‘As befits any book set in Odesa, Sally McGrane’s smart new thriller bristles with dark humour, slinking along and zigzagging through its plot like one of the city’s streetwise felines. Come for the story, but don’t forget to take in the sights.’ Boris Dralyuk, poet and translator of Isaac Babel. Ex-CIA man Max Rushmore travels …
‘A writer at the height of her powers.’ Laurie Penny, author of ‘Sexual Revolution‘. Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a doctoral student who blogs about race with the help of Hindu goddess Kali, is in awe of Saraswati, her superstar postcolonial and race studies professor. But Nivedita’s life and sense of self are upturned when it emerges …
‘Honest, urgent and emotional.’ Augsburger Allgemeine. Published 1st April 2022. Part two of the Anatolian Blues trilogy. ‘You’ll live out your lives in a foreign country,’ Gül is warned. But the whole world is foreign when you’re far from your loved ones. The train ride to Germany ushers in the days of long-awaited letters, night-time …
‘A brilliant novel: intense and poetic, exhilarating and devastating.’ Priya Basil. Published 1st April 2022. Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us into a war between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, is trying to change the world and write a novel. She, a passable actress, has given up her safe job …
‘Everyone should read this melancholy examination of cross-border phenomena.’ Adam Thirlwell. ‘Marcel Beyer [is] widely considered to be one of Germany’s most original and accomplished living writers.’ Alexander Wells, Exberliner – What to read this month: April 2022 Published 1st April 2022. Eight essays on literature, language, art, Europe and life from one of Germany’s …
‘A novel that opens up a window. A masterpiece.’ Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch. Each of us has something that feels essential to who we are. For Hans Frambach, it’s the crimes of the Nazi era, which have hurt him for as long as he can remember. That’s why he became an archivist at the Bureau …
Madgermanes is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency …
‘A delicious read.’ Aachener Zeitung. Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands; add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a teambuilding trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook; get Lord and Lady McIntosh to try and keep it all together; and top it off …
‘It has epic simplicity. Özdoğan’s language is plain, but it carries with it the author’s sympathy with his characters, including the contradictory ones.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung Part one of the Anatolian Blues trilogy. Told with great affection for his characters, Selim Özdoğan’s trilogy traces out the life of Gül, a Turkish girl who grows up in …
‘…particularly peculiar, breath-taking and worth telling.’ Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur. Francis Nenik’s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction »Journey through a Tragicomic Century« is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young Communists in 1920s Leipzig to wartime …