‘Oh, the smell is awful!’ Peirene groans as we step out of the taxi that has brought us to Shatila,…
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Travel magazines are strewn across the office floor. Peirene is sitting in the middle, cross legged, with an open laptop…
I hear a big heavy chain rattle behind my back. A person dressed all in black – black hoody, black…
‘Come and look!’ Breathless I walk into the office carrying one of the big boxes that have just come and…
‘Peirene, we are using single speech marks, not double,’ I say. ‘You have to be consistent.’ ‘I am consistent,’ she…
‘Where is the sign-board?’ ‘Which sign-board?’ Peirene looks at me with big, round, innocent eyes. ‘The one the Liberal Democrats…
Join novelist Meike Ziervogel in conversation with broadcaster Rosie Goldsmith and Professor of German Studies Stefanie Bird. Inspired by the…
‘Pss, Meike,’ Peirene pulls me into a corner of the office. ‘I need to talk to you, urgently!’ she whispers.…
The walls along the hallway up to the Peirene office are plastered with handwritten posters. ‘Men are beautiful.’ ‘Men are…
The 20th century has just begun, and Russia is in turmoil. To suppress an outbreak of student unrest, the governor…
Chasing the Kings of Hearts by Hanna Krall, ( Peirene Press, 2013). Translated by Philip Boehm. like many other books from this…
‘Where is James?’ I have just walked back into the office after my first Arabic lesson with Suhir. I’m on…
