Ada is not one woman but many: from the Ada that gives birth in pre-colonial west-Africa to a young pregnant Ghanaian arriving in C21st Berlin. Translated from the German.
Nevinson, the retired spy whom we met in Berta Isla, becomes entangled in the lives of three women. The last novel by this late and much lamented author is labyrinthine and brilliant...
Another slim, powerful novel from this excellent writer: as in The Order of the Day, he shows the web of overlapping and competing interests amongst politicians, industrialists and financier... read more
The French-Lebanese writer - no stranger to complicated ethnicities or religious groups - has set this novel in a small Albanian community in the mountains of southern Italy. Often comic, so... read more
A snakes-and-ladders novella about the misplaced confidence of a bossy widow, whose aspirations to a life of refinement and social elevation bring about her downfall. Ginzburg, as ever, is l... read more