Best European Fiction 2011 - Softcover

Aleksandar Hemon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564786005 ISBN 13: 9781564786005

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010

Synopsis

The launch of Dalkey's BEST EUROPEAN FICTION series earlier in 2010 was nothing short of phenomenal, with wide-ranging coverage in the international media. Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today. BEST EUROPEAN FICTION 2011 is a window onto what's happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe, where the next Kafka, Flaubert or Mann is waiting to be discovered.

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[W]e can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover.

Best European Fiction 2011 is the second in what, with any luck, could turn out to be an annual series.... it is easy to appreciate what Mr. Hemon calls 'the depth and width and beauty of human experience' represented here. --Larry Rohter

Starred Review. With authors ranging from the familiar (Hilary Mantel) to the obscure (Macedonia's Blaze Minevski) to the internationally acclaimed but under-appreciated in the U.S.A. (Spain's Enrique Vila-Matas; Hungary's L szl Krasznahorkai; Poland's Olga Tokarczuk), the second volume of this lauded series makes good on the first's promise.... With stories from Montenegro, Cyprus, and even tiny Liechtenstein aside works from Turkey, Estonia, and most of Western Europe, this edition packs both a stylistic punch and a satisfying range.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1564786005
• ISBN 13: 9781564786005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512