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With the summer season in full swing (and the potent portent of late June’s record-setting PNW temperatures seared into memory), hopefully this month brings a repose figurative, literal, and literary. What could pair better with kulfi, Halo-Halo, affogato, cholados, paletas, cendol, or Snoopy sno-cones than 9 newly translated titles (and a bonus biography)? Whether an outstanding Colombian story collection, a Senegalese debut of fundamentalism and revolt, new fiction from a Romanian exile, the conclusion to a powerful Norwegian trilogy, a Brazilian work which led Junot Díaz to ask, “How can a novel so wrenching be so sublime?”, or any of the other books on this month’s list, each pick is guaranteed to slake your world book thirst...