Open Letter: 64 books

First work of Sedakova's to appear in English Because of their difficulty, none of her books were published in Russia until 1989

Neuman's earlier novels—Traveler of the Century and Talking to Ourselves—were both critical and commercial hits. This is his first collection of stories to appear in English. Andrés will be teaching in Columbia in the fall of 2015 and will be available for interviews, events, etc. He...

A collection of occasional essays, a series of meditations on the book industry as it transitions to its electronic future, and a reader on modern publishing, The Three Percent Problem stands alongside Andre Schiffrin's The Business of Books and Jason Epstein's Book Business as primers on the publishing industry.

"The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year." —Sjón A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust...

"It all blends here unexpectedly: that past and memory with the present and space. [. . .] At times, your skin will crawl with pleasure from reading."-Andrzej Stasiuk Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer's conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel-and the uncomfortable...

"A darkly humorous work, but also very sad-a mortal struggle, where the joy of life grapples with the fear of death, and often there is no way of knowing which of the two is on top. The final chapter is, in one word, thrilling. Sölvi has established himself among the most noteworthy of Icelandic...

"Early in Sergio Chejfec's The Dark, the nameless narrator describes his disorientation when looking over a landscape as 'the vertigo of simple things.' This phrase describes the experience of reading Chejfec's novel. . . . These moments, when Chejfec combines exquisite prose with the human yearning...

"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."-New York Times It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe,...

When Michael Henry Heim-one of the most respected translators of his generation-passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus,...

"The interconnected works of Volodine-think Faulkner, but after an apocalypse-constitute the most exciting project in contemporary French literature."-Maria Clementi That is what we had called post-exoticism. It was a construction connected to revolutionary shamanism and literature....

•Bán's first collection to appear in English despite winning a half-dozen international awards for her writing. •Afterword by Péter Nádas (published by FSG) will appeal to a particular set of readers, especially if this is serialized in print or online. •In addition to having...

"Captivating and wild. . . . There is a vast, oceanic narrative power in Jóanes Nielsen's Faroese chronicle The Brahmadells." —Anders Juhl Rasmussen One of the first Faroese books to be translated into English, The Brahmadells is an epic novel chronicling the lives of a particular...

Strong national historical interest, as well as regional interest, since the novel is set in Rochester, NY, and surrounding areas, and the publisher and translator are both based there. Interesting both as a historical work illuminating some of the workings of the nineteenth-century spiritualist...

Winner of the 2017 Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award "The book itself is strange—part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God—but...