This tri-lingual (Slovenian, German, English) edition of Slovenian poetry is ambitious and wide-ranging. All the poets included in Slovenian Poetry Today write in the Slovenian lan
Zala gives birth in hospital. All goes well, the baby boy is healthy, but there are papers to fill out, and the staff become evasive yet reassuring: “don’t worry we’ll sort i
Grimm’s Fairy Tales were not originally written for children. They were collected, adapted and preserved by the Brothers Grimm, in the nineteenth century; they were folk tales ha
These compassionate stories include boyhood in Russia, exile in France and life on the road. The author finds an inner ‘zone of response’ where answers to life’s deep questio
These are superbly drawn tales of growing up in communist Albania. Ironic, humorous and sometimes surreal, they tell the inside story of what it was like, and how she escaped. Reco
A Swarm of Dust is the second part of Flisar’s unofficial ‘Village Trilogy’, all of which have been published by Istros Books (My Father’s Dreams, Two Loves; One Death,
