Indigo, according to Setz’s fictional mystic, is the colour of the aura surrounding children born with the syndrome that will affect their lives in the cruellest of ways. Basical
They had offered me refuge in this best of all worlds and the thankless foreigner was ridiculing their philosophy of life. Ridiculing? Tearing it to shreds in an extended – thoug
Rummaging around for her keys, Andrada Vasiliu wishes she’d put them in the zippered pocket of her handbag. It turns out to be a fatal mistake, and her murder the start of a kill
It took more than a decade for Karmele Jaio’s prize-winning 2006 novel to make its way to the English-speaking world. That journey should have been much quicker, because Her Moth
When Ruth Schwarz’s parents are killed in a car crash, it is only the first of many shocks. The second is that they wish to be buried in their home village of Gross Einland, a pl
Since picking up the Abraham Woursell Award for young talent in 1998, Arno Geiger has made a habit of winning literary awards, both at home and abroad. His diverse range of work ha
Neither one thing nor the other, yet Stelian Munteanu is known to all: the police force, the secret service, even the shady businessman whose daughter’s body is found on the seas
For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were available in English. They fell out of print, but Pu
The sad occasion of Marcel Péricourt’s funeral turns profoundly tragic when his grandson falls from a second-floor window. The child’s injuries are life-changing, and his moth
