Measured and sophisticated, this novel has as its central event the shootings outside the Libyan embassy in 1984, which alter forever the lives of three young Libyans. Themes of exile, retic... read more
The author draws on myth and folklore in this fine collection of her stories; some readers will remember her wonderful work of non-fiction Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Fo... read more
Set in Siberia in the 1970s, the adult narrator looks back on his friendship with an Armenian boy. Other slim but lyrically powerful novels by this great Russian/French novelist include Test... read more