Arnon Grunberg: Figuranten (Silent Extras)
The latest addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Figuranten (Silent Extras). Grunberg tells the story of three young people - two Dutch men and and an Argentinian woman -…
The latest addition to my website is Arnon Grunberg's Figuranten (Silent Extras). Grunberg tells the story of three young people - two Dutch men and and an Argentinian woman -…
The latest addition to my website is Georges Ngal's L'Errance [Wandering]. This is a follow-up to his Giambatista Viko ou Le Viol du discours africain [Giambatista Viko or the Rape…
As has been extensively reported Canadian writer and professor David Gilmour (no, not that David Gilmour) has made a bit of fool of himself, basically saying that there are no…
The latest addition to my website is Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. This novel continues with Pynchon's obsession with conspiracies within conspiracies within conspiracies. It is set at the turn of…
The latest addition to my website is Mario Vargas Llosa's El héroe discreto [The Discreet Hero]. This is his latest novel, which has yet to be translated into English, though…
The latest addition to my website is Clemens Meyer's Im Stein [In Stone]. This book has been much discussed in Germany for its controversial depiction of a fictitious East German…
Following on from my post on Monday, the Man Booker Prize now confirms that the Prize is open to all writers writing in English, as expected. However, it now seems…
The latest additions to my website are two books by Ruth Ozeki. The first is My Year of Meats, a very witty and somewhat polemic attack on various things -…
I have been following with interest this weekend the furore over the rumour that the Man Booker will open its eligibility to all novels originally written in English published in…
The latest addition to my website is Hans Henny Jahnn's Das Holzschiff (The Ship). This is the first book in an incomplete trilogy, with the second book, meant only to…