Eastern Europe
Book Reviews
- Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina**
- a novel of three centuries in eastern Bosnia
- György Dalos: The Circumcision
- a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
- Thomas de Waal: The Caucasus: An Introduction
- the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
- Jacob Glatstein: The Glatstein Chronicles*
- an American Yiddish poet visits Poland in 1934
- Misha Glenny: The Balkans 1804-1999*
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
- Ismail Kadare: The Pyramid
- a parable of life under communism
- Ismail Kadare: The Siege
- a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
- Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
- Danilo Kis: Garden, Ashes*
- a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
- Tadeusz Konwicki: The Polish Complex
- personal and national angsts intertwine
- Dezso Kosztolanyi: Skylark*
- a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
- Jaan Kross: The Conspiracy and Other Stories
- Estonia in the Second World War
- Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
- Noel Malcolm: Agents of Empire
Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
- Mark Mazower: The Balkans*
- beyond stereotypes: a short but insightful history
- Borislav Pekic: The Houses of Belgrade*
- a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
- Mesa Selimovic: Death and the Dervish**
- a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
- Piotr Szewc: Annihilation
- a one day tour of a Polish-Jewish town in the 1930s
- Milos Tsernianski: Migrations
- a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
- Magdalena Tulli: In Red
- love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town
- Dubravka Ugresic: The Culture of Lies*
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
- Mark Whittow: The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025
- as a Greek-speaking, orthodox empire
- Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary
See also:
Turkey