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Nouvelle Philosophe: Interview with Muriel Barbery
Interview with the author of the international bestselling novel Elegance of the Hedgehog... A posh building in rue de Grenelle (Paris), its days recounted from two points of view, one belonging to... -
The Guardian: Interview with Amélie Nothomb, author of Tokyo Fiancée
It takes me a while to recognise the short, dark-haired woman who comes to fetch me from the lobby at the publisher Albin Michel. She advances towards me with a smile, shakes my hand and asks if I'd like... -
Music, life, literature, and Jean-Claude Izzo...from the Guardian Unlimited Blog
Jean-Claude Izzo's novels make brilliant use of musical allusions in portraying France's ethnic divisions About a third of the way through Lost Sailors, the most recent English-language translation... -
The New Yorker: "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral"
In this brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence, the narrator, a forty-seven-year-old divorcée summering alone on the Ionian coast, becomes obsessed with a beautiful young mother who seems... -
The Seattle Times: "This superb and scary Italian writer . . . has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations."
If you are looking for uplifting bromides about the intimate mother-daughter bond, do not look to Elena Ferrante's novels. This superb and scary... -
Massimo Carlotto and Amara Lakhous on stage at the Turin book fair
Massimo Carlotto's stage adaptation of his most recent novel, Allah's Christians (Cristiani di Allah) at the Turin Book Fair May 10th. (Video in Italian) -
People on Privilege Hill selected as one of Fresh Air's summer reads
Jane Gardam’s The People on Privilege Hill has been selected by the NPR's Fresh Air as one of their recommended books for summer reading. A story from the collection will soon be available... -
Publishers Weekly: "By turns very funny (particularly in Paloma's sections) and heartbreaking . . . [Barbery's] simple plot and sudden denouement add up to a great deal more than the sum of their parts."
This dark but redemptive novel, an international bestseller, marks the debut in English of Normandy philosophy professor Barbery. Renée Michel, 54 and widowed, is the stolid concierge in an elegant... -
Amara Lakhous's interview with Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto is Italy's foremost noir novelist and a major exponent of the "Mediterranean Noir novel." In 2007 he was a guest at the PEN World Voices festival, and on May 29 of this year... -
Europa Editions at BEA 2008
BEA 2008, May 30th to June 1st. Visit the Europa Editions booth (#2717) in the south hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center to take a peek at what's new at Europa this summer and fall. Kent Carroll...