FICTION
David Rabe, Girl by the Road at Night (Simon & Schuster). Una love story ambientata in Vietnam. nytbr.

Vendela Vida (nella foto), The Lovers (Ecco). Dopo la morte del marito, un'insegnante va a stare per un periodo in un villaggio turco. sfc.

NONFICTION
Tim Parks, Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing (Harvill Secker). Parks racconta in modo divertente la storia di un persistente male al bacino e di come sia riuscito a venirne a capo. g/o.

DA LEGGERE
Edmund White su The Pregnant Widow di Martin Amis: "The Pregnant Widow begins as a beautifully poised, patient comedy of manners, in the tradition of the nineteenth- century English novels that Martin Amis’s college-age hero, Keith Nearing, is reading; then, in the last third, the narrative skips ahead and thins out and speeds up and starts to destroy itself joyously, like one of Jean Tinguely’s self-wrecking sculptures—or like civilization itself in the twenty-first century." nybooks.