For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were…
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Sally Jones is back! Translated books for younger readers rarely receive the recognition they deserve in the English-speaking press. The…
My Russian-bred grandmother’s favourite adjective for describing a writer she truly admired was остроу́мный [ostro-úmny]. It was the highest compliment…
‘It’s the sort of thing that sisters know, I think to myself, how to hurt one another…’ So muses forty-year-old…
Diop says he was inspired to write this novel – now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize – after reading…
My Brother is a bleak tale of childhood abuse and dysfunctional adulthood set in arctic Sweden. You will need to…