Look out for these forthcoming translated novels.

• Other forthcoming titles in brief
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• February 2009
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• Rafik Schami's Dark Side of Love (tr. Anthea Bell; Arabia Books) is a story of forbidden love set against the backdrop of Arabic culture and endless clan feuds.
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• Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg returns in Fred Vargas's The Chalk Circle Man (tr. Siân Reynolds; Harvill Secker)
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• Reality and fiction blend in Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death (tr. Nicholas de Lange; Chatto & Windus)
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• March 2009
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• The Redeemer, Jo Nesbø's new Harry Hole mystery (tr. Don Bartlett; Harvill Secker)
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• Jonathan Littell's Prix Goncourt-winning The Kindly Ones comes to Britain, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Chatto & Windus)
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• April 2009
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• John Brownjohn's translation of wacky Walter Moer's The Alchemaster's Apprentice (Harvill Secker)
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• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa is about a maths professor who lives with only 80 minutes of short-term memory (tr. Stephen Snyder; Harvill Secker)
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• July 2009
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• Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the conclusion of Javier Marias's Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (tr. Margaret Jull Costa; Chatto & Windus)
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