A Whole Life is an unforgettable and inexorably wise book that will linger in the mind of the reader.

The hundreds of heart-breaking voices talk about the same suffering and anguish, yet each one's testimony is distinct.

Clarice Lispector, the best-kept (until recently) secret of Latin American literature, is the real deal.

The Four Books, which took him more than 20 years to plan and write, was banned in mainland China.

Dewi Ayu is a prostitute who awakens after being dead for 21 years. Beauty is her ferociously ugly, youngest daughter.

We meet Tochi, a rickshaw driver, an untouchable who finds himself at the end of the wrathful Hindu caste system.

There’s something memorable on every page and the book casts a spell, one to which anyone will be happy to submit to.

Macdonald’s book is suffused with raw emotion, yet it never becomes sentimental.

My suggestion is that you begin the holiday reading with Yanagihara’s beautifully wrought book, A Little Life.

Manto’s life was that of a legend but Sarmad’s performance shows you the very human and flawed world behind all...