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A Review of The Breaking of a Wave by Fabio Genovesi

August 7, 2017

Briana McDonald

Translated from the Italian by Will Schutt (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2017) Truth blends with fantasy in The Breaking of a Wave as young Luna grapples with her older brother’s death. Luca, her brother, is drowned by the same ocean … Continued

A Review of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky

May 1, 2017

Marion Wyce

Translated from the German by Tim Mohr (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2011) What about me? That was the question my boyfriend’s ten-year-old brother, J., asked approximately three dozen times over the short weekend during which we saw him recently. … Continued

A Review of The Homecoming Party by Carmine Abate

August 22, 2016

Marion Wyce

Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2010) There’s a magnet on my refrigerator that pictures two sweet-faced, pony-tailed girls, perhaps sisters, grinning in a knowing way that suggests they’re sharing a private joke. Beneath the image … Continued

A Review of The Island of Last Truth by Flavia Company

October 12, 2015

Kate Munning

Translated from the Catalan by Laura McGloughlin (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2012) In my social circle, there’s a moment at every party in which I suddenly realize my friend Alex is commanding an audience with one of her stories. Her … Continued

A Review of The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris by Leïla Marouane

May 21, 2015

Deborah Hall

Translated from the French by Alison Anderson (New York, NY: Europa Editions, 2010) I finished The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris, by Leїla Marouane, on a night when it was raining in Tallahassee, and the café where I had … Continued

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