Sunday, July 31, 2016

SUGGESTED FICTION

Russell Banks, Continental Drift (New York: Perennial Classics/HarperCollins, 2000).

Muriel Barbery, The Life of Elves, translated from the French by Alison Anderson (New York: Europa Editions, 2016).

Eileen Chang, Naked Earth, introduction by Perry Link (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 1996, 2015).

Chen Jo-hsi, The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories form the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, translated from the Chinese by Nancy Ing & Howard Goldblatt, introduction by Simon Leys (Bloomington & London: U. of Indiana Press, 1978).

Frank Conroy, Body and Soul (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1993).

Marguerite Duras, Emily L., translated from the French by Barbara Bray (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989).

Marguerite Duras, Summer Rain: A Novel, translated from the French by Barbara Bray (New York: Collier, 1990, 1991) ("Teacher: So what we have here is a boy who only wants to learn what he knows already. Father: That's it. Mother: No, he's never said that. He's quite willing to learn anything, anything, but what he doesn't know--no, he doesn't want to learn that." Id. at 76.).

Abby Geni, The Last Animal: Stories (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013).

Jane Hamilton, The Excellent Lombards: A N0vel (New York & Boston, Grand Central Publishing, 2016).

John Hawkes, The Lime Twig; Second Skin, Travesty, preface by Robert Coover, introduction by Patrick McGrath (New York: Penguin Books, 1996).

Rabee Jaber, Confessions, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid (New York: New Directions Books, 2013).

Rabee Jaber, The Mehlis Report, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid (New York: New Directions Books, 2013).

Yashar Kemal, Salman the Solitary, translated fro the Turkish by Thilda Kemal (London: The Harvill Press, 1987).

Yashar Kemal, They Burn the Thistles, translated from the Turkish by Margaret E. Platon, introduction by Bill McKibben (New York: Classics/New York Review Books, 2007).

Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True (New York: Regan Books, 1998).

Jonathan Lee, High Dive: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2016).

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, introduction by David Mitchell, illustrated by David Lupton (LondonL The Folio Society, 2015).

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel (New York: Viking, 2016) (See Fiona Maazel, "Road to Detonation," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/20/2016.).

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, introduced by Michael Dirda, illustrated by Federico Infante (London: The Folio Society, 2015).

Joyce Carol Oates, The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel (New York: Ecco, 2016).

Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2016)  (See Laura Van Den Berg, "Cabinet of Wonders," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 3/20/2016.).

Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016).

Elke Schnitter, Mrs. Sartoris, translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway (New York: Knopf, 2003).

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi (New York: Penguin Books, 2010).

Elif Shafak, Honor: A Novel (New York: Viking, 2012).

Lionel Shriver, So Much For That: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2010).

Jane Smiley, Ten Days in the Hills: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2007).

Vladimir Sorokin, The Blizzard: A Novel, translated from the Russian by James Gambrell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015).

Vladimir Sorokin, Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).

Vladimir Sorokin, Ice Trilogy: Bro, Ice, 23,000, translated from the Russian by James Gambrell (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2011).

Vladimir Sorokin, The Queue, with a new afterword by the author, translated from the Russian with a preface by Sally Laird,  and Afterword: Farewell to the Queue by the author (New York: New York Review Books Classics, 2008).

Abdellah Taia, Infidels: A Novel, translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer (New York & Oakland: Seven Stories Press, 2016).

Peter Taylor, The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor (Contemporary American Fiction) (New York: Penguin Books, 1986).

Franz Werbel, Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand: A Novella, translated from the German by James Reidel (Boston: A Verba Mundi Book/David R. Godine, 2010).