Fiction - World Literature - Europe (General)

A bracing and darkly comic novel about a disgraced priest who finds himself haunted by his dead and disapproving father, this little-known classic of Swiss literature is impossible to forget. In a small town in Switzerland, Franz--ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose...

The final installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy About the Boy is a profound exploration of life, love and desire written with a sublime simplicity.After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, the postman Jens and the boy rest in a fishing...

"A captivating exploration of the promise and burden of passionate love."- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)American tour guide Joe Newhouse wants nothing more than to reach Venice. Since moving to Munich after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he's watched his business fail, his wife...

"My dearest Gaetano, if this letter reaches you, know that my heart remains under the Sicilian stars where we made our promise..."Sicily, 1939. Seventeen-year-old Concetta has just received life-changing news: her family is leaving their sun-drenched Sicilian village and moving to America. Desperate to...

Exhibiting a world-renowned author at his most playful and profound, The Man with Many Names captures the peculiarities of existence across forty tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria, in and around this fading world. On a train through the poppy-laden Balkans, strangers...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen . . . but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas figures of all? Not all children fear just a lump of coal in their stocking. Discover the terrifying Yuletide fables that have horrified children...

She has the strength to move the world--but chooses to hold it still.Siblings Eiður and Gunnhildur grow up in a household balanced uneasily between emotional volatility and unspoken grief--a home where their parents are never happy at the same time. When tragedy fractures the...

From one of Moldova's most celebrated writers, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes is a complex coming-of-age story unraveling the fragile, complicated, redemptive relationship between a mother and her son.Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother in Northern France....

"That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment..." --Washington PostA poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his...

In this gripping tale of contemporary Russia, a young filmmaker and her friends run afoul of a government that ruthlessly oppresses artists who dare to satirize the regime ... When Maya, a young Russian filmmaker, makes a low-budget horror movie with her friends, it...

Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants...

Award-winning Ukranian author Artem Chapeye's new novel follows a young couple who escape city life to the mountains in Ukraine, only to discover an altered reality upon their return. As in Ling Ma's Severance and Emily Mandel's Station Eleven, the survivors must seek ways...

The fates of eight characters in the nineteenth-century Balkans intertwine in this metafictional book of strange quests and nested narratives for fans of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges. A woman who reads the future in the faces of her lovers, a dice-player whose...

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building's residents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand--some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionably improvised. Masa Kolanovic's Underground Barbie brilliantly...