“Description of a Struggle” gathers together some of the finest and most arresting prose from Eastern Europe. By focusing on sixteen former communist countries this collection brings to the fore a devastating range of fiction conceived and branded during the Cold War.

'Michael March, a dedicated discoverer of hidden talents from behind the now fallen Wall, has assembled a remarkable collection of voices here . . .
Without such translations, Wall or no Wall, we would know nothing of the great literature of these "small" nations'
Sally Laird, The European

'Neiburga's Mousy Death and Valdas Papievis' I'm Going Out, to Buy a Lightbulb are two of the most harrowing indictments of the moral and physical degradation of life under the communist system ever printed . . . Pavel Vilikovsky's Escalation of Feeling is unforgettable . . . This [anthology] should be warmly welcomed for bringing to the notice of British readers an extraordinary collection of largely unknown talent of a very high order' Adam Zamoyski, Sunday Times

'[March's] anthology is explorative, not in the sense of describing the recent social changes, although some writers do, but simply by offering fifty writers who are, by and large, unknown in English . . . There is the pleasure of plunging into something entirely new . . . Simply to translate so many good writers is an achievement in itself Julian Duplain, Times Literary Supplement