Prize-winning Swiss novelist Roland Buti writes novels that seem at first glance to be charmingly bucolic. Indeed, his most recent…
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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…
Anne Richter was a teenager in East Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. She lived through the upheavals of…
On a cold and wintry February day twenty-four soberly suited men gather in the glittering surroundings of an official residence…
In the depths of winter, a guest arrives at a small hotel in Sokcho, a provincial seaside town in South…
It’s not often that you pick up a book that grabs you from the very first page, holds you in…
Often, without much thought (and quite insensitively), we consider other cultures to be intrinsically different from our own; we imagine…
Twice a year, on mountain roads and tracks all over the world, sheep and livestock make their way between alpine…
The coming-of-age novel is almost a rite of passage for the emerging novelist, a vehicle through which a voice is…
It was a recent television adaptation of War and Peace that spurred me on to my second reading of the…
