“A brilliant debut novel” about a young Bosnian War refugee who finds the secret to survival in language and stories (Los Angeles Times). For Aleksandar Krsmanović, Grandpa Slavko’s stories endow life in Višegrad with a kaleidoscopic b...
It’s the night before the feast in the village of Fu¨rstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman -- he’s dead. And Mrs. Kranz, the night-blind painter, who wants to depict her village for the first time...
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book AwardA Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus, and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month“Inventive, funny and moving.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewTranslated from the German by Dami...