The Water Statues Lara Hamza and herrings baking in the

and herrings baking in the embers of the earthen fireplace

Guarding the Flame explores women's voices from Irish history and myth

Six Finnish Poets continues Arc’s profiling of some of the ‘smaller’ languages of Europe and beyond

It combines a blistering action thriller set in the streets of Zurich and on the lakes and wooded slopes of Switzerland with a compulsive and convincing account of first century Romano-Judaean politics and the real reason for Pontius Pilate’s condemnation and execution of Christ

using the lyric voice of self-making

The Water Statues Lara Hamza and herrings baking in theFamily, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy hot Swiss Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy Even among Fleur Jaeggys singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealths odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in