Siddhartha Deb’s The Light at the End of the World(Soho, May) expertly compresses two centuries of India’s history-and its future possibilities-into four sometimes fantastical sections and a coda. Ben Fountain’s Devil Makes Three(Flatiron, Sept.) reveals power plays both local and regional as Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide falls in a coup d’état. soldier returns to Vietnam decades after the war, even as the scorned son of a Black U.S. In Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s Dust Child(Algonquin: Workman, Mar.), a U.S.
Leila Aboulela’s River Spirit (Grove, Mar.) limns an orphan’s coming of age during Sudan’s 1880s fight for independence. Click here for a downloadable spreadsheet of titles (based on currently available publisher information). The aim is to capture top titles and top trends, and the authors here-literary stars, scholars, and experts-are generally best-selling, award-winning, and/or award-nominated or worthy of being so, perhaps in the coming year.
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