Yoshikichi Furui: 白髪の唄 (White-Haired Melody)
The latest addition to my website is Yoshikichi Furui's 白髪の唄 (White-Haired Melody). This is a superb story about an elderly man (he is, in fact, only fifty-seven) and his confrontation…
The latest addition to my website is Yoshikichi Furui's 白髪の唄 (White-Haired Melody). This is a superb story about an elderly man (he is, in fact, only fifty-seven) and his confrontation…
The latest addition to my website is Fumiko Enchi's 女坂 (The Waiting Years). This a feminist novel about the mistreatment of women in the family of a well-to-do official at…
For the past two years, at around this time of year, I have focussed on reading books from only one country. Two years ago, it was Iceland. Last year it…
The latest addition to my website is Thomas Rosenboom's Publieke werken [Public Works]. Thomas Rosenboom won the prestigious Dutch Libris Prize for this work but, sadly, it has yet to…
The latest addition to my website is Oleg Kashin's Роисся вперде (Fardwor Russia!). Kashin is a Russian journalist who has been very critical of the Russian government and has been…
The latest addition to my website is Victor Pelevin's Поколение «П» (UK: Babylon; US: Homo zapiens), another gloriously funny and wicked satire from Pelevin. This one is nominally about the…