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January 2010Ergo is a feverishly comic carnival about two rivals, Wacholder and Würz, and Wacholder's efforts to smoke Würz out of his antiseptically perfect life through a series of absurd missives and increasingly unhinged schemes. Ergo is Jakov Lind's most experimental work and the final novel he wrote in German.
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February 2010A hilarious and often quite moving book, The Museum of Eterna's Novel redefined the limits of the genre, and has had a lasting impact on Latin American literature. Authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Ricardo Piglia have all fallen under its charm and high-concepts, and, at long last, English-speaking readers can experience the book that helped build the reputation of Borges's mentor.
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June 2010For the first time in his life, Heribert Juliá is unable to paint. Humbert Herrera, an up-and-coming artist who can’t stop creating, picks up the threads of Heribert’s life, taking his wife, replacing him at the gallery, and pursuing his former mistress. Gasoline is a fun-house mirror through which Monzó examines the creative process, the life and loves of artists, and the New York art scene.
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July 2010A comic gem, Jerzy Pilch’s A Thousand Peaceful Cities tells the story of teenaged Jerzyk, his father, and his father's friend, the failed Lutheran clergyman, alcoholic, and would-be Polish insurrectionist, Mr. Trąba, and their plot to travel to distant Warsaw and assassinate the de facto Polish head of state, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Władysław Gomułka.
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July 2010The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julián is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Verónica to return from her art class. As Julián becomes increasing concerned that Verónica won’t return, he reflects on their life together in minute detail, and imagines what Daniela—at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty years old, without a mother—will think of his novel.
Los Angeles Times reviews the THE GOLDEN CALF by Ilf & Petrov
“The Golden Calf has never been available in its entirety to English readers. Now, though, an energetic new translation by Konstantin Gurevich and Helen Anderson. . .”
29 January 10 | More...
Inside Higher Ed. reviews the WALL IN MY HEAD anthology
“The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain . . . is a unique, and in its own modest way, a necessary book. . .”
29 January 10 | More...
Big UK Coverage for the Best Translated Book Award
The Guardian and the Independent both cover this year’s “battle for translation prize.”
10 January 10 | More...
- "In the United States of Africa" by Abdourahman Waberi [BTBA 2010 Fiction Longlist]
Over the next eight days, we'll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award fic... - "Op Oloop" by Juan Filloy [BTBA 2010 Fiction Longlist]
Over the next nine days, we'll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award fict... - "There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night" by Cao Naiqian [BTBA 2010 Fiction Longlist] [1]
Over the next ten days, we'll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award ficti... - RTW Podcast on iTunes [1]
When we were launching the Reading the World podcast the other day, iTunes was all jacked and couldn...






