The latest addition to my website is Mourad Bourboune's Le Muezzin [The Muezzin] (later: Le Muezzin bègue). Mourad Bourboune was one of the generation who had participated in the Algerian…
The latest addition to my website is Hubert Aquin's Trou de mémoire (Blackout). This is the story of two men who have a few things in common. Pierre X Magnant…
The latest addition to my website is Luigi Malerba's Il fuoco Greco [Greek Fire]. This is somewhat different from Malerba's usual somewhat zany distorted reality and unreliable narrator. It is…
Doris Lessing, the Persian-born novelist, brought up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) died this morning. She is best-known for her novel The Golden Notebook but wrote many first-class novels during…
The latest addition to my website is Jeremías Gamboa's Contarlo todo [Tell It All]. Though a first novel, this work has had considerable pre-publication promotion in the Spanish-speaking world. It…
Luis Goytisolo has won the Spanish Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas [National Prize for Spanish Letters]. I found his Antagonía tetralogy challenging but well worth reading. Sadly, it is…
The latest addition to my website is Chinghiz Aitmatov's И дольше века длится день (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years). Interestingly enough I have two novels from Kyrgyzstan…
The latest addition to my website is Terézia Mora's Das Ungeheuer [The Monster], winner of this year's German Book Prize. It follows on from Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent…
The latest addition to my website is Pierre Lemaitre's Au revoir là-haut (The Great Swindle), the winner of the 2013 Goncourt Prize. The story starts in the last week of…
Pierre Lemaitre has won this year's Goncourt Prize for his Au revoir là-haut [Goodbye Up There]. Only one of his books has been translated into English - Alex, a thriller…