Book Reviews
- All Souls (Javier Marías)
- a Spanish novel about an Oxford don
- *The Alphonse Courrier Affair (Marta Morazzoni)
- a comedy of manners in a French village
- *The Assault (Harry Mulisch)
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
- Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas)
- writers who "prefer not to"
- Bathsheba (Torgny Lindgren)
- an earthy, mytho-poetic novel about the later days of King David
- Blockade Diary (Lidiya Ginzburg)
- life during the siege of Leningrad
- Bosnian Chronicle (Ivo Andric)
- a novel about Napoleon's consulate in Travnik, Bosnia
- *Caught (Henry Green)
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
- **China, Empire of the Written Symbol (Cecilia Lindqvist)
- Chinese history and culture through written characters
- The Concert (Ismail Kadare)
- a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
- The Conspiracy and Other Stories (Jaan Kross)
- Estonia in the Second World War
- A Country Doctor's Notebook (Mikhail Bulgakov)
- stories of medical work in rural Russia in 1917
- The Czar's Madman (Jaan Kross)
- von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
- *The Death of the Body (C.K. Stead)
- a clever, entertaining metafiction
- *Declares Pereira (Antonio Tabucchi)
- a political awakening in 1938 Portugal
- *The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Yury Dombrovsky)
- a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
- Fields of Glory (Jean Rouaud)
- a novel of old age, memory, and the Great War
- The Fish Can Sing (Halldór Laxness)
- an eccentric childhood in early 20th century Reykjavik
- The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
- *The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare)
- on a macabre quest in Albania
- **Georges Perec (David Bellos)
A Life in Words
- In the Wilderness (Manuel Rivas)
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
- **Independent People (Halldór Laxness)
- the epic story of an Icelandic sheep farmer
- *Joseph Banks (Patrick O'Brian)
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
- *The Knight and Death (Leonardo Sciascia)
Three Novellas
- Liquidation (Imre Kertesz)
- a metafictional literary mystery
- Migrations (Milos Tsernianski)
- a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
- *Night's Lies (Gesualdo Bufalino)
- on the eve of execution, four prisoners tell tales of deceit
- The Ocean (James Hanley)
- five men in a lifeboat
- Pavel's Letters (Monika Maron)
- discovering grandparents lost to the Holocaust
- *The Poet (Yi Mun-yol)
- a marginal poet in 19th century Korea
- Ports of Call (Amin Maalouf)
- family, love and war, in France and the Middle East
- *Professor Martens' Departure (Jaan Kross)
- The Pyramid (Ismail Kadare)
- a parable of life under communism
- Salman the Solitary (Yashar Kemal)
- childhood fantasies, fears, and ecstasies in the Anatolian mountains
- The Scapegoat (Daniel Pennac)
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
- Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author (Michael Krüger)
- funny short stories about books and writing
- South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
- teenage romance and angst; a midlife crisis
- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost (Ismail Kadare)
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
- **Strandloper (Alan Garner)
- an Australian convict escapes and joins the Aborigines
- Talking About O'Dwyer (C.K. Stead)
- fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
- Three (Georges Perec)
Which Moped? The Exeter Text. A Gallery Portrait.
- The Truth About the Savolta Case (Eduardo Mendoza)
- violence and intrigue in 1918 Barcelona
- *Vermeer's Milkmaid (Manuel Rivas)
- superb Galician short stories
- *A Void (Georges Perec)
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
- The Year of the Flood (Eduardo Mendoza)
- love strikes a nun in a Spanish village
The Harvill Press, now an imprint of Random House, publishes classics of
modern European literature, ranging from Iceland to Turkey and from Sweden
to Sicily. Their authors are often unfamiliar: they tend to be famous
in their own countries but little known in the English-speaking world.