Acclaim for Mothers and Shadows:'In the silence after her death, her novel, full of voices as pas...

These witty and ironical short essays in the classic Czech genre known as feuilletons, or chronic...

Johnny Manalo-a Filipino who has lived for years in the United States, sometimes illegally-return...

MICHAL VIEWEGH's short and witty novel Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia is the story of Beata Kralova...

NIRMAL VERMA (1929-2005) was an acknowledged master of Hindi prose and one of the pioneers of the...

Poland's recent history from Solidarity to martial law, from martial law to the end of communism ...

A three-day wake in Manila mourning the aged playboy Don Severino Gil is the setting for social s...

In The Land, Antônio Torres tells a universal story of tragic homecoming in a style that owes muc...

Monika Maron, the great German writer still today at the forefront of her creative generation, sa...

The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry an...

In this extraordinary, prizewinning novel, Monika Maron says farewell to the East Germany where s...

His magisterial prose and poetry have won Abdellatif Laâbi successively France's Prix Goncourt an...

Ranging through a history of changing empires, monarchies, countries, regimes, religions, down to...

On 11 September 1973 General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup against the elected government ...

This daughter of East Germany's elite exploded into print with her first angry novel mixing a cry...

Cathedral of the August Heat, Pierre Clitandre's first novel in English and the first novel from ...

To mark the 1985 fortieth anniversary of the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the disti...

Caterina Albert i Paradís predates Federico García Lorca and D. H. Lawrence in her portrayal of w...

The vibrant Jewish quarter of Budapest provides the setting for these stories by Hungarian twins ...

It's another hot, sleepless night in Rio, punctuated by the sounds of jazz, TV, and gunshots from...

In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writer...

Funny, shocking and absurd, tales of a dissident's life in Prague before the fall of communism, b...

In the two decades since Sergio Ramírez left active politics as a Sandinista leader of one of the...

Hadi Khorsandi is Iran's best-known comic writer. His humorous essays and flawless parodies of of...

Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from...

Drawing on the old Hungarian széphistoria or romance tradition, Ágnes Hankiss both assimilates it...

Playing on the rich Latin American literary tradition of the Saint's Life, Cuban writer Mireya Ro...

From Angola - scene of one of southern Africa's longest and bitterest colonial struggles - comes ...

'I had fallen into the situation [of previous Polish exiles] if not their role. In this unfortuna...

The great Romanian writer's tenth novel - his only work in English - is a Proustian feast of memo...

In the world of the two Koreas, the North draws our attention with its nukes and strident parades...

The long life and career of Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) spanned the whole trajectory of modern Kore...

Lu Wenfu, like the wonton-sellers, rickshaw pullers, and petty bureaucrats in these stories, was ...

Vladimir Makanin, was the great Russian chronicler of post-Soviet society, the new Russia that is...

'This fierce little novel tells the story of a political con­frontation in a remote village in Ar...

'You don't know us,' the writer said. 'We're different here in Chile.'Ariel Dorfman's early novel...

Watch Where the Wolf is Going

In Winter Quarters two performers past their prime have come to the provincial town of Colonia Ve...

New Portuguese Letters is one of the great works of modern women's literature. This erotic, lyric...

RENEWAL TIME marked the odyssey and return of Es'kia Mphahlele, a remarkable South African man of...

Njabulo Ndebele's prize-winning stories from South Africa's black townships first began appearing...

The magic and malice of warring gods and men crowd this novel of Mexico's turbulent history, writ...

A great novel by a great South African black writer. A father's search for his runaway son carrie...