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Berta Isla<\/strong><\/em>\nby Javier Mar\u00edas
\ntranslated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
\nKnopf<\/p>\n
Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Knopf:<\/p>\n When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tom\u00e1s Nevinson — the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tom\u00e1s returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned. With peerless insight into the most shadowed corners of the human soul, Mar\u00edas plunges the reader into the growing chasm between Berta and Tom\u00e1s and the decisions that irreversibly change the course of the couple’s fate. Berta Isla<\/i>\u00a0is a novel of love and truth, fear and secrecy, buried identities, and the destinies we bring upon ourselves.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Farrar, Straus and Giroux:<\/p>\n In April 1988, Valerie Solanas?the writer, radical feminist, author of the\u00a0SCUM Manifesto<\/i>\u00a0and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol?was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.<\/p>\n In\u00a0Valerie<\/i>, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away.<\/p>\n A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Coffee House Press:<\/p>\n Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile\u2019s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela\u2019s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents\u2019 violent militant past. The body of Paloma\u2019s mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from NYRB Classics:<\/p>\n Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the f\u00f6hn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other \u201cill winds\u201d of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder.<\/p>\n Heaven\u2019s Breath<\/em>\u00a0is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Pantheon:<\/p>\n On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses\u2014until things become much more serious. Most of the island’s inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.<\/p>\n When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her wiring as the last way of preserving the past.<\/p>\n A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss,\u00a0The Memory Police<\/i>\u00a0is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Random House:<\/p>\n In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives\u00a0unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life\u2014her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home.<\/p>\n Meanwhile,\u00a0Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which\u00a0Lurie\u2019s death-defying trek at last intersects with Nora\u2019s plight\u00a0is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel.<\/p>\n Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope,\u00a0Inland\u00a0<\/i>is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of T\u00e9a Obreht\u2019s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely\u2014and unforgettably\u2014her own.<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Riverhead:<\/p>\n In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .<\/p>\n A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale,\u00a0Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead\u00a0<\/i>is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?<\/p>\n Buy from Amazon.com here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is the blurb from Open Letter:<\/p>\n At the start of\u00a0The Translator’s Bride<\/i>, the Translator’s bride has left him. But if he can only find a way to buy a small house, maybe he can win her back . . . These are the obsessive thoughts that pervade the Translator’s mind as he walks around an unnamed city in 1920, trying to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers aren\u2019t paying him, he\u2019s trying to survive a woman\u2019s unwanted advances, and he\u2019s trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. All while he struggles with his own mind and angry and psychotic ideas, filled with longing and melancholy. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace,\u00a0The Translator\u2019s Bride<\/i>\u00a0is an incredible ride\u2014whether you\u2019re a translator or not!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie.jpg?resize=293%2C450\")
Valerie: or, The Faculty of Dreams<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Sara Stridsberg
\ntranslated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
\nFarrar, Straus and Giroux<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/The-Remainder.jpg?resize=291%2C450\")
The Remainder<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Alia Trabucco Zer\u00e1n
\ntranslated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
\nCoffee House Press<\/p>\nAugust 13<\/h3>\n
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Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Lyall Watson
\nNYRB Classics<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Memory-Police.jpg?resize=296%2C450\")
The Memory Police<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Yoko Ogawa
\ntranslated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder
\nPantheon<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Inland.jpg?resize=296%2C450\")
Inland<\/strong><\/em>
\nby T\u00e9a Obreht
\nRandom House<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Drive-Your-Plow-Over-the-Bones-of-the-Dead.jpg?resize=298%2C450\")
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Olga Tokarczuk
\ntranslated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
\nRiverhead<\/p>\nAugust 20<\/h3>\n
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The Translator’s Bride<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Jo?o Reis
\ntranslated from the Portuguese by the author
\nOpen Letter<\/p>\nAugust 27<\/h3>\n
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Nada<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Jean-Patrick Manchette
\ntranslated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
\nNYRB Classics<\/p>\n
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Everything Inside: Stories<\/strong><\/em>