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Above the Rain
The life of a young woman having an affair with the deputy commissioner of the Swedish police becomes linked with two friends in a nursing home.
By Víctor del Árbol. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Available May 25 from Other Press.
Italy
The Adventures of Pinocchio
New
The classic story of a wooden puppet coming to life gets a new translation ahead of two major motion picture adaptations.
By Carlo Collodi. Translated from the Italian by John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna. Available September 14 from Penguin Classics.
Argentina
American Delirium
When deer begin to attack residents of a small Midwestern city, an ex-hippie senior trains a group of retirees to hunt the animals while protesters decide to live in the woods.
By Betina González. Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary. Available February 16 from Henry Holt and Co..
Mali
Amkoullel, the Fula Boy
An influential Malian writer recounts the aftermath of war between the Fula and Toucouleur peoples and the arrival of French colonialism.
By Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Translated from the French by Jeanne Garane. Available August 20 from Duke University Press.
France
The Anomaly
New
On a flight to New York, passengers who live double lives experience turbulence and find themselves in a familiar but strange new reality.
By Hervé Le Tellier. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. Available November 23 from Other Press.
Brazil
Antonio
On the verge of becoming a father, a man in Brazil tries to piece together a painful family history from three conflicting accounts.
By Beatriz Bracher. Translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris. Available March 2 from New Directions.
Brazil
An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures
A woman struggles to be freed of solitude and sadness until she meets Ulisses, a guide who leads her into the fullness of pleasure and life.
By Clarice Lispector. Translated from the Portuguese by Stefan Tobler. Available April 6 from New Directions.
Israel
Aquarium
Two deaf sisters are raised in seclusion by deaf parents, until they are one day separated and begin to learn how to exist in the outside world.
By Yaara Shehori. Translated from the Hebrew by Todd Hasak-Lowy. Available April 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
France
Arcadia
In a commune that preaches equality and free love, a girl begins to explore beyond the confines of gender.
By Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver. Available May 25 from Seven Stories Press.
Tunisia
The Ardent Swarm
When hornets swarm one of a bee whisperer’s hives, he ventures to the city to save his bees from destruction.
By Yamen Manai. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. Available February 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Greece
Aristophanes: Four Plays
Four works by the fifth-century-B.C. playwright range from a caricature of Socrates to the story of a woman who persuades her fellow females to withhold sex from their warmongering lovers until they negotiate peace.
By Aristophanes. Translated from the Greek by Aaron Poochigian. Available February 16 from Liveright.
Korea
Arriving in a Thick Fog
Four novellas take the reader through the maze of a mind’s layers, emphasizing not events but ideas.
By Jung Young Moon. Translated from the Korean by Mah Eunji and Jeffrey Karvonen. Available February 23 from Deep Vellum.
Germany
Art and Crime
New
Stories of high-stakes art crimes are told by experts who analyze what needs to change in the billion-dollar industry.
By Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm. Translated from the German by Paul David Young. Available December 7 from Seven Stories Press.
France
The Art of Losing
A novel spanning three generations traces a history of Algeria, how one carries the loss of a country and the deep rifts that can form from rebuilding one’s community.
By Alice Zeniter. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Available March 23 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Spain
The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat
Here are 13 stories about wearing a trench coat, admiring Humphrey Bogart and adopting a dog in light of a failing marriage.
By Sergi Pàmies. Translated from the Catalan by Adrian Nathan West. Available March 16 from Other Press.
Japan
At the End of the Matinee
A guitarist and a journalist meet after a concert in Tokyo and bond instantly but struggle to find the courage to explore it.
By Keiichiro Hirano. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Available April 15 from Amazon Crossing.
Denmark
Awake
New
Pliny the Elder is comically brought to life in his attempts to catalog everything from precious metals to exotic plants.
By Harald Voetmann. Translated from the Danish by Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen. Available September 7 from New Directions.
France
Back to Japan
New
A filmmaker befriends a master kimono painter and documents his life, from childhood in the 1950s to his work exhibited in museums around the world.
By Marc Petitjean. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. Available October 26 from Other Press.
Mexico
Beauty Salon
New
A beauty salon owner opens his doors as a refuge when an infectious disease ransacks a large city.
By Mario Bellatin. Translated from the Spanish by David Shook. Available September 22 from Deep Vellum Press.
Lebanon
Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse
A journal chronicles events in Lebanon from the beginning of summer 2020 up to the August explosion.
By Charif Majdalani. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver. Available August 3 from Other Press.
Wales
The Blue Book of Nebo
New
A mother and son’s relationship evolves after they survive a nuclear disaster in rural northwest Wales and must adapt in their isolated cottage.
By Manon Steffan Ros. Translated from the Welsh by . Available November 2 from Deep Vellum Press.
Finland
Bolla
In 1995 Kosovo, a married university student begins an affair with a Serb.
By Pajtim Statovci. Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston. Available July 6 from Pantheon.
Hungary
The Bone Fire
Growing up under an Eastern European dictatorship, a teenager is adopted by her mystic grandmother after her parents die in a car accident.
By György Dragomán. Translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet. Available February 23 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Italy
The Book of Nonexistent Words
New
A catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people, from Louis XIV to an American gangster.
By Stefano Massini. Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon. Available October 5 from HarperVia.
France
Born of No Woman
New
A 14-year-old, traded by her father for a handful of coins and taken to an isolated manor, is thrown into a web of abuse and desire.
By Franck Bouysse. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. Available October 19 from Other Press.
Serbia
The Bridge on the Drina
New
A Serb who was kidnapped as a boy constructs a bridge where he and his mother were separated, which ends up connecting the lives of Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox Christians alike.
By Ivo Andrić. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Lovett F. Edwards. Available November 2 from Everyman’s Library.
Republic of Congo
The Bridgetower Sonata
A violin prodigy of mixed race takes 18th-century Europe by storm, becoming a court favorite of the Prince of Wales and befriending Ludwig Van Beethoven.
By Emmanuel Dongala. Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Available April 15 from Schaffner Press.
Senegal
Brotherhood
When two young people are executed for having loved each other, their mothers start a secret correspondence.
By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Translated from the French by Alexia Trigo. Available July 6 from Europa.
Uruguay
Byobu
New
This inventory of meditations and discoveries offers glimpses of the rich inner world of a poet who lived to 97.
By Ida Vitale. Translated from the Spanish by Sean Manning. Available November 30 from Charco Press.
Croatia
Café Europa Revisited
A sculpture of Alexander the Great, an immigrant with a parrot and a memorial ceremony of a Soviet-led army invasion spotlight life in Eastern Europe after Communism.
By Slavenka Drakulic. Available January 5 from Penguin.
Venezuela
The Caiman
In this picture book, a clockmaker adopts a baby alligator and the two become beloved in the town of San Fernando de Apure.
By María Eugenia Manrique. Illustrated by Ramón París. Translated from the Spanish by Amy Brill. Available January 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Japan
The Cat Who Saved Books
New
A talking cat approaches a teenage bookstore owner for help on a mission to save books.
By Sosuke Natsukawa. Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai. Available December 7 from HarperVia.
South Korea
Catcalling
A debut poetry collection touches on psychological abuse from childhood and sexism in Korea.
By Lee Soho. Translated from the Korean by Soje. Available April 13 from Open Letter.
Hungary
Chasing Homer
New
With full-color paintings by Max Neumann, the tale of a hunted being evokes the terrifying momentum of escaping death.
By László Krasznahorkai. Translated from the Hungarian by John Batki. Available November 2 from New Directions.
Italy
The Children’s Train
With thousands of other children, a 7-year-old takes a train across Italy to start a new life after World War II.
By Viola Ardone. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford. Available January 12 from HarperVia.
France
Cleopatra
An Italian paleontologist reconstructs the life of the Egyptian queen, from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the birth of the Augustan Empire.
By Alberto Angela. Translated from the French by Katherine Gregor. Available March 23 from HarperVia.
Spain
Come On Up
Portraits of contemporary Barcelona detail an economic crisis divided by a secessionist movement and families adjusting to a new normal.
By Jordi Nopca. Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem. Available February 9 from Bellevue Literary Press.
Austria
The Communicating Vessels
In a book of 140 entries, Mayröcker documents her grief over the course of a year after her partner of nearly 50 years dies.
By Friederike Mayröcker. Translated from the German by Alexander Booth. Available February 9 from A Public Space.
France
Consent
A director of one of France’s leading publishing houses reflects on the disturbing romantic relationship she had as a teenager with a famous, much older writer.
By Vanessa Springora. Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer. Available February 16 from HarperVia.
Italy
Convention and Materialism
An Italian philosopher re-examines Walter Benjamin’s idea of a “loss of the aura” and posits the possibility of a good life coming intrinsically from existential and political crises.
By Paolo Virno. Translated from the Italian by Lorenzo Chiesa. Available August 3 from MIT Press.
Denmark
The Copenhagen Trilogy
Three volumes of the 20th-century Danish poet’s memoirs, in one hardcover edition, explore motherhood, abortion and addiction.
By Tove Ditlevsen. Translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman. Available January 26 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Chile
Cowboy Graves
Three novellas take the reader from a teenager recruited by a secret society in Paris, to a fighter plane writing poetry in the sky, to a fight for socialism in Chile.
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Available February 16 from Penguin Press.
Sweden
Damascus, Atlantis
A Swedish writer’s poems are matched with stills from her poetry films, illuminating ruins, cityscapes and history.
By Marie Silkeberg. Translated from the Swedish by Kelsi Vanada. Available May 11 from Terra Nova Press.
Poland
Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems
Written by a Mr. Butterfly, these brief, playful poems show the intimacies of love while maintaining deep cultural skepticism.
By Ewa Lipska. Translated from the Polish by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska. Available January 5 from Princeton University Press.
China
Death Fugue
A dystopian satire banned in China imagines a world of manufactured existence and the expunging of personal independence.
By Sheng Keyi. Translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant. Available August 3 from Restless Books.
Russia
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
A leading figure of the Russian formalist school traces the last year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, who was murdered in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy in Tehran.
By Yury Tynyanov. Translated from the Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush. Available April 27 from Columbia University Press.
Poland
Dialogues
New
“Conceived under the spell of cybernetics,” this book contends with technology’s impact on ethics, society and identity.
By Stanisław Lem. Translated from the Polish by Peter Butko. Available September 14 from MIT Press.
France
The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan
A man fascinated with the singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan commits suicide in the New Mexico desert, the setting of Sullivan’s 1975 disappearance.
By Tanguy Viel. Translated from the French by Clayton McKee. Available June 15 from Dalkey Archive Press.
Turkey
Disquiet
At a refugee camp, a young man falls in love while tending to the poor and sick coming into Turkey to escape ISIS.
By Zülfü Livaneli. Translated from the Turkish by Zülfü Livaneli. Available June 29 from Other Press.
Italy
Distant Fathers
An autobiography introducing a multinational and complicated family explores what a homeland can look like for those who have none.
By Marina Jarre. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Available June 22 from New Vessel Press.
Pakistan
The Dog of Tithwal
New
A collection of stories set during the India-Pakistan partition bring the streets of Bombay to life.
By Saadat Hasan Manto. Translated from the Urdu by Khalid Hasan and Muhammad Umar Memon. Available September 14 from Archipelago.
Finland
Dog Park
New
Two women with a shared history involving fertility treatments in Ukraine meet again in a dog park in Finland.
By Sofi Oksanen. Translated from the Finnish by Owen Frederick Witesman. Available September 21 from Knopf.
France
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language
New
A linguistics professor who has been fascinated with Dostoyevsky since childhood analyzes the significance of his texts and the nuances of their themes.
By Julia Kristeva. Translated from the French by Jody Gladding. Available December 28 from Columbia University Press.
Australia
Dust Off the Bones
The sequel to “Only Killers and Thieves” follows estranged brothers in Australia, the widow of their family’s killer and a vicious police officer.
By Paul Howarth. Available June 8 from Harper.
Argentina
Elena Knows
A mother is determined to find out who murdered her daughter, who was found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend.
By Claudia Piñeiro. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle. Available July 13 from Charco Press.
France
Ellis Island
With lists, inventories and prose meditations, Perec brings to life the stories of the 16 million people who passed through Ellis Island.
By Georges Perec. Translated from the French by Harry Mathews. Available February 2 from New Directions.
Vietnam
Em
New
A portrait of the Vietnamese diaspora emerges from this novel about two orphans who survive the Vietnam War, ranging from rubber plantations in Indochina to nail salons today.
By Kim Thúy. Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. Available September 28 from Seven Stories Press.
Portugal
Empty Wardrobes
New
A woman whose late husband left her with nothing learns a secret about her marriage that changes her understanding of it.
By Maria Judite de Carvalho. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Available October 12 from Two Lines Press.
France
Ennemonde
New
One of the last novellas by the French writer Giono celebrates the life of a woman and the people around her in a beautiful and terrifying land.
By Jean Giono. Translated from the French by Bill Johnston. Available September 14 from Archipelago.
Namibia
The Eternal Audience of One
A nerd-jock hybrid leaves Namibia for Cape Town and a final year in law school.
By Rémy Ngamije. Available August 10 from Gallery/Scout.
Taiwan
Faraway
New
A fictionalized version of the author contemplates his tortured relationship with his ailing father as his wife gives birth.
By Lo Yi-Chin. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. Available September 7 from Columbia University Press.
Argentina
Fate
A marriage between an oboist and a meteorologist disintegrates as a relationship between a taxidermist and a noncommittal younger woman begins.
By Jorge Consiglio. Translated from the Spanish by Carolina Orloff and Fionn Petch. Available May 18 from Charco Press.
Romania
FEM
Through a letter, a 21st-century Scheherazade recounts her life to a man she is ready to leave.
By Magda Carneci. Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter. Available February 2 from Deep Vellum.
Germany
The Fire Above, the Mountain Below
Investigating a string of killings, an inspector stumbles into the world of a secret intelligence program and one family’s role in it.
By Reinhard Jirgl. Translated from the German by Wieland Hoban. Available July 20 from Seagull Books.
Japan
First Person Singular
Eight short stories touch on basketball, jazz and the fluid, dreamlike memories of childhood.
By Haruki Murakami. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Available April 6 from Knopf.
France
The Fount of Time
The mediums of autobiography, folktale, historical anecdotes and more are used to confront the dimensions of human experience.
By Pascal Quignard. Translated from the French by Chris Turne. Available June 22 from Seagull Books.
Italy
Genesis
An examination of the universe undertakes the question: What exactly happened at the beginning of life on Earth?
By Guido Tonelli. Translated from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. Available April 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Czechoslovakia
The Gentle Barbarian
This portrait of Vladimir Boudnik, one of the greatest Czech artists of the 1960s, recreates a friendship in Prague and the strange atmosphere of Czechoslovakia under Communism.
By Bohumil Hrabal. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson. Available March 2 from New Directions.
Czech Republic
Gerta
When Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Moravia, a woman with Nazi-aligned roots seeks forgiveness in a divided postwar world.
By Katerina Tuckova. Translated from the Czech by Véronique Firkusny. Available February 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Ireland
A Ghost in the Throat
An Irish noblewoman drinks her murdered husband’s blood and writes an elegy that the author becomes fascinated with.
By Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Available June 1 from Biblioasis.
Netherlands
Habitus
New
Moving from the Caribbean island of Curaçao to the Netherlands, this debut collection explores neocolonialism, poverty, religion and womanhood.
By Radna Fabias. Translated from the Dutch by David Colmer. Available September 28 from Deep Vellum Press.
Iran
Hafez in Love
A 14th-century poet falls in love with a girl and a city, unbothered by fellow court poets and a dangerous city leader.
By Iraj Pezeshkzad. Translated from the Persian by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Patricia J. Higgins. Available May 1 from Syracuse University Press.
China
Hard Like Water
Two people enter a relationship and hide it from their spouses, bonding in their efforts to bring revolution to their Henan village.
By Yan Lianke. Translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas. Available June 15 from Grove Press.
Peru
Harsh Times
New
A novel recounting the political turmoil of 1950s Guatemala shows how Cold War conflicts still resonate.
By Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. Available November 16 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Cuba
Havana Year Zero
New
A mathematics lecturer and her former lover set out to prove that the telephone was invented in Cuba, to preserve their reputations and to bolster their country.
By Karla Suárez. Translated from the French by Christina MacSweeney. Available November 2 from Charco Press.
Germany
The Heart Remembers
The final book in the Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy centers on a 12-year-old who discovers the story of his parents’s love.
By Jan-Philipp Sendker. Translated from the German by Kevin Wiliarty. Available May 18 from Other Press.
Japan
Heaven
A friendship forms between a boy and a girl who are bullied.
By Mieko Kawakami. Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd. Available May 25 from Europa.
Poland
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
New
A 20-year-old Polish poet who was arrested and deported to Auschwitz lived to chronicle tales of its horrors.
By Tadeusz Borowski. Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine. Available September 14 from Yale University Press.
France
Hidden Wonders
Through stories and images, an investigation of everyday objects reveals hidden elegance and ties to mathematics and physics.
By Etienne Guyon, José Bico, Étienne Reyssat and Benoît Roman. Translated from the French by Patsy Baudoin. Available February 23 from MIT Press.
Mexico
Home Reading Service
New
A cast of characters — including a man sentenced to read for community service, his father’s caretaker and a wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano — demonstrates art’s power to find meaning.
By Fabio Morábito. Translated from the Spanish by Curtis Bauer. Available November 2 from Other Press.
Mexico
Horizontal Vertigo
Villoro wanders Mexico City, describing the people and landscapes he sees and revealing the triumphs of the city’s cultural and political history.
By Juan Villoro. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. Available March 23 from Pantheon.
Morocco
Hot Maroc
The owner of an internet cafe in Marrakech finds himself entangled in the dark and corrupt side of the online world.
By Yassin Adnan. Translated from the Arabic by Alexander E. Elinson. Available July 14 from Syracuse University Press.
Japan
How Do You Live?
New
This 1937 book toggles between the perspectives of a 15-year-old and his uncle, as the former faces the realities of his father’s death and his own betrayal of his best friend.
By Genzaburo Yoshino. Translated from the Japanese by Bruno Navasky. Available October 26 from Workman.
Algeria
I Was a French Muslim
New
A memoir traces a man’s journey from being the only child in his family to go to high school to becoming an intelligence officer.
By Mokhtar Mokhtefi. Translated from the French by Elaine Mokhtefi. Available September 21 from Other Press.
Cuba
I Was Never the First Lady
New
As a woman learns more about her family, her life becomes entwined with a resistance icon of the Cuban Revolution.
By Wendy Guerra. Translated from the Spanish by Alicia ’Achy’ Obejas. Available September 14 from HarperVia.
Japan
An I-Novel
A Japanese graduate student decides to move back to Japan after two decades in America, ready to write in her mother tongue.
By Minae Mizumura. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter in collaboration with the author. Available March 2 from Columbia University Press.
Iraq
I’m in Seattle, Where Are You?
In a chance encounter with an African-American soldier, a student at the University of Baghdad falls in love and journeys to the United States.
By Mortada Gzar. Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins. Available April 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Italy
If You Kept a Record of Sins
A young man in Italy travels to attend the funeral of his mother, who left him to build her business in Romania.
By Andrea Bajani. Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. Available March 2 from Archipelago.
Argentina
Imminence
New
A new mother reflects on past relationships and friendships as her life begins to unravel.
By Mariana Dimópulos. Translated from the Spanish by Alice Whitmore. Available September 7 from Transit Books.
France
The Impudent Ones
In a blend of memoir and fiction, a novel introduces the affairs and scandals of the Taneran family in postwar France.
By Marguerite Duras. Translated from the French by Kelsey L. Haskett. Available March 9 from The New Press.
Iran
In Case of Emergency
New
A spoiled, sharp-eyed opium addict looks for her next high and deals with her dysfunctional family as the city of Tehran crumbles.
By Mahsa Mohebali. Translated from the Persian by Mariam Rahmani. Available December 1 from Feminist Press.
France
In Concrete
When a father obtains a concrete mixer, his obsession with modernizing his family’s life leads to one daughter becoming trapped in concrete.
By Anne Garréta. Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. Available April 21 from Deep Vellum.
Russia
In Memory of Memory
When her aunt dies, the narrator goes through a memory trove of photographs and letters that tell a century’s worth of stories of life in Russia.
By Maria Stepanova. Translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale. Available February 2 from New Directions.
Côte d’Ivoire
In the Company of Men
A fable of the Ebola outbreak, complete with a healer’s potions, university closings and an ancient baobab tree.
By Véronique Tadjo. Translated from the French by . Available February 24 from Other Press.
Turkey
In the Shadow of the Yali
New
In an evolving Istanbul, a woman who has floated through 10 years of marriage falls for another man.
By Suat Derviş. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Available September 14 from Other Press.
Germany
The Interim
New
A celebrated East German writer with an almost-expired visa toggles between two Germanys and ponders alienation and diverging worlds.
By Wolfgang Hilbig. Translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole. Available November 2 from Two Lines Press.
France
The Island of Happiness
Madame d’Aulnoy’s 17th-century French fairy tales are interpreted by the feminist visual artist Natalie Frank in surreal, contemporary images.
By Madame d’Aulnoy. Translated from the French by Jack Zipes. Available March 2 from Princeton University Press.
Germany
It All Tastes of Farewell
Diaries originally not meant for publication reveal a woman’s candid account of life in 1960s East Germany.
By Brigitte Reimann. Translated from the German by Steph Morris. Available May 25 from Seagull Books.
Germany
It’s Getting Dark
New
A story collection shows the instability of a world we think we know, with one character reminiscing about a brief affair in New York City, another deciding to rob a bank.
By Peter Stamm. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. Available December 7 from Other Press.
Tunisia
The Italian
New
In this novel, a childhood friend retraces a man’s life from rebel youngster to journalist in a turbulent Tunisia.
By Shukri Mabkhout. Translated from the Arabic by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeil. Available October 19 from Europa.
Norway
The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
New
A collection of short stories features a man suspected of murdering his twin, a hitman battling for survival with his greatest rival, and plane passengers with an intriguing connection.
By Jo Nesbo. Translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson. Available October 6 from Knopf.
Mauritius
Kaya Days
New
A young woman’s brother goes missing in Mauritius during an uprising for justice over a musician’s death.
By Carl de Souza. Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman. Available September 14 from Two Lines Press.
United Kingdom
Keeping the House
New
In the North London heroin trade, the women in a family do everything they can to keep their business afloat.
By Tice Cin. Available September 7 from Tin House.
Croatia
Kin
A well-known Bosnian writer looks at ordinary objects in his family to uncover its history living through a century of war.
By Miljenko Jergović. Translated from the Croatian by Russell Scott Valentino. Available June 15 from Archipelago.
Japan
Lady Joker, Volume 1
In 1955 Tokyo, five men who meet weekly at the racetrack to bet on horses decide to kidnap the chief executive of Japan’s largest beer conglomerate.
By Kaoru Takamura. Translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida. Available April 13 from Soho Crime.
Chile
Las Biuty Queens
A trans performer, sex worker and undocumented immigrant chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York.
By Iván Monalisa Ojeda. Translated from the Spanish by Hannah Kauders. Available June 1 from Astra House.
Russia
The Last and the First
New
After fleeing a civil war in Russia, a family encounters chaos once more when a letter from Paris arrives.
By Nina Berberova. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Available July 29 from Pushkin Press.
France
The Last One
New
The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants wrestles with her attraction to women after a childhood in which the topics of sexuality, love and affection were avoided.
By Fatima Daas. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. Available November 9 from Other Press.
Spain
Last Words on Earth
New
A man writes stories in a rundown shack and achieves brief fame before being diagnosed with cancer.
By Javier Serena. Translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore. Available September 21 from Open Letter.
Brazil
Late Summer
Abandoned by his wife and son, a man returns to his hometown and tries to re-establish a relationship with his siblings.
By Luiz Ruffato. Translated from the Portuguese by Julia Sanches. Available July 16 from Other Press.
Iran
Layli and Majnun
Written by a 12th-century Persian poet, this famous story tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is derailed by their families.
By Nezami Ganjavi. Translated from the Persian by Dick Davis. Available February 9 from Penguin Classics.
Norway
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
New
A 19-year-old moves to Oslo for university and starts an affair with a married teacher.
By Klara Hveberg. Translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough. Available November 2 from HarperVia.
Korea
Lemon
New
Seventeen years after her sister’s death, a woman tries to find the truth of what happened in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder.
By Kwon Yeo-sun. Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong. Available October 12 from Other Press.
Russia
The Little Devil and Other Stories
The range of Russian mythology is showcased in stories of rural grotesques and deep religious faith in intense revolutionary settings.
By Alexei Remizov. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. Available April 13 from Columbia University Press.
Cameroon
A Long Way from Douala
New
A young man travels with a friend across Cameroon to find his brother, who ran away from an abusive mother to try to become a soccer star abroad.
By Max Lobe. Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz. Available September 28 from Other Press.
Mexico
Loop
As a woman waits for her boyfriend to return from Spain, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook.
By Brenda Lozano. Translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott. Available June 15 from Charco Press.
Poland
The Lost Soul
In an illustrated meditation on society and fulfillment, a man moves to a house far from all he knows to search for his soul.
By Olga Tokarczuk. Illustrated by Joanna Concejo. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Available February 2 from Seven Stories Press.
Germany
Love in Case of Emergency
Five very different women enter new chapters in their lives, weathering infidelity, divorce, childlessness and friendship.
By Daniela Krien. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. Available April 6 from HarperVia.
Korea
Love in the Big City
New
A cynical, energetic gay man searches for happiness and companionship in a vibrant Seoul.
By Sang Young Park. Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur. Available November 9 from Grove Press.
France
Madame Livingstone
In this graphic novel, a Belgian man and an African man team up to sink a German battleship in the Congo.
By Christophe Cassiau-Haurie. Illustrated by Barly Baruti. Translated from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger. Available June 8 from Catalyst Press.
Iceland
Magma
A university student moves in with the man of her dreams and experiences the undercurrents of violence that can go undetected in relationships.
By Thora Hjörleifsdóttir. Translated from the Icelandic by Meg Matich. Available July 13 from Black Cat.
France (Martinique)
Mahagony
Over centuries, the lives of characters on the French Caribbean island of Martinique link back to a mahogany tree.
By Édouard Glissant. Translated from the French by Betsy Wing. Available January 1 from University of Nebraska Press.
Greece
Mechanisms of Loss: Two Novellas
Two novellas explore sabotaged love: A man roams the streets of Athens reflecting on his turbulent marriage, and two people have a conversation filled with mixed signals.
By Michel Faïs. Translated from the Greek by David Connolly. Available January 5 from Yale University Press.
Rome
Meditations
The 16th emperor of Rome recorded his thoughts in notebooks, providing insight to the inner life of a devoted and private stoic.
By Marcus Aurelius. Translated from the Greek by Robin Waterfield. Available April 6 from Basic Books.
Haiti
The Mediterranean Wall
Three women — from Nigeria, Eritrea and Syria — bond in their struggle to escape to Europe, leaving their former lives behind.
By Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager. Available June 1 from Schaffner Press.
Italy
Meeting in Positano
A novel set in Positano (and inspired by the author’s experiences as an actress) explores the bond between a leftist idealist and a traditional aristocrat.
By Goliarda Sapienza. Translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore. Available May 11 from Other Press.
Germany
Milk Teeth
New
In this debut, a secluded girl who lives in a house full of silence and secrets invites a friend in against her mother’s wishes.
By Helene Bukowski. Translated from the German by Jen Calleja. Available September 21 from Unnamed Press.
Argentina
Mona
When a Peruvian writer in California is nominated for a high-profile literary award, she finds herself in a small Swedish village with famous international authors and her own demons.
By Pola Oloixarac. Translated from the Spanish by Adam Morris. Available March 16 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
China
Monkey King
Monkey King, a shape-shifting trickster with a penchant for trouble, must protect a pious monk in search of Buddhist sutras.
By Wu Cheng’en. Translated from the Chinese by Julia Lovell. Available February 9 from Penguin Classics.
Italy
The Monopoly of Man
A prominent 19th-century activist reveals the sexism of her colleagues and criticizes liberal-bourgeois feminism.
By Anna Kuliscioff. Translated from the Italian by Lorenzo Chiesa. Available April 6 from MIT Press.
China
Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
New
Born with cerebral palsy and forced into an arranged marriage, a poet finds her voice to explore homesickness, ancestry and the reality of disability.
By Yu Xiuhua. Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Available September 15 from Astra House.
Israel
More Than I Love My Life
A woman’s time spent imprisoned and tortured off the coast of Croatia is revisited by her daughter and granddaughter.
By David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. Available August 24 from Knopf.
Czech Republic
The Movement
New
A dystopian novel introduces a world where women are valued for internal qualities and men are re-educated to not be attracted to women based on physical features.
By Petra Hůlová. Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker. Available October 5 from World Editions.
Japan
Murakami T
New
The renowned writer shares his T-shirt collection, with photos accompanied by short essays.
By Haruki Murakami. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Available November 16 from Knopf.
South Korea
My Brilliant Life
In a final gift to his parents, Areum documents his life through stories of his family and his love.
By Ae-ran Kim. Translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. Available January 26 from Forge Books.
Bosnia
My Heart
Hospitalized after a heart attack, a writer reflects on his family’s experience in the Bosnian War and their life in America as refugees.
By Semezdin Mehmedinovic. Translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth. Available March 9 from Catapult.
Chile
Nancy
In a novel filled with photographs, X-rays and Bible verses, a woman on her deathbed looks back on the smugglers, missionaries, family members and others she has encountered.
By Bruno Lloret. Translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones. Available April 13 from Two Lines Press.
Puerto Rico
A Nation of Women
New
A Puerto Rican activist of anarchist labor movements challenges big businesses and calls for divorce legalization in a feminist treatise originally published in 1911.
By Luisa Capetillo. Translated from the Spanish by Alan West-Durán. Available September 14 from Penguin Classics.
Mexico
The New World Written
A collection of poems in homage to the natural world.
By María Baranda. Translated from the Spanish by multiple translators. Available June 22 from Yale University Press.
Germany
New Year
New
As a man cycles on Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, he is brought back to a traumatic and perilous childhood event.
By Juli Zeh. Translated from the German by Alta L. Price. Available November 2 from World Editions.
Venezuela
The Night
New
A mix of real and fictional characters narrate a novel where blackouts occur throughout Caracas and nightmares become reality.
By Rodrigo Blanco Calderón. Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn and Noel Hernández. Available November 2 from Seven Stories Press.
Sweden
The Night Singer
The wounds of a family tragedy take a police detective back to her childhood home as a teenager’s death becomes intertwined with the past.
By Johanna Mo. Available August 3 from Penguin.
Colombia
The Night Will Be Long
New
An anonymous accusation jump-starts an investigation into corruption buried deeply in the Christian churches of Latin America.
By Santiago Gamboa. Translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg. Available November 23 from Europa.
Italy
Nives
A Tuscan widow has the conversation of a lifetime when she calls a veterinarian about her paralyzed pet chicken.
By Sacha Naspini. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford. Available May 4 from Europa.
Spain
The North Face of the Heart
A detective from northern Spain follows a psychopathic killer into the worst hurricane in New Orleans’s history.
By Dolores Redondo. Translated from the Spanish by Michael Meigs. Available June 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Germany
The Notes
New
Composed between 1934 and 1936, these observations from a Swiss modernist known for his reportage and poetry consider death, work and art.
By Ludwig Hohl. Translated from the German by Tess Lewis. Available October 19 from Yale University Press.
Russia
Notes From a Dead House
In what is often referred to as the first great prison memoir, Dostoevsky’s novel based on his time in a Siberian prison camp surfaces the horrifying conditions, feuds, betrayals and acts of kindness he witnessed.
By Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Available February 2 from Everyman’s Library.
Brazil
Occupation
Through an autofictional alter ego, an author switches between conversations with refugees in downtown São Paulo, his wife’s pregnancy and his father’s sickness.
By Julián Fuks. Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. Available August 17 from Charco Press.
Sweden
October Child
In this novel based on the author’s own experiences, the narrator tries to piece together her memories after she’s been subjected to electroconvulsive therapy in a psychiatric ward.
By Linda Boström Knausgård. Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. Available June 1 from World Editions.
Austria
The Old King in His Exile
When a man develops Alzheimer’s, his son sets out on a quest to understand his father’s life.
By Arno Geiger. Translated from the German by Stefan Tobler. Available May 1 from And Other Stories.
Germany
Olga
New
Raised by her grandmother in Prussia, a young woman falls for a local aristocrat and embarks on a life of upheavals.
By Bernhard Schlink. Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. Available September 21 from HarperVia.
Russia
On the Theory of Prose
New
Focusing on the concept of “making strange,” this work of literary theory analyzes writing from Cervantes, Tolstoy, Dickens and others, positing a new way to interact with text and the world.
By Viktor Shklovsky. Translated from the Russian by Shushan Avagyan. Available October 12 from Dalkey Archive Press.
Chile
One in Me I Never Loved
New
A cast of women grapples with issues of freedom and sexuality. One suspects her husband is having an affair; another is distraught by the sudden disappearance of her daughter, a concierge.
By Carla Guelfenbein. Translated from the Spanish by Neil Davidson. Available November 30 from Other Press.
Brazil
The Oracle of Night
A portrait of the human mind as told through the role of dreams and how they’ve impacted the world.
By Sidarta Ribeiro. Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. Available August 17 from Pantheon.
Ukraine
The Orphanage
During ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, a language teacher goes to an orphanage in occupied territory to rescue his nephew and bring him home.
By Serhiy Zhadan. Translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Available February 23 from Yale University Press.
Argentina
Out of the Cage
The freakish death of Aurora Berro becomes a mix of vaudeville and tragicomedy as she narrates from a limbo state, her family at first unaware that anything has happened.
By Fernanda García Lao. Translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden. Available March 9 from Deep Vellum.
France
Painting Time
A young artist comes of age when she graduates from a famous art school and eventually gets a job working on a reproduction of the world’s most famous Paleolithic cave art.
By Maylis de Kerangal. Translated from the French by Jessica Moore. Available April 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Brazil
Paletó and Me
New
When traveling the remote Rio Negro in Amazonia, an anthropologist builds a life with what will become her adoptive Wari’ family.
By Aparecida Vilaca. Translated from the Portuguese by David Rodgers. Available September 21 from Stanford University Press.
Germany
The Passenger
In the 1930s, a respected Jewish businessman who served in the Great War journeys across Germany in fear of persecution.
By Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. Translated from the German by Philip Boehm. Available April 14 from Metropolitan Books.
Japan
People From My Neighborhood
New
Twenty-six interlinking stories bring out the mysticism and drudgery of everyday life, from lunch menus and tax offices to revolutions and ghosts.
By Hiromi Kawakami. Translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen. Available November 30 from Soft Skull.
France
People Like Them
A novel written by an Algerian-born author follows a couple in a French village whose lives are upended when an outside family moves in.
By Samira Sedira. Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud. Available July 6 from Penguin.
Canada
Phototaxis
New
A museum bombing, a missing political organizer and a classical piano player who jumps off a building illuminate a city filled with dystopia and hope.
By Olivia Tapiero. Translated from the French by Kit Schluter. Available October 5 from Nightboat Books.
Syria
Planet of Clay
New
After her mother is killed, a young girl who fills her time with drawings, “The Little Prince” and passages from the Quran writes her story in a besieged Ghouta.
By Samar Yazbek. Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. Available September 8 from World Editions.
Trinidad and Tobago
Pleasantview
A novel in stories, written in a combination of English and Trinidad Creole, reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream.
By Celeste Mohammed. Available May 4 from Ig.
India
Poems of the First Buddhist Women
This translation of one of the oldest surviving literatures written by some of the first Buddhist women — or Theris — recount their lives pre-ordination and their joy in liberation.
Translated from the Pali by Charles Hallisey. Available February 23 from Harvard University Press.
France
Poetics of Work
As Lyon erupts in chaos, a poet walks the streets smoking cannabis, eating bananas and reading stories of life under the Third Reich.
By Noémi Lefebvre. Translated from the French by Sophie Lewis. Available February 9 from Transit Books.
South Korea
The Prisoner
A writer and democracy activist gives his account of five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea.
By Hwang Sok-yong. Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Anton Hur. Available August 3 from Verso Books.
Argentina
Proceed With Caution: Stories and a Novella
A novella about a 1980s Argentine submarine crew during the Falklands War, and stories of whaling towns and baby birds, toe the line between the supernatural and natural.
By Patricia Ratto. Translated from the Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger. Available January 19 from Schaffner Press.
Ireland
The Quick and the Dead
New
Published 50 years after the author’s death, these stories paint a portrait of the Gaeltacht people and the pressures of poverty.
By Máirtín Ó Cadhain. Translated from the Irish by Louis de Paor. Available October 26 from Yale University Press.
Spain
Rabbit Island
Stories set in dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities and graveyards try to make sense of neglected interior lives, the failure of institutions and the death of God.
By Elvira Navarro. Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. Available February 9 from Two Lines Press.
Germany
The Radio Operator
At the beginning of World War II, a German immigrant becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring in New York City.
By Ulla Lenze. Translated from the German by Marshall Yarbrough. Available May 4 from HarperVia.
Australia
The Rain Heron
An army unit goes to the mountains in search of a mythical heron, disrupting the life of a quiet, solitary woman.
By Robbie Arnott. Available February 9 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Japan
Red Flowers
Cartoons of deep character studies and personal reflections showcase drunken gangsters, psychiatric hospital escapees and mysterious dogs of Japan.
By Yoshiharu Tsuge. Translated from the Japanese by Ryan Holmberg. Available August 31 from Drawn & Quarterly.
Democratic Republic of Congo
Refugee
A migrant embarks on a six-year journey from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Netherlands, encountering crooked customs officials, Saharan ambushes and unbearable living conditions.
By Emmanuel Mbolela. Translated from the French by Charlotte Collins from the German translation by Alexander Behr. Available April 20 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Egypt
The Republic of False Truths
In Cairo in 2011, the lives of a general, a young teacher, an out-of-work actor and a television personality collide in a showing of class divides and revolution.
By Alaa Al Aswany. Translated from the Arabic by S. R. Fellowes. Available April 27 from Knopf.
Uruguay
The Rooftop
New
A woman safeguards herself, her child and her father in their apartment as an increasingly threatening world closes in on them.
By Fernanda Trías. Translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott. Available October 12 from Charco Press.
Syria
Roundabout of Death
An Arabic teacher experiences the destruction brought upon a Syrian city as it becomes the setting for a struggle between warring powers.
By Faysal Khartash. Translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss. Available May 18 from New Vessel Press.
France
Salina
New
A woman’s epic tale of abandonment, exile and revenge, set in the villages and battlefields of an unforgiving desert, is recounted by one of her sons after her death.
By Laurent Gaudé. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson. Available September 14 from Europa.
China
The Secret Talker
A woman’s quiet, perfect life in California is upended when a secret admirer forces her to confront her dark past in China.
By Geling Yan. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. Available April 20 from HarperVia.
Switzerland
Seedtime III
A Swiss poet’s journals show his philosophical reflections and efforts to transcend the limits of art.
By Philippe Jaccottet. Translated from the French by Tess Lewis. Available May 25 from Seagull Books.
China
Seeing
New
A reporter documents her experience working at China’s official state news channel through the SARS epidemic, industrial pollution, the Great Earthquake of 2008 and more.
By Chai Jing. Translated from the Chinese by Yan Yan. Available December 7 from Astra House.
France
Selected Stories
New
A selection of 32 stories from the famed writer, set in places from Normandy and Paris to Corsica and India.
By Guy de Maupassant. Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie and Brian Rhys. Available October 5 from Everyman’s Library.
South Korea
Shoko’s Smile
A collection of stories reflecting the lives of young woman around South Korea, from the personal to the political.
By Choi Eunyoung . Translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu. Available June 1 from Penguin.
Spain
Silver Skin
A teenager follows a sophisticated outcast into a world of amphetamines, dark music and philosophy.
By Javier Calvo. Translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem. Available June 8 from Antibookclub.
Sweden
Silver Tears
A woman’s ex-husband is jailed for murdering their daughter despite her secret that the daughter is still alive.
By Camilla Läckberg. Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles. Available July 6 from Knopf.
France
A Single Rose
New
When a 40-year-old visits Japan for the first time for the reading of her estranged father’s will, she encounters the people in his life and begins to understand parts of herself.
By Muriel Barbery. Translated from the French by Alison Anderson. Available September 14 from Europa.
Israel
The Slaughterman’s Daughter
With the help of a mute ex-soldier, a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia sets off to find her sister’s husband.
By Yaniv Iczkovits. Translated from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf. Available February 24 from Schocken.
Egypt
Slipping
A struggling journalist and a former exile wander an affluent Egyptian neighborhood, and pieces of a traumatic past come to light.
By Mohamed Kheir. Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. Available June 8 from Two Lines Press.
France
Sodom and Gomorrah
The fourth volume in a new annotated edition of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.”
By Marcel Proust. Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Available June 22 from Yale University Press.
Colombia
Songs for the Flames
Nine morally complex short stories set forth various scenarios: a guest at a countryside ranch, a military reunion, an orphan’s voyage from France to Colombia.
By Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean. Available August 3 from Riverhead.
France
The Storm of Echoes
New
A mirror-traveler and her lover must keep their connection hidden in order to uncover the truth behind a mysterious, destructive figure.
By Christelle Dabos. Translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle. Available October 5 from Europa.
Colombia
Stranger to the Moon
New
In a commentary on Colombia’s history, a world of naked people meant to serve “vicious clothed-ones” is turned upside down when a “naked-one” decides to rebel.
By Evelio Rosero. Translated from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft and Anne McLean. Available September 7 from New Directions.
Iceland
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
New
Change comes for the residents of a small town in Iceland, including an eccentric star gazer, a policeman-artist and lonely farmers.
By Jon Kalman Stefansson. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton. Available September 7 from HarperVia.
France
A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray
A married woman tells her sister of her dangerous encounters in a seemingly peaceful Paris suburb.
By Dominique Barbéris. Translated from the French by John Cullen. Available April 27 from Other Press.
Sweden
The Survivors
New
After their mother’s death, three estranged brothers return to the cottage where a terrible and life-altering accident occurred.
By Alex Schulman. Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Available October 6 from Doubleday.
Russia
The Symphonies
New
Influenced by Russian symbolism, a collection of genre-defying texts looks at the drabness of life, as well as the cosmic and divine.
By Andrei Bely. Translated from the Russian by Jonathan Stone. Available November 2 from Columbia University Press.
Mexico
Tears of Amber
As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia’s border disappears, two families are uprooted by war and an uncertain pilgrimage.
By Sofía Segovia. Translated from the Spanish by Simon Bruni. Available May 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Japan
Terminal Boredom: Stories
In dark and playful stories, the Japanese science fiction writer reveals friction between the sexes and universal class differences, whatever universe they may belong to.
By Izumi Suzuki. Translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd and Daniel Joseph. Available April 20 from Verso.
Mexico
Three Novels
New
Three novels pay homage to the beauty and hardships of Mexico.
By Yuri Herrera. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Available September 15 from And Other Stories.
Italy
Three O’Clock in the Morning
A father and son are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring Marseilles, eventually reconnecting over poetry, death and redemption.
By Gianrico Carofiglio. Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis. Available March 16 from HarperVia.
Sweden
To Cook a Bear
When a maid is found dead in the forest and another is severely injured, a runaway and a pastor try to track down the murderer.
By Mikael Niemi. Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner. Available January 12 from Penguin.
Spain
To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Portraits of city life are assembled through overheard conversations, subway ads and mundane anxieties.
By Antonio Muñoz Molina. Translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Bleichmar. Available July 13 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
France
Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us
Based on a true story: A “pied-noir” revolutionary is caught planting a bomb in a factory during the Algerian War and condemned to death.
By Joseph Andras. Translated from the French by Simon Leser. Available February 23 from Verso.
Russia
The Tool & the Butterflies
An aging man tries to find his place in modern society after a loss of ego and a delicate organ, which has reappeared in a faraway village.
By Dmitry Lipskerov. Translated from the Russian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler. Available January 12 from Deep Vellum.
China
Top Graduate Zhang Xie
In the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition, a scholar journeys to the capital to take the imperial exams, beginning a series of events that will change his life forever.
Translated from the Chinese by Regina S. Llamas. Available February 2 from Columbia University Press.
Chile
The Touch System
A former schoolteacher journeys across the Andes from Chile to Campana to visit her dying uncle.
By Alejandra Costamagna. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Available May 4 from Transit Books.
Cuba
The Transparency of Time
A man disappointed with his life undertakes a quest to find a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla.
By Leonardo Padura. Translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Available June 15 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Italy
Trust
New
A day after sharing shameful secrets, two lovers break up — but one remains haunted by what was divulged.
By Domenico Starnone. Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri. Available October 19 from Europa.
Poland
The Truth and Other Stories
New
Twelve science fiction stories — nine of them never before translated into English — look at artificial intelligence, cosmology and evolution.
By Stanisław Lem. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Available September 14 from MIT Press.
Chile
The Twilight Zone
The narrator, fascinated since childhood by the confessions of a secret agent in the Pinochet regime, investigates what resistance means in a repressive dictatorship.
By Nona Fernández. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Available March 16 from Graywolf Press.
Venezuela
Two Spies in Caracas
Two rival spies dispatched to Caracas are caught in the fallout of a political time bomb.
By Moisés Naím. Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn. Available August 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Russia
Untraceable
At the brink of the Soviet Union’s collapse, a ruthless chemist faces the consequences of creating an undetectable poison that has no antidote.
By Sergei Lebedev. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. Available February 2 from New Vessel Press.
China
Vessel
A memoir about the lives of rural Chinese workers explores generational strife and rifts within a family.
By Cai Chongda. Translated from the Chinese by Dylan Levi King. Available July 6 from HarperVia.
Lebanon
Voices of the Lost
Six letters written in a war-torn country contain confessions, from an undocumented immigrant writing his former lover and from an escaped torturer detailing his crimes for his mother.
By Hoda Barakat. Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. Available March 2 from Yale University Press.
Guadeloupe
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
A young girl comes into the life of a solitary doctor and the two fly to Haiti in search of her family.
By Maryse Condé. Translated from the French by Richard Philcox. Available August 5 from World Editions.
China
The Wandering Earth
New
Ten stories by the author of “The Three-Body Problem” go to the edge of the universe, highlighting attempts to survive in it.
By Cixin Liu. Translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu, Elizabeth Hanlon, Zac Haluza, Adam Lanphier and Holger Nahm. Available October 12 from Tor/Forge.
Egypt
Warda
A journalist reads the diaries of someone who has disappeared, leading him to Dhofar, Oman.
By Sonallah Ibrahim. Translated from the Arabic by Hosam Aboul-Ela. Available June 1 from Yale University Press.
Italy
The Water Statues
New
A wealthy recluse with a basement full of statues suddenly finds himself with company in this nonlinear hybrid of play and novel.
By Fleur Jaeggy. Translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff. Available September 8 from New Directions.
Croatia
We Trade Our Night for Someone Else’s Day
A journalist assigned to write a puff piece about a crime of passion — in which a Croatian teacher fell in love with her Serbian student and murdered her husband — becomes determined to bring justice instead.
By Ivana Bodrozic. Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać. Available April 13 from Seven Stories Press.
China
The Wedding Party
New
In the wake of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a wedding takes place in a Beijing courtyard among a cast of nosy neighbors, wedding crashers and an apprentice chef.
By Liu Xinwu. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang. Available November 16 from Amazon Crossing.
Chile
When We Cease to Understand the World
New
A novel examines the lives of thinkers like Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger and how they grappled with complicated questions of existence.
By Benjamín Labatut. Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. Available September 28 from New York Review Books.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Where You Come From
New
In a mix of fable and choose-your-own-adventure, a boy and his family escape war in the former Yugoslavia to build a life in a new country.
By Saša Stanišić. Translated from the German by Damion Searls. Available December 7 from Tin House.
Norway
White Shadow
Ingrid, alone on an island while war rages in Norway, finds bodies from a bombed ship washing ashore, with one victim still alive.
By Roy Jacobsen. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw. Available April 13 from Biblioasis.
Argentina
The Woman from Uruguay
In Buenos Aires, an unemployed, married writer in his 40s longs for a woman he met at a conference
By Pedro Mairal. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Croft. Available June 7 from Bloomsbury.
Japan
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
One woman lures another to a job at a hotel, where scandal ensues in an exploration of envy and power dynamics.
By Natsuko Imamura. Translated from the Japanese by Lucy North. Available June 8 from Penguin.
Italy
The Women I Love
New
In this novel, an editor and poet about to turn 40 tries to write about women and the complexities of his relationships with them.
By Francesco Pacifico. Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. Available December 7 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
China
Words as Grain
New and selected poems by one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese poets.
By Duo Duo. Translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein. Available May 25 from Yale University Press.
France
The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1
A former administrative judge’s first three novels chronicle a sexual odyssey through an AIDS-haunted Paris.
By Guillaume Dustan. Translated from the French by Daniel Maroun. Available June 29 from MIT Press.
Italy
The World in a Selfie
The author deconstructs the politics of sightseeing, from Francis Bacon to Mark Twain, exploring the importance of tourism and the search for authenticity within it.
By Marco d’Eramo. Available March 16 from Verso.
China
The World Turned Upside Down
The only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, documenting the decade-long class struggle.
By Yang Jisheng. Translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. Available January 19 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Norway
The Year
Over the course of a year, an author’s diary ponders how to live when the one you love is gone.
By Tomas Espedal. Translated from the Norwegian by James Anderson. Available July 20 from Seagull Books.
Italy
The Year of Our Love
In Italy, the heir to an industrial fortune and the son of the family’s gardener and maid cross paths throughout the years.
By Caterina Bonvicini. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Available June 22 from Other Press.
Germany
Yesterday’s Tomorrow
An examination of how the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937 and the failure of the European left to prevent National Socialism all contributed to the collapse of the Communist revolution.
By Bini Adamczak. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. Available April 20 from MIT Press.
Netherlands
Your Story, My Story
Through a fictional work comes the true love story of the literary icons Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as told from Hughes’s point of view.
By Connie Palmen. Translated from the Dutch by Eileen J. Stevens and Anna Asbury. Available January 1 from Amazon Crossing.
Algeria
Zabor, or The Psalms
In this fable, an ostracized son compulsively writes a world of wonder and strangeness in hopes of saving his father.
By Kamel Daoud. Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. Available March 2 from Other Press.