December 2020 Highlights

NOVELS
1. Mrs Murakami’s Garden (trans. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary) (Deep Vellum, 2020) / Mario Bellatin
2. Ferdinand, the Man With the Kind Heart (trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann) (Other Press, 2020) / Irmgard Keun
3. The Arctic Fury (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2020) / Greer Macallister
4. Perestroika in Paris (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) / Jane Smiley

FIRST NOVELS
1. The Decagon House Murders (trans. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong) (Pushkin Vertigo, 2020) / Yukito Ayatsuji

2. Big Girl, Small Town (Algonquin Books, 2020) / Michelle Gallen
3. The Mermaid from Jeju (Alcove Press, 2020) / Sumi Hahn

4. The River Within (Europa Editions, 2020) / Karen Powell

NONFICTION
1. What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times (Columbia University Press, 2020) / Ruth DeFries
2. The Code of Civilization (trans. from the Russian by Huw Davies) (Glagoslav, 2020) / Vyacheslav Nikonov

3. An Inventory of Losses (trans. from the German by Jackie Smith) (New Directions, 2020) / Judith Schlansky