In his autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song”, Grigory Kanovich evokes the lives and traditions of the Jewish community in Janova, a small Lithuanian town, which had a Jewish population of about 80%. The novel covers the years from the 1920s to the invasion of the Nazis in 1941.

“In the Shadow of Wolves” tells the story of seven-year-old Renate and her siblings, German children from East-Prussia (now Kaliningrad), who fled to Lithuania at the end of World War II in search for food and shelter.

“Darkness and Company” follows Vincentas, a photographer in Lithuania during the early 1940s. To secure his safety and that of his Jewish lover Judita, he agrees to photograph the mass killings of Jews by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators.

“Between Shades of Grey” is a novel about a Lithuanian teenage girl and her family who are deported to a Soviet Gulag camp in the 1940s. It is a historical novel about a Lithuanian family forced to live in labour camps in the coldest parts of Siberia.

“Breathing into Marble” tells the story of a young family in rural Lithuania who adopt an orphan boy with a deeply troubled character. This adoption leads to dramatic consequences for their family life.

“The Last Girl” tells the story of an elderly poet in Vilnius in the 1990s who reminisces about a Jewish girl he fell in love with during the Second World War but ultimately let down.

The novel “Tūla” (or “Tula”) tells the story of the narrator’s hopeless love for the woman Tūla, told through fantastical images such as the narrator disguising himself as a bat. The narrative provides a tour of Vilnius’ artistic-bohemian quarter, Uzupis, and offers insight into Soviet-Lithuanian life.

On a Christmas night in the eighteenth century, in a Lithuanian village under Prussian (German) rule, a local pastor goes missing. When he is found and dies a few days later, the circumstances of his disappearance and death remain unclear.

“Vilnius Poker” is an epic yet paranoid novel about life in Vilnius under Soviet rule. It tells the story of Vytautas, an antihero obsessed with sex and with “them”, the people who are “in charge” and cover up the “real reality”.

“The Ballads of Kukutis” is a collection of poems about a ‘fool’ named Kukutis, who stands outside the Soviet system and critiques the social and political circumstances of his time.