Jun’ichiro Tanizaki: お艶殺し (A Spring-Time Case)
The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's お艶殺し (A Spring-Time Case). This is the earliest of Tanizaki's works to be translated into English, though the English text is…
The latest addition to my website is Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's お艶殺し (A Spring-Time Case). This is the earliest of Tanizaki's works to be translated into English, though the English text is…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's La notte della cometa (The Night of the Comet), surprisingly translated into English and, though out of print, readily available. This…
The latest addition to my website is Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (Triomf). This is a very funny novel about a poor white South African family, that is totally dysfunctional. They…
I have now read all the novels on the Baileys Womens Prize for fiction shortlist. As a reminder, they are; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah Hannah Kent: Burial Rites Jhumpa Lahiri:…
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. McBride has been hailed as a genius for this novel and it has received quite…
The latest addition to my website is Hannah Kent's Burial Rites. Though Kent is Australian, this novel is set entirely in Iceland, where Kent spent some time. It tells the…
Well, I am glad someone said it. While I have quite enjoyed the two volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård's six-volume My Struggle, I have been somehwat baffled that Knausgård has…
The latest addition to my website is Audrey Magee's The Undertaking, one of the books on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction. This is Magee's first novel and…
The writer and former president of Yugoslavia, Dobrica Ćosić, died two days ago. There are not all that many leaders of countries who are also noted writers but Dobrica Ćosić…
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction have launched #ThisBook, where they have asked nineteen well-known (in the UK but probably not elsewhere) women to nominate the novel written by a…