Born in Calgary, Canada, in 1953 Nancy Huston has been living in Paris since the 1970s. InFault Lines (2008, first published in French, awarded the Prix Femina 2006), she looks back into the past and recounts the dreams and the experiences of four characters from the same family when they were all six years old. She thus manages to cover more than half a century of history. Through an intimate and moving analysis of the effects of the Second World War, she describes the perversion and the innocence of these four children who carry the painful weight of history from generation to generation.

Born in 1978, Saša StanišicS fled the war in the former Yugoslavia at the age of 14 and took refuge in Germany. In How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone (2008), he attempts to heal the feeling of loss and emptiness caused by forced exile. Through the eyes and the imagination of a child, with nostalgia and emotion he revisits the questions of his childhood and, bit by bit, reconstructs the incomplete images of his life in Visegrad. In this way, literature becomes the promised land of every exiled person.