Haruki Murakami again revels in tales of mysterious woman (and sad men) in his latest story collection.

Pajtim Statovci's novel of personal and family displacement (and odd pets) is a shining debut.

China Miéville reinvents postwar Paris in a clever but stilted homage to Surrealism.

In her latest novel, Rachel Cusk can't enough of playing disappointment's biographer.

Anuk Arudpragasam's debut is a superior work of fiction and poised rendering of unimaginable sadness.

In "Exit West," Mohsin Hamid gives global migration a magically compassionate new look.

George Saunders' ambitious journey into the world of limbo and Abraham Lincoln's grief at the death of his son is a gossip-fest.

A Flemish-Belgian writer "reinvents" his grandfather to brilliant and dramatic effect.

In 1951, Polish writer Gustaw Herling recalled his Gulag days, and entered a rare class of writers.