Andrey Platonov

Feb 29, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Andrey Platonov

Bora Chung has been busy. When we speak a few weeks before the U.S. publication of Your Utopia (Algonquin, Jan. 30), her second story collection to appear in English, she is the center of a whirlwind of activity. In November, she had visited New York to attend the National Book Awards, where she and her translator, Anton Hur, were finalists in the category of translated literature for her previous collection, Cursed Bunny.

Jan 13, 2024 | infobae.com | Andrey Platonov

Chevengur, la primera y mejor novela del escritor ruso Andrey Platónov, cuenta dos historias: una parábola irónica de la naciente Rusia soviética y la lamentable historia de la publicación del libro.

Nov 10, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Carlos Ruffin |Aube Rey Lescure |Andrey Platonov |Hisham Matar

Alexis Wright. New Directions, $25.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3801-4This freewheeling and heartbreaking masterpiece from Aboriginal Australian author Wright (Carpenteria) brims with the magic of myth and the painful realities of present-day climate change. An “ochre-coloured haze” has descended on the remote town of Praiseworthy, Australia, “claiming ultimate sovereignty of the flatlands” and portending ecological disaster.

Oct 18, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Carlos Ruffin |Aube Rey Lescure |Andrey Platonov |Hisham Matar

Rae Giana Rashad. Harper, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-333009-2Rashad’s consuming debut imagines a dystopian near future shaped by a second American civil war in 1954. In 2030, Black people, classified as Descendants of Slavery, are controlled by a new, white-led government known as the Order. DoS men serve as soldiers and DoS women are forced into work contracts for white men at the age of 15, then paired by an algorithm with a Black man when they are old enough to marry.

Oct 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Clarice Lispector |Maurice Carlos Ruffin |Aube Rey Lescure |Andrey Platonov

The Apple in the DarkClarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser. New Directions, $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2675-2New Directions completes its series of 15 new Lispector translations with this existential epic of a desperate criminal. Martim flees the scene of his unspecified crime and ventures deep into the Brazilian jungle, coming at last upon a secluded ranch.