BOOK REVIEW INDEX ACCORDING TO THE LOCATION (S) WHERE STORIES ARE SET.
ALGERIA
ADIMI, Kaouther: ‘A Bookshop in Algiers’ | DJAOUT , Tahar: ‘The Last Summer of Reason’
ARGENTINA
MALIANDI, Carla: ‘The German Room’ (also under GERMANY) | MANGUEL, Alberto: ‘The Library at Night’ (also under CANADA)
AUSTRIA
FRANKL, Viktor E.: ‘Yes To Life In Spite to Everything’ | ROTH, Joseph: ‘The Wandering Jews’ | ZWEIG, Stefan: Reflections: ‘Mendel the Bibliophile‘
The BEDOUIN
BEYROUK, Mbarek Ould: ‘The Desert and The Drum’ (also under MAURITANIA)
BELGIUM
HARPMAN, Jacqueline: ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’
BRAZIL
HERINGER, Victor: ‘The Love of Singular Men’
CANADA
MANGUEL, Alberto: ‘The Library at Night’ (also under ARGENTINA) | POULIN, Jacques: ‘Autumn Rounds’ | SIMARD, Matthieu: ‘The Country Will Bring Us No Peace’
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
YABOUZA, Adrienne: ‘Co-wives, Co-widows’
CUBA
ROSALES, Guillermo: ‘The Halfway House’
CZECHIA
KUNDERA, Milan: ‘A Kidnapped West, or The Tragedy of Central Europe’ | PERRY, Sarah: ‘Melmoth’
EGYPT
ACIMAN, Andre: ‘Out of Egypt’ | MAHFOUZ, Naguib: ‘The Quarter Stories’ | RIFAAT, Alifa: ‘Distant View of a Minaret’ | SAID, Edward: ‘Out of Place’ (also under PALESTINE and USA)
FRANCE
BARBERY, Muriel: ‘A Single Rose’ (also under JAPAN) | CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘Martita, I Remember You’ (also under USA) | DELBO, Charlotte: ‘Auschwitz and After’ | ERIBON, Didier: ‘Returning to Reims’ | FRENKEL, Françoise: ‘No Place to Lay One’s Head’ | FONDANE, Benjamin: ‘Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays’ (also under ROMANIA) | JONCOUR, Serge: ‘Lean on Me’ | KAPLAN, Alice: ‘French Lessons’ | LANGFUS, Anna: Introduction to the Prose of Anna Langfus [‘The Lost Shore’, ‘Les Bagages de Sable’] (also under POLAND) | LAURAIN, Antoine: ‘The Readers’ Room’ | LAURAIN, Antoine and Le SONNEUR: ‘Red is My Heart’ | LOUIS, Edouard: ‘A Woman’s Battles and Transformations’ | MODIANO, Patrick: ‘Honeymoon’ | ‘Invisible Ink’ | ‘The Black Notebook’ | PERRIN, Valérie: ‘Fresh Water For Flowers’ | ROUF, Ketty: ‘No Touching’ | ROUSSELLE, Stefania: ‘Amour. How the French Talk about Love’ | de la VILLE de MIRMONT, Jean: ‘The Sundays of Jean Dezert’ [Les Dimanches de Jean Dezert]
GERMANY
ALI, Sabahattin: ‘Madonna in a Fur Coat’ (also under TURKEY) | MALIANDI, Carla: ‘The German Room’ (also under ARGENTINA) | OSKAMP, Katja: ‘Marzahn, Mon Amour’ | SEBALD, W.G.: ‘The Emigrants’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM) | UHLMAN, Fred: ‘Reunion’
GREECE
CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘A House of My Own: Stories from My Life’ (also under USA, MEXICO)
GREENLAND
KPOMASSIE, Tete-Michel: ‘Michel the Giant. An African in Greenland.’ (also under TOGO)
HUNGARY
SZABO, Magda: ‘Katalin Street’ | SZIRTES, George: ‘The Photographer at Sixteen’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM)
INDIA
SINDU, SJ: ‘Blue Skinned Gods’ | PAZ, Octavio: ‘In Light of India’ (also under MEXICO)
ISRAEL
BEN-NAFTALI, Michal: ‘The Teacher’ | SARID, Yishai: ‘The Monster’ | OZ, Amos: ‘My Michael’
ITALY
BARONE, Marta: Sunken City | BARICCO, Alessandro: ‘Without Blood’ | BRODSKY, Joseph: ‘Watermark: A Love Letter to Venice’ (also under RUSSIA and USA) | LAHIRI, Jhumpa: ‘In Other Words’ | ‘Whereabouts’ | MANGAN, Christine: ‘Palace of the Drowned’ | MATAR, Hisham: ‘A Month in Siena’ (also under LIBYA)
JAPAN
BARBERY, Muriel: ‘A Single Rose’ (also under FRANCE)
LEBANNON
ALAMEDDINE, Rabih: ‘An Unnecessary Woman’
LIBYA
HAMEDA, Kamal Ben: ‘Under the Tripoli | MATAR, Hisham: ‘A Month in Siena’ (also under ITALY)
MAURITANIA
BEYROUK, Mbarek Ould: ‘The Desert and The Drum’ (also under the BEDOUIN)
MEXICO
CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘A House of My Own: Stories from My Life’ (also under USA, GREECE) | PAZ, Octavio: ‘In Light of India’ (also under INDIA)
MOROCCO
JELLOUN, Tahar Ben: ‘This Blinding Absence of Light’
NIGERIA
LADIPO MANYIKA, Sarah: ‘Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun’ (also under USA)
NETHERLANDS
BREGMAN, Rutger: ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’
NORTH KOREA
MILLER, Lindsey: ‘North Korea Like Nowhere Else’
NORTHERN IRELAND
COOPER, Jeremy: ‘Brian’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM)
PAKISTAN
HAMID, Mohsin: ‘Exit West’ | ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. | QURESHI, Huma: ‘Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM)
PALESTINE
SAID, Edward: ‘Out of Place’ (also under EGYPT and USA)
POLAND
LANGFUS, Anna: Introduction to the Prose of Anna Langfus [‘The Lost Shore’, ‘Les Bagages de Sable’] (also under POLAND) | NALKOWSKA, Zofia: ‘Medallions’ | SADURSKA, Barbara: ‘The Map’ | SANDS: Philippe: ‘Exit West Street’ (also under UKRAINE)
PORTUGAL
MERCIER, Pascal: ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ (also under SWITZERLAND) | PESSOA, Fernando: Reflections: The Melancholic Soul
ROMANIA
FONDANE, Benjamin: ‘Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays’ (also under FRANCE) | SEBASTIAN, Mihail: ‘For Two Thousand Years’
RUSSIA
BRODSKY, Joseph: ‘Watermark: A Love Letter to Venice’ (also under ITALY and USA) | BULGAKOV, Mikhail: ‘The Master and Margarita”
RWANDA
MUKASONGA, Scholastique: ‘Cockroaches’
SENEGAL
SARR, Mohamed Mbougar: ‘Brotherhood’
SOUTH AFRICA
VLADISLAVIC, Ivan: ‘The Distance’
SOUTH KOREA
KO-EUN, Yun: ‘The Disaster Tourist’
SPAIN
CARRION, Jorge: ‘Bookshops’ | SAN JOSE MARTINEZ, David: ‘El Excluido’ [‘The Excluded’]
SUDAN
ABOULELA, Leila: ‘Elsewhere, Home’
SWEDEN
GENBERG, Ia; ‘The Details’
SWITZERALND
MERCIER, Pascal: ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ (also under PORTUGAL)
SYRIA
LEFTERI, Christy: ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM)
TAIWAN
SANMAO: ‘Stories of the Sahara’ (also under WESTERN SAHARA)
TIBET
YANGKYI, Tsering: ‘Flowers of Lhasa’
TOGO
KPOMASSIE, Tete-Michel: ‘Michel the Giant. An African in Greenland.’ (also under GREENLAND)
TUNISIA
FELLOUS, Colette:‘This Tilting World’
TURKEY
ALI, Sabahattin: ‘Madonna in a Fur Coat’ (also under GERMANY) | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ | ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’ | ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’ | ‘How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division’ | ‘The Flea Palace’ | ‘The Forty Rules of Love’ | ‘The Island of Missing Trees ’ | ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ (also under UNITED KINGDOM)
UKRAINE
BELORUSETS, Yevgenia: ‘Lucky Breaks’ | DUDA, Tamara: ‘Daughter’ | KURKOV, Andrey: ‘Death and the Penguin’ | ‘Diary of an Invasion’ | ‘Grey Bees‘ | SANDS: Philippe: ‘Exit West Street’ (also under POLAND) | SENTSOV, Oleg: ‘Life Went On Anyway’ | ZHADAN, Serhiy: Internat [The Orphanage] | ‘What We Live For, What We Die For’
UNITED KINGDOM
BARNES, Julian: ‘Elizabeth Finch’ | BRADY, Fern: ‘Strong Female Character’ | BROOKNER, Anita: An Introduction to Anita Brookner’s Prose | BUTLAND, Stephanie: ‘Lost for Words’ | COOPER, Jeremy: ‘Brian’ (also under NORTHERN IRELAND) | HANFF, Helene: ’84 Charing Cross Road’ | HONEYMAN, Gail: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine’ | LANE, Jennifer: ‘The Wheel’ | LEFTERI, Christy: ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ (also under SYRIA) | MILLAR, Eloise and JORDISON, Sam: ‘Literary London: A Book Lover’s Guide to the City’ | MOZLEY, Fiona: ‘Hot Stew’ | OLIVER, Sally: ‘The Weight of Loss’ | PYM, Barbara: ‘Quartet in Autumn’ | QURESHI, Huma: ‘Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love’ (also under PAKISTAN) | SEBALD, W.G.: ‘The Emigrants’ (also under GERMANY) | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ (also under TURKEY) | SZIRTES, George: ‘The Photographer at \Sixteen’ (also under HUNGARY) | VAUGHAN, Sarah: ‘Reputation’
UNITED STATES
BALDWIN, James: Reflections | BRODSKY, Joseph: ‘Watermark: A Love Letter to Venice’ (also under ITALY and RUSSIA) | BUKOWSKI, Charles: Reflections: ‘The Laughing Heart’ | CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘A House of My Own: Stories from My Life’ (also under MEXICO, GREECE) | ‘Martita, I Remember You’ (also under FRANCE) | LADIPO MANYIKA, Sarah: ‘Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun’ (also under NIGERIA) | OLIVER, Mary: ‘Upstream’ | POE, Edgar Allan: ‘Alone’ | ROGERS, Carl: Reflections: On Empathy | SAID, Edward: ‘Out of Place’ (also under EGYPT and PALESTINE) | VLAUTIN, Willy: ‘The Night Will Always Come’ | WILLIAMS, John: ‘Stoner’
VIETNAM
NGUYEN, Viet Thang: ‘The Refugees’
WESTERN SAHARA
SANMAO: ‘Stories of the Sahara’ (also under TAIWAN)
YEMEN
AL-MAQTARI, Bushra: ‘What Have You Left Behind? Voices from Forgotten War’
ZIMBABWE
DANGAREMBGA, Tsitsi: ‘This Mournable Body’