Book Reviews by Language

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Catalan
Book cover image 'Natural History' by Juan Perucho
Image of book cover of The Time of the doves by Merce Rodoreda

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Danish
Book cover for After the Sun by Jonas Eike, cover shows a black background with a swirling hologram in iridescent colours
Book cover for Mirror Shoulder Signal by Dorthe Nors, Image shows a car door and a coat trapped in it with a hazy image of a woman in profile drivng the car
Dutch
Cover image for The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe, the cover shows a photograph of a Belgian street tinged with orange
cover image for The Cat who came in off the Roof by Annie Schmidt, image shows two cats on a roof in front of a full moon. Nearby a man sits typing in an attic room.
You Have Me To Love

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Estonian
Book cover for Burning Cities by Kai Aareleid. Image shows a two card tower, the card facing outwards is the five of spades.
Book cover for Pobeda 1946 - A car called victory by Ilmar Taska. Image shows a light coloured car in the foreground against the silhouette of some houses and a church tower.

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Finnish
Cover image of The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen, cover shows a huge model rabbit with one broken ear. A man stands in front of it with his back turned to us
Image of book cover of 'The Man who Died' by Antti Tuomainen.
Flemish
Cover image for The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe, the cover shows a photograph of a Belgian street tinged with orange
French
Book cover for The Outsider by Albert Camus, showing a shabbily dressed man standing on a beach
Cover image for Kaya Days by Carl de Souza. Image shows a young woman in balletic pose, walking on a river bed
Book cover for Disoriental by Négar Djavadi shows a colourful phoenix on a purple background
image of book cover 'Bruge la Morte' by George Rodenbach
Our Riches
Older Brother

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German
Image shows book cover of The Pharmacist by Ingrid Noll with a picutre of poison bottles
image shows book cover of The Passenger by Ulrich Boschwitz. A man in a suit looks over his shoulder and runs down a station platform in Nazi Germany as a steam train approaches behind him.
Cover image of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada show a black and white photo of 1940s Berlin in the fog
Cover image for The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov, image shows an outstretched hand holding a buring flower against a backdrop of a lake at sunset.
Book cover image of How the soldier repairs the gramophone, image shows a cartoon-like colourful depiction of a wind up old fashioned gramophone with horn
Cover image for The Spoke by Friedrich Glauser shows the shadow of a bicycle on a pavement.
Cover image of Thumbprint by Friedrich Glauser, image shows a pine forest
Image of the cover of 'The Reader' by Bernhard Schlink
The Clown
Image of the cover of the novel 'Why we took the car' by Wolfgang Herrndorf

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Hungarian
Image of book cover 'Abigail' by Magda Szabó showing a girl dressed in white climbing a spiral staircase
Image of the cover of The Door by Magda Szabó

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Italian
Image shows cover of Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. a Jester holding a bottle stands in a spiral of orange peel
Book cover for Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows a shadowy male figure walking away from us under an archway leading to a traditional Italian piazza.
The Breaking of a Wave
The Eight Mountains
Image of book cover for A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows a woman's bare legs from the knee down, she is standing andwearing a pair of red court shoes
Cover image for Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio, image shows the back view of a shirtless boy lying on the ground in tones of blue and grey
Book cover for Charlie Chaplin's Last Dance by Fabio Stassi. Image shows Chaplin dancing with cloaked figure of Death who is holding a scythe.
Image of book cover 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis' by Giorgio Bassani
Image of book cover 'Pereira Declares' by Antonio Tabucchi
Image of book cover 'Hunting Season' by Andrea Camilleri
Image of book cover 'The Brewer of Preston' by Andrea Camilleri
Image of book cover 'The Story of a New Name' by Elena Ferrante
Trick
Game for Five
My Brilliant Friend
Ferocity
If on a winter's night a traveller
book cover for Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati
Like Family
The Measure of a Man

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Japanese
Image shows cover of Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka
Book Cover for How do you live by Genzaburo Yoshino. Cover shows the itle and a lone figure dressed in a kimono style outfit with his back to us facing what might be the universe.
Book cover for Temple Alley Summer shwoing a school girl running down an old fashioned Japnese street with a mysterious building appearing out of the mist in the distance
Image of book cover 'The Ten loves of Mr Nishino' by Hiromi Kawakami
Image of book cover 'The Nakano Thrift Shop' a novel by Hiromi Kawakami
Image of cover for 'Strange Weather in Tokyo' by Hiromi Kawakami
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Korean
To The Warm Horizon

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Persian/Farsi
Image of book cover for In Case of Emergency by Mahsa Mohebali. Image shows book title falling diagonally down the page like a fault, with a backdrop of built up houses in Tehran superimposed with opium poppies.
Polish
Image of book cover '566 Frames' by Denis Wojda
Flights
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Portuguese
Book cover for Phenotypes by Paulo Scott. Image shows blocks of turquoise and light green with the silhouettes of two boys fighting
Cover image for Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector. Image shows detail from a portrait of Lispector by Giorgio de Chirico
Book cover for Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector. Cover image is a detail from Ariadne by Giorgio de Chirico
Image of the book cover 'Blindness' by José Saramago

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Romanian
Book cover for FEM by Magda Carneci, cover image shows a segmented sphere in deep pastel colours containing the book's title
Russian
Book cover for Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets, image shows a broken umbrella that resembles a flower in black ink
Cover image of Grey Bees by Andrej Kurkov shows a beekeeper lifting a comb from a hive on a bright golden yellow background
image showing book cover of Unwitting Street by Krzhizhanovsky
Image of book cover 'Fathers and sons' by Ivan Turgenev
Image of book cover 'Death and the Penguin' by Andrey Kurkov, showing a man in a bathtub holding a gun, a large penguin stands behind him
Image of book cover 'Netochka Nezvanova' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Spanish
Cover image for Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro, image shows a yellow background with silhouette graphic in bright blue of a woman in profile and a red chair superimosed.
Image of a book cover for the novel 'A Crack in the Wall'
The Traitor's Emblem
The Prince of Mist
The Midnight Palace
Book cover for The German Room by Carla Maliandi. Cover image is abstract with black, white and red shapes squares on a mustard background
Book cover for Home Reading Service by Fabio Morábito. Image shows a young man with a pink book obscuring his face. The book shows the title.
Image of book cover for 'All Yours' by Claudia Pineiro
Image of book cover 'The Fencing Master' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Image of book cover 'City of the Beasts' by Isabel Allende
The Adventures of China Iron
The House of the Spirits
A Perfect Cemetery
The Postman (Il Postino)
The Shadow of the Wind
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
The Prisoner of Heaven
Daughter of Fortune
The Watcher in the Shadows
The Angel's Game
The Secret Supper
Marina
Swedish
Image of book cover 'Hunger House' by C/M Edenborg showing young girl approaching abandoned house from a forest

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