I confess that before this novel came my way, I knew almost nothing of the Nobel prize-winning author Grazia Deledda. Fortunately, this edition comes with an introduction by the tr
Indigo, according to Setz’s fictional mystic, is the colour of the aura surrounding children born with the syndrome that will affect their lives in the cruellest of ways. Basical
Canoes is a slim volume of precise elegant writing, a slow-moving journey of thoughts and experiences that are connected by a series of women’s voices. This collection of eight s
That an anthology centring on an iconic city should have a strong sense of place is axiomatic. When that city has moved rapidly from communism to capitalism – even via a ‘velve
I am who I am. And I don’t intend to change … I’m a lone wolf and always will be. Thus Peter Hunkeler, Inspector with the Basel CID, ever the grumpy misfit, supposedly exempt
According to Her (2022) by Maciej Hen is a modest but captivating, fictional autobiography of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ and a devout Jewish woman. The novel was translated b
The man who timidly, almost fearfully entered her office on January 5, 2019 was, Maître Susane realised at once, someone she’d met before, long before, in a place whose memory c
The magnificent short narratives collected in the volume Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri were all translated by the author and Todd Portnowitz, a translation I can only describe as
I’m a great fan of German writer Jenny Erpenbeck. With novels like The End of Days and Go, Went, Gone, and her non-fiction collection Not a Novel, she’s acquired for me the sta
In my review for ELNet of Elisa Shua Dusapin’s first two books, Winter in Sokcho and The Pachinko Parlour, I described the author progressing these novels via ‘small misunderst
