Rafael Chirbes: En la orilla [On the Shore]
The latest addition to my website is Rafael Chirbes' En la orilla [On the Shore]. This book was generally agreed by Spanish critics to be the best Spanish novel of…
The latest addition to my website is Rafael Chirbes' En la orilla [On the Shore]. This book was generally agreed by Spanish critics to be the best Spanish novel of…
The latest addition to my website is Eduard Vilde's Mäeküla piimamees (Milkman of the Manor). This novel, which has been called Estonia's first psychological novel, tells the story of an…
The latest addition to my website is Eric Gamalinda's Confessions of a Volcano. It tells the story of Daniel, a thirty-year old Filipino who wins a contest to go to…
The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's 痴人の愛 (Naomi). This was Tanizaki's first full-length novel, written when he had moved away from Yokohama after the Great Kantō earthquake…
The latest addition to my website is Vincent Message's Les Veilleurs [The Watchmen]. Oscar Waldo Andreas Nexus is a loner, living in the fictitious town of Regson. One day, he…
Flavorwire has a post on Which Books Should We Stop Calling Classics?, asking a handful of critics, writers, and publishing industry people for their views. Interestingly, only three authors made…
The latest addition to my website is Joël Dicker's La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert (The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair). I hesitated about reading this novel as, though…
The Guardian has published a list of the most borrowed book from British libraries . I have only read one (the Mantel) and have no plans to read any of…
The latest addition to my website is Grazia Deledda's Elias Portolu (Elias Portolu). Deledda was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and she is still the…
The latest addition to my website is Stephen Schneck's The Nightclerk, a very funny and somewhat over the top cult novel, long since out of print, about a very fat…