New & Notable

[Liam]

Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure; Olga Slavnikova's 2017 in paperback; short stories from Tasmania (available in Kindle format only).

[Liam]

Yum. Deluxe LoA editions of Nine American Sci-Fi Novels of the 1950s and Laura I. Wilder's (who IS she?) series The Little House Books, in two volumes.

[Hamlet]

That SF boxset looks very nice Liam.

[Eric]

To answer Sriq's comment in #53, I try my best to always write the introductions to the books I translate, so whether they highlight the translator or the introducer, I win. However, it is true that reviewers in big newspapers, and the people who write the bookshop snippets about books often forget that it is the translator (translating, say, 300 pages of complex text from one language to another) not the introducer (often someone who plagiarises others' comments) is the one who has done all the hard work.

[Liam]

Another Dutch classic coming out soon: The Hidden Force by Louis Couperus; also Dostoyevsky's forgotten satire The Crocodile in paperback; Friedrich Torberg's Young Gerber; and Hans Keilson's Life Goes On (his first novel, published when he was only twenty-three).

[Eric]

Louis Couperus was once a big name in Dutch literature. He wrote a whole load of books, which you can see from the length of the book list in the Wikipedia entry. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Couperus

[Liam]

Holy moly, too many new and exciting books coming out! Perhaps it'd be better to make a list, instead of the usual paragraph:

Ma Jian: The Dark Road (novel)
Mo Yan: Pow! (novel)
Pierre Alferi: Night and Day (poetry)
Oscarine Bosquet: Present Participle (poetry)
Dietmar Dath: The Abolition of Species (novel)
Andrea Hirata: The Rainbow Troops (novel)
Deirdre Brennan: Hidden Places (poetry)
Colette Níc Aodha: In Castlewood (poetry)
Amos Oz: Jews and Words (non-fiction)
Curzio Malaparte: The Skin (novel)
Yoko Ogawa: Revenge (novel)
Binyavanga Wainaina: One Day I Will Write About this Place (memoir)
Folk Tales of the Maldives (folklore)
Vladimir Nabokov: The Tragedy of Mister Morn (play)
Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think (poetry)
Boris Novak: The Master of Insomnia (poetry)
Ivan Vladislavić: A Labour of Moles (novella)
Nazim Hikmet: Life's Good, Brother (novel)
Peter MacDonald: Collected Poems (poetry)
Nathaniel Rich: Odds against Tomorrow (novel)

[Liam]

Alex Espinoza's new novel The Five Acts of Diego Leon; Strange but True: Tales from Scotland; and Vasily Grossman's slim but engrossing An Armenian Sketchbook.

[Liam]

Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then (novel)
Chico Buarque: Spilt Milk (novel)
Anna Seghers: Transit (novel)
Maria Caracciolo Chia: The Light In Between (novel)
Narcyza Zmichowska: The Heathen (novel)
Jose Saramago: Raised from the Ground (novel)
Alexander Snegirev: Petroleum Venus (novel)
Mikhail Shishkin: Maidenhair (novel)
Salman Rushdie: Joseph Anton (memoir)
Willa Cather: Selected Letters (non-fiction)
Jack Kerouac: The Sea Is My Brother: A Lost Novel

[Cleanthess]

So, we're finally going to be able to see for ourselves if this Shishkin fellow is all that and a bag of chips.
I read Seghers' Das siebte Kreuz in Spanish translation many years ago. I remember reading it at about the same time I read Uhlman's Reunion and I tell ya, those books are something else. Those books have the most powerful endings in a positive way that I've experienced so far. I'm looking forward to the new Seghers.
I recall vaguely reading two versions of the same story by Yoko Ogawa about a pool and a pregnant woman. The first version was told as horror, the pregnant woman gets poisoned by a relative using orange skins or something. The second version is a extremely subtle story in a more mainstream kind of way. I look forward to reading her new work too.

[Liam]

Five Books to Look Forward to in September 2012: from Canada, Iceland, Ireland, USA and New Zealand.

[Flint]

One book I'm looking forward to in September 2012

[kpjayan]

A new translation of his short stories are set for release in September by Vintage. Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the major voices in Urdu literature, whose 100th birth centenary is celebrated in 2012.

[Hamlet]

I'm trying out a new Irish writer by the name of Claire Kilroy, I've recently bought - All Names Have Been Changed.





Her other novels include:-

Devil I know
All Summer
Tenderwire

http://www.faber.co.uk/author/claire-kilroy/

A brief abstract from Faber about this writer.

[Liam]

Tamas Dobozy: Siege 13
Jose Manuel Prieto: Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia
Fuminori Nakamura: The Rule of Evil and the Mask
Rick Bass: All the Land to Hold Us
Matt Bell: In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake & the Woods
Russell Hoban: Turtle Diary

[Liam]

Oh. My. God.

This just made my day. Finally!!!

Sadly, the translator is not Szirtes. This Ottilie chick better be good.

[Mookse]

That is excellent news!

[Daniel del Real]

Here's 2013 Spring/Summer catalog by New Directions:

http://ndbooks.com/static/catalog/Ne...13_Catalog.pdf

Lots coming from Latin American Literature: Bolaño, Aira, Pizarnik & Felisberto Hernández. Also a good dose of Hungarian writers with Kraznahorkai's Seiobo and a novel by Adam Bodor.

Interesting stuff coming on.

[Liam]

Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories
Imre Kertesz: Dossier K
Chin'gak Kuksa Hyesim (1178–1234): Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems
Long, Long Tales from the Russian North
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Jose Angel Valente: Landscape with Yellow Birds

[Stiffelio]

Here's 2013 Spring/Summer catalog by New Directions:

http://ndbooks.com/static/catalog/Ne...13_Catalog.pdf

Lots coming from Latin American Literature: Bolaño, Aira, Pizarnik & Felisberto Hernández. Also a good dose of Hungarian writers with Kraznahorkai's Seiobo and a novel by Adam Bodor.

Interesting stuff coming on.

Looks like a great catalog. I recommend Joesph Roth's The Emperor's Tomb and Aira's The Hare, one of his best early books.