Hot News This Week
February 23, 2023
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“In the 7th grade, I fell in love with the miniature wargaming hobby and have since put in countless hours painting angry toy soldiers. This is why I was so excited to see the impending release of Dice Men: The Origin Story of Games Workshop. . . . Of the books coming out this spring, this is the one I am most excited about.” — Ryan V.W., Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
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| Crippling Sadness and Ghostly Houseplants in the New York Times Book Review
Featured in the New York Times Book Review this weekend is Abyss by Pilar Quintana, a “spare, atomospheric novel” that’s “succintly translated” by Lisa Dillman. “[Abyss] explores Claudia’s high anxiety and the terrors of the adult world,” writes reviewer Anderson Tepper. “And there’s much for her to fear: snakes, guerrillas, loneliness, crippling sadness. Even the house plants take on a ghostly presence.” The novel—Quintana’s follow-up to The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award finalist also translated by Dillman—will also be a NYTBR Editors’ Choice pick in the March 5 issue, and it received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Abyss
by Pilar Quintana, trans. Lisa Dillman
World Editions • February 2023 • 9781642861228
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| Celebrating Two LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Two titles from Consortium publishers are finalists for the 2022 LA Times Book Prizes: Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter, for fiction and Marwa Helal’s Ante body for poetry. We’ll be cheering them on when winners are announced on April 21!
Solenoid
by Mircea Cartarescu, trans. Sean Cotter
Deep Vellum Publishing • October 2022 • 9781646052028
Ante body
by Marwa Helal
Nightboat Books • May 2022 • 9781643621425
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 Click here for more top titles publishing next Tuesday, Feb. 28.
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★ “The simple, well-chosen words and parallel phrases in the text, combined with the many paired illustrations, add a charming dual quality to this cozy picture book.” — Booklist
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| | New Life
by Ana Božicevic
Wave Books • April 2023 • 9781950268719
★ “Championing the confessional voice with dynamic lyricism, Božicevic offers sonorous texture, rollicking conceits, and unparalleled vision.” — Publishers Weekly
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“Illustrator Marit Tornqvist uses earth-toned watercolors and a sense of restrained humor to conjure a barnyard perplexity in The Fearless Little Farm Boy, a beguiling picture book written by Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), author of the Pippi Longstocking series, and originally published in 1950.” — Wall Street Journal
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| | Return to Latvia
by Marina Jarre, trans. Ann Goldstein
New Vessel Press • February 2023 • 9781954404106
“The book builds in intensity as Jarre, after returning home to Italy, combs through documentary material and traces the history of the Gersoni family and the Jews of Latvia. As a result, she manages to piece together a history of her Jewish ancestors and to uncover relationships of which she was unaware.” — Jewish Book Council
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| New Digital Review Copies
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Sweetlust: Stories
by Asja Bakic, trans. Jennifer Zoble
Feminist Press • February 2023 • 9781952177729
“Bakić’s second collection, following Mars, offers spectral, speculative tales of womanhood’s fluidity and ferality.” — Electric Literature
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Carmen Maria Machado wrote a Vulture piece this month about Violette Leduc’s Thérèse and Isabelle, translated by Sophie Hughes (Feminist Press).
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