Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this reference provides a fascinating portal into the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge works in China to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors.
- | Author: M. A. Orthofer
- | Publisher: Columbia University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 19, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 496 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0231146744
- | ISBN-13: 9780231146746
