Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape.
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Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique Vila-Matas.
For 2012, Aleksandar Hemon introduces a whole new cross-section of European fiction, and there are a few editorial changes as well. For the first time, the preface will be by an American—Nicole Krauss—and the stories, one per country/language, will be arranged within themes (love, art, war, the body), to facilitate book club and reading group discussions.
[belgium: dutch], PATRICIA DE MARTELAERE, My Hand Is Exhausted
[croatia] MAJA HRGOVIĆ, Zlatka
[spain: galician], AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ PAZ, This Strange Lucidity
[poland], JANUSZ RUDNICKI, The Sorrows of Idiot Augustus
[ireland: irish], GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK, “. . . everything emptying into white”
[hungary], ZSOFIA BAN, When There Were Only Animals
[switzerland: rhaeto-romanic · german], ARNO CAMENISCH, Sez Ner
[portugal], RUI ZINK, Tourist Destination
[georgia], DAVID DEPHY, Before the End
[ireland: english] DESMOND HOGAN, Kennedy
[russia], DANILA DAVYDOV, The Telescope
[czech republic], JIRI KRATOCHVIL, I, Loshad’
[estonia], ARMIN KOOMAGI, Logisticians Anonymous
[slovakia], ROBERT GAL, Agnomia
[france], MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ, Juergen the Perfect Son-in-Law
[norway], BJARTE BREITEIG, Down There They Don’t Mourn
[bosnia and herzegovina], MUHAREM BAZDULJ, Magic and Sarajevo
[iceland], GERðUR KRISTNý, The Ice People
[switzerland: french], NOELLE REVAZ, The Children
[united kingdom: scotland], DONAL MCLAUGHLIN, enough to make your heart
[netherlands], SANNEKE VAN HASSEL, Pearl
[finland], MARITTA LINTUNEN, Passiontide
[united kingdom: wales], DUNCAN BUSH, Bigamy
[slovenia], BRANKO GRADISNIK, Memorinth
[serbia], MARIJA KNEžEVIć, Without Fear of Change
[liechtenstein], PATRICK BOLTSHAUSER, Tomorrow It’s Deggendorf
[spain: catalan], PEP PUIG, Clara Bou
[united kingdom: england], LEE ROURKE, Catastrophe
[montenegro], ANDREJ NIKOLAIDIS, The Coming
[switzerland: german], MICHAEL STAUFFER, The Woman with the Stocks
[spain: castilian], SANTIAGO PAJARES, Today
[ukraine], SERHIY ZHADAN, The Owners
[germany], CLEMENS MEYER, The Case of M.
[belgium: french], BERNARD QUIRINY, Rara Avis