For many years only two novels from Willem Frederik Hermans’ prolific output (Beyond Sleep and The Darkroom of Damocles) were available in English. They fell out of print, but Pu
Sally Jones is back! Translated books for younger readers rarely receive the recognition they deserve in the English-speaking press. The Murderer’s Ape, however, appears to be an
My Russian-bred grandmother’s favourite adjective for describing a writer she truly admired was остроу́мный [ostro-úmny]. It was the highest compliment in her reg
‘It’s the sort of thing that sisters know, I think to myself, how to hurt one another…’ So muses forty-year-old narrator Ida in Grown Ups, the toothsome debut novel by Norw
Diop says he was inspired to write this novel – now shortlisted for the International Booker Prize – after reading a collection of letters from France’s ‘Poilus’ (‘the
My Brother is a bleak tale of childhood abuse and dysfunctional adulthood set in arctic Sweden. You will need to gird your loins, as the central characters, siblings Jana and Bror,
In this slim, rather beautiful book, with its conflagrated, scarlet binding, Giorgio van Straten treats us to a quiet firework display of vignettes on the theme of loss, suppressio
The Beauties, the opening and title story in this fine collection of freshly translated Chekov gems, transported me back more than three decades to my first experience of Chekov’
North Africa, 1972. A man with no memory wakes up in the desert with a massive hole in his head. So far, so yawn: please, not another one of those lost memory characters stumbling
Where – and who – is Clementine? Apparently she’s gone missing in the forest, and it’s up to Mark, Annie and Pudding (whose real name is Derek) to rescue her. But it’s a
