Date: 2006 Author: Philip Roth Roth was born in 1933; the narrator of this lament is 71. “Old age isn’t…

Date: 2006 Author: Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith Six decades after composition two brilliant novellas of…

Date: 2001 (2003) Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden As a tourist into memory,…

Date: 2005 Author: Ismail Kadare, translated from the French by David Bellos Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare occupies a curious place…

Date: 2002 Author: Paul Bailey The Andrew of the slender novel is really Andrei, a Romanian boy deposited into London…

Date: 2004 Author: Aleksandar Hemon When Josef Pronek was born in the Sarajevo maternity hospital on Sept. 10, 1967, no…

Date: 1999 Author: Jim Crace If literature exalts concoction, Crace is a mad scientist. Joseph and Celine are murdered, their…

Date: 2006 Author: Marisha Pessl Bypass the clever’n’cruel pop fireworks that swarm Pessl’s inspired first novel and you get a…

Date: 2005 Author: Paul Auster Just what doesn’t work here is elusive. Auster has said he started this novel years…

Date: 2006 Author: Megan K. Williams The Rome-based Williams, like the Alice Munro she so admires, is a meticulous observer…

Date: 2006 (2004) Author: Amélie Nothomb, translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside Though the Amélie-centric Nothomb is betrayed by…

Date: 2004 Author: Kevin Brockmeier Brockmeier’s first novel is a sweet, sad bird that flits between Pied Piper and Twilight…