Best European Fiction 2012

Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique Vila-Matas.For 2012, Aleksandar Hemon introduces a whole new cross-section of European fiction, and there are a few editorial changes as well. For the first time, the preface will be by an American—Nicole Krauss—and the stories, one per country/language, will be arranged within themes (love, art, war, the body), to facilitate book club and reading group discussions.[belgium: dutch], PATRICIA DE MARTELAERE, My Hand Is Exhausted[croatia] MAJA HRGOVIĆ, Zlatka[spain: galician], AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ PAZ, This Strange Lucidity[poland], JANUSZ RUDNICKI, The Sorrows of Idiot Augustus[ireland: irish], GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK, “. . . everything emptying into white”[hungary], ZSOFIA BAN, When There Were Only Animals[switzerland: rhaeto-romanic · german], ARNO CAMENISCH, Sez Ner[portugal], RUI ZINK, Tourist Destination[georgia], DAVID DEPHY, Before the End[ireland: english] DESMOND HOGAN, Kennedy[russia], DANILA DAVYDOV, The Telescope[czech republic], JIRI KRATOCHVIL, I, Loshad’[estonia], ARMIN KOOMAGI, Logisticians Anonymous[slovakia], ROBERT GAL, Agnomia[france], MARIE DARRIEUSSECQ, Juergen the Perfect Son-in-Law[norway], BJARTE BREITEIG, Down There They Don’t Mourn[bosnia and herzegovina], MUHAREM BAZDULJ, Magic and Sarajevo[iceland], GERðUR KRISTNý, The Ice People[switzerland: french], NOELLE REVAZ, The Children[united kingdom: scotland], DONAL MCLAUGHLIN, enough to make your heart[netherlands], SANNEKE VAN HASSEL, Pearl[finland], MARITTA LINTUNEN, Passiontide[united kingdom: wales], DUNCAN BUSH, Bigamy[slovenia], BRANKO GRADISNIK, Memorinth[serbia], MARIJA KNEžEVIć, Without Fear of Change[liechtenstein], PATRICK BOLTSHAUSER, Tomorrow It’s Deggendorf[spain: catalan], PEP PUIG, Clara Bou[united kingdom: england], LEE ROURKE, Catastrophe[montenegro], ANDREJ NIKOLAIDIS, The Coming[switzerland: german], MICHAEL STAUFFER, The Woman with the Stocks[spain: castilian], SANTIAGO PAJARES, Today[ukraine], SERHIY ZHADAN, The Owners[germany], CLEMENS MEYER, The Case of M.[belgium: french], BERNARD QUIRINY, Rara Avis