• Do Not Touch

    By Eric Laurrent

    I suspect that the author delights most at his own lexical pyrotechnics.
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  • The Armies

    By Evelio Rosero

    Evelio Rosero, author of The Armies, talks about the conflict in Colombia and how it has affected his writing.
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  • The Glass Slipper and Other Stories

    By Shotaro Yasuoka

    There is never a sense that tragedy is the result of anything other than indolence.
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  • Homage to Czerny

    By Gert Jonke

    The siblings commission paintings of the garden, which they hang in the exact space represented by them.
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  • The Twin

    By Gerbrand Bakker

    An ode to the platteland, the flat and bleak Dutch countryside with its ditches and its cows and its endless grey skies.
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  • Agamemnon’s Daughter

    By Ismail Kadare

    This is writing that we should be grateful we have, and grateful that it has been translated.
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  • Franziska

    By Ernst Weiss

    “With the best will in the world, we are all only half people when we’re with another.”
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  • The White King

    By Gyorgy Dragoman

    If even half the things that happen to Djata happened to Dragomán, then the author is lucky to be around to write about them.
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  • The Collector of Worlds

    By Iliya Troyanov

    The ‘furious patience’ of ‘the one that flies alone’.
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  • The Informers

    By Juan Gabriel Vasquez

    What secrets does a father's vicious review of his son's book hide?
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