For the reader looking to broaden horizons, four extraordinary works: On the Royal Road: The Burgher King by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek (tr. from the German by Gitta Honegger); Blindspot by Myriam Tadessé; Shades of Black by Nathalie Etoke (tr. from the French by Gila Walker); and The Mud of a Century by Yūka Ishii (tr. from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell).