While we await the sixth and final instalment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ground-breaking, genre-redefining My Struggle series, his publisher Harvill Secker has launched the English
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Post-millennium Croatia is the setting for Olja Savičević‘s brooding, bleak novel Farewell, Cowboy, translated by Celia Hawkesworth, charting the story of a young woman’s
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