Probing modern meditation on memory and identity through the prism of a contemporary female narrator's obsession with Viacheslav Lypnskyi (1882-1931), an activist in Ukraine's struggle for independence and statehood.
I Am Lewy is a dazzling new translation from the Irish by poet Micheal O hAodha of Eoghan O Tuairisc's compelling, comic autobiographical novella, An Lomnochtan (1977). A market town in the west of Civil War Ireland comes alive through the alert eyes of Lewy, eldest of four children, as he navigates perils like the Nuns and the Workhouse.
A lyrical novella that wears lightly its themes of trauma and loss of maternal language. Winner of European Prize for Literature 2012, from acclaimed Austrian writer Carolina Schutti.