This is a daring book not only because it skilfully combines three different genres (crime, fantasy and historical non-fiction), but…
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A mix of memoir and fiction, Mircea Cărtărescu’s three-part epic – seamlessly translated by Sean Cotter – is the first…
The Nobel prize-winner’s most recent novel to be published in English translation is a book of details. From the opening…
On belatedly discovering this slim but stunning bilingual selection of verse by the Romanian writer Magda Cârneci, my first thought…
In their persuasive introduction to the English edition of Ana Blandiana’s The Sun of Hereafter and Ebb of the Senses,…
Over the past year, there have been some great new releases of children’s books translated from French. Here are just…
In All Men Want to Know, Nina Bouraoui recounts her own experiences of growing up in Algeria and France. With…
Prize-winning Swiss novelist Roland Buti writes novels that seem at first glance to be charmingly bucolic. Indeed, his most recent…
Philippe Jaccottet was born in 1925 in Switzerland, but has lived in France since the mid-1940s. Apart from poetry, he…
Luca and Claus, two mirror-like twins forming one single main character, are abandoned by their mother at the beginning of…
Julia Kerninon is a French novelist from Brittany, whose first novel Buvard (2013) won the prestigious Prix Françoise Sagan. A…
Antoine Laurain will, for me, always be associated with time-shifting and ‘magic’ – as in his previous novels, Vintage 1954…
