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Title	Author	Description
Pitch Dark Pitch Dark	Renata Adler Adler	“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark, Renata Adler’s follow-up to her prize-winning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions, questions that bedevil Kate Ennis as she considers her relationship with her married lover. “A moving, infuriating, tantalizing book.”—The Boston Globe Contributors: Muriel Spark
An Armenian Sketchbook Armenian Sketchbook	Vasily Grossman Grossman	Vasily Grossman wrote not only one of the great Russian novels of the 20th-century (Life and Fate), but also vivid reportage, moving essays, and brilliant travel journals. This account of two months he spent in Armenia in the mid-60s is the most intimate of his works. Suppressed during his life, it is here available in English for the first time. Contributors: Robert Chandler , Yury Bit-Yunan , Elizabeth Chandler
On the Edge On the Edge	Markus Werner Werner	A gripping psychological thriller, the story of two men, one woman, and many questions: about truth, about reality, about identity. Contributors: Robert E. Goodwin
Basti Basti	Intizar Husain Husain	Basti exlores the divided consciousness of Pakistan, a country born of division and suffering from it to this day. Set during the chaos of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, the novel centers on the meetings and partings and memories and desires of a group of young men who seek to comprehend their country's disastrous situation. A masterpiece of modern Urdu fiction, Basti fuses modernist montage with stories from Muslim, Hindu, Persian, and Buddhist traditions in a poignant lament for the fallen historical world. Contributors: Asif Farrukhi , Frances W. Pritchett
Ravan and Eddie Ravan and Eddie	Kiran Nagarkar Nagarkar	A delightful comic romp through the misadventures of two boys, Ravan (Hindu) and Eddie (Catholic), whose lives are entwined by chance and circumstance in a sprawling and crowded Mumbai tenement building.
1948 1948	Yoram Kaniuk Kaniuk	A haunting, astute, utterly original novel about the Israeli War of Independence, drawn from Yoram Kaniuk’s experience as a 17-year-old solider and filtered through six decades of memory. Contributors: Anthony Berris
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist Going to the Dogs	Erich Kästner Kästner	Berlin, 1929: There's little hope, but plenty of amusement to be had if you know where to look. Jakob Fabian, 32, “at present an advertising copywriter," isn't one to mope; he and his friends prowl the city's cabarets, exchanging barbs and looking for girls. "Graceful, vivid and distinguished … a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity.”—Michael Sadleir Contributors: Rodney Livingstone , Cyrus Brooks
Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir Beirut, I Love You	Zena el Khalil Khalil	The story of Zena, a young artist who has fallen under the spell of a city that both attracts and repels her and threatens to engulf her in war, grief, and love affairs.
Growing Up Absurd Growing Up Absurd	Paul Goodman Goodman	“Growing Up Absurd, originally commissioned as a study of juvenile delinquency and later a bible of the 1960s student rebellion, remains essential and troubling reading for anyone who cares about the problems of the young.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Contributors: Casey Blake , Susan Sontag
The Water Theatre Water Theatre	Lindsay Clarke Clarke	A novel that follows war reporter Martin Crowther as he travels to Italy hoping to convince the estranged children of his ailing mentor to visit their father one last time.