Centroeuropa

Centroeuropaby Vicente Luis Mora translated by Rahul Bery published 2 November 2023 PEN Translates Award Winner 2022 Winner of the Malaga Prize 2019 Male, Prussian, Hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small Prussian town to claim a plot of arable land and the simple

a resource to be mined and sold

disturbing fucks

A novel that reads like an act of sabotage

Meanwhile – now 38 – he still contends with his own family’s perversities and pathologies

Killer sentences

’ – Olivia Laing

’ John Patrick McHugh

we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive

Tillman charts the girls’ unsteady drift into womanhood

Like lightning

A delirious and sane tapestry that weaves in various directions

By turns outrageous and melancholy