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
The latest addition to my website is Germano Almeida‘s O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo(The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo), a novel from Cape Verde. Napumoceno hasbuilt up a successful export-import business and when he dies, he is expected to leave everything to his nephew and business partner, Carlos. … Read more
The latest addition to my website is György Spiró‘s Fogság (Captivity). This mammoth novel – 865 pages – is set at the beginning of the first millennium A.D> and follows the story of Uri, Jewish but living in Rome and a Roman citizen.Unlike most boys of his age, he does not help his father because … Read more
