and a suggested title if you want to check any of them out....

• josef Škvorecký - the swell season
• tibor fischer - under the frog
• junichiro tanizaki - the makioka sisters
• andrzej stasiuk - Nine
• ann cummins - red ant house
• pico iyer - the global soul
• peter sis - the wall
• imre kertész - fateless