Reading The World 2008

Stewart

Administrator
Staff member
Reading The World is "an exiting collaboration between booksellers and publishers interested in bringing international voices to the attention of readers" and it's now in its fourth year. Here are the twenty-five titles chosen for promotion is participating US stores:


Archipelago Books
  • A Mind At Peace, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
  • Yalo, Elias Khoury
Columbia University Press
  • The Song Of Everlasting Sorrow, Wang Anyi
Copper Canyon Press
  • So What: New And Selected Poems, 1971-2005, Taha Muhammad Ali
Dalkey Archive Press
  • I'd Like, Amanda Michalopoulou
  • Knowledge Of Hell, Antonio Lobo Antunes
Ecco Press
  • Celestial Harmonies, P?ter Esterh?zy
  • Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Europa Editions
  • The Days Of Adandonment, Elena Ferrante
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • Beijing Coma, Ma Jian
  • The Girl On The Fridge, Etgar Keret
Graywolf Press
  • New European Poets, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer (ed.)
Grove/Atlantic
  • Serve the People!, Yan Lianke
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Peeling The Onion, G?nter Grass
  • Woods And Chalices, Tomaz Salamun
Knopf
  • War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  • The Corpse Walker, Liao Yiwu
New Directions
  • The Assistant, Robert Walser
  • Nazi Literature In The Americas, Roberto Bola?o
New York Review Of Books
  • The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig
  • Unforgiving Years, Victor Serge
Other Press
  • The King Of Corsica, Michael Kleeberg
  • Life Laid Bare: The Survivors In Rwanda Speak, Jean Hatzfeld
Picador USA
  • Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
  • The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogowa
 
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