Waltz Review of Contemporary FictionWaltz is an occasionally absurd comedy of indecision and indolence structured in imitation of the dance from which it takes its title. First published in 1936, and considered one of the most groundbreaking and significant novels written in Catalan, Waltz tells the tale of an idle, introspective, and somewhat oblivious young "man without qualities" as he stumbles through a milieu of civic upheaval and bourgeois tragedy, waltzing from one prospective
LEE ROURKE
An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War
What does cynicism taste like
The Scotland Herald
this book abounds with vignettes exploring taboos and their representation in fiction
due primarily to the spectacle of intellectual lunacy
Best European Fiction 2011 is the second installment of an annual anthology of stories from across Europe
note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue
” —Salonica
deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe
We meet amputee sons whose mothers cart them from brothel to brothel
born in 1966 in Tbilisi