Illness, marriage, colonialism, animals, Swiss wealth and Eritrea feature in works by Johanna Ekström, Astrid Roemer, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Jean Giono, Christian Kracht and Baalu Girma

Haruki Murakami expands on a 1980 novella in a book that evokes the spirit of the late Columbian Nobel Prize winner

Reviewed: Boy with A Black Rooster; Goodnight Tokyo; Untold Stories; Jellyfish Have No Ears; The Hairdresser’s Son; and The Mark

Reviews of books by Selva Almada, Yambo Ouologuem, Tanja Maljartschuk, Balla, Fine Gråbøl and Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Reviews of Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh; Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson; The Singularity by Balsam Karam; The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, and more

Reviews: Wound; My Work; The Living and The Rest; Kibogo; Beyond the Door of No Return; My Life As Edgar

Declan O’Driscoll reads a diverse selection of new novels in translation, plus one book of short stories

Aided by the consistency of Margaret Jull Costa’s translation, the late author’s last novel is an engaging exploration of familiar themes, writes Declan O’Driscoll

Late Spanish author’s final novel, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, questions identity and morality

This craftily constructed novel undermines and transforms itself in an enjoyable manner without the haze of purple prose

Strega; The Birthday Party; A Mountain To The North, A Lake To The South, Paths To The West, A River To The East; Black Foam; A Silence Shared; The Last Days of Terranova

Kieron Pim

Reviews: Ghost Town, Awake, Pyre, Is Mother Dead, Mothers and Truckers, Eastbound

Book review: First complete English translation of Grossman’s debut novel

Declan O’Driscoll on the Booker International Prize-winning novel by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell