Translated fiction roundup: A Shining by Nobel winner Jon Fosse a perfect example of his gift for portraying porous psychological states

At just 40 pages, A Shining by Jon Fosse is closer to a long story than a short novel

Reviews of A Shining by Jon Fosse; The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata; The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto; The Delivery by Margarita García Robayo; The Fate of Yaakov Maggid by Ludovic BrucksteinThe Jon Fosse universe is technology-free, so the character has no sat nav or mobile phone, leaving him isolated and miles from help. Photograph: Tom A.

‘I live in a little converted cow shed while I restore my new home’: A property writer’s renovation projectA Shining is a neat example of Fosse’s gift for portraying porous psychological states, and its publication is perfectly timed for a satisfying Samhain evening read. Beautifully constructed in duet scenes of conversational intimacy, this is an elegant novel about what is lost in the painful acceptance of a future shaped – and compromised – by past mistakes.

Margarita García Robayo's novel is largely plotless and works more as an exercise in character perspective. Photograph: Alejandra Lopez

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