Best European fiction 2017
By: preface by Eileen Battersby
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Victoria, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781628971439
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: European Short stories; Translations into English
Description: This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing happening across the continent from Ireland to Eastern Europe. Also featuring an erudite prefatory essay written by Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times , Best European Fiction 2017 is another essential report on the state of global literature in the twenty-first century.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Eileen Battersby -- [Austria] from; title: Johnny and Jean  -- Teresa Präauer -- [Belgium: French]; title: Two writers  -- Stéphane Lambert -- [Bulgaria] from; title: A as in anything  -- Iana Boukova -- [Croatia] from; title: Last night  -- Sven Popovic -- [Czech Republic]; title: Lion cubs  -- Jiří Hájíček -- [Denmark]; title: Postcard to Annie  -- Ida Jessen -- [Finland] from; title: Destruction of the liquor store in Nuorgam  -- Mikko-Pekka Heikkinen -- [France] from; title: Stand-by-the-hour  -- Gauz -- [Germany]; title: Chafer  -- Ann Cotton -- [Greece]; title: Untrodden  -- Elena Penga -- [Hungary]; title: Confectionery 1952  -- Zsuzsa Selyem -- [Republic of Ireland: Irish]; title: Duran  -- Daithí Ó Muirí -- [Italy] from; title: Hunger of women  -- Marosia Castaldi -- [Latvia] from; title: Taste of lead  -- Māris Bērzin̦š -- [Liechtenstein]; title: Moondust  -- Jonathan Huston -- [Lithuania]; title: Opium  -- Undinė Radzevičiūtė -- [Macedonia]; title: Beba  -- Snežana Mladenovska Angjelkov -- [Netherlands]; title: Comfort of sorts  -- Philip Huff -- [Norway]; title: Surrounded  -- Mikkel Bugge -- [Poland] from; title: Not as in paradise  -- Agnieszka Taborska -- [Portugal]; title: Commander's endless night  -- David Machado -- [Romania]; title: Haritina  -- Ruxandra Cesereanu -- [Russia]; title: Bad town  -- Liza Alexandrova-Zorina -- [Serbia] from; title: Molecules  -- Ivan Tokin -- [Slovenia]; title: Think of me in the good times  -- Maja Gal Štromar -- [Spain: Basque]; title: Two stories  -- Karmele Jaio -- [Spain: Castillian]; title: Don't ask for Gagarin  -- Carlos Robles Lucena -- [Switzerland: Italian]; title: Death by laughter  -- Giovanni Orelli -- [Wales]; title: Everyone's the same inside -- Wayne Price.