Morelle Smith
A Bulgarian Poet's Delicate Attachments
October 01, 2010 • 0 Comments Bulgaria
Safety Pins by Petar Tchouhov
Published by Ciela
ISBN 978-954-28-0751-3
Safety pins are objects that can sometimes be of vital importance, holding together two items - usually of clothing - that would spell disaster for us should they remain separated. [Think of when you're about to give a...
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Morelle Smith
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
July 20, 2009 • 0 Comments Bosnia and Herzegovina
How The Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić The beginning is deceptively simple. Childhood memories, with fascinating family members. Later, after the war, past and present flow into one another. The writing's effectiveness lies in its description and its lack of judgement.... Full Story
Morelle Smith
The Silence of Lorna
June 10, 2009 • 3 Comments Kosovo
The Silence of Lorna. I don't get to see many moving coloured pictures. But I was in this one, right from the start. It looks so familiar, this Belgian city, its traffic, its buses, its unremarkable streets. I was there, riding on the buses, walking in the streets, lulled by its very... Full Story
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