Also in the Irish Times Martin Doyle has a Q & A with Jenny Erpenbeck, whose The End of Days (see the publicity pages at New Directions and Portobello, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) is also Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-shortlisted.
A perhaps unexpected but nice choice:
A perhaps unexpected but nice choice:
What is the funniest book you've read ?(Best Translated Book Award shortlisted a few years ago, in 2010, I still don't understand why no UK publisher hasn't taken a chance on this.)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas.