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Piers Spence

Translations by Piers Spence

The Law of White Spaces
by Giorgio & Nicola Pressburger
Translated by Piers Spence
Original title: Legge degli spazi bianchi
These five stories, set mainly in the poverty-stricken, sometimes chaotic Budapest of before and just after World War Two, form a series of reflections on illness and its resonances in our feelings. This is an unusual theme for literature and one that gives the stories a fresh, revelatory force.  (more...)

The Green Elephant
by Giorgio & Nicola Pressburger
Translated by Piers Spence
Original title: L’elefante verde
Like Homage to the Eighth District and The Law of White Spaces by the Pressburgers this book emerges from memories of a poor Jewish Budapest in the period from the end of the First World War to the end of the second — which doesn’t at all convey that behind its simple storyt  (more...)

The Law of White Spaces [Buy Direct]
by Giorgio Pressburger
Translated by Piers Spence



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