Spring is springing here in the UK, and we are showcasing a fantastic crop of European literary talent in our March reviews to match the natural abundance of the season. Riveter-in-Chief Rosie Goldsmith reviews Julia Franck’s searing work of autofiction, Worlds Apart, which reflects on how the aut
Since 1996 Imma Monsó (Lleida, 1959) has written nine novels, three books of short stories and an account of the sudden death of her husband, published in English as A Man of His Word in 2014 by Hispabooks. Winner of numerous prizes in Catalonia, her work has been translated into several languages,
A thoroughgoing appraisal of Ludovic Bruckstein’s work is long overdue. Almost forty years after the little-known Romanian author’s death this may be the moment it should be undertaken following the English publication of thirty-three of his short stories. Bruckstein’s stamping ground of Trans
Inès Cagnati (1937-2007) was born in France to Italian immigrants and wrote about the lives of rural communities like hers. Crazy Genie (originally published in French in 1976) is the second Cagnati novel to be issued by NYRB Classics in a translation by Liesl Schillinger. We meet our narrator, Mar
Zala gives birth in hospital. All goes well, the baby boy is healthy, but there are papers to fill out, and the staff become evasive yet reassuring: “don’t worry we’ll sort it.” But it isn’t sorted. When she speaks to the Director of the Maternity Clinic, the latter says she cannot find he
Flood Tide has all the trappings of a conventional crime novel: writer Dunja returns to her hometown – a rather tired seaside resort on the Adriatic – to investigate the unexplained death of her brother, Dražen, decades before. While there she meets up with her and Dražen’s old friends, and
