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Trieste
Haya Teschi is old now. In July 2006, she sits waiting to be reunited with her son, whom she has…
The Life of Rebecca Jones
Editors' choice
This slim volume was originally published in Welsh to great acclaim. Rebecca Jones looks back in old age to her…
Julia
The book starts in the 1980s when Chris Dudok is found dead in his study by his driver. He has…
Accabadora
This is Sardinian Michela Murgia’s first novel and comes garlanded with prizes from Italy, where it was first published in…
On Ugliness
A companion piece to Eco’s On Beauty, this book explores the culture, politics and aesthetics of ugliness through a history…
Monsieur Linh and His Child
Monsieur Linh flees his war-torn country, all his family dead but with a child in his arms whom he must…
Child Wonder
It is 1961, the year of the Berlin Wall and Yuri Gagarin, and eight year old Finn is living alone…
Treblinka
The Holocaust changed our language. The word ‘holocaust’ itself has had, since 1945, no other meaning than that which conjures…
Wartime Notebooks
This is a difficult book to categorise as Duras’s notebooks, like those of most writers, are an amalgam of different…
Phantoms of Breslau
This is the third of Krajewski’s Eberhard Mock crime novels to be translated into English by Danusia Stok. It is…
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