Archipelago Books

Book Reviews

• *All One Horse (Breyten Breytenbach)
  - dream fables and surreal paintings
• Autumn Rounds (Jacques Poulin)
  - an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
• *A Change of Time (Ida Jessen)
  - facing widowhood in a Danish country town
• *Difficult Light (Tomás González)
  - age and memory; pain, suffering, love and joy
• Everything Like Before (Kjell Askildsen)
  - stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
• *The Expedition to the Baobab Tree (Wilma Stockenström)
  - a slave woman survives a doomed expedition into the interior
• The Hills Reply (Tarjei Vesaas)
  - prose poetry, coming of age in Norwegian landscapes
• Hyperion (Friedrich Hölderlin)
  - a poetical and epistolatory novel of education
• In Red (Magdalena Tulli)
  - love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town
• A Kitchen in the Corner of the House (Ambai)
  - short stories celebrating the lives of Indian women
• Mandarins (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)
  - fifteen from "the father of the Japanese short story"
• The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan (David Hinton)
  - nature poetry by the great Tang poet
• Our Lady of the Nile (Scholastique Mukasonga)
  - racial tensions mount in a Rwandan girls' school
• The Pastor (Hanne Ørstavik)
  - finding herself in far-northern Norway
• *Plants Don't Drink Coffee (Unai Elorriaga)
  - intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
• The Salt Smugglers (Gérard de Nerval)
  - a French serial novel from 1850
• Salt Water (Josep Pla)
  - stories of the north Catalan coast
• *The Scent of Buenos Aires (Hebe Uhart)
  - distinctive character-centred short stories
• Three Generations (Yom Sang-seop)
  - tensions in a bourgeois Korean family around 1930
• Tranquility (Attila Bartis)
  - a disturbed Hungarian family
• The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War (Serge Pey)
  - powerful stories of childhood and exile
• *The Twin (Gerbrand Bakker)
  - a time of change for a Dutch farmer
• *Until the Lions: Echoes From The Mahabharata (Karthika Naïr)
  - poetry with subaltern perspectives within the Indian epic
• Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Mahmoud Darwish)
  - "the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people"
• Wonder (Hugo Claus)
  - collaboration and confusion in post-war Flanders

Archipelago Books is a small non-profit publisher specialising in literature in translation.