Here is an update on the books included in the International Special. I seem to have missed a few in my previous lists. These will start tomorrow, and there will be a break on the weekends. They are not in order of upcoming appearance:
2012 - Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne (editors) Australian short story
collection
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1905) - Elliot E.
Mills - British, Collapse of the first World Empire
Ashes, Ashes (Ravage) - René Barjavel - Vichy
French
Quarter-Life Crises -
Evan Murphy - Canadian - Graphic novel set in Toronto
Coming From an Off-Key Time - Bogdan Suceavã
- Romanian
Enfold Me - Steven
Greenberg - Israel
Vlad -
Carlos Fuentes
The Literary Conference -
César Aira - Argentinian, but mostly set in
Venezuela
The Massive - Brian
Wood - Graphic novel serial - American author with international
setting
The Loom of Ruin -
Sam McPheeter - American author set in the immegrant melting pot of Los
Angelos
Fall Out - Gudrun Pausewang - West
Germany
Friends and Other Stories of the Apocalypse- A.P. Menzie -
American author/Japanese illustrator - but it was short and free.
La Jetée Ciné Roman - Chris
Marker - French - Based on movie of the same name. Was the inspiration for the
movie 12 Monkeys.
Memoria - Alex Bobl - Russian - Classic noir fiction in
a dystopian future setting
Dog Eat Dog - David Rodgers - British with
International setting. Has a RPG game (Yellow Dawn) associated with
it.
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood - Canadian authoress - mosly U.S. setting, but some in Asia
The Rest is Silence - Scott Fotheringham - Canadian author - split between New York City and Nova Scotia
Living Souls - Dmitry Bykov - Collapse in Russia
H.P. Lovecraft - Michel Hoellebecq - A French author reviews the importance of the early master. Two of H.P.'s stories (Call of Cthulhu, and The Whisperer in the Darkness) are included.
For completeness, these are the international novels that we have already reviewed (see book review tab):
King of the Store Room - Antonio Porta -
Italian
China Tidal Wave - Wang Lixiong -Chinese
Tobaccoo Stained
Mountain Goat - Andrez Bergen - Australian
Malevil - Robert Merle -
French
Yellow Cake Spring - Guy Salvidge - Australian
Kingdom of
Four Rivers - Guy Salvidge - Australian
Red Queen - Honey Brown -
Australian
2 comments:
wow...pretty impressive list! la jetee isn't even in print anymore! can't wait for your review. i love Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale - that's kind of apocalyptic - have you read it? and of course i can't wait for your review of The Rest Is Silence!
your friend,
kymber
Kymber: La Jetee both the book and the movie are still available directly from the amazon.us. So while I am sure they aren't making current print runs, someone is still sitting on a stack of them. The movie is paired with another movie Sans Soleil - which makes sense since La Jetee is so short.
I have not read The Hand Maidens Tale. After reading the Gate at Women's Country, I became alergic to such books. Although I would agree that is apocalyptic enough for inclusion otherwise.
The Rest is Silence is geared toward a contemporary fiction market. Which means it will win awards, but likely get no traction with the apocalyptic crowd. The typical contemporary fiction novel makes better use of the language than the typical apocalyptic novel, but otherwise has its own genre problems. I find them interetsting because they are different, but not always better.
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