Stories from a new Europe
Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin wall, we take a look at the transformations that have swept eastern Europe through the lens of fiction, with stories from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic.
This Part of Town Is No Place For Old-Timers by Jachym Topol
In our final short story marking the revolutions begun in 1989, the Czech writer Jachym Topol spins a tale of inter-generational conflict from a brief pause in a Prague pub
Mustafa by Nikolai Grozni
The Bulgarian author Nikolai Grozni continues our series of stories marking the upheavals of 1989 with a darkly humorous tale of a funeral that doesn't go quite according to plan
Zgaiba by Stelian Tanase
Our series of stories to mark the transformations of eastern Europe since 1989 continues with the story of an accident from Romanian author Stelian Tanase
Something Is Burning Outside by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai continues our series of stories marking the upheavals of 1989 with a story set at an artists' retreat
Chocolate by Michal Olszewski
In the second of our stories from eastern Europe, Michal Olszewski takes us to a German supermarket, where Dudek is in search of breakfast
Of Dogs and Horses by Clemens Meyer
In the first of our series of short stories to mark the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Clemens Meyer summons up the lure of the racecourse
