This Week's Acquisitions

(There may be more, but I'm on the other side of the country.)

Honore de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, ed. Peter Brooks, trans. Linda Asher (NYRB, 2014). Anthology of nine short stories and novellas, including "Sarrasine." (Barnes and Noble)
Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night (Mariner, 2016). American circus performer makes it big as an opera singer in nineteenth-century France; complications ensue. (Barnes and Noble)