A mix of memoir and fiction, Mircea Cărtărescu’s three-part epic – seamlessly translated by Sean Cotter – is the first…
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Germany’s authoritarian past haunts Birgit Vanderbeke’s explorations of patriarchal tyranny, The Mussel Feast and You Would Have Missed Me. These…
Ivana Dobrakovová has been labelled an ‘expat writer’ because her stories often explore the experience of living abroad. She resides…
Danish author, Maria Gerhardt, died of breast cancer on 16 March 2017. She was thirty-nine years old and left behind…
Early on in Andreï Makine’s latest novel, we recognise that we are going to be led into the heart of…
I first came across Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa in 2006 at a PEN talk on sedition. He had recently caused…