Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from The Dorothy Project:<\/p>\n A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down–that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation betrays both sense and one’s senses. Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective’s quest, though the lessons of her journey are more experiential than moral: that just as love can fly away, sometimes unloving flies away as well. That sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from W.W. Norton & Company:<\/p>\n Few writers can enter their characters so completely or evoke their lives as viscerally as Andre Dubus III. In this deeply compelling new novel, a father, estranged for the worst of reasons, is driven to seek out the daughter he has not seen in decades.<\/p>\n Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her forties, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn\u2019t remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear.<\/p>\n Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated,\u00a0Gone So Long<\/em>\u00a0explores how the wounds of the past afflict the people we become, and probes the limits of recovery and absolution.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from NYRB Classics:<\/p>\n A collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages.<\/p>\n Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan\u2019s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester\u2019s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa\u2019s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent \u201cWildcat and the Acorns,\u201d to the cautionary tale \u201cThe Restaurant of Many Orders,\u201d to \u201cThe Earthgod and the Fox,\u201d which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In \u201cThe Wild Pear,\u201d what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Viking:<\/p>\n From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker<\/i>) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People<\/i>), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out.<\/p>\n Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life – he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden – and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.<\/p>\n A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today,\u00a0The Witch Elm<\/i>\u00a0asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Knopf:<\/p>\n In\u00a0Killing Commendatore,<\/i>\u00a0a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist\u2019s home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art\u2014as well as a loving homage to\u00a0The Great Gatsby<\/i>\u2014Killing Commendatore<\/i>\u00a0is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from NYRB Classics:<\/p>\n Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German \u00e9migr\u00e9 to Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie\u2014a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news\u2014the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam\u2014was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine\u2019s childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel,\u00a0Anniversaries<\/i>\u00a0would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century\u2019s disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world.<\/p>\n Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and\u00a0Anniversaries<\/i>, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Harper:<\/p>\n How could two hardworking people do everything right in life,<\/em>\u00a0a woman asks,\u00a0and end up destitute?<\/em>\u00a0Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family\u2019s one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own.<\/p>\n In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks,\u00a0How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it?<\/em>\u00a0A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town\u2019s powerful men.<\/p>\n Unsheltered<\/em>\u00a0is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Scribner:<\/p>\n Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn begins his incisive, revelatory\u00a0Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know\u00a0<\/i>with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university\u2014a wide-eyed boy from the country\u2014and where three Irish literary giants also came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about his relationship with his father, William Wilde, stated: \u201cWhenever there is hatred between two people there is bond or brotherhood of some kind\u2026you loathed each other not because you were so different but because you were so alike.\u201d W.B. Yeats wrote of his father, John Butler Yeats, a painter: \u201cIt is this infirmity of will which has prevented him from finishing his pictures. The qualities I think necessary to success in art or life seemed to him egotism.\u201d John Stanislaus Joyce, James\u2019s father, was perhaps the most quintessentially Irish, widely loved, garrulous, a singer, and drinker with a volatile temper, who drove his son from Ireland.<\/p>\n Elegant, profound, and riveting,\u00a0Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know\u00a0<\/i>illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, T\u00f3ib\u00edn recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from NYRB Classics:<\/p>\n Omer Pasha Latas<\/i>\u00a0is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan\u2019s armies, and as the book begins he arrives from Istanbul, dispatched to bring Sarajevo\u2019s landowners to heel, a task that he accomplishes with his usual ferocity and efficiency. And yet the seraskier\u2019s expedition to Bosnia is a time of reckoning for him as well: he was born in the Balkans, a Serb and a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a bright boy who escaped his father\u2019s financial disgrace by running away and converting to Islam. Now, at the height of his power, he heads an army of misfits, adventurers, and outcasts from across Europe and Asia, and yet wherever he goes he remains a stranger.<\/p>\n Ivo Andric, who won the Nobel Prize in 1961, is a spellbinding storyteller and a magnificent stylist, and here, in his final novel, he surrounds his enigmatic central figure with many vivid and fascinating minor characters, lost souls and hopeless dreamers all, in a world that is slowly sliding towards disaster.\u00a0Omer Pasha Latas<\/i>\u00a0combines the leisurely melancholy of Joseph Roth\u2019s\u00a0The Radetzky March<\/i>\u00a0with the stark fatalism of an old ballad.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from New Directions:<\/p>\n Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories<\/em>\u00a0introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan\u2019s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty, pinpricked with sadomasochistic and disquieting scenes.<\/p>\n In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls, but compulsively buys expensive clothes for little boys so that she can watch them dress and undress. The impersonal gaze Taeko Kono turns on this behavior transfixes the reader with a fatal question: What are we hunting for? And why?<\/p>\n Multiplying perspectives and refracting light from the strangely facing mirrors of fantasy and reality, pain and pleasure, these ten stories present Kono at her very best.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from New Directions:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Taiga-Syndrome.jpg?resize=353%2C450\")
The Taiga Syndrome<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Cristina Rivera Garza
\ntranslated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana
\nThe Dorothy Project<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gone-So-Long.jpg?resize=295%2C450\")
Gone So Long<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Andre Dubus III
\nW.W. Norton & Company<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Once-and-Forever.jpg?resize=281%2C450\")
Once and Forever<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Kenji Miyazawa
\ntranslated from the Japanese by John Bester
\nNYRB Classics<\/p>\n
\nOctober 9<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Witch Elm
\n<\/strong><\/em>by Tana French
\nViking<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Killing-Commendatore.jpg?resize=308%2C450\")
Killing Commendatore<\/i><\/strong>
\nby Haruki Murakami
\ntranslated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
\nKnopf<\/p>\n
\nOctober 16<\/h3>\n
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Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Uwe Johnson
\ntranslated from the German by Damion Searls
\nNYRB Classics<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Unsheltered.jpg?resize=298%2C450\")
Unsheltered<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Barbara Kingsolver
\nHarper<\/p>\n
\nOctober 23<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn
\nScribner<\/p>\n
\nOctober 30<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Ivo Andric
\ntranslated from the Serbo-Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth
\nNYRB Classics<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Toddler-Hunting.jpg?resize=292%2C450\")
Toddler Hunting: And Other Stories<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Taeko Kono
\ntranslated from the Japanese by Lucy North
\nNew Directions<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/The-Hole.jpg?resize=279%2C450\")
The Hole<\/i><\/strong>
\nby Jos\u00e9 Revueltas
\ntranslated from the Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson and Sophie Hughes
\nNew Directions<\/p>\n
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The White Darkness