Eastern Europe

Book Reviews

• György Dalos: The Circumcision
  - a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
• Misha Glenny: The Balkans 1804-1999*
  Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
• Ismail Kadare: The Pyramid
  - a parable of life under communism
• Ismail Kadare: The Siege
  - a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
• Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
  - a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
• Danilo Kis: Garden, Ashes*
  - a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
• Tadeusz Konwicki: The Polish Complex
  - personal and national angsts intertwine
• Dezso Kosztolanyi: Skylark*
  - a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
• Jaan Kross: The Conspiracy and Other Stories
  - Estonia in the Second World War
• Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
  - a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
• Mark Mazower: The Balkans*
  - beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
• Borislav Pekic: The Houses of Belgrade*
  - a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
• Mesa Selimovic: Death and the Dervish**
  - a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
• Piotr Szewc: Annihilation
  - a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
• Milos Tsernianski: Migrations
  - a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
• Dubravka Ugresic: The Culture of Lies*
  - literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
• Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
  - a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

See also: Turkey