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Book Review: Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade (Romania)

Translated by Christopher Monocrieff I didn’t realise until after I had read it, but the “Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent” was written in the 1920s when Mircea Eliade was just 17, although it was not published in Romania until 1989, three years after the author’s death. The English translation folllowed much later, in 2016. It’s …

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Book Review: The Crossing by Pajtim Statovci (Albania)

Translated from Finnish by David Hackston Back to Albania for a depressing little book written by Pajtim Statovci, who lives in Finland, but was born in Kosovo. The novel was published in Finnish in 2016 as ‘Tiranan Sydan‘ (‘Heart of Tirana’), and first appeared in English translation in 2019. It’s a beautifully written odyssey though, …

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