Julia Kerninon is a French novelist from Brittany, whose first novel Buvard (2013) won the prestigious Prix Françoise Sagan. A…
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In 2018 the Strega prize for best Italian fiction was awarded to Helena Janeczek, a Polish-German novelist writing in Italian,…
Balla’s Big Love is a short novel about the stress of living under capitalism. Apparently an autobiographical work (according to…
Antal Szerb was an award-winning Hungarian novelist and a widely respected scholar of European literature. He remains one of Hungary’s…
I thought I knew something about Russia when I started reading this book; by the time I finished it, I…
This is a book with three narrative strands. First we have the life story of Enric Marco, as pieced together…
Brother in Ice is not a narrative of events that follow each other sequentially. Rather, we are presented with information…
A fascinating reconstruction of the life of a fairly unknown female painter. Recommended by Jennifer Sarha BEING HERE: THE LIFE…
Another novel by Enard that creates a world that you don’t want to leave. A thoughtful interrogation of modern academic…
The most entertaining book I have read in years, and especially hilarious if you know anything about academia and/or 20th-century…
Hunting Party begins with a somewhat startling premise: the reader is addressed by a rabbit. This is an animal with…
There are three narratives in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Like a Falling Shadow: an account of James Earl Ray, the murderer…
