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Flavia Stähli reviews Oana Aristide’s "Astronaut!", a darkly funny novel that uses satire, murder and a child’s perspective to expose the fear, lies and conformity of Ceaușescu’s Romania.

Flavia Stähli reviews "The Ministry of Pain" by Dubravka Ugrešić - a book about memory, nostalgia, trauma, and identity after Yugoslavia’s collapse.

Flavia Stähli reviews Nora Ikstena's "Soviet Milk", a powerful mother-daughter story of family, repression and fragile hope under Soviet rule in Latvia.