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New & Notable
Whether you are a seasoned reader of international literature or
a reader just venturing out beyond your own literary shores, we know you
will find our New and Notable section a book browser's paradise! Reading
literature from around the world has a way of opening up one's perspective
to create as vast a world within us as there is without. Here are nearly 70 new
or notable books we hope will bring the world to you. Remember—depending on what country you are shopping in,
these books might be sold under slightly different titles or ISBNs, in different
formats or with different covers; or be published in different months. However, the author's name is always likely to
be the same! (a book published in another country may not always be available to your library or local bookstore,
but individuals usually can purchase them from the publishers or other online resources)
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LATIN AMERICA & the CARIBBEAN
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PAINTING AWAY REGRETS
Opal Palmer Adisa
Christine and Donald are two modern, urban professionals, fundamentally unsuited to one another, caught in the currents of life, and bound by the one thing they have in common—powerful sexual desires. They meet in Graduate School at Berkeley and become consumed by the amazing sexual chemistry they share. Marriage and four children later, Christine and Donald are at a crossroads. Moving easily between the Caribbean, Africa and the USA, the novel dances between the real-life drama that unfolds between Christine and Donald, and the spiritual world of the Orishas where every human act has a spiritual ramification.
Opal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born, award-winning poet, educator and storyteller. Anthologised in over 100 publications, she is a regular performer of her work throughout the USA and presently lives in Oakland, California, when she is not traveling.
Peepal Tree Press (UK), paperback, 9781845231521 (November)
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THE DREAMING GIRL
Roberta Allen
A young American traveler in Belize has a brief affair with a man known only as the German. In The Dreaming Girl, Roberta Allen's exquisite and incantatory language slyly manifests how reality may be bent and blurred by desires hidden even to ourselves. "[A] literary descendant of Duras, Allen places her unnamed narrator in an exotic Central American limbo that propels her mind into a mesmerizing state somewhere between memory and fantasy" —Ken Foster, The Village Voice.
Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including several collections of short fiction, a memoir and several writing guides. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ellipsis Press (US), paperback,9780963753663 (November)
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DANCING LESSONS
Olive Senior
When her house in the Jamaican countryside is damaged by a hurricane, Gertrude Samphire is sent by her estranged daughter Celia to Ellesmere Lodge, an assisted living centre. Gertrude is unimpressed with her new wealthy neighbours, and spends most of her time alone. It is only through writing that she finds her voice, and she begins to record her life in a notebook: memories of her gothic childhood, impetuous marriage, and struggles with raising a family. Gertrude slowly comes out of her shell, establishing and mending the relationships she has been missing for so long—and comes to realize she may not be as alone as she once felt.
Olive Senior is the prizewinning author of a dozen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Born in Jamaica, she has travelled widely and now spends most of her time in Jamaica and Toronto.
Cormorant Books (CAN), paperback, 9781770860476
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ALL YOURS
Claudia Piñeiro
Translated from the Spanish by Miranda France
Inés is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto's briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words All Yours. Following him to a park in Buenos Aires on a rainy winter evening, she witnesses a violent quarrel between her husband and another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a nearby lake.When Ernesto becomes a suspect in the case Inés provides him with an alibi. After all, hatred can bring people together as urgently as love. But Ernesto cannot bring his sexual adventures to an end, so Inés concocts a plan for revenge from which there is no return.
Claudia Piñeiro was a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyawed journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages.
Bitter Lemon Press (US, UK), paperback, 9781904738800
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