Jantar Publishing

Birds of Verhovina is a description of an unnamed totalitarian society in all its irrationality, absurdity, and implacability; provoking both laughter and shuddering in the reader.

This is Balla’s most recent book and marks a glorious return to the short story form. The stories are very topical dealing with the theme of masculinity, how that is expressed in different forms of aggressive nationalism, Slovak ‘nativism’ and delusional male interior monologues

5 short stories about young women and their relationships with mothers, truckers, geography and Europe.

Alice returns from her death to act as witness and participant in Prague’s tumultuous history from its foundation to 1989.

Carbide explores the underbelly of the Ukrainian smuggling industry in a merciless yet loving parody of Ukrainian nationalism.

A deeply unsettling, visceral tale of a young woman unraveling, evolving from carer to cared for.

Andrič and his girlfriend Laura have been seeing each other for a long time now but it isn’t clear what each sees in the other.Self-absorbed, delusional, or just a regular couple?

Krisztina Tóth's first substantial work in prose after four volumes of remarkable verse, consists of fifteen beautifully written and highly sensual short stories. Most are narrated with poetic intensity...