Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the ninth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to bringing together some of the most exciting prose writing in Europe today. Best European Fiction 2018 is a compendium of stories by both established writers and newcomers, ranging from Ireland to Eastern Europe, ripe for the discovery of curious readers around the world..
Ireland, Iceland, Macedonia, Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Lithuania, France, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Poland, UK, Switzerland, Estonia, Armenia, Albania, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland and Denmark
Table of Contents:
Where we all belong / Thomas Morris
Armadillo / John Saul
Walking toward the red church / Aude Seigne
Bureaucracy / Izara Batres
My mother calls me a pirate / Xabier Montoia
Avro Lancaster / Miha Mazzini
The courtyard / Goran Petrovic
The state of things / Ravshan Saleddin
The age of splendor / Lídia Jorge
The midden / Julia Fiedorczuk
The camp / Maartje Wortel
A different kind of weapon / Kalina Maleska
You'd have larvae too / Nora Wagener
The fishermen / Alvydas Slepikas
City of pigs / Davide Orecchio
The Frankenstein tree / Katherine Duffy
Winter guests / Hugh Fulham-McQuillan
from Evil / Eirikur Örn Norddahl
The problem / György Spíró
Mesopotamia / Amanda Michalopoulou
Watching my best friend / Bruce Bégout
My life as a dog / Taina Latvala
Fireworks / Maarja Kangro
Violet Lane / Lotte Kirkeby
Multicultural center / Igor Malijevský
Metastases / Zachary Karabashliev
Léo and me / Caroline Lamarche
The poet execution committee / Andrei Dichenko
God has passed through here / Susanna Harutyunyan
from Bolero / Ardian Vehbiu