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CLEARING

Iris Wolff

Translated by Ruth Martin

Moth Books

Paperback

248pp

ISBN: 9781917593045

Fiction

Publication date: 4 June 2026

£12.99

‘When are you coming?’

Four words on a postcard from Kato summon Lev from the village where both grew up under the harsh Ceausescu regime. When borders opened, the outcast girl could not wait to leave. But Lev stayed behind. He felt bound to their remote village in the Carpathians, to the forest and places that formed him.

Journeying into the past, their relationship unfurls through forgotten incidents, underground resistance, repression and adolescence to their first meeting as children – individual moments that illuminate a life.

Set on the periphery of Europe, this award-winning novel beautifully depicts what it means to belong.