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Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency. https://sandorfpassage.org
ARCs of Dogs by Dora Šustić are in! Translated by Ena Selimović, this is a sultry novel about intense first love, profound longing, bodies, rejection, and mirages, jumping between Croatia, Czechia, and Spain. Think Sally Rooney, but darker. Interested in this November title? Let us know.
ARCs of Dogs by Dora Šustić are in! Translated by Ena Selimović, this is a sultry novel about intense first love, profound longing, bodies, rejection, and mirages, jumping between Croatia, Czechia, and Spain. Think Sally Rooney, but darker. Interested in this November title? Let us know.
Wow—the mighty @bookshop.org has named She Who Remains one of the Best Books of 2026 (So Far)! bookshop.org/lists/booksh...
Bookshop.org's Best Books of 2026 (So Far)
The Best Books of 2026 (So Far) We are somehow already halfway through 2026, and the book lovers here at Bookshop.
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Happy pub day to this new book, translated by WWB contributor Ibrahim Fawzy!
@sandorfpassage.bsky.social · last mo.Happy publication day to Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy). In this jewel of a novel childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself. #booksky
Happy publication day to Hassan Akram’s A Plan to Save the World (tr. Ibrahim Fawzy). In this jewel of a novel childhood idealism clashes with the stark realities of living through war in a boy’s mission to not only save the world, but himself. #booksky
Want to hear Rene Karabash and @izidoraangel.bsky.social talk shop about She Who Remains? Tune in from anywhere Saturday, June 13, at noon EST for this Transnational Literature Series event. www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...
Transnational Series: Rene Karabash and Izidora Angel with Kristin T. Lee
The Transnational Series hosts author Rene Karabash and translator Izidora Angel to honor the release of She Who Remains with Kristin T. Lee
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We’re publishing Barbara Matejčić’s riveting and timely read about violence and journalistic responsibility early next year: “Did the two young Belgraders with cameras only document the brutal murder of civilians or were their lenses not just witnesses but accomplices to the crime?“
Want to hear Rene Karabash and @izidoraangel.bsky.social talk shop about She Who Remains? Tune in from anywhere Saturday, June 13, at noon EST for this Transnational Literature Series event. www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...
Transnational Series: Rene Karabash and Izidora Angel with Kristin T. Lee
The Transnational Series hosts author Rene Karabash and translator Izidora Angel to honor the release of She Who Remains with Kristin T. Lee
eventbrite.com
Thanks @ssacks.bsky.social for featuring The Minster in @wsj.com! “Bošković emphasizes the contrast between the power and 'unequivocalness' of the state and sensitivity of the artist . . . Killing poets turns out to be less of a problem than feeling guilty about it.”
Don’t miss @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on The Minister @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. “A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/mini...
Consummating Our Incomplete Nation | Los Angeles Review of Books
A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.
lareviewofbooks.org
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social features Will Firth’s translation of The Minister by Stefan Bošković on the @wwborders.bsky.social May Watchlist! “If you enjoy your tales of personal and professional crises laced with grim comedy, you’ll find plenty to savor here.” wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
The Watchlist: May 2026 - Words Without Borders
New releases in translation from Ecuador, Montenegro, and Vietnam—find all these and more in Tobias Carroll's latest Watchlist.
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Thrilled to learn that She Who Remains has made it onto the Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers list! Independent publishing is nothing without independent bookstores. Thanks to all of the booksellers out there championing this remarkable novel! #booksky
Mark your calendar: June 13 Rene Karabash and @izidoraangel.bsky.social will talk shop about She Who Remains with Kristin T. Lee for a special remote @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social Transnational Literature Series event. www.eventbrite.com/e/transnatio...
Transnational Series: Rene Karabash and Izidora Angel with Kristin T. Lee
The Transnational Series hosts author Rene Karabash and translator Izidora Angel to honor the release of She Who Remains with Kristin T. Lee
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She Who Remains didn’t win @thebookerprizes.com last night. But congratulations are still in order for Rene Karabash, @izidoraangel.bsky.social, and our friends at Peirene Press. The conversations around this remarkable novel are only getting started!
Always happy to be in London, but especially excited to attend @thebookerprizes.com International Booker Prize awards tomorrow night at Tate Modern to celebrate the translation of great writing from around the world, and root for She Who Remains!
Don’t miss @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on The Minister @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. “A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/mini...
Consummating Our Incomplete Nation | Los Angeles Review of Books
A newly translated Montenegrin novel combines dashes of Kafka, Kadare, and early Kundera with a style that is all Stefan Bošković’s own.
lareviewofbooks.org
Out today: The Minister by Stefan Bošković (tr. Will Firth). This sharp, bitingly relevant political noir reveals the ugly truths about how the promises of democratic change empower corrupt politicians and organized crime syndicates, fan the flames of nationalism, and eradicate the middle class.
Picked up Borderlines from @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith and devoured it immediately at a pub down the street. Check out @sandorfpassage.bsky.social for their curated collection and extremely important work (Underground Barbie is genius and perfectly highlights their efforts) 📚💙
Out today: The Book of Visits, self-translated by Dinko Telećan—hard to categorize, impossible to forget. “The Book of Visits blends Mallo’s phenomenal attention with the tenderness of Rilke’s Book of Hours. A sublime book at the edge of all being.”— @alinaetc.bsky.social, author of My Heresies
Do you run a bookstore in the EU that carries a dynamic English-language selection, like Cărturești & friends in Romania? Our list is now available through Bill Bailey Publisher’s Representatives; the books ship from Zagreb. Get in on the action!
Today in the ARB: Alan Ali Saeed reviews “The Competition of Unfinished Stories” by Sener Ozmen tr from Kurdish by Nicholas Glastonbury @sandorfpassage.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-competit...
“The Competition of Unfinished Stories” by Sener Ozmen
Sertac Karan, a Turkish-Kurd and the protagonist of this absurdist black comedy, is a would-be writer who is alienated from society and much given to procrastination. From childhood, his exorbitant im...
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“Rene Karabash’s hypnotic debut novel, She Who Remains, nimbly translated by Izidora Angel . . . defies neat classification . . . This propulsive read is a worthy contender for the International Booker crown." Financial Times www.ft.com/content/9248...
She Who Remains — rites and wrongs in the Accursed Mountains
Rene Karabash’s tale of a ‘sworn virgin’ in a remote corner of Albania is a worthy shortlistee for the International Booker Prize
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The Arts Fuse chews on She Who Remains: “[A] Faulknerian intensity . . . The novel has a lurid, Grand Guignol atmosphere, shifting from narration to poetic incantation and back again." artsfuse.org/327163/book-...
Book Review: Rene Karabash’s "She Who Remains" - A Balkan Tale of Gender, Law, and Survival - The Arts Fuse
However well or ill this smoldering novel works, it is undeniably compelling, with an ending neither tragic nor happy.
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Has She Who Remains being on the International @thebookerprizes.com shortlist made you curious about Bulgarian literature? Check out The Case of Cem by Vera Mutafchieva (tr. Angela Rodel, who won the International Booker Prize along with Georgi Gospodinov for Time Shelter). Cem is an epic classic!
Finally got to “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at Portland Museum of Art. I could get lost in an entire museum of her images, but this Sun Ra one is otherworldly in how it conjures a galaxy in Sun Ra’s cape. This pic doesn’t do justice to the print. Space is the place!
35) She Who Remains by Rene Karabash (2018), translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel. Sandorf Passage, 2026
Happy National Poetry Month? Why not celebrate with some exciting, critically acclaimed Croatian poetry? The Book of Visits by Dinko Telećan will be out in a few weeks, but we’ve got you covered until then. #booksky
