Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> World Literature - Europe (General)

A picture of a disappearing way of life, a tale of feud and displacement, and imbued with...

Or, then again, it may not.

Perverzion constructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps of paper. Perfetsky, the personification of the...

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 marked, in one famous formulation, the "end of history." In his apocalyptic novel"Coming from an Off-Key Time, "Bogdan Suceavasatirizes the events in his native Romania since the violent end of the Ceausescu regime that fateful year.

Suceavauses three interrelated narratives to illustrate the destructive power of Romanian society s most powerful mythologies. He depicts madness of all kinds but especially religious beliefs and their perversion by all manner of outrageous sects. Here horror and humor reside impossibly in the same time and...

Using their shared Jewish heritage as a starting point, Jergovic constructs a fictional family history populated by historical figures with the precocious Ruta at the center. Stephen Dickey's translation masterfully captures Jergovic's...

Jaan Kross's historical novel Sailing Against the Wind fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935), an Estonian-born inventor. Schmidt lost an arm in his youth while experimenting with a homemade rocket, resulting in psychological trauma that would plague him for the rest of his life. Largely self-taught, Schmidt was driven to seek recognition of his talents.

He moved to Germany in the 1930s, where, after perfecting techniques for polishing lenses, he began developing ideas for improving astronomical telescopes. He was arrested for selling one to the Russians, and...

Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Peki, one of the former Yugoslavia s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we learn that the victim was the same person whom the narrator, while a lifeguard during the war, saved from drowning, thus making him vulnerable to charges of...