Sons, Daughters

“In a wider sense, it’s a book about conformity and the price of freedom, in an atmosphere of violence where the pressure to conform is intense and malign. Somewhere in the novel, the author writes that ‘censure and mockery are the strongest glue in all human communities.’ It’s about the way people are forced to suppress and censor their own sense of themselves in whatever way, in order to fit in. It’s about the tyranny of normality.” Read more...

The Best Central and East European Novels

Maya Jaggi, Journalist