Decía Jorge Luis Borges que el significado de una novela como El Quijote no podía ser el mismo en el siglo XVII que en el XX. Pues bien, éste es el reto que ha afrontado el laureado escritor francés Michel Tournier al retomar la...
Un été des années soixante. Une petite ville française au bord d'un lac, près de la Suisse. Victor Chmara a dix-huit ans et se cache parce qu'il a peur. D'étranges personnages hantent cette ville d'eau,...
An assemblage of troubled grotesques struggle to retain identity and humanity in an alternately menacing and mysterious Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, under Soviet rule in the 1970s and 1980s. The late Gavelis's first translation into English...
A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat. A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don’t smile enough at customers,...
‘A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Ray song… Moskovich writes sentences that lilt and slink, her plots developing as a slow seduction...
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to...