Fizzing with wit and energy, Faïza Guène’s coming-of-age novel Men Don’t Cry tells the tale of an Algerian family in…
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Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational family saga is a compelling tale of a family caught in the fallout from France’s ill-fated colonial…
Prize-winning Swiss novelist Roland Buti writes novels that seem at first glance to be charmingly bucolic. Indeed, his most recent…
When I began translating, at the end of a long and rewarding career as a teacher of French language and…
A Girl Called Eel is an unusual take on the coming-of-age novel. In a single sentence, punctuated with commas and…
‘Her white face had the frozen and inscrutable quality of a mask.’ Kadare’s haunting memoir begins conventionally enough, with a…