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International Fiction Bestsellers

Of Love and War Formerly Exiled Korean Writer Revisits Vietnam, While France’s Frèches Hits The Silk Road One of South Korea’s best-known writers, Hwang Sok-Yong, has found a fervent audience in France for his monumental and controversial literary portraits denouncing “both corruption and American imperialism” in the Vietnam and Korean wars. In The Shadow of…Continue Reading

International Fiction Bestsellers

Dictators’ Desserts Trujillo’s Dominican Feast and Franco’s Fall in Spain, Plus Cremer Redux in Holland Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa conquers lists in both Spain and Argentina with The Goat’s Feast, a novel that’s captivated critics (it “makes one’s flesh creep,” one wrote admiringly) and has been hailed as a revival of Vargas Llosa’s best…Continue Reading