As this novel – by the most prominent Catalan writer of the twentieth century, brought to us for the first time in a pitch-perfect translation by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennen
Sara Mesa’s Four by Four is a novel of secrets revealed gradually. Its three sections progressively, though obliquely, uncover the happenings at Wybranwy College, an isolated boa
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero is an evocative novella set in Austria in spring 1945, during the final months of the Second World War. Thirteen-year-old Nelli has lost everythin
One day eleven-year-old Elly goes missing while cycling to her judo class at the nearby sports centre. No explanation for her disappearance is ever uncovered, and for Elly’s fami
I long wanted to read Jason Lutes classic graphic trilogy of the Weimar Republic, but decided not to do so until it was available in its entirety. A ten-year gap between the public
Those who read Scandinavian crime fiction have not been surprised at the revelations of violent neo-Nazi movements in the Nordic countries. This subculture has been laceratingly ex
Åsa Larsson is a markedly different writer from her fellow Swede Camilla Läckberg (discussed elsewhere on this site), with her notably cooler prose. Larsson’s 2003 novel The Sa
In 2017, there were two Norwegian nominees for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. One was Vigdis Hjorth, who’s controversial yet acclaimed novel Arv og Miljø (recently publish
‘Lonely people know nothing and are worth nothing.’ Within the first pages of Restless a young man sets the boundaries for his own existence, and in a striking introduction to
I’m introducing May 2020’s Riveting Reviews with an appeal: The European Literature Network needs your help. And by that I mean dosh. Wonga. Readies. Fric. Grana. Knete. Do you
