June’s best new translated fiction: Crooked Plow; Whites Can Dance Too; Owlish; Eunuch; Ultramarine

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uses the complex story of emerging musical and dance forms in Africa to detail the story of his coming of age and the role of Lisbon in the formation of the young artist.Epalanga is particularly skilful in contrasting the studied disdain of the Norwegian border guards – who regard Kalaf as “no more than an illegal immigrant, undocumented and guilty for daring to stay in Europe” – and the sheer scale and range of the cultural knowledge that constitutes Kalaf’s uniqueness as a maker of music.

An incident involving a visiting mainland dignitary and a painting will finally upend the meticulous order of the lives of the professor and his wife. The routine tale of a midlife crisis in the hands of Tse is transformed into a deeply engaging account of how indifference is no protection against coercion and how the magical can keep dangerous company with the delusional.

 

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