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Five (New Directions), selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by César Aira, “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together — each an astonishing work — Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime, and The Hormone Pill.

Inspired by the author’s own family history, and spanning the past hundred years of Chinese history, Kangkang Li Kovacs’s multi-generational family saga explores how women survive the tsunamis of history. Nothing to My Name (Viking) chronicles the intertwined fates of three generations of Chinese women: Ah Xue, Mimosa, and Fei.

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Drawing its title from the Nez Perce word for ocean, distant water (Milkweed) explores the mysterious process through which language is conveyed from one body to another, moving through waters, kin, memory, and breath. In this meditative, expansive collection, Beth Piatote reveals language as a shared vibration, a life force that sustains an intimate, animate world.

From Tom Lin, author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction-winning The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives.