Rafael Chirbes: La caída de Madrid [The Fall of Madrid]
The latest review on my site is Rafael Chirbes' La caída de Madrid [The Fall of Madrid]. This follows on from his La larga marcha [The Long March] but this…
The latest review on my site is Rafael Chirbes' La caída de Madrid [The Fall of Madrid]. This follows on from his La larga marcha [The Long March] but this…
Continuing my reading of novels from countries from which i have never read a novel before, here are two from Laos. The first is Oubone-lat Papet's Au-delà du Mékong [Beyond…
After promising in both the first part and then second part of this topic, here is my mea culpa as to why I have so few women writers on my…
Continuing my reading of novels from countries that I have not yet read a novel from, the latest addition to my website is Mukhtar Auezov's Абай жолы (Abai). This is…
In last Saturday's Guardian, Rachel Cooke had an interesting article and/interview with Adam Thorpe. I read Ulverton about a year after it first came out, when it started to get…
I am not going to do a best books of the year post for the very simple reason that most of the best books I have read this year (and…
My current reading is novels from countries that have yet to appear on my website. Of the three I have read this past weekend, the Cambodian, Vaddey Ratner's In the…
The latest addition to my website is Liam O'Flaherty's Famine, a harrowing account of the Great Irish Famine of the mid-1840s, which resulted in at least one million deaths and…
In my previous post on this topic, I said that I would say more in a subsequent post about my own failings in this area. However, I first want to…
I am continuing my reading of Spanish-language novels. The latest addition to my website is Andrés Neuman's El viajero del siglo (Traveller of the Century) though, unlike the previous two,…