The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a career-spanning collection of Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself.
This is one of several works in translation recently published as a paperback original in the US by Penguin (Gerbrand Bakker's Ten White Geese is another), and they seemed to have managed quite a decent Internet/weblog publicity-effort with it (and it even got reviewed in the generally translated-literature-phobic The New York Times Book Review). This seems an obvious paperback original candidate, and it's good to see it seems to have caught on a bit (and that, for example, the NYTBR did not shy away from coverage).
This is one of several works in translation recently published as a paperback original in the US by Penguin (Gerbrand Bakker's Ten White Geese is another), and they seemed to have managed quite a decent Internet/weblog publicity-effort with it (and it even got reviewed in the generally translated-literature-phobic The New York Times Book Review). This seems an obvious paperback original candidate, and it's good to see it seems to have caught on a bit (and that, for example, the NYTBR did not shy away from coverage).