New Directions

Book Reviews

• Anna Edes (Dezso Kosztolanyi)
  - a tragicomic indictment of bourgeois morality
• Billancourt Tales (Nina Berberova)
  - stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
• A House In Istria (Richard Swartz)
  - obsessions talking past one another
• *The Life of an Amorous Woman (Ihara Saikaku)
  - stories of Japan's 17th century Floating World
• *Loving Sabotage (Amélie Nothomb)
  - a tale of childhood love and war
• **The Melancholy of Resistance (Laszlo Krasznahorkai)
  - a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale