Item category 1: EU50

"This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual. The central character in the story -- a nameless woman -- tries to follow her calling as a doctor. But then the state steps in. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relati...

Subject: Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous it could destroy he...

As though reflecting the new Eastern European reality in many pieces of a broken mirror, this collection of tales masterfully encapsulates the zeitgeist of a post-communist society in all its weirdness and wonder.

'The Murderess' is a bone-chilling book with the force of an Appalachian backwoods ballad.

A beautiful and tragic novel that acts as an engrossing testament to the struggles that haunted Bulgaria after the fall of the Soviet Union.

One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends ag...