BOOK CULTURE
Book talk: Pajtim Statovci Monday, April 8, 2019 — 7 PM. Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Pajtim Statovci, the internationally acclaimed Kosovo-born Finnish writer praised for his debut novel by the New York Times “ as a marvel, a remarkable achievement” and that his “literary gifts are prodigious” will joins us to discuss Crossing, his new…
FORTHCOMING FROM NEW DIRECTIONS BARON WENCKHEIM’S HOMECOMING By László Krasznahorkai Translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin–like figure who decides to return to the provincial Hungarian town of his birth. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where…
