{"id":1417,"date":"2026-09-16T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/book-of-the-month-iris-wolff\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:01:17","slug":"book-of-the-month-iris-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/ar\/book-of-the-month-iris-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the month: Iris Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dev95-4196833319\" class=\"dev95-- dev95-entity-placement\"><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl27862732.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\"><\/div><\/div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"398\" data-attachment-id=\"8751\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/2026\/05\/28\/book-of-the-month-iris-wolff\/romania_regions_transylvania\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?fit=960%2C695&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,695\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"0\",\"alt\":\"\"}' data-image-title=\"Romania_Regions_Transylvania\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?fit=550%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?resize=550%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg?resize=768%2C556&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month I had the honour of introducing the <a href=\"https:\/\/indiepressnetwork.com\/\">Indie Press Network\u2019s<\/a> spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months. As indie presses have long been the heartland of translated literature, I was only too pleased to have the opportunity to hear publishers present some of the books they\u2019re most excited about. (The events were recorded, so if you\u2019re curious, you should be able to watch them online soon.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the many books that appealed to me was a forthcoming title from Moth Books: <em>Clearing<\/em> by Iris Wolff, translated from the German by Ruth Martin. Martin\u2019s name was the thing that first piqued my interest \u2013 I often find that the involvement of certain translators can be a great measure of a project\u2019s quality and I have long been an admirer of her work. I was also pleased to hear that this was the second title by Wolff to be published by Moth \u2013 the sort of publisher loyalty that makes a huge difference to an author\u2019s reach, and is increasingly rare and precious among bigger houses. As <em>Clearing<\/em> only comes out next month, and as I prefer to review older books on this blog anyway, I decided to seek out the earlier novel. <\/p><div id=\"dev95-3702058777\" class=\"dev95- dev95-entity-placement\"><center>\r\n<script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 50,\r\n    'width' : 320,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/4ba6b6513c00e0ba76511f798ae56401\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t<\/center><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Centring on a German community in rural Transylvania during Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu\u2019s rule, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mothbooks.co.uk\/books\/blurred\">Blurred<\/a><\/em>, also translated by Ruth Martin, is the sort of book big publishers in the UK are unlikely to touch. Because <a href=\"https:\/\/ayearofreadingtheworld.com\/2021\/02\/15\/the-genrefication-of-national-literatures\/\">anglophone publishers have traditionally required that books from elsewhere declare their cultural identity clearly<\/a> (usually set in the country in question and featuring tropes that complement readers\u2019 preconceptions of what life in that place is like), this book\u2019s focus on characters living in Romania rather than Germany would make it problematic to pigeonhole and market in the way that mainstream publishers favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work\u2019s distinctiveness doesn\u2019t end there. The book opens with a note to the reader written directly in English by Wolff, setting out her motivations for writing the story, which draws on her own childhood in the Banat region, and some of her thinking on the purpose of fiction and the nature of time. \u2018Writing is a rebellion against time and its greatest impertinence, transience,\u2019 she tells us. \u2018I see time not as a directional force but as juxtaposition, concurrence, as an organic web.\u2019 This direct address intrigued me: in all my years of reading internationally, I can\u2019t recall another comparable piece by an author who doesn\u2019t normally write in English. Did the original contain a similar foreword? And if not, why had Wolff felt it necessary to preface her work in this way?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because, really, the story needs no introduction. The writing is immediate and immersive, opening with Florence travelling through a snowy landscape to deliver her son, Samuel, in a forbidding labour ward beholden to the dictates of Ceau\u0219escu\u2019s ruthless pronatalist policies (which turn out to be the death of Florence\u2019s friend Nika). Harsh and beautiful, \u2018this landscape lets you be who you are\u2019. Yet the life lived among the German community is a stripped-back, shrinking existence, in which an innocent visit from a stranger may invite interrogation and torture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through it all, Wolff\u2019s humaneness shines through, evident in a deep care for her characters. Indeed, when the pastor Hannes reflects on the nature of empathy, we might be hearing Wolff speak through him: \u2018how easy it was to define empathy: if someone is suffering, he feels what I do when I am suffering\u2019. This book vibrates with compassion; Wolff feels with her characters just as the German word \u2018Mitgef\u00fchl\u2019 implies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it is that many of the novel\u2019s most moving moments come when we see characters processing profound losses and shifts. The end of a relationship, the decision to abandon home and family in the hopes of a better life in the west, the reunion with a longlost love \u2013 all these things are experienced quietly and privately, with the reader given privileged access to those at the centre of events\u2019 thoughts. \u2018There were different kinds of loneliness,\u2019 reflects one after his lover leaves him. \u2018The loneliness of the mountain that had always been there. Of the wide-open plain where you felt lost. Of the city and its indifference. There was the loneliness of the staffroom, the overcrowded tram, the empty flat. The loneliness brought on by accusations, accompanied by words like \u201cnever\u201d or \u201calways\u201d, no matter whether they came from other lips or your own.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, for all the loneliness depicted in its pages, the characters of <em>Blurred<\/em> are profoundly connected across time and space, even if they can\u2019t always see it. This is where Wolff\u2019s views on time make themselves felt. Although broadly chronological, the narrative seems more like a spiral than a straight line. Samuel\u2019s decision to flee his homeland with his friend Oz comes relatively late, and once the pair arrive in the bewildering, capitalist west \u2013 where there was \u2018so much of everything, two things had to be done at the same time: jogging and pushing a pram; watching TV and talking to guests\u2019 \u2013 the past echoes through them. Events are diffused into their lives, features recur down the generations, patterns repeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role of storytelling is also a theme, with narratives\u2019 malleability and necessity for human survival considered by turn. Occasionally, I found myself wishing that Wolff had trusted her readers to infer a few of the technical insights she spells out, which can sometimes feel a little pointed and knowing. But this may simply reflect a difference in the appetite for this kind of exposition in the German readership, or simply my taste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, this is a great book: engrossing, moving and beautifully told. Credit is due to Ruth Martin for the line she has walked in infusing the narrative with a \u2018subtle flavour\u2019  of its varied language world, as she explains in her postscript. And credit to Moth Books for publishing this novel, and to all the indie houses who do so much to bring stories that take us further into English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Blurred<\/em> by Iris Wolff, translated from the German by Ruth Martin (Moth Books, 2025)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picture: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Romania_Regions_Transylvania.jpg\">Romania Regions Transylvania<\/a>\u2018 by DietG on Wikimedia Commons under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1417\" class=\"pvc_stats total_only\" data-element-id=\"1417\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewbox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dev95.site\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I had the honour of introducing the Indie Press Network\u2019s spring showcases, two virtual events presenting some of the key titles coming out from small presses in the UK and Ireland in the next few months. 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