Book Reviews
- James R. Brandon: On Thrones of Gold*
Three Javanese Shadow Plays
- Stephanie Dalley: Myths from Mesopotamia
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
- Unai Elorriaga: Plants Don't Drink Coffee*
- intertwined stories about insects, rugby, love + carpentry
- John L. Foster: Love Songs of the New Kingdom*
- ancient Egyptian love poems
- Georgi Gospodinov: Natural Novel
- a comedy in fragments
- Hamid Ismailov: Manaschi*
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
- Ismail Kadare: The Concert
- a comedy of communist manners; the end of the Albania-China alliance
- Ismail Kadare: The General of the Dead Army*
- on a macabre quest in Albania
- Ismail Kadare: The Palace of Dreams*
- an Ottoman bureaucracy managing dreams
- Ismail Kadare: The Pyramid
- a parable of life under communism
- Ismail Kadare: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
- a mythological comedy in post-communist Albania
- Jaan Kross: The Conspiracy and Other Stories
- Estonia in the Second World War
- Jaan Kross: Professor Martens' Departure*
- Jaan Kross: The Czar's Madman
- von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
- V.S. Naipaul: In a Free State
- stories about individuals in foreign countries, coping with alien cultures
- Arto Paasilinna: The Year of the Hare
- a light-hearted romp through rural Finland
- Manuel Rivas: In the Wilderness
- magic and the mundane in a Galician village
- Irene Sola: When I Sing, Mountains Dance*
- renewal and compassion after violence in the Catalan Pyrenees
See also:
ethnographic fiction |
fiction |
historical fiction |
medieval literature
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