Literature

Pavol Rankov, translated by Madgalena Mullek

It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)

Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature. "It's where we've ended up. Not because of our own mistakes, because of politics. We weren't able to live our own lives; we had to live the way we were told to." - Maria (excerpt from book) "It...

Talasbek Asemkulov, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

A Life At Noon

“He could not have said exactly what he was hearing. A baby’s sweet babbling? A hesitant declaration of love? He does not know. But the sound moves him as if he might discover in it something eternally important, something unlike he has...

Translated by Henry R. Cooper, Jr.

Kata Nesiba: The Authentic and Illustrated History of a Belgrade Whore and Her Struggles for Her Constitutional Rights, 1830-1851

The nineteenth century in Serbia began with two uprisings against an Ottoman overlordship that had oppressed not only the Serbs, but all of Southeastern Europe for almost four hundred years. Fired by memories of their medieval empire and determined to...