When Rafiq Kermanj, founder of the Kurdish Communist Party, is forced to flee Tehran for London with his conservative wife Xezal and three children, they suffer the shame of penury and migration layer…
Madita heißt eigentlich Margareta, aber als sie noch klein war, nannte sie sich selbst Madita. Jetzt ist sie fast sieben und wird immer noch Madita gerufen. Nur wenn sie etwas angestellt hat, wird sie…
An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important p…
"Första gången jag hörde talas om Mikkolasystrarna var jag fem eller sex år gammal, jag satt på vardagsrumsgolvet och lekte. Mina föräldrar sade namnet Mikkola igen och igen, och jag undrade vad det b…
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator att…
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she c…
