East Europe and literary prizes: where David Szalay and Lszl Krasznahorkai meet

Recent award-winning books by several writers on post-war Europe Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Dubravka Ugrei, Georgi Gospodinov, Jenny Erpenbeck, Mircea Crtrescu, Serhiy Zhadan, Kapka Kassabova to Szalay and Krasznahorkai dont promise resolution but simply keep a ledger of how people live when history moves on, leaving them to work out the details