10 Books That Will Take You on a Foreign Literary Adventure
Come with us on an exotic literary adventure where you will encounter writers from around the world—courtesy of their English translators.
By Dotun Akintoye, Constance Capone and Nicholas Valsalen
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Ostend
By Volker Weidermann
176 pages;
Pantheon
Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
What good is art when the world is burning? That's the question animating this short true-life account of two Austrian authors who spend a final summer together while fleeing the Nazi ascendancy.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 01/22/2016
