Herta Müller: Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)
The latest addition to my website is Herta Müller's Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel). This tells the story of Leopold Auberg, a seventeen year old German-Romanian. When the Soviets capture Romania…
David Szalay: The Innocent
The latest addition to my website is David Szalay's The Innocent. Szalay is another of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. This novel is written from the perspective of a committed…
Jewish literature and the Soviet Union
If you ask most people who was the greatest criminal of the twentieth century, nine times out of ten Adolf Hitler would top the list and with very good reason.…