European Literature Days 2018: November 22 – 25, Spitz an der Donau. For the tenth successive year, Europe’s literary community gets together in the unique ambiance of Wachau for a weekend of intellectual debate and to introduce exceptional books. From 22 to 25 November, you can look forw
Brother in Ice is not a narrative of events that follow each other sequentially. Rather, we are presented with information concerning two topics: the early history of arctic exploration (Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton etc), and the life and thoughts of ‘Alicia Kopf’. To what extent the character of
Arnold Pessers is a photographer in his early thirties, who has arrived in Japan five years before this short novel begins, to take a series of photos for a tourist guidebook. He has been told to focus on something quintessentially Japanese, such as a beautiful girl in a kimono, with Mount Fuji in t
Gwendolen Howard (1894–1973), known as Len, was a musician who gave up her career in mid-life to study birds in the Sussex countryside. She wrote two books, which were bestsellers in their day, but the scientific establishment did not take Howard’s work seriously and now she remains largely unkn
Thirteen-year-old Maresi is a novice in a matriarchal religious community on a remote island, where she has taken refuge after a famine. Many of her fellow novices have fled from benighted societies where women are chattels, and are denied education and personal freedom. Maresi is set in a pre-indus
Engaging with the Nordic tradition of domesticity, from August Strindberg to Ingmar Bergman, Story of a Marriage is, in fact, the story of a middle-class Norwegian marriage. Gulliksen describes, from a male perspective, a marriage from its beginning to its end, offering us the turbulent thoughts of
