Centroeuropa
A widower digs a grave for his wife in a Prussian field and hits a frozen hussar. The next day, two more soldiers. Then the count keeps doubling, and so, by design, do the chapters. A deadpan, quietly furious ghost story about the wars a country would rather keep buried, from the indie Bellevue Literary Press.
Our Halloween pick for people who hate jump scares: 192 pages, an albino witch named Ilse, and officials who would really prefer the dead stop turning up. A finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
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