The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robert Perišić's Our Man in Iraq, which came out in the UK from Istros last year, and is now available in a US edition from Black Balloon (complete with cover-blurb by Jonathan Franzen).
The title they chose for the English translation -- with its Greene-echo -- isn't bad, but it's 'Iraq', of course, that immediately catches the eye of every US/UK book-buyer; in fact, the book is set in and is about Perišić's native Croatia (though 'our man in Iraq' does play a role, and does send some dispatches from the front); it's noteworthy that the original title (Naš čovjek na terenu) -- and the ones chosen for translations into other languages -- don't mention Iraq .....
The title they chose for the English translation -- with its Greene-echo -- isn't bad, but it's 'Iraq', of course, that immediately catches the eye of every US/UK book-buyer; in fact, the book is set in and is about Perišić's native Croatia (though 'our man in Iraq' does play a role, and does send some dispatches from the front); it's noteworthy that the original title (Naš čovjek na terenu) -- and the ones chosen for translations into other languages -- don't mention Iraq .....