Stasiuk, exploring a region that so many have assumed to be irresistibly converging with the West, has mapped what Freud might have called its ‘genetic memory.’ - Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

 

A stunning addition to the literature of surrealism... – Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement A prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty… And the collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. – Prof. Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center, author of many books on Surrealism

 

Tulli’s perfect prose is a labyrinth of inexhaustible meanings…. in which there circulate metaphors of emptiness and want, phantoms of unfulfilled emotions. - Marek Zaleski, Gazeta Wyborcza

 

“Just when you fear fiction may have no more turns left to take, along comes Magdalena Tulli. Picking up on the experiments of Oulipo and Robbe-Grillet, she leads us into a dazzling maze out of which we emerge with our wonder and our delight retooled.” - Askold Melnyczuk

 

The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaud, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago. – W.S. Merwin

 

 

A landmark of early modernist Polish drama, Zapolska’s play is an uncompromising look at gender and class in fin-de-siècle Poland. In her introduction Murjas discusses the many intriguing challenges involved in its cultural transference, combining the perspective of translator with that of theatre practitioner. This book is a rare treat in a much neglected area of modern scholarship. – Dr Elwira Grossman, University of Glasgow

 

 

The Bruise is a novel of imperative voice and raw sensation. In the sterile dormitories and on the quiet winter greens of an American university, a young woman named M– deals with the repercussions of a strange encounter with an angel, one which has left a large bruise on her forehead…