Sweet Days of Discipline – by Fleur Jaeggy

There’s writing that you just couldn’t get into. And there’s writing that hooked you the moment you started reading the … More

A Girl Returned – by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

“I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The … More

In just 125 pages, Nothomb addressed many different social issues in this partly autobiographical, partly epistolary novel: the gorging of … More