The Visionary Memoirs of Péter Nádas
'Shimmering Details' is a delicate fusion, supplementing the high-modernist realism of Proust and Musil with an expressionist’s commitment to the distortions generated by strong feeling.
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Chloe Aridjis’s Night-Sea Journey
'Dialogue with a Somnambulist' reveals a new anxiety: that enchantment, however necessary, will not be sufficient.
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Lust, Loss, and Liberation in Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’
Maybe this novel is a Bildungsroman about freedom, with young Katharina its hero and the West her inevitable liberation?
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The Wisdom of Women Shines in Najla Jraissaty Khoury’s ‘Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales’
The stories are full of wisdom and warnings. Pearls on a Branch is unique in emphasizing women as the creators, audience, and protagonists of such tales.
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Keeper of Stories: On Maja Haderlap’s ‘Angel of Oblivion’
Along with everything else she accomplishes with this powerful work, Haderlaps deserves praise for breaking the silence to bring the stories of Slovenian-speaking Austrians to a much broader audience.
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