In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝Cooking In The Wrong Century by Teresa Präauer, tr. by Eleanor Updengraff @pushkinpress.com The Arsonist by Egon Hostovský, tr. by Christopher Morris @twistedspoon.bsky.social A Fortunate Man by Henrik Pontoppidan, tr. by Paul Larkin @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social