François Mauriac: Génitrix (Genitrix)
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Génitrix (Genitrix). This one is still the gloomy tale that we usually find with Mauriac. In this case, it involves a…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Génitrix (Genitrix). This one is still the gloomy tale that we usually find with Mauriac. In this case, it involves a…
The latest addition to my website is Juan Marsé's El embrujo de Shanghai (Shanghai Nights). This is somewhat different from Marsé's normal style, in that, while there are strong elements…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim (The Life of Hunger). This one is similar to many of her other novels - the story…
The latest addition to my website is Parijat's शिरिषको फूल (Blue Mimosa), a novel by an Indian-born, Nepali writer and one of only two of her novels translated into English.…
The latest addition to my website is Carlos Rojas' El sueño de Sarajevo [The Dream of Sarajevo]. This is the third book of his Sandro Vasari trilogy and certainly the…
The latest addition to my website is Carmen Laforet's Nada (Nada; Andrea), a Spanish novel that not only has been translated into English but is in print in English in…
I have just published my latest website statistics. I am not sure if they mean anything, but I note that I have read books from thirteen more countries than six…
Why do we seem to like Hitler in our fiction? Last year saw the English translation of Laurent Binet's HHhH (HHhH) and next year will see the publication in English…
Having read John Lanchester's article on the lack of novels involving the London Tube system, I decided to create a list of novels (partially) set on the London Underground Railway.…
The most recent addition to my website is Carlos Rojas' El Ingenioso Hidalgo y Poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos (The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca…