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Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur "Genius-Award" winner Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Irish novelist Colum McCann, and with dozens of editorial, media, and programming partners in the U.S., UK, and Europe, the Best European Fiction series will be 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.
DETAILS
ISBN-10 1564786005
ISBN-13 9781564786005
Publication Date Nov 2010
Nb of pages 512
REVIEWS
Press Reviews
Open Letters Monthly
". . . not only worth reading, but worth reading with the same care that went into its writing."
- Kevin Frazier
Time magazine
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Best European Fiction is an exhilarating read."
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Radhika Jones
The Guardian
". . . this is a precious opportunity to understand more deeply the obsessions, hopes and fears of each nation's literary psyche -- a sort of international show-and-tell of the soul."
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Michael Faber
Times Literary Supplement
"The best of the stories here are finely attuned to the coincidence of lightness and pathos in things, and there is not one that is not worth reading."
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Bernard Manzo
Booklist
". . . every piece benefits serious fiction lovers' reading experience." [Starred Review]
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Brad Hooper
The New York Times
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Best European Fiction . . . offers an appealingly diverse look at the Continent's fiction scene."
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Gregory Cowles
Library Journal
"We can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover."
Bookslut
". . . one of the most remarkable collections I've read: vital, fascinating, and even more comprehensive than I would have thought possible."
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Michael Schaub
EVENTS
A Different Window: Reading European Fiction
Southbank Centre, London, Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:45pm
Authors writing in Catalan, Portuguese and Polish share their translated stories which are included in the Best European Fiction 2011 anthology. They discuss their work with the anthology's editor Aleksandar Hemon, as they confront the issue of what Europe itself means in the 21st century and how the notion of a 'European literature' is a continually diversifying concept.
Olga Tokarczuk is one of Poland's leading fiction writers whose novels include House of Day, House of Night and who is joined by her translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Merce Ibarz is a Catalan author and cultural critic who has published novels and short fiction, and Goncalo Tavares is a Portuguese author whose novel Jerusalem won the Jose Saramago prize in 2005.
Supported by the Polish Cultural Institute.
