Title: Children of God Author: Lars Petter Sveen Translator: Guy Puzey Publisher: Graywolf Press (Minneapolis, 2018) ISBN: 978 1 55597 820 4 Three soldiers sent by King Herod to massacre innocent babies experience a moment of doubt, only to have their resolve strengthened (and hearts hardened) by the words of a sinister old man. An urchin boy styling himself King David sacrifices everything to keep … Continue reading Reimagining the New Testament
Title: The Sleep of the Righteous Author: Wolfgang Hilbig Translator: Isabel Fargo Cole Publisher: Two Lines Press, San Francisco (2015) ISBN: 978 1 931883 47 4 In his introduction to Wolfgang Hilbig’s The Sleep of the Righteous, the Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai wrote: “Many have thought and have said about him that because his fate and writerly art are so closely tied with … Continue reading The Sleep of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole
This week’s review can be found over at The Rumpus. Soundcheck: Tales from the Balkan Conflict is a book of short stories by Galician author & journalist Miguel-Anxo Murado, translated by Carys Evans-Corrales. This War of Mine is a computer survival game based on the Siege of Sarajevo. Each compliments the other – forcing readers (and players) to re-evaluate the way we think about war. Arguably in … Continue reading The Bosnian War – In Short Stories & A Computer Game
Title: The Turnip Princess & Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales Author: Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth Translator: Maria Tatar Publisher: Penguin Classics, New York (2015) ISBN: 978 0 14 310742 2 There was once a farmer, and he had two sons… One day a prince lost his way in the woods… A farmer had three sons… Three young men, a tailor, a miller, and a soldier, … Continue reading The Turnip Princess & Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth (Maria Tatar, translator)
A spider web crack is a series of hairline fractures spreading out from a central point of impact. Bilal Tanweer makes this image the motif for his short story collection The Scatter Here Is Too Great. The central point of impact is a bomb blast at the Karachi Train Station in Pakistan. All the stories, eight total, radiate out from and connect back to that one point in time. Continue reading The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer
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