Pushkin Press

Book Reviews

• Dear Reader (Paul Fournel)
  - an old-fashioned publisher faces change
• The Forbidden Kingdom (Jan Jacob Slauerhoff)
  - confusions of identity in 16th + 20th century Macao
• The Hidden Force (Louis Couperus)
  - Dutch pragmatism encounters Javanese mysticism
• Journey by Moonlight (Antal Szerb)
  - a lively, playful story of nostalgia and obsession
• The Man Who Walked through Walls (Marcel Aymé)
  - surreal realist short stories from 1943 France
• Oliver VII (Antal Szerb)
  - a slight but charming entertainment
• The Pendragon Legend (Antal Szerb)
  - a playful Gothic romp dominated by gentle irony
• *Traveller of the Century (Andrés Neuman)
  - the great German novel, in Spanish?

Pushkin Press is a small UK press specialising in new literature as well as "rediscovered European classics of the twentieth century".