Date: 2013 Author: Donal Ryan Spain and Ireland were the European countries most stricken by the housing bust that began…

Date: 2003 Author: Shirley Hazzard Admirers of Shirley Hazzard waited 20 years for her novel, “The Great Fire.” Set in…

Date: 2014 Author: Jesse Ball Give a talented writer who likes subterfuge a footbridge into Japanese subtlety and with it…

Date: 2014 Author: Chang-Rae Lee In recent years much-praised British novelists Kazuo Ishiguro and Jim Crace both took brief left…

Date: 1978 (2002) Author: Norman Lewis Travel writer and novelist Norman Lewis, stationed in North Africa as a low-level British…

Date: 1998 (2012) Author: César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver Aira’s delightful novella presents a playground of…

Date: 1926 (1999) Author: Arthur Schnitzler, translated from the German by J.M.Q. Davies Schnitzler’s late 19th-century Hapsburg Vienna combined affluence,…

Date: 1967 (2005) Author: Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt “Cosmos” is a tale of adolescent self-absorption…

Date: 2011 Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskay, translated from the Russian by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers Happily ever after are three…

Date: 1989 (1998) Author: Danilo Kiš, translated from the Serbian by Michael Henry Heim Steeped in literature and drawn to…

Date: 1982, 1991 (2010) Author: 1982, 1991 (2010) Fernando Pessoa, edited by Maria José de Lancaśtre, translate from the Portuguese…

Date: 1905 (2002) Author: Hjalmer Söderberg, translated from the Swedish by Paul Britten Austin Doctor Glas’s view of humanity is…