The Modern Novel

Thuận: Chinatown : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t (Chinatown)

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Post published:8 December 2023
Post category:France Paris The Modern Novel website Vietnam Women
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The latest addition to my website is Thuận's Chinatown : tiẻ̂u thuyé̂t (Chinatown). Our unnamed heroine spends the entire book on a Paris metro train which is held up by…

Sami Tchak : Place des Fêtes

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Post published:6 December 2023
Post category:France The Modern Novel website Togo
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The latest addition to my website is Sami Tchak's Place des Fêtes. The title refers to a stop on the Paris metro where a key scene in the novel takes…

Paulina Chiziane: Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia (Niketche : A Story of Polygamy; later: Fìrst Wife)

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Post published:1 December 2023
Post category:Mozambique Polygamy The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Paulina Chiziane's Niketche: Uma História de Poligamia (Niketche : A Story of Polygamy; later: Fìrst Wife) . The key theme of this novel…

Ali al-Muqri: رواية (Hurma)

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Post published:28 November 2023
Post category:The Modern Novel website Women Yemen
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The latest addition to my website is Ali al-Muqri's 's رواية (Hurma). It tells the story of how women are repressed in Yemen and their struggles to improve their lot.…

German Sadulaev: Я — чеченец! (I am a Chechen!)

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Post published:27 November 2023
Post category:Chechnya Russia The Modern Novel website War
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The latest addition to my website is German Sadulaev's Я — чеченец! (I am a Chechen!). As the title tells us, this book is written by a Chechen. A lot…

Mouna-Hodan Ahmed: Les Enfants du khat [The Children of Khat])

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Post published:23 November 2023
Post category:Djibouti Drugs Islam The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Mouna-Hodan Ahmed's Les Enfants du khat [The Children of Khat]. Asli is a twenty-twenty old Djiboutian woman. Her father, like alll too many…

Jurij Koch: Der Kirschbaum (The Cherry Tree)

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Post published:20 November 2023
Post category:German Democratic Republic Sorbia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Jurij Koch's Der Kirschbaum (The Cherry Tree). This is the first Sorbian novel translated into English. Sorbia is a Slavonic enclave in Germany.…

Jean-Baptiste Andrea:Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]

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Post published:17 November 2023
Post category:France Italy Sculpture The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]/. This novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2023. It tells the story iof Mimo (real…

Robert Irwin: Tom’s Version

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Post published:11 November 2023
Post category:England The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin's Tom’s Version. This is a sort of follow-up to his previous book The Runes Have Been Cast but it stands on…

Daniel Kehlmann: Lichtspiell [Cinema]

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Post published:10 November 2023
Post category:Cinema Germany The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Daniel Kehlmann's Lichtspiell [Cinema]. The book gives us episodes from the life of Austrian film director G. W. Pabst, who discovered Greta Garbo,…