This collection of short stories by Greenlandic author Sørine Steenholdt is compact but powerful. The stories are interspersed with other short texts, while the atmospheric illust
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
Comprised of five chapbooks, each by a different contemporary writer, with colourful covers (that sometimes make more sense once you’ve read the book) and a brief format, Kūnai,
It’s Friday in an unnamed coastal town bordering on desert. It’s hot – ‘almost dissolved by heat’ – with tourists, children seeking work and slumbering students in half
The more life speeds up, the more poetry feels like an antidote; the act of reading forces you to slow down, focus, absorb the words and process the ideas. Ædnan is a novel writte
Part fable, part evocation of the landscape of rural Asturias, part commentary of its inhabitants, Of Saints and Miracles defies easy description. What it absolutely does do, thoug
Imagine if the things around you could talk. The chair you’re sitting on, the mug you might be drinking tea out of at this very moment. What would they want to tell you, and how
52 Factory Lane starts as it ends: with arrival. It opens with Gül, the main character, arriving by train in Bremen, and it ends many years later with her getting off a plane in H
Family secrets, a doorbell ringing in the dead of night, a funeral, a curse, an unhappy marriage, and a daughter who succeeds academically, moves up socially and ends up working as
Originally published in 1969, Precursor tells the story of the philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda who lived from 1722 to 1794. Following its success, the book’s author, Vasyl Shevchu
