The latest addition to my website is Alejandro Zambra‘s Bonsái (Bonsai). This is a clever, witty, post modern novel about sex/romance with literary undertones. Our main character is Julio who starts an affair with Emilia. We learned from the first sentence that she is already dead though Julio himself does not learn about her death … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Ibrahim Al-Koni ‘s التبر (Gold Dust). The book is set entirely in the Libyan desert. Ukhayyad, son of chief has been given a rare piebald camel by another chief. Camel and man will remain devoted to each other throughout the book. HoweverUkhayyad marries and has a son. At … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Hamid‘s дунёнинг энг гўзал шоири (We Computers). after This is a wonderfuly complex novel about a French poet, named Jon-Perse after the e Nobel Prize winning poet. Jon-Perse gets into computers to study the various poems he sees at the poetry magazine he works for and the aided … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Syaman Rapongan‘s 天空的眼睛 (Eyes Of The Ocean). This is not a novel but more a creative autobiography. It tells the story of.Syaman Rapongan, who is from Orchid Island a small island between Taiwan and Philippines which has been colonised bythe Japanese, the Chinese and the Taiwanese. It is … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Fadi Zaghmout:‘s The Man of Middling Height. The basic premise behind the story is that in this society people are discriminated against not on the basis of their biological sex put on the basis of their height. People are divided into smalls and talls. The unnamed narrator falls … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Kaori Lai‘s 白色畫像 (Portraits in White). This consists of three novellas which focus on three different people who lived in Taiwan during the dictatorship. The book aims to show how difficult it was for people at that time before democracy took hold in Taiwan. The first book is … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Iliya Troyanov‘s Der Eistau (The Lamentations of Zeno). Zeno Hintermeier is a guide on Antartic cruise. He used to teach geology, specialising in glaciers (he has adopted one in Germany) but things went wrong – messy divorce, unable to cope and his glacier shrinking. He is particularly concerned … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Lydie Salvayre‘s La Conférence de Cintegabelle (The Lecture). As the title tells us it is indeed a lecture given to the people of his small town, Cintegabelle. The lecture is about the art of conversation and a lecturer, who is not named, believes he is an expert on … Read more
The latest addition to my website isLydie Salvayre‘s La Médaille (The Award). The book consists of speeches given at a ceremony in a French car factory where medals are being handed out to long-serving/exemplary workers. The speeches are given alternately by a management representative and the employee. Management tries to show how much it has … Read more
