Illness and healing and its effects on a woman's body - this debut novella won an English PEN award for the translation. From the indefatigable and dauntless Peirene Press.
Marzahn is a suburb of prefab GDR housing on the outskirts of Berlin. This odd but brilliant book, about a chiropodist who talks to her clients, is both memoir and portrait of modern Germany... read more
Translated from French, this is a remarkable short novel about a disfigured man returning to his family from the war in 1918, and trying to make things work.
A married scientist working in the wilds of north Norway waits for her lover, as winter bites...a short novel full of creeping suspense. Another gem from this small and indefatigable publish... read more