Acclaim for Mothers and Shadows:'In the silence after her death, her novel, full of voices as pas...

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Johnny Manalo-a Filipino who has lived for years in the United States, sometimes illegally-return...

MICHAL VIEWEGH's short and witty novel Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia is the story of Beata Kralova...

NIRMAL VERMA (1929-2005) was an acknowledged master of Hindi prose and one of the pioneers of the...

Poland's recent history from Solidarity to martial law, from martial law to the end of communism ...

A three-day wake in Manila mourning the aged playboy Don Severino Gil is the setting for social s...

In The Land, Antônio Torres tells a universal story of tragic homecoming in a style that owes muc...

Monika Maron, the great German writer still today at the forefront of her creative generation, sa...

The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry an...

In this extraordinary, prizewinning novel, Monika Maron says farewell to the East Germany where s...

His magisterial prose and poetry have won Abdellatif Laâbi successively France's Prix Goncourt an...