Recs if you like The Land of Green Plums...

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

(mostly fiction) books that deal with the experience, repercussions, and cultural memory of repressive regimes in the (former) eastern bloc. (work in progress.)