30 August 2014 – The Modern Novel

A list of Philippine novels in English translation

23 August 201530 August 2014 by tmn

The blog In lieu of a field guide has published a list of Philippine novels in English translation. Always interested in novels in translation from countries which I know little about, I checked the nine novels on the list. Sadly, only the two José Rizal novels showed up on the site of a well-known online … Read more

Sebastiano Vassalli: La chimera (The Chimera)

20 August 201530 August 2014 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli‘s La chimera (The Chimera). Set in Italy at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, this is a novel about witchcraft or, rather, it isn’t, it is about a young woman accused of witchcraft for the very simple crimes of a) being … Read more