The latest addition to my website is Sultan Raev‘s Жанжаза (Castigation). This a Kyrgyz novel set in the post Soviet era. It involves seven people who escape from a mental institution and cross the desert with a view to reaching the HolyLand. Unfortunately, the leader, who claims to know the way to the Holy Land, … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb‘s Tant mieux [So Much the Better]. Our heroine is Adrienne, aged four in 1942 when she is sent to stay with her evil grandmother who treats her badly ill The grandmother finds that her cat is very fond ofAdrienne. ofAdrienne later learns that her mother and … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Dragan Velikić‘s Islednik (The Investigator). This is an autobiographical novel and the narrator tells us about his life, and in particular life of his mother and her friend Lizeta going back to well before his birth up to the present time. His mother is obsessed with keeping details … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Olufemi Terry‘s Wilderness of Mirrors. Emil Silva is studying to be a neurosurgeon in Johannesburg. The course is long and he decides to take a year break. At the suggestion of his father, he goes to visit his relatives in the south of the country in a town … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Emmanuel Bove‘s Mes amis My Friends) . Victor Bâton was wounded in World War I and is now on a disability pension living in a small room in a rooming house in Paris. Victor’s problem is that he has no friends and no girlfriend and he is always … Read more
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