There is violence at the heart of everyday life; such is the lesson that this collection of powerful stories seems to teach. Whether it be in the life of a worker at a meat factory
This haunting debut novel opens with the memory of a scene of abuse suffered by a child at the hands of his cruel and violent mother. The reader is immediately plunged into the har
Without Waking Up by Austrian writer Carolina Schutti and translated by Deirdre McMahon was the second title to be published by the Irish indie Bullaun Press, the only press in Ire
Eliete is 40 and is an estate agent married to Jorge for 20 years. They have two daughters. It’s a normal life. But what constitutes “normal”? Is it supposed to include an un
Stay with me’s opening line, No one at home ever said they loved me, foreshadows its core theme: the profound and lasting impact of childhood trauma. Our unnamed narrator,
A Conversation with Jamie Richards, Winner of the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose for Mariosa Castaldi’s The Hunger of Women (And Other Stories, 2023) CB:
The title is one of the only things about this extraordinary novel that is self-explanatory. It is about women’s hunger for recognition, for love, for autonomy, for a role.
Małgorzata Lebda is a photographer and an ultramarathon runner (she has run all 1113 kilometres along Poland’s longest river, the Vistula). She is also the author of eight poetr
It is no small undertaking for an author, even one as celebrated as Olga Tokarczuk, to confront a towering masterwork of western literature and set about creating what amounts to a
The title pulls you in straightaway. Who was K. Penza? An answer of a kind emerges over the course of this intriguing novel, only to give way to another question at the end: who re
