On a journey through the south-east of Hungary, the narrator stops off in an almost completely deserted village on the border to Romania. Resignation and a glorification of the past are the most...
USA & Canada (NYRB), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world rights (Periférica), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Iperborea), Netherlands (Pluim), Hungary (Jelenkor)
USA & Canada (NYRB), UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), Spanish world rights (Periférica), Catalan rights (Angle), Portugal (Elsinore), France (Christian Bourgois), Italy (Iperborea), Netherlands (Pluim), Norway (Forlaget Press), Finland (Lurra), Poland (Drzazgi), Turkey (Axis)
Esther Kinsky’s new book is dedicated to slate, the polymorphic, versatile sedimentary rock, and to the Slate Islands, a small archipelago off the West coast of Scotland. For centuries, slate was mined on those islands that are part of the Inner Hebrides and they are lastingly shaped by the intensive industry that was abandoned many decades ago and that has left behind a bizarre landscape of...
Profoundly empathetic, and austere – a minor-key exploration of landscape and land.
Grove is a novel in three parts, each of them concerned with a different...
UK & Commonwealth (Fitzcarraldo), USA & Canada (Transit Books), Spanish world rights (Periférica), France (Grasset), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Netherlands (Pluim), Greece (Potamos), Ukraine (Knihy XXI)