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Best European Fiction 2013 by Aleksandar Hemon

runeclausen's review against another edition

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3.0

Read about half the stories, some okay, others not so much.

anetq's review against another edition

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4.0

Read:
SLOVAKIA: Balla, Before the Breakup
- when problem in marriages show up a growing monsters behind the tv...
GEORGIA: Lasha Bugadze, The Sins of the Wolf
- The reader turns up to bet the author to get her in contact with his character. He eventually writes them in a short story :)
ARMENIA: Krikor Beledian, The Name under My Tongue
- stream of consciousness from a boring academic conference & possibly a revolution?
LIECHTENSTEIN: Daniel Batliner, Malcontent’s Monologue
- A lawyer has seen through society and decides to shed it, and his clothes in the town square.
UKRAINE: Tania Malyarchuk, Me and My Sacred Cow
- a fairitale (think Grim(m), not Disney) from the Ukrainian countryside.

Maybe:
MONTENEGRO: Dragan Radulović, The Face
MOLDOVA: Vitalie Ciobanu, Orchestra Rehearsal
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Semezdin Mehmedinović, My Heart
LITHUANIA: Ieva Toleikytė, The Eye of the Maples
SPAIN (Basque): Bernardo Atxaga, Pirpo and Chanberlan, Murderers
SLOVENIA: Mirana Likar Bajželj, Nada’s Tablecloth
UK, WALES: Ray French, Migration

cclurejam's review against another edition

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2.0

Some were quite good, some were terrible, most were in between.
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