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Young Juanito is given an incomprehensible deed to execute, which leaves the fate of his entire family in his hands. “El Verdugo” – the executioner – is a dramatic tale based, according to its author, on an actual incident from the days of Napoleon’s war in Spain.
Sarah Khan was looking for ghosts in Berlin, and then she found Anne, who has an abundance of them. Endowed with supernatural abilities and an army of not so scary ghosts, Anne is able to threaten even the all mighty Stasi.
This story proposes an impossible experiment in an impossible situation. Is there place for art or beauty in the most contentious bunker on earth, hours before the end of WWII?
After the story’s intoxicating journey through an Istanbul suspended between yesterday and today, the reader takes the ferry back to more familiar shores, their way lit by the ever-present moon.
“External circumstances alone were capable of jolting us out of apathy and distracting us from slowly approaching death.” The memory of a great author from the Russian Gulag.
Nora is leaving her little village in Ireland to go to London, but no one knows why she is actually leaving and what horrors she will have to encounter before she comes back. A classic from the Irish language.
A granfather tells his grandson, a grown man, precisely how he got the green number tattooed on his arm. What happened there? What does the polish boxer have to do with it? A great story about the power of words.
The rise to fame of a young boxer in a life and death fight of giants. A breathtaking story that will drop you to your knees.
An evening in a lorry drivers’ bar in the middle of post-war Germany. Arno Schmidt – cult author of the twentieth century and linguistic archaeologist – delivers a report that is brusque, surly and wonderfully funny!
In a story which consists of two parts, Herman Melville – the great American autor – tells of two ways of being, each closed within its borders, each in its own way: the Londonian circle of free bachelors, and the society of women laborers at a one of its kind paper factory in America.
One of Poland’s greatest writers in his debut short story, describing his account with German captives as a soldier in the Polish resistance during WWII. A first translation into English.
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