Between 1946 and 1955 a huge dam and hydroelectric plant was built at Grandas de Salime in North-West Spain by Franco, the Spanish dictator. This project transformed the river Navia into a huge reservoir, flooding the valley, and leading to the relocation of the rural population to newly built housi
When we first delve into the pages of Foundry Edition’s latest publication, The Duke, and become immersed in the eponymous narrator’s florid, somewhat pretentious voice, we could be forgiven for believing we are embarking on a story set sometime in the 19th century. It soon becomes clear though,
The conundrum is a perennial one: How could Germany, the nation that produced Goethe and Beethoven, also pave the way to the immemorial abomination of Hitler and the Holocaust? Anne Weber’s approach in her latest book, Sanderling, is far too nuanced and finely wrought for her to phrase the questio
Few books from the German-speaking world have elicited such excitement in recent years as Nelio Biederman’s Lázár. A magical realist saga chronicling the decline and fall of an aristocratic Hungarian family during the twentieth century, Lázár took Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 by storm: here was an
The Italian novelist and children’s writer, Nadia Terranova, was born in Messina on the coast of northeast Sicily, and it’s this specific geography that inspires her latest novel in English, The Night Trembles. Her translator is Ann Goldstein, the gold standard Italian translator of, among other
Nino Haratischwili’s The Lack of Light is one of those novels that does not simply depict a world but questions how we look at it. Three women, long since scattered, meet in Brussels for an exhibition by the fourth in their circle, Dina. Her image pulls them back to Tbilisi, to the late eighties a
