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
MANGUEL, Alberto: ‘The Library at Night’ |
AUSTRIA
FRANKL, Viktor E.: ‘Yes To Life In Spite to Everything’ | ROTH, Joseph: ‘The Wandering Jews’ | ZWEIG, Stefan: The World of Yesterday | ZWEIG, Stefan: Reflections: ‘Mendel the Bibliophile‘
CANADA
MANGUEL, Alberto: ‘The Library at Night’
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
YABOUZA, Adrienne: ‘Co-wives, Co-widows’
CZECHIA
PERRY, Sarah: ‘Melmoth’ |
EGYPT
ACIMAN, Andre: ‘Out of Egypt’ | MAHFOUZ, Naguib: ‘The Quarter Stories’ | RIFAAT, Alifa: ‘Distant View of a Minaret’ | WASSEF, Nadia: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller |
FRANCE
CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘Martita, I Remember You’ | 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’ | 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’] | LAURAIN, Antoine: ‘The Readers’ Room’ | LAURAIN, Antoine and Le SONNEUR: ‘Red is My Heart’ | MODIANO, Patrick: ‘Honeymoon’ | MODIANO, Patrick: ‘Invisible Ink’ | MODIANO, Patrick: ‘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’ | SEBALD, W.G.: ‘The Emigrants’ | UHLMAN, Fred: ‘Reunion’
HUNGARY
SZIRTES, George: ‘The Photographer at Sixteen’
INDIA
SINDU, SJ: ‘Blue Skinned Gods’ | PAZ, Octavio: ‘In Light of India’
IRAN
AZAR, Shokoofeh: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree |
ISRAEL
BEN-NAFTALI, Michal: ‘The Teacher’ | SARID, Yishai: ‘The Memory Monster’ | OZ, Amos: ‘My Michael’ |
ITALY
BARONE, Marta: Sunken City | LAHIRI, Jhumpa: ‘In Other Words’ | LAHIRI, Jhumpa: ‘Whereabouts’ | MANGAN, Christine: ‘Palace of the Drowned’ |
LEBANNON
ALAMEDDINE, Rabih: ‘An Unnecessary Woman’
MEXICO
CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘A House of My Own: Stories from My Life’ | PAZ, Octavio: ‘In Light of India’ |
MOROCCO
JELLOUN, Tahar Ben: ‘This Blinding Absence of Light’
NETHERLANDS
BREGMAN, Rutger: ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’
NORTH KOREA
MILLER, Lindsey: ‘North Korea Like Nowhere Else’
PAKISTAN
HAMID, Mohsin: ‘Exit West’ | HAMID, Mohsin: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’
POLAND
BIELAWSKI, Maciek: Doctor Blanco and Other Stories | LANGFUS, Anna: Introduction to the Prose of Anna Langfus [‘The Lost Shore’, ‘Les Bagages de Sable’] | NALKOWSKA, Zofia: ‘Medallions’
PORTUGAL
MERCIER, Pascal: ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ | PESSOA, Fernando: Reflections: The Melancholic Soul | PESSOA, Fernando: The Book of Disquiet |
ROMANIA
FONDANE, Benjamin: ‘Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays’
RUSSIA
BULGAKOV, Mikhail: ‘The Master and Margarita” |
RWANDA
MUKASONGA, Scholastique: ‘Cockroaches’
SENEGAL
SARR, Mohamed Mbougar: ‘Brotherhood’
SOUTH AFRICA
VLADISLAVIC, Ivan: ‘The Dis
SPAIN
CARRION, Jorge: ‘Bookshops’ | MEDEL, Elena: The Wonders | SAN JOSE MARTINEZ, David: ‘El Excluido’ [‘The Excluded’] | ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind |
SUDAN
ABOULELA, Leila: ‘Elsewhere, Home’
SWITZERALND
MERCIER, Pascal: ‘Night Train to Lisbon’
SYRIA
LEFTERI, Christy: ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ |
TAIWAN
SANMAO: Stories of the Sahara
TURKEY
ALI, Sabahattin: ‘Madonna in a Fur Coat’ | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World’ | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’ | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’ | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ | SHAFAK, Elif: ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ |
UKRAINE
BELORUSETS, Yevgenia: ‘Lucky Breaks’ | KURKOV, Andrey: ‘Death and the Penguin’ | KURKOV, Andrey: ‘Grey Bees‘ | RAFAYENKO, VOLODYMYR: Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love | SENTSOV, Oleg: ‘Life Went On Anyway’ | ZHADAN, Serhiy: Internat [The Orphanage] | ZHADAN, Serhiy: What We Live For, What We Die For |
UNITED KINGDOM
BROOKNER, Anita: An Introduction to Anita Brookner’s Prose | BUTLAND, Stephanie: ‘Lost for Words’ | HANFF, Helene: ’84 Charing Cross Road’ | HONEYMAN, Gail: ‘Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine’ | LANE, Jennifer: ‘The Wheel’ | LEFTERI, Christy: ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ | MOZLEY, Fiona: ‘Hot Stew’ | OLIVER, Sally: ‘The Weight of Loss’ |PYM, Barbara: ‘Quartet in Autumn’ | SEBALD, W.G.: ‘The Emigrants’ | SZIRTES, George: ‘The Photographer at \Sixteen’ | VAUGHAN, Sarah: ‘Reputation’ |
UNITED STATES
BALDWIN, James: Reflections | BRUDER, Jessica: Nomandland | BUKOWSKI, Charles: Reflections: ‘The Laughing Heart’ | CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘A House of My Own: Stories from My Life’ | CISNEROS, Sandra: ‘Martita, I Remember You’ | POE, Edgar Allan: ‘Alone’ | ROGERS, Carl: Reflections: On Empathy | WILLIAMS, John: ‘Stoner’ |
WESTERN SAHARA
SANMAO: Stories of the Sahara