Into the Silence by Brigitta Davidjants
Here I am again, in an apartment that reminds me of the home I once lived in, with the red patterns on the wall-carpets and the smell of fresh bread and coffee coming from the courtyard, and the noise that takes my thoughts to the earthquake. And in the main square, people flushed with victory.
The Impotence of War by Andrei Hvostov
In truth, the situation is more dire still – prose writers are unable to write anything at all during wartime, save for newspaper articles, essays or a few inconsequential fragments, which today only interest specialists like literary historians or academics.
Last Tango in Kyiv by Maarja Kangro
How do you think about someone on the front line, there like Schrödinger’s cat, always having to be prepared to hear that they are actually already dead? Or with the stubborn, inevitable hope that nothing will happen?
Kairi Look’s Dance the Dust off the Floor
In its short chapters, Look portrays how the emotionally secure maternal home lays the foundation for a child’s developing confidence, creativity and resilience. Rituals and calm, instilled early on, shape a deep emotional pattern and specific set of skills that remain intact even in the face of loss and mourning, enabling the protagonist to ‘live…
Urban Echoes by Maximilian Murmann
Mati Unt, who was in his early thirties when he wrote the novel and lived in Mustamäe himself, knew that a cold, constructed living space is not conducive to life. This perspective is reinforced with quotes from French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, whose Poetics of Space is just one of many references that Unt, who introduced…
Piret Raud’s The Age of Boiled Deer
Not everything the reader encounters can be explained by common sense. Raud’s world resembles that created by David Lynch. Through Raud’s city streets and beneath its floorboards swims an inexplicable tension and evil that can only be conveyed through devices familiar from the subconscious.
