Andrzej Tichý’s stories of lives blighted by poverty are told with an unnerving command of structure and narrative
Long banned and now newly translated, the Soviet writer’s picaresque novel takes aim at the brutality of collectivisation
This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised past and traumatised present
A story about a mute young Korean woman and her tutor who is slowly going blind explores the physicality of communication
An ambitious novel explores the tension between religious belief and the state in today’s China
Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France
The novella, rendered in Ottilie Mulzet’s fine translation, is imbued with a precision that can be glorious, but also at times intensely analytical
The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war
A louche novella deftly evokes the grime and glory of an independent movie theatre
Finally translated into English, this 1962 story of aliens seeking to save mankind blends high and popular literature in provocative ways
Yevgenia Belorusets’ surreal and eccentric stories depict everyday lives caught up in the Donbas conflict
The Polish Nobel Prize-winner’s magnum opus is a dazzling achievement, aided by an equally deft English translation
Art and faith collide as a grief-stricken painter contemplates the afterlife in the final instalment of ‘Septology’
An elegiac tale of exile, desolation and the pull of the homeland, now translated into English for the first time