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54 - Ming, Wu

A

Absalom's Hair - Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
A Castle in Romagna - Štiks, Igor
A Cicada in the Shimmer - Mlalazi, Christopher
A City of Museums - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Academician Sisoye's Inaugural Speech - Minevski, Blaže
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - Steinbeck, John
Adam, One Afternoon - Calvino, Italo
Adrift on the Nile - Mahfouz, Naguib
Adulterers - Ognjenović, Vida
Affairs of State - Manotti, Dominique
The Afterlife and Other Stories - Updike, John
Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas
Agnomia - Gál, Róbert
A Happy Boy - Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
A Happy Man - Schertenleib, Hansjörg
A Life on Paper - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Aliss at the Fire - Fosse, Jon
All Souls' Day - Nooteboom, Cees
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Chabon, Michael
Amsterdam - McEwan, Ian
Ana, Camil, Niculina, and Me - Drysdale, Helena
And All Turned Moon - Gospodinov, Georgi
Andrea Delfin - Heyse, Paul
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy, Leo
Annihilation - Szewc, Piotr
Any Dog - Hartnett, Sonya
Apollo's Head - Kurahasi, Yumiko
The Ark - Adamek, Marcel-André
A Room on the Abyss - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
The Art of War - Agopian, Ştefan
Arthur & George - Barnes, Julian
Artists' Wives - Daudet, Alphonse
The Aspirations of Jean Servien - France, Anatole
At the Sarajevo Market - Štiks, Igor
The Atom Station - Laxness, Halldór
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Vargas Llosa, Mario
Auntie Frosea - Ciocan, Iulian
The Autograph Man - Smith, Zadie
Awaiting - Agema, Su'eddie Vershima

B

Badenheim 1939 - Appelfeld, Aharaon
The Bather - Pradelli, Ángela
The Bathroom - Toussaint, Jean-Philippe
Baudolino - Eco, Umberto
The Bean Prophecies - Tokarczuk, Olga
Before the End - Dephy, David
Before the Throne - Mahfouz, Naguib
Behind the Door - Tubosun, Kola
Bel-Ami - Maupassant, Guy de
Berlin in the Afternoon, at a Quarter to Winter - Johanides, Ján
Bertha Garlan - Schnitzler, Arthur
Beside the Sea - Olmi, Véronique
Beware of Pity - Zweig, Stefan
Big Pieces, Little Pieces - Tshuma, Novuyo Rosa
The Bill - Krasznahorkai, László
Bill Clinton's Hand - Ruşti, Doina
The Blind Assassin - Atwood, Margaret
Blood Meridian - McCarthy, Cormac
The Boat - Le, Nam
The Body Artist - DeLillo, Don
The Book of Sand - Borges, Jorge Luis
Borges's Secretary - Bettencourt, Lúcia
Boutique Cinderella - Dimovska, Milica Mićić
The Box - Stanković, Slavoljub
Boys Don't Cry - Simić, Mima
Brazilian Tales - trans. Goldberg, Isaac
Breath - Winton, Tim
Bulbjerg - Aidt, Naja Marie
Butterfly Man - Heinsaar, Mehis

C

The Calligrapher's Secret - Schami, Rafik
The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature - Mueller, Janel and Lowenstein, David
Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum? - Suceavă, Bogdan
Caribou Island - Vann, David
Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read - Mozzi, Guilio
Casanova's Homecoming - Schnitzler, Arthur
Castorp - Huelle, Paweł
Center of Flacq - Pyamootoo, Barlen
Ceremony - Silko, Leslie Marmon
The Chair - Dephy, David
Chewing Gum - Teodorovici, Lucian Dan
Child's Play - Malouf, David
The China Doll - Lázár, Ervin
A Christian But a Roman - Mór, Jókai
Christopher Unborn - Fuentes, Carlos
A Citizen Speaks - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
City Gates - Khoury, Elias
Clerambault - Rolland, Romain
Clips - Juráňová, Jana
Clockwork Animals - Cărtărescu, Mircea
The Colonel - Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud
Colonel Chabert - Balzac, Honoré de
Come Out, Come Out - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Coming From an Off-Key Time - Suceavă, Bogdan
Coming Soon!!! - Barth, John
A Commonwealth of Thieves - Keneally, Thomas
The Complete Essays - Montaigne, Michel de
The Complete Henry Bech - Updike, John
Confession of a Murderer - Roth, Joseph
The Consorts of Death - Staalesen, Gunnar
Conversation With Spinoza - Smilevski, Goce
Cosmonauts' Square • Generation Ю - Klimáček, Viliam
Cost of Courage - Tapureta, Beaven
The Country Where No One Ever Dies - Vorpsi, Ornela
Couples - Updike, John
The Cover - Dimitrijević, Dejana
Crabwalk - Grass, Günter
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard - France, Anatole
The Crimes of England - Chesterton, G. K.
The Curse - Prichard, Katharine Susannah
The Cyclist Conspiracy - Basara, Svetislav

D

Daddy Wants TV Saturday Night - Suceavă, Bogdan
Dance With Snakes - Moya, Horacio Castellanos
Dead Man's Share - Khadra, Yasmina
The Dead Witness; or, the Bush Waterhole - Fortune, Mary
Death in the Andes - Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Death of Artemio Cruz - Fuentes, Carlos
Death on Gimbiya Street - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze
Death With Interruptions - Saramago, José
Delaunay the Broker - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Democracy - Ormsby, Mike
The Desert of Love - Mauriac, François
Desire - Uphoff, Manon
Detective Story - Kertész, Imre
The Devil's Whisper - Miyabe, Miyuki
The Din in the Head - Ozick, Cynthia
The Discovery of Heaven - Mulisch, Harry
Doctor Sot - Barry, Kevin
Doe a Deer - Stefan, Verena
The Dolceola PlayerChâteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Dona Perfecta - Galdós, Benito Pérez
Down to a Sunless Sea - Freese, Mathias B.
Dream Diary - Candida, Marco
Dust - Sprenger, Stefan
In the Dutch Mountains - Nooteboom, Cees
The Dwarf - Lagerkvist, Par
The Dying Animal - Roth, Philip

E

The Echo Maker - Powers, Richard
Edith Wharton - Lee, Hermione
The Eighth Day - Kakuta, Mitsuyo
Elza Kuga's Old-Age Dementia - Ikstena, Nora
Embraced by the Grave - Marhun, Mahmud
The Erasers - Robbe-Grillet, Alain
“...everything emptying into white” - Rosenstock, Gabriel
The Evil Eye - Gelasimov, Andrei
The Excursion - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Excursion to Dubrovnik - Šimko, Dušan
Exit Ghost - Roth, Philip
Eyeless in Gaza - Huxley, Aldous

F

Fado Alexandrino - Antunes, Antonio Lobo
Fantômas - Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre
Far From Here - Vila-Matas, Enrique
Far Inland Football - Barry, John Arthur
Farewell Waltz - Kundera, Milan
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev, Ivan
Fear and Servant - Novaković, Mirjana
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard, Søren
The Fencing Master - Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
The Flight of Icarus - Queneau, Raymond
The Flood - Zola, Émile
The Folded Leaf - Maxwell, William
The Following Story - Nooteboom, Cees
Four Children, Two Dogs and Some Birds - Gersão, Teolinda
Foreign Women - Viiding, Elo
Freedom - Franzen, Jonathan
Friendly Fire - Yehoshua, A. B.
Friendship: An Exposé - Epstein, Joseph
From the Gracchi to Nero - Scullard, H. H.
Frost - Bernhard, Thomas
The Fruits of the Earth - Gide, André
Furniture - Mándy, Iván

G

The General of the Dead Army - Kadare, Ismail
German Moonlight - Raabe, Wilhelm
The Ghost Upon the Rail - Lang, John George
Giraffe - Ledgard, J. M.
God's Obituary - Paiva, Fernando
God's Punishment - Giardinelli, Mempo
The Gold Bug Variations - Powers, Richard
Good Women and Bad Women - Halfon, Eduardo
Goodbye, Columbus - Roth, Philip
Good Morning Comrades - Ondjaki
The Good Soldier Švejk - Hašek, Jaroslav
Goose Chase - Teodorovici, Lucian Dan
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon, Thomas
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, F Scott
Growth of the Soil - Hamsun, Knut
A Guide to Famous Stabbings - Quiriny, Bernard
The Gulf of the Years - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier

H

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose - Heine, Heinrich
The Heart Fails Without Warning - Mantel, Hilary
The Heart's Secret Moves - Herrera, Yuri
Heathen Master Filcsik - Mikszáth, Kálmán
Holding Pattern - Villoro, Juan
Holes in People - Eiríksdóttir, Kristín
Honeymoon to Nowhere - Takagi, Akimitsu
A Horse of Air - Stivens, Dal
Hotel by a Railroad - Grytten, Frode
Hotel Komaba Eminence (With Haruki Murakami) - Montalbetti, Christine
The Hour Commute - Adameşteanu, Gabriela
House No. 451 - Elíasson, Gyrðir
How Fiction Works - Wood, James
Hugging the Shore - Updike, John
The Humbling - Roth, Philip
The Hundredth Friend - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze
Hunger - Hamsun, Knut
Hurricane Season - Hospital, Janette Turner

I

The “I Ching” and the Man of Papers - Martínez, Guillermo
I, City - Brycz, Pavel
Identity - Kundera, Milan
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino, Italo
I, Loshaď - Kratochvil, Jiří
Ilustrado - Syjuco, Miguel
Immortality - Kundera, Milan
In Hock - Pérez Reyes, José
Indian Nocturne - Tabucchi, Antonio
Indignation - Roth, Philip
In Dubious Battle - Steinbeck, John
The Infant's Skull; or, The End of the World - A Tale of the Millennium - Sue, Eugène
In Search of Lost Time I - The Way by Swann's - Proust, Marcel
In Search of Lost Time II - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Proust, Marcel
In the Wake - Petterson, Per
The Invitation - Simon, Claude
Is it a Comedy? Is it a Tragedy? - Bernhard, Thomas

J

Jamilia - Aïtmatov, Chingiz
Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn - Rolland, Romain
Jean-Christophe Volume II: Morning - Rolland, Romain
Jean-Christophe Volume III: Youth - Rolland, Romain
Jeremiah's Terrible Tale - Konrád, György
The Jesus Man - Tsiolkas, Christos
The Jewish Messiah - Grunberg, Arnon
The Journey of Anders Sparrman Wästberg, Per
Just Things - Kalinauskaitė, Danutė

K

Kahn & Engelmann - Eichner, Hans
Kennedy - Hogan, Desmond
Ketchup - Mrożek, Sławomir
The Key - Brau, Edgar
Knulp - Hesse, Hermann
Kornél Esti’s Bicycle Or: The Structure Of The World - Esterházy, Péter

L

La Tête - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Lady Chatterley's Brother - Hathcock, Barrett and Esposito, Scott
Lake Como - Valjarević, Srdjan
The Lamp with the Cap - Lazarescu, Florin
Last Evenings on Earth - Bolaño, Roberto
The Last Reading - Kosztolányi, Dezső
Laughable Loves - Kundera, Milan
The Literary Conference - Aira, César
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s - Wilson, Edmund
The Little Man from Archangel - Simenon, Georges
Little Mountain - Khoury, Elias
Logisticians Anonymous - Kõomägi, Armin
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - Böll, Heinrich
Lost Love - Hartmann, Ivor W.
Lou's Last Letter to Feri's Wife - Háy, János
Love - Nádas, Péter
The Loved One - Waugh, Evelyn
Lovesong - Miller, Alex
The Lunch on Good Friday - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze

M

Madame Bovary - Flaubert, Gustave
Magic! - Bizzio, Sergio
Maigret's Memoirs - Simenon, Georges
Make a Doctor Run - Ferić, Zoran
The Man on the Balcony - Sjöwall, Maj and Wahlöö, Per
Maestro - Goldsworthy, Peter
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets - Crane, Stephen
Meditations - Aurelius, Marcus
Mother Tongue - Ormsby, Mike
Mr Darwin's Shooter - McDonald, Roger
Mr. Escu's Adventure - Lungu, Dan
Mrs. Agnes's Bathroom - Kovalyk, Uršuľa
My Life as a Man - Roth, Philip
My Best Story - Hochel, Braňo
My Hand is Exhausted - de Martelaere, Patricia
My Little War - Boon, Louis Paul

N

The Naked Madonna - Wiese, Jan
The Name of the Rose - Eco, Umberto
Names - Bittel, Adriana
Narcissus Leaves the Pool - Epstein, Joseph
Nausea - Sartre, Jean-Paul
Neighbours - Winton, Tim
Nela and the Virgins - Ibarz, Mercé
The Nestbury Tree - Morocco-Clarke, Ayodele
Next World Novella - Politycki, Matthias
Night - Wiesel, Elie
Ninety Minutes - Ifedigbo, Sylva Nze
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto - Vargas Llosa, Mario
Novels, 1973-1977 (Library of America) - Roth, Philip

O

The Oak and The Calf - Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Oblomov - Goncharov, Ivan
Octavio the Invader - Shua, Ana María
Of A Boy - Hartnett, Sonya
Oh, Those Chubby Genes - Parti Nagy, Lajos
Old Fazyl's Advice - Odegov, Ilya
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway, Ernest
One Minute: Dumbo's Death - Arsenijević, Vladimir
The Only Mortal - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
The Open Window - Blandiana, Ana
Oranges and Angel - Schulze, Ingo
Our Years of Beauty - Suceavă, Bogdan

P

Pale Fire - Nabokov, Vladimir
Pan - Hamsun, Knut
Paradise - Alegría, Claribel
Parisian Points of View - Halévy, Ludovic
The Pavilion and the Linden - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Peace - Bausch, Richard
The Peacocks - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Penguins - Bican, Florin
The Period in Which We Live - Rankov, Pavol
The Periodic Table - Levi, Pimo
The PestChâteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier
Pierre and Jean - Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Luce - Rolland, Romain
The Pigeon - Tóth, Krisztina
The Plague - Camus, Albert
Poco-loco - Rey Rosa, Rodrigo
The Polish Complex - Konwicki, Tadeusz
The Portable Medieval Reader - Ross, James Bruce and McLaughlin, Mary Martin
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman - Delius, Friedrich Christian
Praise - McGahan, Andrew
Premeditated Murder - Selenić, Slobodan
Preserves - Schewblin, Samanta
Pretty Dick - Clarke, Marcus
Professional Behaviour - Üldes, Ersan
The Professionals - Roberts, Wiliam Owen
The Prophecy - Jančar, Drago

Q

Quarterback & Co. - Nwokolo, Jr., Chuma
The Queen's Necklace - Szerb, Antal

R

R. J.'s Tiny Corpse - Millás, Juan José
Rabbit, Run - Updike, John
Rainy Season - Agualusa, José Eduardo
Raymond is No Longer with Us – Carver is Dead - Spahić, Ognjen
A Return to the Moonlight - Sigauke, Emmanuel
The Ring is Closed - Hamsun, Knut
The Rose Leopard - Yaxley, Richard
Rosshalde - Hesse, Hermann

S

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Mishima, Yukio
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño, Roberto
The Scents of Marie-Claire - Selmi, Habib
Sea of Many Returns - Zable, Arnold
Seeing - Saramago, José
Seek the Living - Warlick, Ashley
Seizing Cervantes - Xerxenesky, Antônio
Self's Deception - Schlink, Bernhard
Senselessness - Moya, Horacio Castellanos
Sez Ner - Camenisch, Arno
She Has No Place in Paradise - Saadawi, Nawal El
She Loves Me - Esterházy, Péter
Shot by Both Sides - Goto, Meisei
Siegfried - Mulisch, Harry
Sielanka - Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Signs and Symptoms - Gál, Róbert
Silas Marner - Eliot, George
Silk - Baricco, Alessandro
The Sitters - Miller, Alex
Six Tales - Tavares, Gonçalo M.
Skipper Worse - Kielland, Alexander
The Sky Over Thingvellir - Bragi, Steinar
Slávko - Kompaníková, Monika
The Sleeping Dragon - Miyabe, Miyuki
Slow Freight - Tar, Sándor
So Much Time For So Few Things - Nikolaidis, Andrej
The Soccer War - Kapuściński, Ryszard
The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Giordano, Paolo
Some Prefer Nettles - Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - Handke, Peter
The Sorrows of Idiot Augustus - Rudnicki, Janusz
So Runs the World - Sienkiewicz, Henryk
A Spy in the Ruins - Bernard, Christopher
Squeaker's Mate - Baynton, Barbara
Statements - Fugard, Athol, Kani, John and Ntshona, Winston
Stela's Return - Cristofovici, Anca
Stone in a Landslide - Barbal, Maria
The Storyteller - Vargas Llosa, Mario
This Strange Lucidity - Fernández Paz, Agustín
The Street of Crocodiles - Schulz, Bruno
Street Idyll - Stead, Christina
Strong Motion - Franzen, Jonathan
The Styx - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier

T

Tales of Two Countries - Kielland, Alexander
Tamale Blues - Attah, Ayesha Harruna
Tamarisk Row - Murnane, Gerald
The Telescope - Davydov, Danila
Tartarin de Tarascon - Daudet, Alphonse
Thérèse Raquin - Zola, Émile
There's Lots to See - Schiff, Agur
The Thief and the Dogs - Mahfouz, Naguib
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome, Jerome K
Three New Deals - Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
The Time and the Place - Mahfouz, Naguib
Time Gifts - Živković, Zoran
The Time of Our Singing - Powers, Richard
Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn
To a God Unknown - Steinbeck, John
To Troy, Helen - Iwasaki, Fernando
The Toad Prince - Kornis, Mihály
Too Close Together - Blatnik, Andrej
Too Loud a Solitude - Hrabal, Bohumil
Tortilla Flat - Steinbeck, John
To the Cemetery - Lungu, Dan
The Total Library - Non-Fiction 1922 - 1986 - Borges, Jorge Luis
Tourist Destination - Zink, Rui
Toward the End of Time - Updike, John
Train to Budapest - Maraini, Dacia
The Trial - Kafka, Franz
Trespasses - Dhuibhne, Éilís Ní
Truth Floats - Damoah, Nana Awere
The Two Coins - Delaney, Juan José

U

The Ugliest Woman in the World - Tokarczuk, Olga
Okoli-Okpagu, Ifesinachi - Ugobenna
Unlivable - Châteaureynaud, Georges-Olivier

V

Vereš - Ušumović, Neven
Victoria - Hamsun, Knut

W

Waiting for the Dog to Sleep - Ficowski, Jerzy
Washington Square - James, Henry
Wandering - Hesse, Hermann
The Way to Juarez - Gay, Rafael Pérez
The Wedding in Auschwitz - Hackl, Erich
Wedding Photos - Petrescu, Răzvan
Weird Tales from Northern Seas - Lie, Jonas
The Well Dressed Explorer - Astley, Thea
Whatever - Houellebecq, Michel
What Henry James Knew - Ozick, Cynthia
What the Day Owes the Night - Khadra, Yasmina
When There Were Only Animals - Bán, Zsófia
White Noise - DeLillo, Don
The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen - Hauff, Wilhelm
World's Fair - Doctorow, E. L.

X

Xerox of a Document about One Half of (the Art of) Life - Karvaš, Peter

Y

Yesterday's Dog - Musodza, Masimba
You Do Understand - Blatnik, Andrej
Your Man - Elnathan, John

Z

Zero's Neighbour: Sam Beckett - Cixous, Hélène
Zgaiba - Tanase, Stelian
Zidane's Melancholy - Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe
Zig Zag - Somoza, Jose Carlos
Zlatka - Hrgović, Maja
Zuckerman Bound - Roth, Philip

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