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Books Mentioned:
Gerta by Kateřina Tučková (translated from Czech by Véronique Firkusny)
The Hot Summer of 1968 by Viliam Klimáček (translated from Slovak by Peter Petro)
Full written Open Letters review: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/t...
Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová (translated from Slovak by Janet Livingstone)
Current reads discussion:    • I'm reading things and also my life i...  
Abigail by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell)
Balkans Wrap Up discussion:    • Four fab books | a Balkans wrap up  
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  
My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović (translated from Bosian by Celia Hawkesworth)
Balkans Wrap Up discussion:    • Four fab books | a Balkans wrap up  
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
Balkans Wrap Up discussion:    • Four fab books | a Balkans wrap up  
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  
The Doll by Ismail Kadare (translated from Albanian by John Hodgson)
Balkans Wrap Up discussion:    • Four fab books | a Balkans wrap up  
Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort (translated from Belarusian by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright)
Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones)
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
Chatty discussion:    • Chatty current reads feat. royal hemo...  
The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway)
Full video review:    • On "bleak" books & postSoviet fun | ...  
Favorites of 2021:    • My Favorite Books of 2021  

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00:00 Hewo
00:35 Czechia
02:48 Slovakia
06:00 Hungary
07:00 Slovenia
07:57 Bosnia
09:02 Macedonia, Albania, & Greece
10:05 Albania
10:57 Belarus
15:15 Russia
18:34 Georgia
19:09 Bai