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First published in 1977, this novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski - professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer - as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past.

In Tworki, a village just southwest of Warsaw, there is a psychiatric hospital and in that hospital, the patients and their caretakers are hidden from the war just outside their iron gates. Our hero, Jurek, answers an ad in the paper for a job there and finds himself keeping the books alongside a knock-out strawberry blonde named Sonia.

A collection of short stories, which includes a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, and more.

In this pair of short novels. Arnost Lustig continues his lifelong project of creating a universe - at once concrete and dreamlike - to examine the horrors of the Holocaust and the impossible burden of living as a survivor.

What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky - poet, provocateur and hero of Ukranian underground culture? This text constructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps of paper.

Although the city in the title of this collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, the text serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. The poems search for personal and historical meaning within the context of time.

One of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit.

An existentialist anti-novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde. It demonstrates a commitment to surrealistic aesthetics, and has a clear lack of an obvious plot, minimal development of character, variations of time sequence, and experiments with vocabulary and punctuation.

A novel of a life lived on the margins of Europe where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the narrator writes from a fictional border state that transcends national boundaries.

In these two novellas, Volodymyr Dibrova tells the story of how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly believed in it, but simply lacked the courage to oppose it.

Inspired by ""Mrs Tolstoy and Mrs Dostoevsky, whose biographies about their husbands have been published in Prague,"" the author presents his own autobiographical work, ostensibly fiction, from his wife's point of view. In this first of the trilogy, we meet the author through the eyes of his wife Eliska.

Chronicles the lives of three generations of women in a Mongolian family. Told from the point of view of a mother, three sisters, and the daughter of one of the sisters, this story of secrets and betrayals takes us from the daily rhythms of nomadic life on the steppe to the harsh realities of urban alcoholism and prostitution in the capital.

Represents three decades of Albanian writing - especially the burst of creativity in the newfound freedom of the 1990s - readers will encounter work that reflects the literary paradox of Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century. This book provides English-speaking readers with an elucidating overview of the nation's literature.

This volume allows English-speaking readers to discover the work of women writers from East Central Europe. A compendium of fiction by twenty-five women from eighteen different nations The Third Shore brings to light a whole spectrum of women's literary accomplishment and experience virtually unknown in the West.

Stylistically and thematically different to the more usual Czech underground literature, this is the story of the departure of two young men in search of their own identity. It provides an interpretation of the individual lost in a world of chaos and futility.

Showcases the author's bohemian intellectual life, and his relationship with Vladimir Boudnik.