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European Literature Days 2016: Review of Hans Christoph Buch
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
In the books written by Hans Christoph Buch, the sun often gleams from a blank sky...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Najem Wali
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
In “The Invisible Cities” (“Le Città invisibili”), Italo Calvino wrote, “The hell of the living is not something that will be”. It is already here; it takes on real contours...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Petina Gappah
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Some rulers seem to live forever. Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is one of them. Born in 1924, there seems to be no end to his almost 40-year-old regime. In Petina Gappah’s debut novel “The Book of ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Gabriela Babnik
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Multiple stories are interwoven in Gabriela Babnik’s Dry Season...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Posted by Eszter Ureczky | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Zsófia Bán is both a trespasser of cultural-geographical boundaries and a builder of bridges―between continents, races, genders and languages.
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Birgit Weyhe
Posted by Christian Grasser | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
Foreign ‘guest workers’ also lived in the GDR. They came from socialist sister countries in the Third World...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Samantha Schweblin
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
“Then Sara got up, her ponytail shining on one side of her neck and then the other. She skipped to the cage, like a little girl. Her back to us, rising up on tiptoes, she opened the cage and took out ...
Henning Mankell’s “The Antelopes”
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2016, The Colonizers
For most of us, Henning Mankell is the father of the modern Swedish crime novel...
