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The Shadow of a Blue Cat
Naoyuki Ii, Wayne P. Lammers
A rare work of fiction focused simply on a man of integrity, The Shadow of a Blue Cat meticulously renders his life and opinions as Yuki tries to find a middle path between his uncle's past radicalism and the quiet bourgeois home he's worked to build.
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P's Three Women
Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, Margaret A. Neves
In a picaresque journey from youth to old age, P., a wealthy
businessman who abhors his real name, tells the stories of his
three greatest passions, his three greatest affairs, his three most erotic encounters: a married woman, a demanding . . .
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The Laurels of Lake Constance
Marie Chaix, Harry Mathews
It is 1936, and Albert B. is one of the first French citizens to join the Fascist party. During the war, he becomes a collaborator. It's only a matter of time before he dons a German uniform himself . . .
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Blind Man's Bluff
Aidan Higgins
Perversely, but perhaps appropriately, Aidan Higgins—-one of the few contemporary writers worthy of comparison with Beckett and Joyce-—has chosen to wait until his sight has nearly left him to assemble this collection of visual treats . . .
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With the Animals
Noëlle Revaz, W. Donald Wilson
Considered the standard-bearer for the great Franco-Swiss literary tradition, exemplified by authors such as Jacques Chessex and C. F. Ramuz, Noëlle Revaz may also remind English-language readers of Louis-Ferdinand Céline . . .
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Walaschek's Dream
Giovanni Orelli, Jamie Richards
Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled Alphabet I, which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup . .
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Joseph Walser's Machine
Gonçalo M. Tavares, Rhett McNeil
Continuing Tavares's award-winning "Kingdom" series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser's Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns.
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Isle of the Dead
Gerhard Meier, Burton Pike
Baur and Bindschädler, two old men, friends from their days in the army, share a habitual walk to the edge of town, Baur speaking incessantly—circling between past and present, inconsequential observations and profound insights—while Bindschädler listens.
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The House of Ulysses
Julián Ríos, Nick Caistor
Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James Joyce's Ulysses . . .
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Hotel Europa
Dumitru Tsepeneag, Patrick Camiller
The author-narrator, a Romanian émigré with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student's life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania through an unwelcoming Western Europe . . .
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