The House with a Sunken Courtyard Scandinavia From Nabokov to Salinger to

From Nabokov to Salinger to Rilke to Calvino

we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be

at all odds

and that it has carried its readers to places they could not have imagined

AUSTRIA: Josef Winkler

The House with a Sunken Courtyard Scandinavia From Nabokov to Salinger toAn occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. An occasionally terrifying and always vivid portrayal of what it was like to live as a refugee immediately after the end of the Korean War. This novel is based on the authors own experience in his early teens in Daegu, in 1954, and depicts six families that survive the hard times together in the same house,