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A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”

A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel.

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship.

Yaroslav Trofimov grew up in Kyiv. “Our Enemies Will Vanish” records his experience as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal assigned to cover the war.

In “Goldenseal,” Maria Hummel takes readers into a hotel room, then unfurls her characters’ complicated history.

In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles of a cosmetics store.

In “Making It in America,” Rachel Slade examines the challenges of domestic production through the lens of one Maine company.

Cynthia Zarin’s first novel, “Inverno,” is a tale of a woman’s incurable longing and haunted past.

In “How to Be a Good Savage,” Mikeas Sánchez’ poems help preserve her language, Zoque, and allow it to commingle with English and Spanish, in an effort that is both global and deeply local.

Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.