Best European Fiction 2017 [Paperback]

This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing happening across the continent from Ireland to Eastern Europe. Also featuring an erudite prefatory essay written by Eileen Battersby of theIrish Times,Best European Fiction 2017is another essential report on the state of global literature in the twenty-first century.???[I]deal for browsing and has something for almost every taste. . . we can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover.??? The 29 stories here are excellent and frequently brilliant, with none of the workshopped feel of so many of their American counterparts. Of interest to literary readers of English on both sides of the water. ???Readers for whom the expression ???foreign literature??? means the work of Canada???s Alice Munro stand to have their eyes opened wide and their reading exposure exploded as they encounter works from places such as Croatia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia (and, yes, from more familiar terrain, such as Spain, the UK, and Russia).???-???Best American Short Stories - European version!???

-Preface is a provocative and insightful critique of the European literary scene by Eileen Batterby, head critic at theIrish Times.

-Readers will discover Europe's newest, best contemporary writers. Previous contributors have included A.S. Byatt, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Enrique Vila-Matas, Alasdair Gray, Ingo Shulze, and Julian Gough.

-Past prefaces by Colum McCann, Nicole Krauss, John Banville, and Jon Fosse.

???For one book to range so widely in geographical terms is a praiseworthy achievement in itself; to do so and encompass so many delightfully singular, fascinatingly overlapping talents is an achievement of another order.