In his recent book on the novel, one of the most famous literary critics and theoreticians, Fredric Jameson, states that a novel is an intervention, which a naïve reader mostly ta
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Maja Haderlap grew up in the border region of Carinthia in the south of Austria, a member of the Slovenian minority. The baggage that comes from growing up traumatised with inherit
‘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
After an extended break, while we holidayed and then revelled in the abundance of Romanian content from our Romanian Riveter and the Romanian Rocks Festival, #RivetingReviews are b
