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• Stay With Me

  Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-

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  A couple struggles with fertility - and fidelity - as Nigeria falls apart around them. (Nigeria)

• Selection Day

  a Novel

  Adiga, Aravind

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  A satirical novel set in Mumbai, where Indian boys from the slums find themselves hot commodities because of their potential as cricket players. (India)

• Beartown

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  In Beartown, where the people are as "tough as the forest, as hard as the ice," the star player on the beloved hockey team is accused of rape, and the town turns upon itself. (Sweden)

• Frontier

  Canxue, 1953-

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  Strange things are out on the fringes of town in this surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs. (China)

• Slave Old Man

  Chamoiseau, Patrick

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  The gripping story of an escaped slave in Martinique and the killer hound that pursues him. (Martinique)

• A Horse Walks Into a Bar

  Grossman, David

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  During a standup performance an Israeli comedian past his prime conveys, with semi-questionable humor, anecdotes from his violence-stricken youth, while a judge in the audience wrestles with his part in the comedian's losses. (Israel)

• The Dry

  Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)

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  A mystery that starts with a sad homecoming quickly turns into a nail-biting thriller about family, friends, and forensic accounting. (Australia)

• Affections

  Hasbún, Rodrigo, 1981-

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  A German family heads to Bolivia after World War II, sparking decades of internal strife amid political revolution. (Bolivia)

• War and Turpentine

  Hertmans, Stefan

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  Flemish author Hertmans' latest offers a grandson's often haunting reconstruction of his grandfather's life -– his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War. (Belgium)

• Umami

  Jufresa, Laia, 1983-

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  Ana, a precocious 12-year-old living in the heart of Mexico City, decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, prompting her neighbors to dig into their own pasts, unearthing secrets and questions. (Mexico)

• Human Acts

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  The brutal murder of a 15-year-old boy during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising becomes the connective tissue between the isolated characters of this emotionally harrowing novel. (South Korea)

• You Should Have Left

  Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-

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  A beautifully crafted exercise in terror from one of Germany’s most celebrated contemporary authors. (Germany)

• Dance of the Jakaranda

  Kimani, Peter, 1971-

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  Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa. (Kenya)

• The Year of the Comet

  Lebedev, Sergeĭ, 1981-

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  As rumors of a serial killer haunt his Russian neighborhood, a young boy comes of age in a Soviet Union on the brink of collapse. (Russia)

• Love in Lowercase

  a Novel

  Miralles, Francesc, 1968-

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  A homebody linguistics teacher in Barcelona has his world turned upside down when a stray cat introduces him to new places and new people in this internationally best-selling romantic comedy. (Spain)

• The Great Passage

  a Novel

  Miura, Shion, 1976-

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  A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, the power of human connection, and dictionary writing. (Japan)

• Ladivine

  NDiaye, Marie

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  A trio of women create, discover, and keep disappearing on each other in this melancholy modern fable. (France)

• The Woman Next Door

  Omotoso, Yewande

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  Neighborliness isn’t an option for two elderly enemies living in adjacent homes in an upscale South African community. What will happen when events push them into grudging cohabitation? (South Africa)

• The Gardens of Consolation

  Reza, Parisa, 1965-

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  Born to Iranian shepherds in 1933 Bahram, a boy whose intellectual promise is evident at an early age, becomes a fervent follower of Mohammad Mosaddegh and participates first-hand in his country's political and social upheavals. (Iran)

• Frankenstein in Baghdad

  a Novel

  Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad

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  A horrifying creature stalks the bombed-out streets of postwar Baghdad, seeking vengeance. (Iraq)