Chitrita Banerji

‘At once a rich, sensuous experience of tastes, colour and fragrances; an intensely personal memoir; historical documentation; and social critique’—The Hindu. Chitrita Benerji, 1998 winner of the Sophie Col Memorial Prize, is also the author of Eating India.

JANUARY:: Tove Jansson

Beloved Finnish author Tove Jansson's Moomin stories. The Arabia Moomin collection. Her novel, The Summer Book, one of ten books she wrote for adults. For the 2011 reading list:  A Winter Book, a collection of her short stories.

NOVEMBER:: Alejandro Zambra

Article by acclaimed Chilean writer Sergio Missana on Alejandro Zambra's Latin American minimalism.  Both Bonsai and The Private Lives of Trees are available in translation.

NOVEMBER :: Book Arts of Latin America

Conjuros y ebriedades : cantos de mujeres mayas, 1997 de Ambar Past. Via BiblioOdyssey

OCTOBER :: How To Read the Air

The second book by acclaimed Ethiopian-born writer Dinaw Mengestu is available tomorrow October 14 and illuminates the immigrant experience across two generations.  Here, the short story "An Honest Exit".