Excerpt from the review: "Readers interested in this first-ever translation of Ronald M. Schernikau’s SMALLTOWNNOVELLA should start with Ben Miller’s thoroughgoing afterword for the volume, published over at the Baffler. In it, he lays out much fascinating backstory...
Interview in New Books in German
Lucy talked to Sheridan Marshall at NBG about her translation of Red Skies by Charlotte Gneuß.
I read the book for New Books in German, who needed a last-minute reader’s report. I remember having to read it fairly quickly and wanting to find out how it ended, being pulled along by the story. It’s written from the perspective of sixteen-year-old Karin Köhler, whose nickname is Komma. She has a very dry teenage voice which I liked immediately, especially because you can feel the forces around her not working in her favour, and that she’s alone in a terrible situation where her boyfriend has defected to the West and the Stasi are circling ever closer. They take advantage of her as a young person from a broken family, where her father is an alcoholic and her mother wants to break free.
Read the full interview here.