Rabid winds besieged the town sent downpours down to its very core The winter war had begun City-dwellers ran for shelter By Gerður Kristný Translated by Rory McTurk From DRÁPAby Gerður KristnýTranslated from the Icelandic by Rory McTurkPublished by Arc Publications (2018) Gerður Kristný was
From what I understand, you are perfectly trilingual, in Ukrainian, Russian and English. You and your family moved to Los Angeles when you were eight years old. Did you speak any English when you arrived? Could you tell me a little about your journey into this new language? I’m afraid I’m not pe
I don’t like poetry as a genre. There. I’ve said it. So sue me. I don’t get it. Moreover, I live in Norwich, where you’re served poetry for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And snacks. And yet there are rare – and therefore precious, delectable – occasions when I come across poetry that fill
We know about the 1933 book burning by the Nazis, but we know little about the crime of the ‘Aryanisation of books’, that is, the intellectual property theft from Jewish authors and publishers by the Nazis. Alice’s Book investigates this crime by focusing on one book and one family, and takes
This is the eighth in the Oslo Detectives series, translated into English by the expert and always readable Don Bartlett and, as with the others, it never fails to both grip and surprise the reader. The eponymous detectives, Frølich and Gunnarstranda, are initially faced with a drugs overdose, when
It’s seven years since I reviewed a book by David Lagercrantz; that was the first of his three recreations of Stieg Larsson’s character Lisbeth Salander. I didn’t much like it, remarking that it was overwritten and there were too many irrelevant plot lines (which didn’t stop it selling milli
