From NPR: Picks for Best Foreign Fiction.

It’s good for you. That’s the pale impetus so many of us use to immerse ourselves in foreign works of art. We should watch Bergman films, and look, we’ve got some in our Netflix queue! It’s just that Speed was on cable again last night and, well … the time just slipped away!

But the inescapable truth is, sampling world culture is an essential and powerfully enriching experience – as anyone who has consumed the twisted and beautiful novels and poetry of this year’s Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller knows. The works of foreign fiction listed here are about romance, family duty, sex, travel, violence and spirituality. In other words, they are books about life. They just happen to be set in slightly unfamiliar locales. Like Pittsburgh.