Review Index 2023

We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini (US)

Lifebridge [life in fragments] by Y-Dang Troeung (Cambodian-Canadian)

The Worst Thing of All is the Light by José Luis Serrano (Spain, tr. by Lawrence Schimel)

Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan by Siamak Herawi (Afghanistan/Farsi, tr. Sara Khalili)

Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh (Palestine/Arabic, tr. by Sawad Hussain)

What is Saved by Aamer Hussein (Pakistani British/English)

Under Our Skin: A Journey by Joaquim Arena (Cape Verde/Protuguese, tr. by Jethro Soutar)

Sakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag (India/Kannada, tr. Srinath Perur)

In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish (Palestinian/Arabic, tr. by Sinan Antoon)

Night of Loveless Nights by Robert Desnos (France, tr. by Lewis Warsh)

River in an Ocean: Essays on Translations edited by NuZhat Abbas

January by Sara Gallardo (Argentina/Spanish, tr. Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaughnessy)

The Box: A Novel by Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Bermuda/English)

All the Eyes that I have Opened by Franc Mancinelli (Italy, tr. by John Taylor)

The Postman of Abruzzo by Vénus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanese-French/French, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

In Red by Magdalena Tulli (Polish, tr. by Bill Johnston)

South by Babak Lakghomi (Iranian Canadian)

The Questionable Ones by Judith Keller (Swiss/German, tr. by Tess Lewis)

Down With the Poor! by Shumona Sinha (France, tr. by Teresa Lavender Fagan)

Portrait Tales by Jean Frémon (France, tr. by John Taylor)

The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati (Italy, tr. by Lawrence Venuti)

House of the Nine Devils by Johannes Urzidil (Prague/German, tr. by David Burnett)

Own Sweet Time by Caroline Clark (UK)

Mother Muse Quintent by Naveen Kishore (India)

Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison (Canada)

Mothers and Truckers by Ivana Dobrakovová (Slovakia, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood)

None of the Above by Travis Alabanza (UK)

The Enlightenment of Kazuo Nakamatsu by Augusto Higa Oshiro (Peru/Spanish, tr. by Jennifer Shyue)

Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (Bagladesh-Australia/Bangla, tr. by Arunava Sinha)

My Life as Edgar by Dominique Fabre (France, tr. by Anna Lehmann)

Austral by Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica/Spanish, tr, by Megan McDowell)

Second Star and Other Reasons for Lingering by Philippe Delerm (France, tr. by Jody Gladding)

Hawa Hawa by Narabun Bhattacharya (India/Bangla, tr. by Subha Prasad Sanyal)

The Geography of Rebels Trilogy by Maria Gabriela Llansol (Portuguese, tr. by Audrey Young)

‘La Clarté Notre-Dame’ andThe Last Book of the Madrigals’ by Philippe Jaccottet (Swiss/French, tr. John Taylor)

Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (China, tr. by Jeremy Tiang)

Rombo by Esther Kinskey (German, tr. by Caroline Schmidt)

The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (Mexican/Spanish, tr. by Robin Myers)

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai (Hungary, tr. by Ottilie Mulzet)

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (Canada/English)

My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose (India/Bengali, tr. by Arunava Sinha)

Journey to the South by Michal Ajvaz (Czech, tr. by Andrew Oakland)

Twilight of Torment: Melancholy by Léonora Miano (Cameroon/French, tr. by Gila Walker)

Embark by Sean O’Brien (UK)

Eastbound by Maylis de Kerngal (France, tr. by Jessica Moore)

Balkan Bombshells compiled and translated by Will Firth (Serbia and Montenegro/ Serbo-Croatian)

The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar Ali (Kurdistan/Kurdish, tr. by Kareem Abdulrahman)

The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel (Brazil/Portuguese, tr. by Bruna Dantas Lobato)

Doom Town by Gabriel Blackwell (US)

Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher (Romanian, tr. by Henry Howard)

The Last Days of Terranova by Manuel Rivas (Spain/Galician, tr. by Jacob Rogers)

Alien by Ali Raz (US)