Granta

Book Reviews

• *The Balkans 1804-1999 (Misha Glenny)
  Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
• *Death in Rome (Wolfgang Koeppen)
  - a German family after the war, vivisected
• Last Rites (Michael Hampson)
  The End of the Church of England
• The New Turkey (Chris Morris)
  The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe
• The Possessed (Elif Batuman)
  Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
• A Sad Affair (Wolfgang Koeppen)
  - a story of obsessive love
• *Solibo Magnificent (Patrick Chamoiseau)
  - murder and/of/by language in Martinique
• **The Stalin Organ (Gert Ledig)
  - a novel of the Russian Front in the Second World War
• Stasiland (Anna Funder)
  Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
• *When I Sing, Mountains Dance (Irene Sola)
  - renewal and compassion after violence in the Catalan Pyrenees