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The editor has compiled this anthology so that it that can be read for pleasure—as long as you like your pleasure with a good dose of stylistic complexity and emotional pain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"It is hard to imagine another [anthology] quite as willing to interrogate, with expansive generosity and inclusiveness, the borders both of Europe and of fiction itself.... Besides serving up texts that might otherwise remain inaccessible to Anglophone readers, the volume's greatest strength lies in its attention to the problems of translation itself.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[I]deal for browsing and has something for almost every taste. . . we can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover.” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Readers for whom the expression ‘foreign literature’ means the work of Canada’s Alice Munro stand to have their eyes opened wide and their reading exposure exploded as they encounter works from places such as Croatia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia (and, yes, from more familiar terrain, such as Spain, the UK, and Russia).” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Starred Review for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBest European Fiction 2010\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Of interest to literary readers of English on both sides of the water.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“For one book to range so widely in geographical terms is a praiseworthy achievement in itself; to do so and encompass so many delightfully singular, fascinatingly overlapping talents is an achievement of another order.\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Andriesse\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, a translator, and an associate editor at Dalkey Archive Press. His writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eReading in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProdigal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Short Story Project\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBattersea Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His translation of François-René de Chateaubriand's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs from Beyond the Grave\u003c\/i\u003e will be published by \u003ci\u003eNew York Review Books\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017. He lives in Western Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42684394799259,"sku":"9781628972863","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/2915\/9067\/products\/9781628972863_FC.jpg?v=1661205992"}],"url":"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/collections\/series\/europe.oembed","provider":"Dalkey Archive Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}