Raised in a household of monsters - human and make-believe, during the 1980s on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, the narrator takes refuge in the pages of... Læs mere
A lyrical novella that wears lightly its themes of trauma and loss of maternal language. Winner of European Prize for Literature 2012, from acclaimed Austrian writer Carolina Schutti.
Probing modern meditation on memory and identity through the prism of a contemporary female narrator's obsession with Viacheslav Lypnskyi (1882-1931), an activist in Ukraine's struggle for independence and statehood.
1829. Sainte-Suzanne, Bourbon Island. A Black orphan, a slave of only seven weeks, is placed - as if by fate - into the arms of a botanist with a passion for... Læs mere
A moving meditation on what is left in our wake. What Remains is a short book that touches lightly on big subjects: migration, colonialism, the urban-rural divide, identity, cultural... Læs mere
A twentieth-century rural Belarusian tale told by the women 'whisperers' of Nauhalnaye, feared by their neighbours for their powers of healing and witchcraft who survived successive, brutal regimes.