It’s the summer of 2012, and Paula Quiñones, a brilliant researcher with Spain’s Finance Ministry, volunteers for a project in rural eastern Andalucía to excavate mass graves and identify the remains of men, women and children killed and buried there by Franco supporters after the Civil War. P
When Ruth Schwarz’s parents are killed in a car crash, it is only the first of many shocks. The second is that they wish to be buried in their home village of Gross Einland, a place that does not exist on any map. This does not deter Ruth. She sets off on a quest to […]
Compelling, fast-paced and self-aware, Doris Knecht’s The Message is a deftly told novel by a writer at the top of her game. Examining our obsession with social media from a feminist perspective, it interweaves a tense and sometimes dark narrative with delicate, detailed descriptions of everyday l
Löwenherz (‘Lionheart’) is the final instalment in Monika Helfer’s trilogy of autobiographical novels, a fascinatingly lucid body of literature that examines individual lives and how to represent them in writing. After taking her grandmother and father under her fictional lens in Die Bagage (
Readers seeking a new take on the familiar themes of guilt and memory need look no further than Darkenbloom, the latest novel by the award-winning Eva Menasse. Comic yet chilling, the novel tells the compelling tale of a town forced to confront its Nazi past. The Austrians are a people who confident
Air-raid sirens across the country It feels like everyone is brought out For execution But only one person gets targeted Usually the one at the edge This time not you; all clear Victoria Amelina Translated from the Ukrainian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky First published in Invasion: Ukrainian Poems
