Review
The stories history leaves behind
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in her novel 'Last Witnesses' gives voice to those who experienced the Second World War as children
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Joy beneath the dullness of repression
Antoni Libera’s 'Madame' follows a young man’s fascination with his French teacher while exploring youth, love, art and everyday life in communist Poland
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Knausgård, Satan and the Third Reich
In 'The Third Realm', Karl Ove Knausgård constructs a chilling vision of a world in which even the dead no longer leave
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Truth is a book none of us has yet read
The autobiography of the great contemporary theologian Tomáš Halík is, above all, beautifully written - slightly ironic...
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Heart of darkness, heart of evil!
The story of Joseph Conrad’s life and travels and the colonial experience that inspired his journey through the Congo and the writing of 'Heart of darkness'
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The savage reality behind tradition
In her novel 'A Woman Is No Man', Etaf Rum exposes arranged marriages, violence, and the lives of women trapped by tradition
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This is not a dystopia, it’s...
Paul Lynch’s 'Prophet Song' shows how ordinary life can descend into totalitarian horror almost without anyone noticing
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A rich tapestry of memory and time
In Miljenko Jergović’s '1983: Novelistic Maneuvers', a single year marks the boundary between innocence and a world that would vanish forever
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They left home, never to return
In Norwegian author Helga Flatland’s 'Stay If You Can, Leave If You Must.', youth, family and tragedy collide
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Where science ends and torture begins
In 'Butcher', Joyce Carol Oates explores the dark history of medicine through the life of one of the 19th century’s most controversial doctors
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