectively imbue clones with a human sense of purpose and…

Date: 2006 Author: Martin Amis Since “Koba the Dread, “ his mea colpa elegy to Stalinism’s marathon horrors, Amis has favored “Gulagism”…

Date: 2006 Author: Paul Auster Auster returns to New York Trilogy terrain. The paranormal Trilogy, published in 1985, paved the…