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Valerian Pidmohylny: Місто (The City)

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Post published:7 February 2023
Post category:The Modern Novel website Ukraine
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The latest addition to my website is Valerian Pidmohylny's Місто (The City). This is an appropriate work to start off my Ukrainian reading marathon, in the light of current events,…

Ukrainian literature

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Post published:6 February 2023
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Every year at about this time I focus on books from just one country. Last year I had a country in mind and then we decided to go to Norway…

Alla Gorbunova: Конец света, моя любовь It’s the End of the World, My Love)

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Post published:4 February 2023
Post category:Russia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Alla Gorbunova's Конец света, моя любовь It’s the End of the World, My Love). Gorbunova is primarily a poet and this is to…

Boris Poplavsky: Домой с небес (Homeward from Heaven)

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Post published:3 February 2023
Post category:Paris Russia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Boris Poplavsky's Домой с небес (Homeward from Heaven). This is a follow-up to his earlier Аполлон Безобразов (Apollon Bezobrazov) and, indeed, features the…

Bakhtiyar Ali: Duwahamîn Henarî Dunya (The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World)

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Post published:23 January 2023
Post category:Iraq Kurdistan The Modern Novel website War
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The latest addition to my website is Bakhtiyar Ali's Henarî Dunya (The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World). This is another superb novel from Bakhtiyar Ali telling the story of…

Laurent Mauvignier: Histoires de la nuit ( The Birthday Party)

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Post published:18 January 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Laurent Mauvignier's Histoires de la nuit (The Birthday Party). The book is set in a small French hamlet called Three Lone Girls. There…

Almudena Sánchez : Fármaco (Pharmakon)

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Post published:17 January 2023
Post category:Catalonia Psychiatry Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Almudena Sánchez' s Fármaco (Pharmakon). This is about Almudena Sánchez's struggle with depression, which hit her in her early thirties. Unlike other novels/memoirs…

Angelos Terzakis: Ταξίδι με τον Έσπερο [Travelling with Hesperus]

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Post published:7 January 2023
Post category:Greece The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Angelos Terzakis' Ταξίδι με τον Έσπερο [Travelling with Hesperus]. It tells the story of Glaukos, a sixteen year old rGreek boy who has…

Daniele Mencarelli: Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation)

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Post published:6 January 2023
Post category:Italy Psychiatry The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation). This is an autobiographical novel about seven days Mencarelli spent in a mental institution…

Sergei Lebedev: Год кометы (The Year of the Comet)

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Post published:4 January 2023
Post category:Russia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Год кометы (The Year of the Comet). Our unnamed hero is born in the later days of the Soviet Union and…