Happy March publication day! We have five brilliant new books this month, with speculations on life and society, a metafictional take on translation, and two new editions of books that have recently been adapted for the silver screen.
The newest book by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Finkle, An American Dreamer explores deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbours. Written by International Booker Prize–winning translator Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey is a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Death as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás and Juan Luis Arsuaga offers sharp reflections on how evolution has treated us as a species, and also as individuals. Now the basis of a wondeerfully funny and moving TV series, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson is a charming and practical book that focuses on the importance of living — even through death cleaning. Tokyo Vice is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up; now a major TV series.
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