Waterland

Graham Swift’s 1983 novel Waterland is a contemporary classic that details three generations of a family in eastern England’s fens region. The narrative is complex, moving fluidly between present and past, and includes several story lines and curious digressions (like the sex life of eels). Some of the more serious topics the novel treats include…

Bohumil Hrabal

The Czechs are known not only for producing great beer, but also great literature. The long years of Nazi occupation and then communist rule did not diminish the creative spirit. Perhaps the most widely read and translated Czech author is Milan Kundera, whose novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a world classic. Czech poet…