David Albahari
The many years of friendship between two writers breaks up. The first-person narrator feels deceived by his friend and colleague Ludwig, when he steals the idea for his book from…
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David Albahari
The many years of friendship between two writers breaks up. The first-person narrator feels deceived by his friend and colleague Ludwig, when he steals the idea for his book from…
Beba dreams of a career as a pianist, but works as a prostitute. After the war in her home country, she escaped poverty. She saves up for a piano and…
Radu Țuculescu
In the small town of Untermond in Transylvania, the opening of a new shop is announced for Monday morning. Nothing special, were it not for its unusual name: “Kennedy Butcher’s”.
Ilija Trojanow
Konstantin is a resistance fighter. He catches the eye of the Bulgarian state security already when in school and can no longer escape its grip. Metodi is an officer, opportunist…
Andrej Nikolaidis
The novel by Andrej Nikolaidis consists of only one sentence. But it has it all: it explores the inner life of Joe, a writer, war refugee and doomed genius, who…
Miljenko Jergović
From one short story to the next the author guides the reader through this entertaining and, at the same time, shattering novel. With interwoven topics these stories tell in the…
Frédéric Pajak
Goncourt de la biographie 2019: We are travelling to Massachusetts and are actually on our way to Russia: to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Samara … This seventh volume in the…
Asja Bakić
Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes, where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purgatory once…
Stefan Çapaliku
Albania in the Second World War: The country is invaded by fascist Italy, a shock for the Albanians. Relations between the countries had been friendly. Then in 1943, Italy sides…
Semezdin Mehmedinović
A heart attack comes unexpectedly, without notice or explanation. It changes a person. Especially, if one has a heart attack at the age of fifty, when one is already seguing…
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin recognised early on that technical media change artistic modes of representation and everyday forms of experience. Since the 1920s, he wrote numerous texts on the connection between media…
Oliver Uschmann, Sylvia Witt
“You’ve never been to the sea?” Samuel, Bina and Sharif can’t believe it. Their new friend Kevin has never even been to the North Sea, let alone the sea in…