Hot News This Week
August 8, 2024
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| Two books from Consortium publishers are among World Literature Today’s top picks for international horror fiction:
Grégoire Courtois’s The Laws of the Skies translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books): “A parent/teenager camping trip goes very wrong in this combination fairy tale/slasher novel.”
Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone translated by Sarah Booker (Coffee House Press): “Women on the verge prey on each other in this unsettling novel of psychological horror and cosmic horror.”
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| | Life After Kafka
by Magdaléna Platzová, trans. Alex Zucker
Bellevue Literary Press • August 2024 • 9781954276291
“The author has done deep-dive research to bring this story to light. Fans of Kafka will applaud her retelling of history while others will simply enjoy a story well told.” — Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore (Spokane, WA)
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| | Reservoir Bitches: Stories
by Dahlia de la Cerda, trans. Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary
Feminist Press • September 2024 • 9781558613119
“I adored the messiness and anger, the bad behavior and bad language.” — Sarah Canon, Third Place Books (Seattle, WA)
“A middle finger to conservative sensibilities. Dahlia de la Cerda writes women who are nasty, gritty, controversial, and downright criminal and I loved them all!” — Aud Kohler, BookWoman (Austin, TX)
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| | Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Lefanu, ed. Carmen Maria Machado
Lanternfish Press • November 2019 • 9781941360385
“Machado’s commentary and bone chilling introduction make this reading experience something it has never been before.” — Molly Magarian, The Novel Neighbor (St. Louis, MO)
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| | Vladivostok Circus
by Elisa Shua Dusapin, trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Open Letter • May 2024 • 9781960385123
“A young costume designer arrives in Russia, tasked with creating costumes for a trio of circus performers. Dusapin’s quiet novels always enchant me.” — Suzanna Hermans, Oblong Books (Millerton, NY)
“Amazing! A subtle yet gripping exploration of intimacy. Elisa Shua Dusapin continues to amaze me with every new translation.” — Oscar Almonte-Espinal, Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books (Philadelphia, PA)
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| | Emily Forever
by Maria Navarro Skaranger, trans. Martin Aitken
World Editions • June 2024 • 9781642861372
“Emily Forever is really different. The author gives us a portrait of a young abandoned pregnant girl who figures out how to make it work with a lot of help from family and friends. . . . I love books written in another language but beautifully translated, as this book is.” — Roxanne Laney, Arts & Letters Bookstore (Granbury, TX)
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| | A Muzzle for Witches
by Dubravka Ugresic, trans. Ellen Ellias-Bursac
Open Letter • September 2024 • 9781960385253
★ “Ugrešić expresses a refreshing commitment to the ‘invisible’ space of literature where the participation of one great reader is enough to provide fulfillment. Lovers of international literature will be energized by this bracing tonic.” — Publishers Weekly
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| | Comrade Papa
by Gauz', trans. Frank Wynne
Biblioasis • October 2024 • 9781771966450
“Expect to see GauZ’ back on the shortlists with this superlative work of fiction. . . . Only a bold writer in command of their talent could take on such a perilous and vast subject and come out, with laughter and love, on top.” — TLS
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“A terrific collection . . . All Things Edible resonates as a connection to a father who passed his deep love of food along to a talented writer who sees it big-picture.” — Pittsburgh Quarterly
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“Munger’s painfully honest and occasionally indecorous views on the mainstream investing world make for entertaining reading.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
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| | Traces of Enayat
by Iman Mersal, trans. Robin Moger
Transit Books • April 2024 • 9781945492846
“An investigation into the suicide of a young writer whose only novel was published posthumously. With the lightest of touches it examines patriarchy, gender and class, exploring mid-20th-century Egyptian society in all its rich complexity.” — The Economist
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“Vivid descriptions of mundane life and the cosmopolitan culture of Hong Kong, teeming with a touch of melancholy and nostalgia.” — World Literature Today
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| | New Digital Review Copies
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Brittle Joints
by Maria Sweeney
Street Noise Books • June 2024 • 9781951491260
“The art matches the delicacy and chaos that go along with being trapped in a body that you love and hate equally. Sweeney is a unique voice and a breath of fresh air in the graphic novel world.” — Manda Barker, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS)
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The “ridiculously talented illustrator” Jackie Morris, author of The Unwinding (Unbound), was mentioned in a New York Times piece for an event she did with the Bookshop Band.
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