Pertu

"...she pays attention most of all to the humiliated and the insulted (whether it is herself or someone else). Szvoren, however, goes one step beyond the religion of compassion of the great Russians: she almost transforms human solidarity into eroticism… This is very original and very beautiful."

"Szvoren maps out the themes of family traumas, the bleak holidays of childhood, the lack of a father and loneliness in her own peculiar way. Edina Szvoren’s smothered, austere yet emotionally rich ‘chamber stories’ remind the reader of the taste of a bitter tablet, chewed rather than swallowed whole."