“Returning closer to home, the anthology Best European Fiction 2016 combines 29 different writers from across the continent, here translated into English. Concerned largely with politics or literature, the standout story is Veronika Simoniti’s pertinent A House of Paper, in which a translator is convinced her body is shrinking as some sort of penance for her lifetime of ‘counterfeiting […] in another language.’” —Ruth Gilligan, The Irish Independent
