Novels that matter...

Reviews of Novels in Foreign Languages

by piero scaruffi

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Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen (2003) /10
Alai: Red Poppies (2002) /10
Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune (1999) /10
Isabel Allende: Portrait in Sepia (2001) /10
Julia Alvarez: In the Name Of Salome (2000) /10
Jacques-Pierre Amette: La Maitresse de Brecht (2003) /10
Federico Andahazi: The Anatomist (1998) /10
Aharon Appelfeld: The Iron Tracks (1997) /10
Aharon Appelfeld: The Conversion (1998) /10
Alessandro Baricco: City (2001) /10
Christophe Bataille: Hourmaster (New Directions, 1998) /10
Nina Berberova: Cape Of Storms (New Directions, 1999) /10
Carmen Boullosa: Leaving Tabasco (2001) /10
Melitta Breznik: Night Duty (Steerforth, 1999) /10
Roberto Calasso: Ka (1998) /10
Paola Capriolo: The Woman Watching (1998) /10
Ana Castillo: Peel My Love Like An Onion (1999) /10
Ying Chen: Ingratitude (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1998) /10
Margaret DeMoor: The Virtuoso (Overlook, 199?) /10
Slavenka Drakulic: S (Viking, 2000) /10
Umberto Eco: Baudolino (2000) /10
Nuruddin Farah: Secrets (Arcade, 1999) /10
Rubem Fonseca: Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts (Hopewell, 1998) /10
Nadine Gordimer: The House Gun (Farrar Straus And Giroux, 1998) /10
Nadine Gordimer: The Pick-up (Penguin, 2001) /10
Guenter Grass: Im Krebsgang (Steidl Verlag, 2001) /10
Guenter Grass: Crabwalk (2003) /10
David Grossman: The Zigzag Kid (Farrar Straus And Giroux, 1997) /10
Aleksandar Hemon: Nowhere Man (2003) /10
Peter Handke: My Year In The No-Man's-Bay (1998) /10
Oscar Hijuelos: Empress Of The Splendid Season (1999) /10
Oscar Hijuelos: A Simple Habana Melody (2002) /10
Michel Houellebecq: Les Particules Elementaires (1998) /10
Michel Houellebecq: Platform (2003) /10
Arthur Japin: The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi (Knopf, 2000) /10
Sionil Jose: Dusk (Modern Library, 1998) /10
Ismail Kadare: The File On H. (1997) /10
Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers Spring Frost (2002) /10
Ivan Klima: The Ultimate Intimacy (1997) /10
Ivan Klima: No Saint Or Angels (2000) /10
Wolfgang Koeppen: The Hothouse (2001) /10
Milan Kundera: Slowness (1996) /10
Milan Kundera: Identity (1998) /10
Milan Kundera: Ignorance (2002) /10
Andrey Kurkov: Death And The Penguin (2000) /10
Chang-rae Lee: A Gesture Life (1999) /10
Mario Vargas Llosa: La Fiesta del Chivo (2001) /10
Tatiana Lobo: Assualt On Paradise (1998) /10
Andreï Makine: Dreams of My Russian Summers /10
Andreï Makine: Music of a Life (2001) /10
Dacia Maraini: The Silent Duchess (1998) /10
JAvier Marias: A Heart So White (2001) /10
JAvier Marias: Dark Back Of Time (2001) /10
Roger Martin Du Gard: Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (1999) /10
Herta Muller: The Appointment (1999) /10
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle /10
Haruki Murakami: South of The Border (Knopf, 1999) /10
Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart (Knopf, 2001) /10
Haruki Murakami: Underground (Knopf, 2001) /10
David Lozell Martin: Pelikan (Simon & Schuster, 1999) /10
VS Naipaul: Half A Life (Knopf, 1999) /10
Amos Oz: Panther In The Basement (Harcourt Brace, 1997) /10
Amos Oz: The Same Sea (Harcourt Brace, 2000) /10
Amos Oz: A Tale of Love and Darkness (Harcourt, 2004) /10
Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red (Knopf, 2001) /10
Jose Manuel Prieto: Nocturnal Butterflies Of The Russian Empire (2001) /10
Julian Rios: Loves That Bind (Knopf, 1998) /10
Li Rui: Silver City /10
Jose Saramago: Blindness (1998) /10
Bernhard Schlink: Der Vorleser/ The Reader (1995) /10
Bernhard Schlink: Flights Of Love (2000) /10
Ingo Schulze: 33 Moments of Happiness (1995) /10
W.G. Sebald: Emigrants (New Directions, 1997) /10
W.G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (New Directions, 1998) /10
W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz (Random House, 2001) /10
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Shadows On The Hudson (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998) /10
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: November 1916 (Farrar Strauss & Giroux1999) /10
Andrzej Szczypiorsk: The Shadow Catcher (Grove Press, 1997) /10
Tatyana Tolstaya: The Slynx (2002) /10
Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Lost (1999) /10
Tomek Tryzna: Miss Nobody (1998) /10
Linn Ullmann: Before You Sleep (Viking, 1999)
Fernando Vallejo: Our Lady Of The Assassins (2001) /10
Vargas Llosa: The notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) /10
Gao Xingjian: One Man's Bible (1999) /10
A.B. Yehoshua: A Journey To The End Of The Millennium (1999) /10