• Brodeck's Report

    By Philippe Claudel

    The Anderer’s murder plays out in the wake of a much, much larger crime against twentieth-century European humanity
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  • Homesick

    By Eshkol Nevo

    Noa and Amir share a tiny flat in a remote village, emptied of its Arab inhabitants in 1948 and now the home of Jewish immigrants from Kurdistan.
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  • Wizard of the Crow

    By Ngugi Wa Thiongo

    Ngugi offers up the full spectrum of complicated, confused, struggling humanity.
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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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  • 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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  • Ordinary Lives

    By Josef Skvorecky

    Danny is a nostalgic soul, sipping at Manhattan cocktails and pondering the ‘ungovernable flow of wayward memories’
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  • Do Not Touch

    By Eric Laurrent

    I suspect that the author delights most at his own lexical pyrotechnics.
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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 Collector of Worlds

    By Iliya Troyanov

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