Best European Fiction 2010 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564785432 ISBN 13: 9781564785435

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur Genius Award-winner Hemon, the Best European Fiction series offers a window into what's happening in literary scenes throughout Europe.

About this title

About the Author:

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of "The Lazarus Project, "which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: "The Question of Bruno"; "Nowhere Man", which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Love and Obstacles". He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago.

Review:

“The writers in Best European seem a more adventurous bunch than their American counterparts. They experiment freely with structure and venture more often down the path of metafiction, debating the direction of a story even as their characters are entangled in it.” (Radhicka Jones - Time)

“Starred Review. Dalkey Archive Press inaugurates a planned series of annual anthologies of European fiction with this impressive first volume...an insightful preface by novelist Zadie Smith...as well as an introduction by Bosnian writer and volume editor Aleksander Hemon, author of the highly acclaimed novel The Lazarus Project.” (Booklist)

“Dalkey has published an anthology of short fiction by European writers, and the result, Best European Fiction 2010, is one of the most remarkable collections I've read—vital, fascinating, and even more comprehensive than I would have thought possible.” (Michael Schaub - Bookslut)

“Though as rocky and subject to reader bias as any wide-ranging anthology, much of the work in this first title is startling in its ingenuity and will hopefully be successful enough for publisher Dalkey Archive to produce more editions. Damn the torpedoes.” (Michael Buening - PopMatters)

“If Dalkey can keep it up, this could easily become the most important annual literary anthology in America. Which is ironic.” (Tom Lynch - Newcity Lit)

“There are other traditions, ways of being, landscapes that might suit you better than those with which you have been provided, and how will you know that unless you go wandering?” (Jessa Crispin - The Smart Set)

“This is the first anthology of its kind, and after reading it you may be... furious that such quality work has been kept from you.” (Alicia Kennedy - Paste Magazine)

“The work is vibrant, varied, sometimes downright odd. As [Zadie] Smith says [in her preface]: ‘I was educated in a largely Anglo-American library, and it is sometimes dull to stare at the same four walls all day.’ Here’s the antidote.” (Suzi Feay - Financial Times)

“[I]deal for browsing and has something for almost every taste. . . we can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover.” (Library Journal)

“The book tilts toward unconventional storytelling techniques. And while we’ve heard complaints about this before—why only translate the most difficult work coming out of Europe?—it makes sense here. The book isn’t testing the boundaries, it’s opening them up.” (Jonathan Messinger - Time Out Chicago)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564785432
• ISBN 13: 9781564785435
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 421
• Editor: Hemon Aleksandar