Everything the Light Touches, Janice Pariat
Drawn richly from scientific and botanical ideas, Everything the Light Touches is a swirl of ever-expanding themes: the contrasts between modern India and its colonial … Read more
Category Archives: Cultural/Regional
Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice
There’s not much out there yet about the sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow. I recently interviewed Waub Rice, who said that the sequel … Read more
Black River, Nilanjana S. Roy
For the most part, Delhi turns its back on her, staining her swollen body with its ashes and garbage and sewage, choking her with the … Read more
Oghenechovwe Ekpeki, Zelda Knight, and Sheree Renée Thomas – Africa Risen
Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of … Read more
The Last Polar Bear, Dana Rodney
The Last Polar Bear is part wildlife adventure, part nature narrative, and a thought-provoking story of the Arctic’s last polar bear and the Inuit woman … Read more
The Rooftop Garden, Menaka Raman-Wilms
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but … Read more
Limberlost, Robbie Arnott
The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and … Read more
Salt and Skin, Eliza Henry-Jones
Drawing on records of the witch trials and folk tales of the northern isles, Salt and Skin is full of tenderness, magic, and yearning. It’s a … Read more
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
A re-imagined Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield story, set in the Appalachian Mountains, this large book (over 600 pages) explores the life of a boy born … Read more
In the Company of Men, Véronique Tadjo
Two boys go hunting in a forest, shooting down bats and cooking them over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged … Read more
The Last Quarter of the Moon, Zijian Chi
Translated by Bruce Humes, this novel, first published in 2005, is being re-released by Penguin Random House, re-categorized in the genre of eco-fiction. In The … Read more
All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie
Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story. All the Horses of Iceland tells the … Read more
Valli, Sheela Tomy
Originally published in Malayalam, in June 2021, Valli is Sheela Tomy’s debut novel. It’s being translated into English by Jayasree Kalathil. According to Financial Express, … Read more
Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former … Read more
Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine’s Grey Zone, the no-man’s-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of … Read more