There is nothing for Alpha in Abidjan. No work. No hope. Anyone who attempts to leave the country of Côte d’Ivoire legally, even on a tourist visa, is met with a wall of paperwo
A Sense of the Beginning, the twelfth novel by Austrian writer Norbert Gstrein, is published this month by MacLehose Press in a translation by Julian Evans. It is an intriguing nov
As children during the Civil War, sisters Dolores and Saladina were evacuated to England from their Galician parish, Tierra de Chá. A quarter-century on, they return. In some ways
A landmass of daunting enormity and a seemingly inexhaustible capacity among both men and women to endure privation have been the foundations of Russia’s defences over the centur
There is a singular sense of feverish neutrality in Thanassis Valtinos’ writing. A cinematic poise, a travelling eye, a dramatist’s instinctive flair for tension, voice, climax
While Patrick Modiano is author of some thirty works of fiction, before 2014, only a few of these were available in English. That year, however, he won the Nobel Prize in Literatur
This month our #RivetingReviews cover fiction (including a graphic novel) and non-fiction hailing from France, Greece, the former Soviet Union, Spain and Austria. Just as important
