RaveZYZZYVA\"In An Untouched House... Willem Frederik Hermans presents a lucid, exhilarating account of a Dutch partisan in the waning months of World War II ... Although An Untouched House is brief, it is worth pacing oneself and absorbing its remarkable density. Hermans is the architect of a masterful story –– concise but expansive in vision.\
Sjón, Trans. by Victoria Cribb
RaveZYZZYVAIn CoDex 1962: A Trilogy (515 pages; MCD/FSG), premier Icelandic novelist Sjón manages to transcend conventional genre expectations while still engraining himself within the rich tradition of fables and fairy tales ... The prose, translated by Victoria Cribb, exhibits the timeless cadence of a Grimm Brothers’ tale, yet is suffused with a profound nuance and ambiguity that evokes the surreal quirkiness of Italo Calvino (especially his Cosmicomics) or George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo ... CoDex 1962 makes the reader feel as though they are engaging with a master storyteller.
