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Stanice tajga Hůlová, Petra
To begin with, I have to admit that I found the photo on this book a bit confusing. The word “Taiga” in the title of Petra Hůlová’s novel is written with a small “t” (in Czech, only ...
Jenseits von Wurst und Käse Politycki, Matthias
Matthias Politycki is a poet who writes in the knowledge that he belongs to a long tradition: Goethe, Heine, Morgenstern, and Politycki. For him, pertinacity is an aesthetic obligation and he ...
Durchleuchtung Schmatz, Ferdinand
A new and wild novel by the writer Ferdinand Schmatz: Durchleuchtung [Illumination]. Obviously if you grew up in Austria, it immediately makes you think of Durchleuchten-Gehen [‘getting yourself ...
Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy) Rankov, Pavol
Pavol Rankov is one of the most successful contemporary Slovak prose writers. He has published three books of psychological tales with magical plots and surprise endings, of which several have ...
Longshore Drift Gillece, Karen
Karen Gillece is a writer of immense promise, whose work has been marked by great artistic development in a relatively short period of time. Her novels display insight into the realms of ...
LÓD Dukaj, Jacek
Altering history: There was no Great War. In 1924, Poland is still under the reign of Russia. Benedykt Gierosławski, talented mathematician, but also compulsive gambler has been sent to the ...
Innsirkling Tiller, Carl Frode
With his three novels The Slope (2001), Minor Characters (2003) and Encirclement (2007), Carl Frode Tiller has established himself among the new generation of Norwegian writers as one of the ...
Kommunista Monte Cristo Szécsi, Noémi
Besides being a historical novel and a saga of a family, Kommunista Monte Cristo ( Communist Monte Cristo ), published in 2006, is an artistic interpretation of the history of communist idea in ...
Kvėpavimas į marmurą Černiauskaitė, Laura Sintija
Writing is Breathing None of the words can be deleted in a work of good prose, just like in good poetry. I really appreciate authors who realize and acknowledge this maxim. Unfortunately, ...
A Breathless Hush in the Close Morgan, Ann
A Breathless Hush in the Close is Ann Morgan’s first novel and takes its title from Henry Newbolt’s well-known late nineteenth century poem Vitaï Lampada. The lines 'Play up! Play up! and ...
Hanna und ich Winkler, Andrea
"You know what the worst of all bug-eyed things is: letters packed in boxes, lying lie there on the bottom shelf, simply the fact that they don’t just vanish into thin air." Andrea Winkler ...
(Krieg und Welt) Waterhouse, Peter
Childhood in Malaysia, adolescence in Germany during the period of the Cold War. His father, a British secret agent, is at home in many languages, yet relates nothing in any of them. He ...
An den Mond Schutting, Julian
“Yes, well… what our kind, when poet- / icising away, understands by poems –“br /> In the thin volume An den Mond (‘To the Moon’), Julian Schutting collects together “nature ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a ...
Neid Jelinek, Elfriede
"Neid" is the title of the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a “private novel”, which can only be read on the author’s homepage, and therefore does not participate in ...
Das Alphabet der Zeit Roth, Gerhard
Having grown up between the railway shunting yard and the rubbish tips on the edge of the city of Graz, Gerhard Roth tells the story of his childhood and youth, spent during the hardship and ...
Nkaah Stavarič, Michael
To make childhood the sole topic of a text is a hazardous undertaking. Michael Stavarič does it in his latest book – and the text is surprising, though it is hardly surprising that it is more ...
Kreuzungen Streeruwitz, Marlene
With Crossings , Marlene Streeruwitz has created an anti-modern decadent novel while continuing to follow her now familiar leitmotifs – money, hopelessness, other worlds – in her usual ...
Mariaschwarz Steinfest, Heinrich
Heinrich Steinfest, born in 1961, is regarded as a ‘typical’ representative of the Austrian thriller. The plots of his crime novels do not generally follow the laws of logic, his characters ...
Ihr Mann und der Fremde Rumpl, Manfred
Manfred Rumpl’s novel is not literary pornography, even though it has been advertised as such by the publishers. It is a tightrope walk between explicit, partly sado-masochist scenes, and this ...
Der lange Gang über die Stationen Kaiser-Mühlecker, Reinhard
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker’s first novel Der lange Gang über die Stationen (The Long Walk From Station to Station) takes place in the Salzkammergut Area in upper Austria in the 1950s. The ...
Der Nachzügler Millesi, Hanno
The main character in Hanno Millesi’s new book Der Nachzügler (‘The Straggler’) is an avantgarde author. “I am an experimental writer. Society has thought up this slightly ...
Herr Faustini und der Mann im Hund Hermann, Wolfgang
To Illuminate the World with a Laugh A lemon tree would bring new life into the house, says Mr Faustini and promises: as soon as it gets warmer you can go out on the terrace. After all, ...
Die gefrorene Zeit Kim, Anna
Anna Kim’s second novel pulls us into the barbarian ways of the War in Yugoslawia. Luan Alushi, an Albanian from the Kosovo, is looking for his wife, Fahrie, who has been missing since the ...
The Good Plain Cook Roberts, Bethan
Some books are chic simply virtue of their setting. Such a one if The Good Plain Cook by Bethan Roberts. It is the summer of 1936 and a Sussex girl, Kitty Allen, is in search of more ...
A gyerek Háy, János
Yet that wasn’t what he became. He could have, but didn’t. The novel conjures up possible paths and visions of successful lives, but then leaves them not only unfulfilled but lets them succumb ...
