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…
Stylistically, Jacek Dehnel’s family saga is a hybrid. It reads like a memoir, includes real people and their portraits, covers…
Selja Ahava’s compelling novel explores random acts of chance and how ordinary people cope with extraordinary events. In the first…
Children of the Cave, which opens in 1819, some thirty years before Darwin published The Origin of Species, questions what…
Hundreds of anonymous corpses are found every year along the Spanish motorways. They belong to those who have sought and…
Philippe Claudel’s latest novel, elegantly translated by Euan Cameron, tackles friendship, mortality and renewal. A filmmaker loses his best friend…
Set in an Icelandic fishing village, Guđmundur Andri Thorsson’s charming novella, And the Wind Sees All, deftly translated by Bjørg…
