SECONDS OUT

Martín Kohan Translated by Nick Caistor Serpent’s Tail Books ($14.95) by John Toren Though set largely in the provincial town of Trelew, Patagonia, circa 1973, Seconds

THE SOJOURN

Andrew Krivak Bellevue Literary Press ($14.95) by Amy Henry Facing extreme poverty and unemployment in Austria in the late 1800s, the optimistic Ondrej Vinich is

INDIAN TANGO

Ananda Devi Translated by Jean Anderson Host Publications ($29.99) by Kris Lawson Although it “speaks of sideroads, of secret encounters, of nights spent dying in

THE PEOPLE WITH NO CAMEL

Roya Movafegh Full Court Press ($15) by Kristin Thiel This is not your grandmother’s memoir—it’s your contemporary’s, and it’s cloaked in fiction and fable. Author

THE WAR IN BOM FIM

Moacyr Scliar Translated by David William Foster Texas Tech University Press ($24.95) by Douglas Messerli Often described as the major Jewish author of Brazil, Moacyr

THE PHYSICS OF IMAGINARY OBJECTS

Tina May Hall University of Pittsburgh Press ($16.95) by Tessa Mellas As a physical object, Tina May Hall's story collection The Physics of Imaginary Objects is a

HAMLET'S FATHER

Orson Scott Card Subterranean ($35) by William Alexander Orson Scott Card has rewritten Hamlet. The back of this slim novella boasts that once we have read

TEA OF ULAANBAATAR

Christopher R. Howard Seven Stories Press ($14.95) by Natalie Storey Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea in Ulaanbaatar, begins with a Peace Corps volunteer who, in a

THE PALE KING: An Unfinished Novel

David Foster Wallace Little, Brown and Company ($28) by Rich Gangelhoff Although the center of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel,The Pale King, does not hold,

LONG, LAST, HAPPY: New and Selected Stories

Barry Hannah Grove Press ($27.50) by John Madera Notwithstanding its Evil Knievel-style dust jacket—meant perhaps to evoke the titillating, slash-and-burn early lifestyle of its author—the